Thunderware

 We had to make a Target stop off for a couple of things then since we had some time we looked around for a little bit. I LOVED that Levi grabbed these and then exclaimed "Mom, if these had a name they would be THUNDERWARE!!!!" Love that kid.

 While going through the baby section we saw this little baby hat and tried to get Davis to wear it but he kept throwing it. He would be so cute with it on. I have no idea how people get those things to stay on their kids heads. Not my guy.

 Then they begged for some toy section time to get some ideas for Christmas. Max had me photograph a bunch of toys he liked. Yeah, he didn't get any of them.

 And for some reason Davis just wanted me to rub and rub his back. Love it.

 Can you tell Max dresses himself every day?

 There was a huge windstorm and as the boys and I were headed to pick up Levi we went up the street and found a garbage can in the middle of the road because of the wind (later Jason pointed out it could have been punk teenagers but it was the middle of the day but maybe) . I could have gone around but I didn't want anyone to get hurt. Then turn the corner and I see this, another one. I saw another one after that too and moved them. Crazy wind. If you can't see in the background all the other ones lying down. Every single one.

 Package delivery! Prepping my shop for the holidays. I hate running out of supplies so I stock up.

 Jared, who owns a record shop in Portland, wanted to have the boys draw a bunch of pictures on some flash cards that he would use to turn into gift certificates, he did this last year and people loved it. So they worked for days and days drawing whatever popped into their heads. They were all pretty hilarious. As a reward Jared took them to Wunderland with the promise of unlimited nickles then dinner. You can't get better payment than that at 5 and 7 years old.

 And in an effort to teach Levi some life skills we had him help with dinner. Jason is showing him how to brown meat. Atta kid.

Davis and I having a moment on my bed, I love this cutie.

 Wrestling time! On Wednesdays Jason goes for most of it then has to leave a half hour or so early to get to YM's so then Davis and I come and pick them up. It's kind of nice having them old enough to leave them for a little bit on their own. They are getting to be such big independent boys. PS wrestling rooms are hot and sweaty.

 Crepe night done right. It's Max's most requested dinner. Crepes and grapes.

 Sorry Jason for the horrible picture but it is the only one could get. We actually got to had a date night! Mongolian grill and then a movie. I decided we needed to do more regular, out of the house date nights so I set it up with a girl in our ward to come every other Friday for a few hours and then my mom could finish the night and put the kids to bed.

 Time to clean up the church! Jason mostly kept Davis entertained in the gym with a ball and I took Max to clean up the chapel. We might not have got a ton of work done but I think we had fun. I got to talk to Max about the sacrament (we cleaned the sacrament area) so that was good. 

 And our ward did a dinner and auction night to help the youth raise money for camp and trek this year. They were very well organized and provided babysitting. This is really the only picture I got of the night but it was fun. All the adults did the dinner and auction while the kids went and played. Davis was in the little little kid room and did great. I did think it was funny he was sitting on a chair with his bottle. When I peeked I saw one of the girls put him up on the chair whic h I thought was odd but he was doing fine so I didn't want to step in. Usually he likes to lay down to drink, he's never in a chair for bottle time.

 At the auction I bid on this and got a GREAT deal on it. It is for the boot camp classes which I want to do during the day (they have child care!) but Davis has been sick so I can't do those until he's less boogery. But I have done a number of evening classes which I've liked so far.

Xrays and a Nice Butt

 Davie! This was the week being sick. Davis was sick, Max was, Levi was, I believe Jason was. Luckily I didn't get anything that bad.

 We started off the week with a Dr. visit for Davis and Levi. Max's had calmed down but the real worry was Levi because it was a deep bad cough that just wouldn't go away and so I was a little more worried. Davis not too worried but should check. Anyways, we had a couple of visits to the Dr. on Monday and Tuesday.

You can see what each of the boys favorite things are the minute they walk in.

 Davis stripped down. I love this. We have trained him to do the classic head nod when we say "What's up?" it's so dang cute. I still need to get it on video before he stops doing it.

 Hey mom, what's up?

 More books. And waiting. For Levi they had him do a couple of inhaler treatments and see how things go and come back the next day.

 Well they called us the next day and recommended that we should get an xray before coming in so they could see what his chest looked like (again, bad cough, lots of labored breathing) so we did and luckily they were extremely fast, like 20 minutes total.

 Davis, Max and I waiting outside the room while Levi got his xray. Davis just thinks I'm weird and Max is doing his best to avoid a picture but I caught him. You can tell I take a lot of pictures when I'm bored.

 And then off to the regular pediatrician to see how things are going and look at the xray.

 It took a LOT longer than 20 minutes. The big boys amused themselves while Davis found his own source of fun.

After talking to the pediatrician who looked at the xray we figured out the problem which happened last year but the problem wasn't quite pinned down. Levi, as of right now, doesn't have asthma but often when he gets a cold it triggers it and it closes off his lungs. In the xray it showed lots of swelling in his lungs and at the airway coming from the lungs to the mouth extremely pinched off. So they took him off antibiotics they had given him the day before (because it wouldn't help at all) and gave him some steroid meds to reduce the inflammation along with the inhaler we have. Davis has had to use it too a couple of times when he has had colds. It took a long time to figure out exactly what was going on but it was good to know so that now we know what to do when it happens again.

 And another Studio C family night. So awesome. I love that these guys quote them all the time, they are better at remembering the lines than I am. This one was the shoulder devil one, they love Matt Meese.

 And still recooping and playing checkers. For like 10 minutes before a fight broke out.

 Livin it up with his bottle in the bath.

 This took less than a minute.

 I have been trying to dejunk the house and while I love everything my boys give me I have to toss a lot of their artwork. I loved this one (it was the placemat he made me for mothers day brunch at pre-k) so I took a quick picture of it.

 I saw this some where and took a screen shot of it. It made me laugh.

 Max has inherited all of Levi's old beginning reading books like this tansformer one. He was quite excited to get cracking on it.

 My destroying angel.

 And it had been an extremely long day and somehow he fell asleep in my arms! Never happens or I have to work for 45 minutes to get him to relax enough. It makes me want to snuggle him forever.

And another day of babysitting our friends kids. They were getting antsy so I decided we'd go visit Lola who actually happened to be headed our way with her mom and sister so we all took a big walk around and through the school. Luckily Julie was able to grab her add on seat to the stroller because I didn't think it was going to be that long of a walk and little Gracie needed it. Isn't Levi so cute holding her hand? I love it. 

 And to end the week. I don't know why but we decided to go to Red Robins on a Friday night. Probably because I did not feel like cooking at all. We hardly ever go out to restaurants with the boys so they were thrilled. It was a blast (though Levi is giving quite the serious look) and they were all perfectly behaved. Win.