a little behind...

Hudson after Surgery with his arm restraints, we call them WINGS
After surgery

Hudson at Texas Children's

Hudson the night before surgery

We took Brooks to Pre-opp the day before the surgery, so we ended up taking the boys to the park and the train.

Hudson's First Train Ride

Daddy and Brooks

Off course I am a little behind... But we have been so busy with Hudson this past week, it has been so crazy. Hudson had his surgery this past Thursday and it went well, we ended up only having to stay at Texas Children's one night and we were able to come home Friday morning. Hudson can't put anything in his mouth, and he has to wear arm braces on his arms so that he doesn't put his fingers in his mouth. This off course has made things a bit crazy at our house. Hudson is used to a pacifier, so needless to say he wakes up all through the night crying because he can't get to his hands, it's pretty sad, so Clint and I take turns pacing with him around the house till he falls back asleep. Thank God Clint stayed home this week, I don't know what I would have done if he would have had to work. The good thing is that his cleft is fixed, and that on Friday he can take his arm braces off and one more week he can have his pacifier back.

busy time....

Costner at his first soccer game
Hudson looking so CUTE

Brooks swinging

My Four Boys Eating, aren't they just too cute!!!

The past few weeks we have been so busy that I haven't posted anything in a while, I am so behind on everything. The Boys have been doing great, just keeping me very busy, school, soccer, home, and in the evening I am so tired, I crash. So just a short update on them. Costner is doing very good in school, we are so proud of him he loves it and is learning a lot, and he is doing very well in soccer as well, he told us that he wants to play EVERY sport!! Great, fun for me!! Brooks is going through the middle child syndrome very badly or the terribly two's I don't know what it is, but he has become my little handful. The day school tells me that he is so good at school and never gets into trouble, but at home, oh my, constantly picking on Costner, pushing, pitching, hitting, biting, and screaming YOUR A BAD BOY BROTHER!!! Needless to say I hope that this phase passes quickly! Hudson is doing very well, gaining weight good, and trying his hardest to sit up more, he goes in Thursday morning for surgery on his cleft palate, we are so exacted, I can't believe the day is almost here!! We are so blessed to be born in a time and age were this can be fixed!!! We are expected to be downtown for a few days, but will be posting updates while we are downtown, on his status. Please keep him in your prayers for a quick recovery!!!

1st Soccer Practice

Costner had his first soccer practice tonight, and he seemed to really enjoy it! He has practice every week and games on Saturday mornings, I think that he is really going to enjoy it, it will give him a chance to get all that energy out of him. In fact he came home tonight got ready for bed and never argued about going to bed just ran upstairs and went to bed. Costner has had a few accidents this past week, he is a little clumsy
Hudson loves Costner

Hudson and his feet

Hudson has discovered his feet!!! He has been talking up a storm lately, but he likes to have your full attention, if not he gets a little upset. He has a busy upcoming week, physical therapy, speech, and echo, and a swallow study those both downtown. We are hoping and praying that we have good news from the swallow study so that he can start eating soon, but he has been doing so good on his baby food! And one more doctor appointment, a weight gain check up, they are a little concerned about his weight, he weighs 13.4, so little he still is in his three month clothes.

Other news the other two are doing good, just keeping busy. Costner is so excited he starts soccer this week at the YMCA, I am officially a soccer mom now!!! Practices start this week and he has eight games starting in the next month, pictures to come soon.

I was walking away from him
and this is what happens
The men in my life (minus one Clint is in Indonesia hurry home!) aren't they adorable!

My Smart Hudson

I just had to share how smart Hudson is... He still isn't feeling well but, he was taking his nap and I heard him coughing so I ran in to check on him. He was fine and still sleeping but restless, I watched him grab his pacifier while his eyes were closed, feel around it and put it in his mouth with his eyes close and I didn't help him!!! I was so proud of him, and I thought it was so cute!!

The past week with Hudson

The past few week we have had to take Hudson to the ER twice. The first was the night of the Hurricane, and then we took him in again Friday night. (the er is a really special place!!) The first visit he was running a high fever and I didn't want to take any chances that he had some how aspirated. They ended up saying that he had just a normal kid virus, which Clint and I were very happy to hear this and nothing else. Then Friday afternoon, his fever spiked again along with some irregular breathing patterns, I called our pediatrician and she wanted us to go in and have some test run. Seven hours later, they still said a virus, but now with some breathing issues. I am hoping that he gets better soon because you can tell that something is wrong, so we will be going back to the doctor on Monday morning. I will post later on how that goes, but hopefully no more er visits, especially because Clint had to fly out to Indonesia yesterday, there is never a dull moment in our house!!

We made it through IKE

Our house ready for Ike

Boys camping in the bathroom
House after IKE, my poor trees...
Clint and the neighbors cleaning up the yard
Dinner every night with the neighbors

The Jasper family made it through IKE, and believe it or not it wasn't that bad. We ended up staying home, stocking up and boarding up our bedroom window and our bathroom window, and we bunkered down in our room with the kiddos in our bathroom. We told the boys they got to camp out in our bathroom, so we brought down a mattress and they slept in our bathroom. We didn't have that much damage to our house, there are others in our neighborhood that are far worse than us, but we did have a tree fall on our house, but not much damage. (dang it I was hoping it would take out our kitchen cabinets, but no such luck). The past few days with out electricity has actually been fun, I know crazy. Every night we had dinner in our front yard with our neighbors and about four family's would all come over and eat dinner it was so much fun. Our neighbors were nice enough to plug in our deep freezer and charge Hudson's pump to their generator, and then they ended finding us a generator as well, which was such a blessing!! I even washed a load of clothes in our bathtub and hung them out to dry, Clint was pretty impressed by that! We finally have electricity on and we getting back to normall around here.