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Summer Vacation: Day 1

Ahhhh.....summer!

We are finally done for the summer!  So what does a family do on their first summer vacation with a baby you ask?

You go to prompt care, Wal-mart pharmacy, prompt care, Wal-mart pharmacy....

Today Travis went to prompt care and was diagnosed with a double ear infection, and a sinus infection.  Parker and I were at home taking a 3 hour nap.  I was actually drugged (Benyadryl).  When he came home from Prompt care he suggested perhaps I needed to go too.  So off I went.  I have a double ear infection, and a sinus infection.  Not only did I get the same diagnosis as Travis, but I got the added pleasure of having my ears flushed out.  If you want to feel unclean and gross, I suggest asking your doctor to flush your ears at your next appointment! YUCK!!!!  He needed to flush my ears in order to see if I had an ear infection.  There was so much wax he couldn't even see my eardrum! Again, YUCK!

We are now both on the same antibiotics for the same diagnosis...

Besides our unhealthy house hold, Parker is still on an antibiotic for his ear infection, we had a great day! 

Happy Summer! :)

Nielson Field Day

Today was Nielson Field day.  So when Dad was at school playing outside, I decided to play outside with Grandma Stecher.  This is when I had a traffic tie up around the tree ring out front.

Bet you can't see me huh?

How much longer until we can camp out dad?

Then I told Grandma I wanted to go and see dad at work.  So she took me to field day...only too bad for me, because dad was inside so I didn't get to play in any events with him.

His class members sure liked seeing me though.  I clung tight to dad...you never know who has a runny nose around there!

Even though I couldn't play in field day this year.  I had so much fun that I fell asleep at 4:45PM and have been asleep ever since! (it's 9:33PM)  Do you think I'll sleep until tomorrow morning?

King Field Day

Today was the King School Field Day.  This is a great celebration of the end of the year, Ms. Howard our PE teacher, did a great job creating and implementing our day.  We are lucky to have her!  The children spend all day rotating through stations where they work as a team on themed field sports.  This years field day was an Olympic theme.  Each classroom was to select a country to represent and learn about that particular country.  Mrs. Stecher's B-3 choose to represent Greece.  We created a modified flag, made Greek olive headpieces, and created Olympic torches to carry.

As the end of the year draws to a close a teacher must do what a teacher must do to survive the last days of school.  This past week I made a behavior "deal" with my students aka a bribe :)

If the kids would be on their best behavior all week I would get into the rented dunk tank that was being provided for our principal and outreach worker.  Little did I know that dunking their beloved teacher was all the motivation that would be needed to have ship shape behavior!

Although it was 90 + degrees today, the dunk tank had a constant flow of hose water so it was FREEZING!

However, I was so confident that my little darlings would have such a rough time actually dunking me I talked to my maternity sub, Mrs. Hale, and told her that if no one was able to dunk me she could come up and hit the target at the very end so I would at least end up in the bucket one time...

The first child came up...throw one miss

throw two

BULLS EYE!

Out of 19 students I was dunked 14 times!

I really did have a great time, but once I got home I felt like I had been swimming all day long...I'm pooped!

What a great way to end a great year!  We were all winners today!

Happy Field Day!

May Birthday Celebration

Today we celebrated the May birhtdays of Kay and Annica.  Chervenka's were home to celebrate so we all went to Incredible Pizza in Davenport.  This is a relatively new pizza place that reminded me a lot of Chuckie Cheese, however, there were a lot more games for all ages and it was run more like a casino than I remember Chuckie Cheese being run....

http://www.incrediblepizza.com/davenport

You put money on  "card" and then swipe the card at each game.  Instead of winning actual tickets, Incredible Pizza has "gone green" and keeps track of your winnings on your swipe card.  We had so much fun, Travis and I can't wait to go back for a date night without Parker!....AND we still have 100 points to spend! :)

Parker's first ride on a mechanical duck!

"Tastes like chicken"

For 100 points we "purchased" this great foam hat....and approximently 1 minute 20 seconds after purchasing it, Parker riped it in half.  Great usage of points! :)

Heather made this fairy cake for Annica and Kay.  Isn't it cool??? That is a real "barbie like" toy INSIDE the cake.  Neat idea and yummy too!

Uncle Kirk exposed Parker to Mt. Dew....

hmmm...what is this?  Let me try...oooohhh it feels good on my throbbing gums!

Spring Swing

We have a swing like this that we received from Travis' sister's family.  However, we have no tree that has a big enough/strong enough branch to hold it.  So before I really began to ask for Travis to build a "swing-set" of sorts that would hold this one swing, we thought we'd try it out at Grandma/pa Stecher's house. 
Hmmm.  What does this do?

I'm not sure....do I like this?

I do like this!

no, no, no

I LOVE THIS!

Dad?  Can I have one?  Please?

Mother's Day

What a Mother's Day weekend!

One mom, two grandma's, two days! Phew!  We're pooped! 

We had a great weekend celebrating all of our mom's!  I wouldn't have wanted my first mother's day any other way!

On Saturday my mom, Lynn, and I were supposed to go flower shopping...however the artic tempretures and howling wind prevented that, so we had a girls day.  We went to the Longaberger Festival in Moline, browsed through Isabell Bloom and had lunch at Granite City!

Later that evening the whole family met up for a chilly cookout where we all stayed inside ;)

This picture cracks me up!  Who's looking at who?

Sebastian (the dog) is looking at Parker, Parker is looking at Mommy, and Grandma and Mommy are looking at the dog...and NO ONE is looking at the camera!

Sunday we went to church just the 3 of us and then headed to the QC to spend the day with Grandma Stecher. We had brunch at Johnny's Italian Steak House and then went to the Beaux Arts Fair in Davenport.  The day was MUCH more condusive to outdoor activity!

It was such a nice day...and it WAS Mother's day so a return trip to the Longaberger Festival was granted ;)

Parker Loves Longaberger!

I had a great 1st Mother's Day! 

Carnival

We have been "carnival ing" it up lately.  Is that even a word carnivaling?  Anyway, both King School and Nielson School have had their spring PTO carnivals in the past two weeks.  I was so bummed when King had to have their carnival inside because that meant no duck pond...that would be the one game Parker would be really good at right now. 

However, I had hope because, tonight, a week later was Nielson's Carnival...

However, it is cold and blustery so they too, had to have their carnival inside :(

But, Fear NOT...beause, Nielson PTO allowed their duck pond to still take place!

Parker and Dad paying their 1 ticket to play.

hmmm...Which one do I want....here ducky ducky...

Gotcha! (with no help from dad, honest!)

"Hey, you look just like my bathtub friend."  "Now what?"

Parker won his very first carnival prize a small plastic ruler with stencil cut outs!  Oooh la la!

We look forward to many more years of cheap, plastic, Oriental Trading toys during carnival season! :)

Bob The Builder...or...Handy Manny?

20 days and counting.....

20 Days until my mom and dad are home for the summer!

Let's party Mon!!