Jay Jay has joined Cub Scouts and one minute after Kindergarten lets out he will officially be a Tiger Cub. This will take place on June 16^th at 10:46am.

Oh, I almost forgot Jay Jay also made orange belt in Karate the end of May. Way to go Jay Jay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 70th Birthday to my dad, aka: grandpa, Ted, FIL. We had a wonderful semi-surprise party for my dad’s 70^th birthday. I want to thank everyone who came especially Uncle Dick, Aunt Gail and Lori. It was nice of you to drive up and it was great to see you.

I also want to thank Aunt Marie, Earl, Dennis and Donna we could not have done it without you. We also want to wish Timmy a Happy 4^th Birthday. Both Birthday boys had a great day and a good time and a huge cake. I made a three tiered cake in Toy Story 3 colors for Timmy because my dad said he didn’t want to celebrate his birthday and that we should just focus on Timmy so that is how we were able to pull off the surprise part.

Jay and I made the lettering on the cake out of chocolate, I made the stars and Jay attached them to the wire spirals because I did not have the patients for it. I frosted the cakes and the top layer was a bit rough the middle layer looked better and by the time I reached the bottom I had it figured out. Just a thought… I figured out that I am not the professional cake decorator I would like to be!!!

WOW....two Blog postings in 4 days!!!!!!

WOW....two Blog postings in 4 days!!!!!! Jay Jay is in the headlines this time.

He lost his first baby tooth on Sunday May 2, 2010. Although we were very excited and told everyone we could that day he did not share this feeling. He freaked out and cried and fussed because there was blood and his tooth fell out. We tried real hard to not laugh so everytime he started back up one would comfort him and the other would leave the room to go laugh.

Several times we reminded him that his tooth falling out was a great thing because now the tooth fairy would come but he still didn't like his tooth falling out. Today is May 3, 2010 and well...the tooth falling out is a better thing because the tooth fairy came and brought him money. He likes money. He was even wishing that Timmy's teeth would fall out too, although I'm not sure why. Maybe he was hoping to get Timmy's money too.

P.S. We haven't told him that rest are going to fall out also, we'll let that be a surprise.

If you notice the Tooth Fairy Pillow. I bought that when I was pregnant with Jay Jay and have been waiting SIX AND A HALF YEARS to use it.

I Love Mother's Day.

Catch Up

Okay, so I've been really lazy lately but now it's update time again. Timmy had his dental surgery on the 16th of February and it went really well but was very expensive for us. Insurance did not cover much, so for those of you out there with small kids make sure they go to the dentist every six months and get those teeth checked. In our case he has gone every six months since he was born and the dentist told us there is no one reason for the enamel to not form properly. He also said that all the brushing in the world would not have prevented this and because we caught it early enough and that by sealing his teeth we have hopefully prevented any future damage.

March started off with Jay Jay making Yellow belt in Karate. Great job Jay Jay.

For Spring break we went to Seattle and spent time at my mom and dad's. Jay Jay went to his first Lego club meeting at the Lego store in Bellevue Square mall and he loved it. They introduced the new Lego games, first you build them then you play them and that is what he lives for right now. So far we have Pirates Code and Monster 4. Pirates Code is a lot like Master Mind from the 80's. You make your code in your treasure box and the other players have to guess what it is turn by turn. Monster 4 is a lot like Tic-Tac-Toe except that you get to bump other players off with a big black spider or if you roll a multi-color side of the dice.

Next comes April and Jay Jay's second report card!!! He is doing very well in school and is above average in several of the testing categories. However, he does not like to color and needs improvement there and he doesn't really like homework either but does it because he likes to get his pizza coupon at the end of each month. He has homework almost every night and Mrs. Partridge sends home extra homework two nights a week. Wow, has Kindergarten changed or what????

We dyed Easter eggs and that was an experience...

Timmy dropped his in the cup of dye and it went everywhere and so we all laughed what else do you do...after all it's Timmy.

The Easter bunny was good to everyone and brought lots of fun things and some candy too. Easter was fun, we had it here in Seaside and my mom and dad came down here because Jay Jay had school the day after and I did not want him to miss any school if he did not have to. He likes it and I hope it stays that way. Plus the Easter Egg Hunt at Church was awesome.

Jay Jay went to the dentist and did extremely well this time. He let them take x-rays and use the suction tube and the Fluoride. This is a huge improvement from all the other visits so we are very proud of him. He also performed in the all school assembly and sang the Parts of Plants and hung up the stem to the plant they were making.
In other news, Timmy had a day at Pre-School to see how he would like it and did pretty good. His favorite parts were outside time and art, he also liked putting the puzzles together

Jay Jay also went to his second Lego Club meeting in Seattle. This time the theme was Disney's Prince of Persia, the sands of time. They put the kids in groups and gave them a bin of Legos and told them they had to help Prince Dastan find the hidden sword and their buildings had to have trap doors and other things. It was quite interesting what some of the kids came up with.

