Girls Camp and Random Acts of Kindness

I'm leaving in about an hour to attend girls camp for the next week. Donald has taken the week off and will be spending it with Sebastian. I'm a little nervous to leave my boys for a week. It's not that I don't trust Donald, he is more than able to take care of our son for a week. It's just I have never been away from Sebastian for longer than a night! So this is going to be very hard, yet extremely fun and rewarding. I am however, looking forward to not having my phone ring for a week! On an other note Donald, Sebastian and I returned home last night after having dinner with my parents only to find a plate of chocolate chip cookies on our door step. My first thought was since there wasn't a note was to through them away since we didn't know who they were from{how sad and paranoid is that}. But after Donald ate one and didn't die, I let Sebastian have some. They are really good, thanks to whoever sent them to us! And since I don't like to post with out a picture here are some favorites of mine.

When it rains it pours!

Warning long post:

Let me just tell you how happy I am that this week is over! It all started on Wednesday, Sebastian was complaining of a stomach ache, I thought to myself you haven't gone number 2 since Saturday. So I put him on the potty but he couldn't go. No big deal I'll just give him a suppository when I get home from my girls camp meeting. So I get to Leslie's house because that's where the meeting is and Sebastian wants me to hold him which surprised me because before we left all he could talk about was playing with Sammy. Ten minutes later he pukes all over me and Leslie's carpet. I feel horrible, I really thought he was just constipated! So after he sleeps there for a hour and Leslie washes our clothes {thanks Leslie} he wakes up feeling just real crappy so I asked Jim to give him a blessing and we head home. After a couple of hours he's completely fine {which leads me to believe he is just extremely backed up} so I give him a suppository and wait to see if he goes on Thursday. Thursday comes and he's fine. Still hasn't gone to the bathroom but is acting fine. So we head off to the lake with some friends. Before we leave for the lake I check my email and have something from Leslie telling me that chicken pox is going around our ward. No big deal, he was acting fine so I didn't think anything of it. We get to the lake and he is fine for a little bit and then all of the sudden he gets real whining and wants to be held. He says his stomach hurts, I'm thinking well yeah you haven't pooped in 5 days of course your stomach hurts. He does this the whole time we are at the lake, one minute he is fine the next he is in my lap in pain. One of the times he was in my lap I notice theses red bumps on his shoulders. Think about email and start flippen thinking he has chicken pox. We go home stomach pain gets worse as does the rash. Give him another suppository and call his Doctor. While waiting for doctor to call back Sebastian starts making these funny noises with his throat. I ask him if it hurts he says no, but I look inside just to be sure. OK there's sores all inside his mouth, now I'm convinced that he has chicken pox{but how he got the vaccination} call the doctor back explain new symptom and they want to see him right away. At this point I start to freak, Sebastian is not acting like himself and I just want to know whats wrong. Get to the doctors find out that its not chicken pox its hand foot and mouth disease{don't even know what that is}. not to worried about that because the not pooping is the real problem. Doctor sticks his finger up there to loosen things around and tells me to give him another suppository along with Mira lax and to call tomorrow if he still hasn't gone. Well tomorrow has come and he still hadn't went so I call the doctor, at this point Sebastian in doubled over in pain and can hardly walk, but it comes in spurts one second he is fine the next he is on the ground screaming. So the doctor has us take him to the emergency for an x-ray to make sure he is not blocked. Films come back fine, they give him an enema and five minutes later he poops and all is well. He is now fast asleep in his room. I can't say enough about the hospital that we took him to. They were great with him! If you ever have to take your child to the hospital and you live around here I highly recommend St. Elizabeth's. Sebastian is doing great other than the fact that he is still contagious from the hand foot and mouth thingy and will be for about a week. I'm so grateful that this week is over and also grateful that my little man is OK!

Our weekend

Friday:

This weekend Sebastian, myself and Brenda drove down to Columbus to spend the weekend with her son and daughter in law. Gene and Kira are good friends of the family and they have a little boy who is Sebastian's age and a little girl who is about 20 months. We thought it would be nice for Caleb to have a friend come to his house and visit him. We got to Columbus around 4:30 Friday afternoon. The kids were really excited to play together. We had a cookout that night and Brenda took the kids over to the park right by Gene and Kira's house. At 9:00 we brought them in, gave them a bath and tried to put the kids to bed. However they were so excited about having a sleepover that they didn't fall asleep until 11:30.

