Face Painting!

We went to a friend's birthday party today. It was such a nice day at the park complete with a taco truck, piñata and face painter - woo! :)

Fresh Danish Kringle

Jon just got home from a quick work trip to Seattle. He brought home this amazingly huge (it's the size of my lap!) and tasty Danish pastry. Yum! :)

Kinder Boys

I took this pic of Callum today as we were walking to school, and it reminded me of a similar one I took of Logan's first day to Kindergarten (almost exactly 2 years ago to the day!).

Feels like a big milestone we've hit - to now have two boys in school. :)

We're in the same class!

Callum and his summer school buddy, excitedly telling each other they're in the same (ladybug) class. It was super cute. :)

First day of school!

We successfully kicked off another year of school today - phew!! Today Callum started Kindergarten and Logan started 2nd grade.

The boys were NOT at all interested in cooperating with me on pics (goofing off, running away, etc), so these are some of the "best". But they were very excited and in a great mood so I'll take that over grumps any day of the week.

Drop off went surprisingly well. Callum was a little nervous but quickly slipped into his classroom without issue (I think it helped that he was familiar with the classroom from summer school and even had a summer school friend in the same class as him!). Logan didn't want to have anything to do with me - a total big kid, hooked up with a buddy on the playground and hardly looked up to say "Bye Mom". ;-)

Callum seemed extra happy and giddy when I picked him up after school. And crashed for a quick nap in the car shortly after. ;-) Logan let me know that he likes his new school "waaaaaaay more" than his old school which is great to hear.

School Schedule

Just entered the boys' school bus and class schedules into my calendar, since school starts tomorrow.

This shit just got real!  ;-)

Pulmonologist Follow up

Logan's getting a glimpse into mine and Callum's regular ritual with some of these dr visits lately! (And for the record, he whines the entire time, bored as all hell). Here he is, showing Callum and I that he's too tall for the height measuring tool :)

We had our pulmonologist follow up today (I can't remember if I blogged about it last but since Callum had been dealing with a lingering cough for a long time we were referred here to see if he's dealing with something more than a cold, like allergies or asthma).

While it's hard to say for sure what's helped (they decided the best course of action was to start treating everything to give him, and us, some immediate relief), we're pretty sure he may have a mild case of asthma (allergy tests came back negative which helps back this up). Or, at the very least, we think the asthma meds he's on are helping to keep his lungs less inflamed and agitated, if/when he gets sick.

So, we're going to continue on those meds through the winter/flu season (stop the allergy ones for now), at the very least as a defensive measure, and then re-evaluate in the Spring.

All in all, a pretty quick and painless visit compared to most!! (Though again, Logan would give you another story on that!) ;-)