It's update time again and you guessed it... Timmy's making headlines one more time in his short little life!!! He had a dental appointment just before Christmas and that's when they gave us the bad news...the enamel on some of his teeth is not forming correctly. The dentist said he has three cavities, one is large (it looks like a cave and is located on the back side of his second molar) one is medium in size and the third one is small. We went to see a pediatric dentist in Vancouver Wa. on February 4th and on February 16th we go back and they are going to sedate him and give him laughing gas, do a baby root canal to see how bad the damage is and if the tooth is even still alive. If they get in there and find that it is dead or even close then they will do an extraction of the tooth fill the other two and then seal the teeth that do not have enough enamel on them.

I bet the insurance company sees " Timothy Brock" on the paper work and go oh no not him again. The dentist said there really is no one reason for the enamel to not form properly on his teeth but it could be due to high fevers (which he does get) a medication he has taken or even genetics could play a part. I asked if he has juice or milk mouth and he said no infact this is just the opposite, and all the brushing in the world could not have prevented it either. So the good news is that we did nothing wrong.

On a much happier note... Jay Jay started Karate two weeks ago and he loves it. He has already earned a green stripe for his belt for knowing his first set of moves and he also earned a blue pencil that night for listening and going through the balance course faster ( in 7 seconds) than all the other kids. He also earned a goldish colored pencil for avoiding and not getting hit by the little paper stars they throw. Yeah, Jay Jay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jay is doing well and is in physical therapy for his foot. No cast, no boot, no crutches...just his regular shoes. He is still sore and stiff in the mornings and sometimes when he has been on his feet all day but that is what physical therapy is supposed to help.

Thanksgiving was fun and invoved Jay Jay getting a trophy at the 5th annual Turkey Trot. This is a one mile race that his school does and he was the youngest kid to run a mile and he did it in 14 min and 36 sec. It took me longer. I volunteered to help and cheer the kids on but the coach decided that because he was so young that I should run with him...let's just say Jay Jay crossed the finish line five minutes before I did.

Christmas was spent in Seattle and so was New Years then it was home to Seaside and back to school. Other than Timmy there has been nothing else exciting to report on.

Well gang...we have a mystery on our hands. It appears that sometime between November 18th and today the 23rd Timmy has decided to withdraw his funds from within. I took him in for an x-ray today so we could meet with the surgeon before going to Seattle and the cion has mysteriously disappeared. We have been on poo patrol since November 5th and we have not seen it come out but I have to say I am very relieved that it did becuase surgery was not my idea of fun. The last conversation I had with Dr. Gus was that if they had to remove the coin surgically they were also going to take out his appendix just because they could. Well, now that the drama is over we would like wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Not to worry though, I'm sure Timmy will find something else for us to write about in the near future.

Hello all,

We took Timmy in to the surgeon on Monday the 16th and he said that he thinks we should be going to Childrens at OHSU to have him looked at by a Pediatric GI to see what we need to do the coin is still in his stomach and has not moved in three weeks he also wants another x-ray on the 18th. I took Timmy for another x-ray on the 18th and good news more or less the coin is on the move and is now in his small intestine which means it is headed out but can also be considered bad news because we all have a valve with a big fancy name infront of our colon that it can get hung up at. Knowing Timmy it will...which will then require surgery to remove it. When we talked to the surgeon he told us all the things that can go wrong and not alot that could go right. The doctor called on Thursday and has requested that we go in for another x-ray on Tuesday the 24th and another office consult to let us know more about the coin, it's position and what we need to do. (it still involves squishing poo to see if Timmy is no longer collecting interest on his investment) We are still waiting to here from OHSU and are really hoping we don't have to take him in but if the doctors think we do then we do but with the storms going through here right now we really don't want to have to drive through the pass. When we have more imformation we will let everyone know what is going on. Sorry no pictures of the coin are available at this time.