Saturday

Saturday was a busy day! The boys woke up early after a late night and decided it would be fun to play out side while Kira fixed us an awesome breakfast! Notice the lack of clothing on the boys, apparently its fun to run around in your under guchies. Later that afternoon we took the boys and Emilee to the pool. Emilee's allergies were really bothering her so she went home and took a nap before I could get a picture of her. The boys had a blast jumping in the pool and swimming! After swimming we headed home and the boys rested for a while, then after dinner we took the kids to the mall to run off some energy, hoping it would help them fall asleep quicker. And it worked, everyone was asleep by 9:30. Kira was shocked that I had never seen the Count of Monte Cristo, so we watched that. It was a really good movie and I plan on watching it with Donald this weekend.

Sunday

Sunday was a chill day. We started off by going to church. The boys looked so handsome in there shirts and ties and Emilee looked adorable in her little dress! Of course a forgot to get a picture of them all dressed up. After church we came home and just relaxed. The boys played in the basement most of the day. They came up with there little construction hats on and informed us they were building a temple and it was hard work and it was going to take a long time. So stinken cute! They were down there for a while before they finally came up and got us. It was so cute when they showed us, they were so proud of themselves. After temple building and dinner they went for a walk with Brenda. When they got back Brenda told us how Caleb and Sebastian were pretending a tree was a drum. They used sticks and were singing I am a child of God. So sweet, it was a great Sabbath day. After there walk we chilled out and watched Monsters Inc. and then it was off to bed. We left this morning at 11:30 and got home just before three. Thanks Gene and Kira for a great weekend Sebastian misses you guys already!

I'm really starting to like this

I'm liking this much better than actual scapbooking, it's less messy!

What do you think?

I'm thinking about offering pages like this with photo sessions {haven't decided on prices yet} the size would be an 8x10. My question to you is, would you purchase something like this. They are costume so you would be able to choose colors, themes, quotes and ect...What do you think?

It was the best of times and the worst of times...

This weekend left something to be desired. We got my niece and nephew Wednesday afternoon, that night I took Gavin my nephew over to my parents because he was needing some one on one attention form them. That left Donald and I with my niece for the next 4 days. Let me tell you watching Sebastian and Cammie together was like watching an old married couple. They were cracking me up, one minute there doing a puzzle together all nice and then next thing I know someones crying the other one is screaming don't look at me! Five minutes later there hugging and telling each other how much they missed the other. There only 9 months apart {Cammie being the older} and there personalities are polar opposites. Cammie is wild and crazy and like to be in charge. Sebastian is a little more laid back but extremely stubborn and likes to do things in a particular way. By Saturday night when Cammie went home there was a huge blow up because Cammie didn't want to share her crayons both kids were screaming and crying and for a split second I thought to my self....and you want another one....are you nuts!! But then after the crying subsided I realized the good far out weighed the bad!!

From the mouth of Sebastian

The other day I was drying Sebastian off after he had taken a shower. I was playfully drying his hair when he looked up at me and said "mommy you a freak". I turned to him and said "Sebastian, where did you learn that word"!?!? He looked at me with out skipping a beat and said "daddy, mommy he caught a FREAKEN FISH". Apparently he picked up some new words form there little fishing adventure. I about peeded my pants I laughed so hard, and the look on Donald's face was priceless!!! This kid cracks me up!

Sebastian's First Tag

Name: Sebastian Benjamin Erickson

Age: 3 1/2 years old

Birthdate: December 16, 2004

Nicknames: Bubba, bubby, patch, patchen, and bash

Favorite Activity(-ies): Playing outside, swimming and riding his bike.

Favorite Food(s): Hot dogs, shrimp, chicken nuggets, any kind of fruit and bread.

Least Favorite Food(s): Vegetables and meat.

Favorite Music: Primary songs, and anything sung by Laurie Burkner.

Favorite Toy(s): Geo trax, anything lighting mcqueen, and anything with wheels.

