Spring fever!

Well, our Spring has been rather eventful! Spring Brask was March 12th-16th. We had a ball doing all sorts of fun things! The first two pics are of the boys outside Kid City...one of their favorite places on earth.

7 years old

5 1/2 years old

Sweet Caroline had pneumonia over Spring Break. She was diagnosed on Monday and had to do breathing treatments 3x/day (which she DID NOT enjoy) for a week, then she was weaned down to two...then one...then NONE! We never would have guessed she was that sick...she is just such a sweet girl all the time.

Caden got a horrible bacterial infection at the end of March and was hospitalized for dehydration and a high white count. After several bags of fluids, he was much better but is still on antibiotics and has to have follow-up testing done to be sure it is gone. It was the sickest he has ever been...his fever got to 104 and he was delusional. It scared this Mama to death! In this picture, he had just gotten his IV, and Laura and I made a huge deal about it because he didn't even cry! Such a big boy!

The bear is "Cooper." Caden has had him since he got his tonsils and adeniods out in November 2007...he was a gift from Memaw and Papaw along with a doctor kit! The Care Bear is "my lellow teddy." Caden has had him and been attached to him since he was really little. He was from Nan and has been a constant favorite among Caden's "babies." And the bunny is "Puppy," because when Laura brought it to him in the hospital, we decided it's face looked like a dog. These three stayed in the bed with our little trooper for his whole hospital stay, and he sleeps with them every night. He covers them up or wraps them in his "woobie," a cowboy pillow case that he also loves to sleep with.

John Collier HAD to put on his doctor outfit when we ran home for a few minutes to feed Caroline! He loves his brother and was very concerned when I called him on his teacher's phone and told him Caden had been admitted. He felt better once I sent him a picture message to show him Caden was okay! Caden is plaing with the monster truck Nan and Grandad brought him. That poor truck must have driven miles on that hospital bed!

Moving on to happier times...Caden got to pick up 16 eggs at his Kindergarten egg hunt on the Thursday before Good Friday. The kids had a ball!

My artist! John Collier had to search through a couple hundred eggs to find the 4 with his name on them to put in his bag. He had so much fun. Don't you wish you could draw like that?!