Lots to Share!

Well, I will have to say I am glad May has come and gone. We have had some craziness going on around the Prewett house! We spent the better part of it sick...all 4 of us. It started on Sunday with Greer getting a throat virus and really high fever, then by Tuesday, Ellie had it. Both were better by Friday of that week, but on the following Sunday, they both had terrible upset tummies. On Tuesday night of that week Greer woke up having difficulty breathing so I took him into the pediatrician on Wednesday morning to find out he had croup. For those of you who have never experienced croup, I hope you never do. It was very scary, and unfortunately it delayed G getting tubes in his ears by 6 weeks. Back to the sicknesses, by the following Saturday, E's tummy still had not cleared up so we went back to the pediatrician to find out that would be fine, but she ended up having an ear infection in the ear that the tube has fallen out of! I think after that visit I counted 5 trips to the pediatrician's office in a 10-day period. I believe that counts their well visits because we had those in the middle of all of the sickness! After all of that mess, I ended up getting sick for a few days with some sort of virus that included a fever. And Rusty had some sort of bronchial infection in the middle of it all! Now, that is part of my excuse for not blogging for a month. Fortunately we are all well at the moment and doing much better!

Here are my babies when they were sick. Ellie was so great with taking care of her baby brother...

As for their well checkup stats:

Greer's 1-year Stats:
Weight - 23 lbs. 9 oz. - 60th%
Length - 31" - 80th%

Ellie's 3-year Stats:
Weight - 36 lbs. - 90th%
Length - 40 1/4" - 95th%

Once everyone felt better, we headed to Atmore and got a visit in with MeMe, Maw Maw, Lollie, and Poppy! And did I mention that this little guy is walking everywhere?! He started truly walking right at 13 months so about May 20th. He is lovin' life!

Fun at Lollie & Poppy's...

On top of everything I have already mentioned that happened in May, we found out that Baby #3 is on the way and due January 11th! We are super excited, and Ellie is starting to warm up to the idea. She wasn't too thrilled at first, but she seems to have come around over the last week. We also have made the decision to move our family to AUBURN! Given the news of Baby #3 among several other factors, we feel that this is best for our family and are truly excited about this next step in our lives. We love the idea of having Aunt She She and Uncle Josh as well as Aunt Tonya, Uncle Chad, and cousins only 5 minutes away! Being in Birmingham with no family support can be challenging at times so we look forward to having that in Auburn. Things have fallen into place for us to make this move happen. We are in the process of selling our home, and once that is squared away, we will be on our way to being settled in Auburn. Please keep our family in your prayers as we go through all of this transition. Especially my sweet babies!

We also spent a week at the beach with family...pictures of that trip to come! I am off to bed for now to let all of our exciting news "sink in." I am still working on letting it "sink in" myself!

Our Little Dancer

Ellie started taking dance back in September, and her little class had an end-of-the-year recital last week. Ellie has loved every minute of dance, and I have loved every minute of watching her. All of the moms get to sit outside of the class and watch through glass each week, and it has just been so much fun!

Ellie, Sissy, and Elizabeth before their performance...

Ellie with her teacher, Ms. Lori, who we love!

Daddy wasn't about to miss his little ballerina!

Guess who else wasn't about to miss it...She She & Lollie!

They are all so much fun to watch!

Ellie & her friend Lydia...

She did great!

But by the end she was looking more like this...

Ms. Lori even said, "I don't know why Ellie was acting like that toward the end." Well, by about 3:00 that afternoon she was running a 102 fever! Poor baby just didn't feel like herself! But, she did awesome, and we are so proud of her!

Easter 2011

We started our weekend off with heading down to Rusty's grandmother's house and guess who was there...one of Ellie's favorite people in the world...her cousin Mary Mykal! We had fun dying eggs on Friday night.

We got up Saturday morning and headed to Atmore to go see the Easter bunny. Ellie had been asking me for weeks to see him, and she finally got to. Greer missed out on the fun because it was during his morning nap
After seeing the bunny we headed to Poppy's office to pay him a visit. Ellie loves going up there and seeing all of the doggies!

We then got to Lollie & Poppy's and picked some flowers.

Flowers just don't stand a chance when she is around. Our poor neighbors lost at least 2-3 pansies a day because of Miss Priss!

Lollie spoiled Greer like always and let him eat some of her Easter cookies!

Easter egg hunt #1...

He just had fun being outside...

Easter egg hunt #2 at Momese's...

Greer had more fun playing in the water though!