Well...Timmy's at it again. On Novenber 5th he decided it would be neat to swallow a coin of some sort. I called the doctor and they said bring him in for an x-ray so we can make sure it did not go into his lungs, lucky for us and him it did not. The ER doc's said to bring him back in 48 hours if the coin did not pass. Well...it didn't (we know this because we have to dig through the poo every time he goes, gross huh?!) so back to the hospital for more x-rays but with dad this time. Dad comes home and tells me where it is and I told him it had not moved so we called the after hours doctor and it just happened to be ours and she said don't worry, sometimes it can take up to a week. I said okay and she said bring him back for another x-ray on Wednesday, fine I said, so here we are on Wednesday November 11th still without a coin and I took him to the hospital for yet another x-ray only to find that it still has not moved. Our doctor called us tonight to inform us formally that it has not moved and that while swallowing the coin is not a problem the fact that it has not moved in 6 days is. She told us that she will be doing a surgical consult on November 12th since all the doctors had already gone home for the night. So, here we sit and wait to see when and where the adventures of "coin tummy Timmy" take us. Let's hope he learns a lesson from all of this. When we find out more we will post again.

November Storm 09

Here are some pictures of the first real storm of the Fall here in Seaside.

For those of you who have been to our house and to put this in perspective, the post you see in this picture is about 200 to 300 yards from the water line where we normally put our stuff when we go to the beach. Right now the water line is behind this post and the foam you see is as far from green as it can get. It’s brown. (where ever do they get sea foam green from? Because the only sea foam I see is brown). Timmy said to tell you hayyelled here on Thursday night(use a southern accent here, he has one you know) it started around 11:00pm and was really cool like whiteout conditions and Friday night it hit around 11:00 pm and also again at 1:30am We have had heavy rains, high winds, really cool high seas, hail and thunder and lighting that seems to last for hours. (Thunder and lighting are things we don’t normally have here in Seaside but usually hit in the mountains around Svensen which is about 30 to 40 miles North of us.)

The other pictures you see are of the road we usually take to drive on the beach, yes they allow that here and we do take advantage of it when we feel the need to drive on sand instead of pavement. I was taking these pictures and was using the zoom lens thinking how cool are these waves and how cool are they up close in this lens, when I took the camera away and realized that they weren’t that far away from me in fact they were less than 5feet away from me and the foam I saw was really super close to me. I took a few more pictures and got back in the van to hear Timmy telling me to “back up mommy the waves are coming to get us, hurry up mommy back up” I backed up and we left with the waves following us. How cool is that! The surge of the surf is so impressive that I really don’t have any words for it.

You almost have to be here to understand the power of the ocean and how impressive these storms can be. The best I can do to describe it is WOW!!!!!!!! Hope you enjoy these pictures.

A Birthday and Halloween to Boot

It was a really busy Halloween this year. The whole family headed to Grants Pass to visit Uncle Dick and Aunt Gail. A big bonus was that just about the whole family came as well. We got to see Johnny, Kristen, Mike, Lori, Kier, Peg and Ted.

A few other family members were there for Johnny’s FIRST BIRHTDAY Party. It was quite the party and there were plenty of great family moments to go around. Johnny really liked playing with his cousins.

The day was just getting started as every one headed out for a little Trick or Treating after that. The boys enjoyed the way Grants Pass passes out the candy.

To end the busy day we headed to the Church Carnival in downtown GP. The boys loved the games and of course the candy.

The Great Columbia River Crossing

Well since Jay does not want to toot our horn I will do it for me and Timmy.

On October 11^th Timmy and I did the Great Columbia Crossing.

This is a 10K walk or run across the Astoria Megler Bridge. We started on the Washington side at the rest area at Dismal Nitch. And yes, it was dismal that day. Dismal Nitch is one mile from the start of the bridge and it took us 20 minutes to do our first mile, 23.22 minutes to do our second mile and at mile marker 3 it was 62 minutes we finished just under the 2 hour mark and amazingly enough I only had to carry Timmy about 4 times and I refused to carry him very far so he basically did the whole walk on his own two feet.

I am so proud of him. That’s a long walk for a 3 ½ year old but he did it and got the shirt to show it.

Update Continued

To continue the update...

August 16th - Its family vacation time again. We headed down to Disneyland, duhh. First we headed back to Sea World for an extra bonus. We had a super time with Mickey and Shamu. The boys loved the slide at the hotel as much as the parks.

Sea World

Disneyland & California Adventure

Oh, we forgot to mention that Daddy turned 41

August 28th - I still seem to be catching up with all that is going on. Mason, Rich and Deahna came for a visit. We all enjoyed the visit and had a wonderful time.

September 10th - Jay Jay started kindergarden today. He takes the bus to school. How much fun that is for him.

September 12th - Jay Jay is already 6. We had a super time at the Arcade with a few friends. Mommy out did herself on his cake.

September 15th - I went in for surgery on my foot this week. They cut part of my heel off and screwed it back in the right place.