Halloween at Stone Mountain

We took the boys to Stone Mountain Park Saturday for their pumpkin festival. They originally said they wanted to sit on top of the pumpkin, but when they got up close they changed their minds. The pumpkin was at least 5 1/2 feet tall.

They had lots of "scarecrows" with pumpkin heads all over the cross lands area of the park. The boys were fascinated with them. Tyler just wanted to know what the straw felt like and Will would rather pose with them then touch them.

The last picture is of them decorating their mini pumpkins. They had glue, glitter, feathers, eyes, small pieces of pipe cleaners, and lots of shinny small cut outs (circles, feathers, diamonds, etc).

Halloween

The boys decided they wanted to be cowboys like Woody from Toy Story. They were very happy
with these costumes. They came with a deputy sheriff badge but it was to hard to get it to stay.
The costumes are a child small and come to just above the ground, maybe we can get two years
out of them.
The boys did trunk or treat at our church Wednesday night and then wore the costumes for their Halloween party at school. No neighborhood trick or treating due to it falling on Sunday night. They got plenty of candy at church and school.

Last Week

Last Tuesday was Will's first day of speech this year at school with Mrs. Robin his speech teacher. He woke up at about 3:50 making strange sounds (not wheezing, not coughing) more like a high pitched whistle. He also felt warm but didn't have a fever. He didn't want any medication or to be held. After about 10 minutes he wanted medicine but not the kind we had upstairs (berry flavored) but the grape flavored one downstairs. With in five minutes of getting the Tylenol his breathing got better and he fell soundly asleep.

When David got him up he was feeling fine and went to speech. Meanwhile I called to get him a doctor's appointment to check out the breathing issue and he had a lot of nasal congestion for over a week. They usually can get me an afternoon appointment but because of back to school physicals only had a 9:45 appointment. David took him and he was running a fever, had croup and a sinus infection. So Daddy and Will stayed home after getting his prescriptions 3 days of antibiotics (Zithromax) and 5 days of predensone (a steroid to decrease the swelling in the throat). I stayed home with him the next day and he went back to school Thursday.

Thursday was Tyler's follow up appointment with the podiatrist for his big toenail that was damaged or infected when he was less then six weeks old. He is growing an actual toenail and loosing some of the old nail material. The current plan is to see how much of a toe he can grow. We are to continue to apply the anti-fungal medication. His other big toe nail often becomes ingrown we are to keep filing it down as necessary. When his other toenail grows out they can do a surgery to keep them both from getting ingrown. So it appears it will be a while before the toe nail grows to a normal size as it has taken three months to grow a new nail where the old one was just a mess and the nail grew straight up. I would guess at least a year to year and a half before we know if the toe nail will grow to a normal size. The anti fungal medication should last at least a year as his nails are small even where he has a full nail.

Friday was a "typical" day and no calls from day care.

The Asian festival

We took the boys to the Asian festival at the Gwinnett Center. They had many different performers, booths and food. The majority of the visitors were Asian, we saw several other adoptive families. The boys are wearing their big brother/little brother shirt in mandarin. We got lots of positive comments and people asking how far apart they were. Everybody thought they were cute :)! The drums the boys are playing are from the Taiwanese school of Atlanta. They have to be four to take classes to play the drum. The Chinese school of Atlanta also wants the boys to be four before teaching them Mandarin. Enjoy the pictures.

Worldess Wednesday

A great song

This is an original song by our youth pastor's son. If he makes it into the top 5, based on how many times his video is viewed he gets to play in the morning of the show and if chosen he will be the opening act for the Celebrate Freedom concert.

Around the house

These pictures are from early June. They got into my
sticker collection and had fun putting stickers all over
themselves.

They both like their camera's that Grandparents in Ohio gave them. They like to look at the pictures they have taken.