Then on Sunday morning we got up to see what the Easter bunny brought Greer...

and Ellie...

She was so excited about her very own bike!

Ellie's breakfast on Easter morning...quite the healthy mix of goldfish, Skittles, and M&M's! And no, thankfully she didn't get sick!

Ellie & Lollie before church...

After church we got a few pictures.

The boys thought it would be funny to put E's bow in G's hair!

Me & She She...

Then we headed to Momese's for lunch.

Silly silly!

Practicing on her bike...

Check out the baby seat on the back!

I made the mistake of showing Ellie how to take pictures with the camera. Here is some of her work. My aunt Alison...

She only cut part of Rusty's face off!

The sprinklers came on that afternoon, and they had a blast playing in them.

We had a great Easter weekend with family. Our original plans were to stay in Birmingham, but the last minute plan to head south ended up being a good one! We were very fortunate and didn't have any damage from the horrible storms that came through this past Wednesday. Our hearts are heavy for all of those who have lost their homes and/or loved ones.

Birthday Mania!!!

Some of you already know, but for those of you who don't, April is a very busy month for birthdays around here! Ellie and I share a birthday on April 17th, and Greer's special day is April 20th. This year I decided that I wanted each of them to have their own party especially since it was Greer's 1st birthday. So, we had two parties in one weekend, and it was very crazy and exhausting but also very fun! We started our weekend off Friday evening with Greer's 1st birthday party! We had a lot of family in town as well as some close friends to help celebrate.

The party would not have been complete without Greer's nanny, Leigh, there!
The birthday boy is standing steadily but not quite walking...

I put together a banner with a picture from each month of his first year. It was so neat to see how he changed from month to month.

Nancy and Marie with 2 of Greer's friends, Matthew and Genevieve...

He loved wearing his hat during cake time!

And he clapped after everyone sang "Happy Birthday!" He was so excited!

He dug into his cake slowly at first...

But it didn't take long for him to get messy!

To say he loved it is an understatement!

"Cake makes me happy!!"

After the cake we had to take him straight to the bathtub, and then he was ready to do some present opening.

Ellie enjoyed helping with opening the gifts.

After a good night's rest it was time to get ready for another party!! We celebrated Ellie's 3rd birthday on Saturday afternoon.
Ellie loves nothing more than candy! All sorts of candy so I thought it would be very appropriate to have a candy theme! The parents may not have appreciated having their 2 and 3 year olds all wired up on candy, but they loved every minute of it!

Another thing the parents probably didn't appreciate...going home with mini bubblegum machines!

The birthday girl all muddied up with crazy, bowless hair...just like her Mama wanted!! :)

She specifically requested cupcakes AND cake, so of course we had both! Lollie and She She made the cupcakes, and I think they did a fantastic job! They were strawberry aka "pink" on the inside just like Ellie wanted. She is very into Pinkalicious these days!

Lollipops in the yard...

She wasn't really into picture-taking...

Greer also made the party in his lollipop attire...next to the ice as always!

He found the bubblegum machines!

Time to blow out her candles!

And her favorite...cupcake time! And check out all of her candy bracelets! Those were definitely a hit!

Uncle Trav braved coming to both parties and even helped out with little G!

They were all so cute sitting there together.

We couldn't have a party this year without getting a bouncy house!

Ellie with her buddy Mason...

Jackson made the party!
And so did this cutie...Ellie's friend Katherine...
And one more cutie...Miss Mary Clark!
Mallory too!
After the party there was a lot of sillyness, I'm sure due to lots of candy, cupcakes, ice cream, and cake!! Uncle Josh with his babies...
Poppy was here too!

And.....we all woke up bright and early Sunday morning to celebrate a little more! It was mine and Ellie's birthdays of course! Ellie trying on her new swimsuit she got from Paw Paw for her birthday.
The birthday girls on our real birthday...
We all headed to Mugshots for lunch...
And of course had to get in a few pics of these 2 cuties...




After lunch we had something very special to do with Ellie...go get pedicures!!!!
She loved every minute of it...
From the warm, bubbly water...

to the filing of her nails (which was a little tickly)...
The finished product...hot pink of course...her color of choice!
We had an amazing weekend celebrating all of our birthdays with family and friends. I especially enjoyed my day with Ellie on Sunday. I am looking forward to many years of sharing our birthdays together. I picture lots of lunches out, pedis, manis, and shopping in our future! We are now recovering from this whirlwind of a weekend and gearing up for Easter!