Favorite Book(s): Noah book, My first book of Mormon stories, and his Disney bedtime book.

Favorite item(s) of clothing: Hats, he could be be naked as a j-bird but if he has a hat on he's good to go!

What makes me happy: Playing with my mommy and daddy and my friends. Going on hikes.

What makes me sad: When my daddy goes to work and when I get put in timeout.

Sebastian Tags: Caleb, Riley, Dallon, Keira and Ben

Fun at the lake

Today myself, Mel, and our friend Sheena packed up the kids and headed to the lake. We had a really good time and the kids really enjoyed them selfs. Sebastian was absolutely fearless when it came to the water! He scared me a couple of times. This was his first time in open water and he just ate it up. He is such a water boy. It was nice to visit with the girls and it was really nice having Shenna there. Her and her husband just moved out here from Idaho so that he can attend Dental school at that school that plays Michigan in November{Go Blue}! Any way she hasn't lived back hear in over 8 years. Over all we had a great time and it was a total chill day!

Park Adventures

Today when Donald got home from work he reminded me that he had to go out to the church to teach the 12 year old scouts how to build a camp fire. That left me at our apartment with 3 very bored and hyper children. I decided to be brave and take them to the park across the street. The kids had a great time and ran off a lot of energy{in fact Cammie and Sebastian both asked to be put to bed}! Poor Cammie had a rough time. First she fell in the mud on our walk through the trail and got all muddy. Then once we arrived at the playground she went down a slide that had a huge puddle of water at the end of it. So now she's muddy and wet. Lastly she was off in the field minding her own business playing with her ball when Sebastian comes out of no where and tackles the poor girl! She was such a trooper and never complained once. I love watching the 3 of them play together. Sebastian is always so happy when they come over!

Yea for cousins!!!

My niece and nephew {Cameron and Gavin} are staying with us until Saturday night and were so excited to have them here. Sebastian is in his glory having someone to play with all day long. Tomorrow were heading to the lake for a day of swimming and relaxation. I love that they all play so well together, and are so close.

False Hope!

We have a rule in this house called the false hope rule. This rule states that if you are eating something and there is not enough left for an other person you through it away or finish it off. Also you are never to put something away that is empty. I came up with this rule after growing up with three brothers. I can't tell you the amount of times I would look forward to a bowl of cereal only to grab the box to find out that it was empty, there for creating false hope. I mean seriously why can't they just through it away. That leads me to this morning. I walk in to my kitchen for breakfast and go to make a bagel. I reach for the cream cheese container, and its empty....grrrr. Ok fine I wasn't to mad I'll just have a bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats, I grab for the box...it's empty too....are you kidding me! Lets just say a phone call was made...I yelled........the rule was reviewed and promises were made.....It must be a guy thing!

Where Back

Where back from our little camping adventure and as you will see in the pictures we had an absolute blast. Thank you so much Lawson's for inviting us! The weather was a little rainy but not so much so that it was miserable. Just a steady mist, but by 4 it was done. It was a little muddy but that just added to the fun. Sebastian's favorite thing to do was go for a ride in the mule. He loved to take it fast and go through the mud puddles{ unfortunately I didn't get a picture of him on it}. He also really liked going fishing. He HATED the fireworks, was absolutely terrified of them. I ended up taking him into the tent and he fell asleep with in 5 minutes and slept through the whole thing. This morning at 6:30 Donald took Sebastian down to one of the lakes and went fishing. Sebastian was so excited and just kept talking about how him and his Daddy went fishing while the sun came up. What a fun little memory they created! What a great time, where already talking about nest year!

{where we laid our heads, ours is the blue one to the left}

{Sebastian showing me his fishing pool}

{Sebastian and Anthony getting ready to go fish}

{Sebastian fishing at one of the lakes}

{A bunch of people around the fire}

{Sebastian and Kennor attempting to play baseball, they were so cute}

{Stacey with Bryana, she has the bluest eyes I've ever seen!}

{Harrison, one of the Lawson's grandsons, isn't he a cutie!?}

{Jada the Lawson's dog, Sebastian loves her!}

{Last but not least the pigs, they were sooo yummy!}