Carter

Carter playing in the January snow and my little hero....diligently working on his math!

Ramblings from a tired mommy!

Life has finally caught up to me and I have been under the weather. I am worn out and am dreaming of a 48 hour escape in my bedroom without any interruptions! LOL, not really I would miss my kids! Perhaps just a solid 8 hours of quiet time! Here are a few musings of the past few days from my kids that I wanted to keep fresh.

I tend to be a mothering monkey at times and spend few to many minutes "preening" over my children or as they call it "picking" on their skin, hair, ect. We have a rash of "bumpies" at our house that this mommy monkey can't seem to leave alone. Call it one of my many OCD tendencies. Well anyways, one of the nights this week....Hope had heard me bribe her brother Carter over something. So at the begining of one of my obsessive moments, Hope in her deep little voice completely serious says while I am trying to pick on her...."MOMMMMY....I want a dollar (pause) .........and a penny(pause) .......and a diamond and thennnn you can finish!." I better start praying more specifically for this girls future husband!!! Anyways, I got quite a kick out of it.

On a little more serious note, my sweet Carter has been having some sad moments lately. He is really frustrated over having to stop and check his blood sugar before eating something he is really excited about. He has been saying many times lately that he doesn't like being the only 7 year old boy he knows with diabetes and wants to meet a friend his age that has diabetes as well. He is tired of feeling and being "different" than his friends and standing out. Carter and I have begun to pray for opportunities for him to meet a friend his age that has diabetes. So please join me as I lift up his request and pray for God to bring an encourager into Carter's life and opportunities to meet and know other children with Juvenile Diabetes as well.

"Creative" Two's!!!

I walked into the kitchen the other day to find some strange things happening to my dishwasher! Apparently Elijah decided to help mommy wash the dishes....this is what happens when you put dishsoap in the dishwasher FYI....it does remind me of an I Love Lucy show! I love how creative my little one is...he loves to explore and try things out! By the way, if you haven't figured it out...he is feeling MUCH better :) !

Update on Elijah

Well we have made it through another week and I can finally say we have turned the corner and Elijah is feeling better! After battling with him to drink ANYTHING for days he finally began to start drinking this week. I was starting to worry about dehydration since he was only having one "sort of" wet diaper a day....compared to the usual soaking wet ones. Elijah has lost 4 pounds since surgery and his voice still sounds like he has swallowed the helium from 3 balloons but he is HAPPY at last. He has begun to play more and be less attatched from me. Here are the quotes from the last week...."Hold me mommy" "Mommy, I need you" "Hold me mommy, Rock the baby(that being him!)"

My little waif of a child 4 pounds lighter. There has never been a skin and bone Robertson child at 2 years of age...they all had the baby chub chub!
Again our little hide and seek child.....if he covered his eyes perhaps the world would leave him alone and not make him eat, drink, or take his medicines.

Wiped out in the chair from all the medications!

Jim and I filled every cup we could with different drinks trying to entice him to drink. He loved lining them up on the counter. He would organize, arrange, and change however not DRINK them!

A happy child at last with all of his drinks....this was the morning he began to turn around and drink fluids.