Opening Day!

Well, the Mitchell clan was up and at 'em early this morning for Opening Day at ORWALL. We had a blast!

The boys were so cute and had so much fun, so I have tons of pictures.

Guess what number Carson is this year?

Carson before the parade.

All of the kiddos on his team are adorable!

They had a little parade and were all introduced on the field.

Carson got a new bat bag from his Daddy in celebration of the big day.

And it is as big as he is!

We squeezed in a little play time before pictures and the game. Carson decided to jump out of the play set with his new friend Jay.Cade giving me the look before he ended up getting stuck up on the top of this thing.

Poor sweet Cannon was tuckered out.

He powered through and stayed awake though! Barely...

Cade waiting for big brother's game. He can't wait to play next year! He suits up and goes to practice (and tackles the big kids...he gets baseball and football confused, apparently...any kid with a ball is apparently free to be tackled in his book.).And our big guy's first hit of the season.

Here he is about to run to 2nd.

He played pitcher today and did great! He almost caught a ball in the air!Looking baseball ready!

We are looking forward to a great baseball season!! Our first official game is Tuesday night!!

It's good to be #3!

Well, Cannon just lucked out on the birth order around here. He's getting to enjoy all sorts of good stuff that I wouldn't have let fly with the other two. He'll probably be getting away with murder for the rest of his life because the other two will have already beaten me down on everything.

Here is my sweet pea enjoying a popsicle outside.

And sharing some ice cream with Carson (they are eating it at the same time off of the same spoon). He will yell and scream at the big boys if they are eating something that he wants and they won't share with him. Carson almost always shares. Cade, it's hit or miss with that one!

Cannon is getting so big! Check out the blue eyes in this one...He is absolutely adorable, if I do say so myself!
He loves playing outside!And loves going down the little slide...
He is getting better and better at walking every day. It helps that he has a lot of willing helpers!Here he comes on his own!

Carson's class has been learning about space this week. Here are Carson and Cade as astronauts. Carson's teacher is so sweet and made one for Cade too when we went over there today.Cade, poor Cade! We had round two of his allergy testing done today. NOT FUN. I had to numb up his back before we went and cover him in saran wrap. He was a good sport about that!They poked and poked his back and he was SCREAMING in pain. It was awful for him and I was about to cry because I felt so bad for him. I won't even bother listing what all he allergic to...it's just easier probably to say what he isn't allergic to. Poor guy!

He is probably going to start getting injections in a few weeks. We're going to let him try to forget about today's visit for a while before going back in there. Unfortunately, he isn't a candidate for the allergy drops because his allergies are so severe. I have to take him in for a cat scan next week to check his sinuses. That should be a blast. He has to be completely still for 10 seconds. I've never seen him do that and not quite sure that it is possible. And, even MORE fun is that we get to completely eliminate corn from his diet for 2 full weeks. That means nothing with corn syrup in it either. I'm not sure how many labels you have read lately, but it's in everything from juice to cereal. I'm going to have to do some heavy preparation for that and just get meals and snacks lined out for him.

Here is Cade, being Cade. Things were too quiet and I went in my bedroom to find an entire newspaper covering the floor in my bathroom. He was sitting on the potty, going through the paper.

And another one of Cade being Cade. His hair has gotten so long that I have started blowing it dry with my round brush. Matt and I both love it and don't want to cut it. He does need a slight trim though and I have got to get both boys in this weekend for that!
Carson has opening day out at ORWALL tomorrow, so I'm sure that my next post will be full of pictures of our baseball star. He's so excited!!

Cannon is walking!

Well, it looks like my little 11 month old is an over achiever! He's officially walking!! And so proud of himself...He loves walking to his big brother, who catches him with open arms!

Just figures! Our third kid crawled and walked before the other two. They get quicker at being mobile each time!! Carson walked at 13 months to the day, Cade walked at 12 months, 1 week and Cannon at 11 months exactly. Good times!! Bring on the bumps, scrapes and bruises!

Carson had his first t-ball practice yesterday and it went great. Here is a picture of him on the pitchers mound.

All of the kids are so adorable on his team and the parents all seem pretty normal. Whoo hoo!! They are all pretty much neighbors too, with two boys living in our little neighborhood. We're so excited about that! Cade suited up for practice, but I never had a second to get a picture of it. He just had to wear baseball pants and cleats. He ran with the best of them, threw balls and cried like a baby when his Daddy (aka the coach) booted him off of the field so that the big boys could bat. That is going to be one happy boy when fall ball comes around and he is actually old enough to offically play too!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I have to say, I'm one lucky lady!! I am having an amazing Valentine's Day with four boys! What else could a girl ask for?

My sweet, 11 month old!, baby.

To make things even better, I got the best gift of all! A picture, that is almost perfect, of all three boys!! I might get those change of address cards done yet!

The boys got to open a few little gifts and then we all went out to lunch together and then went and piddled around at Market Street for a while. It has been a perfect day!

Matt and the big boys!

Daddy and all of his boys...

Opening presents...how cute is Cade in this picture?

The boys had their Valentine's Day parties at school yesterday.

Big fun! Cade's class dipped fruit and pretzels in chocolate.

Carson's class had a scavenger hunt! They ran all over the school hunting for stuff.I have to share this little thing that Cade did. He HATES princesses. The worst put-down that the boys can call one another is "princess". Those are fighting words! Well, the top valentine in his can had a princess on it. HE FREAKED. Screaming, crying, the whole bit!! "I don't like princesses!! WHY would they give me a princess valentine??" He wouldn't even touch the sucker that was attached to it! Carson wasn't scared...he ate it right up!

And some pictures of the boys being silly last night after bath in their new jammies from PJ and Pops.

We hope that everyone is having a great Valentine's Day with their sweeties!!

February Fun

Well, first off in the line of fun, I took Cade in for a new round of allergy testing yesterday. This poor little guy is having a tough time! We have got to get to the bottom of what is causing this and making him so sick, so that we can avoid it. Anyway, they did the back prick test where they stuck him with four pannels of needles and waited to see how he reacted. Well, see for yourself: AWFUL. Dogs and Cats are off the chart with him. Everything is ranked from 0 - 4. Those where well above the 4...so big that they were running together. No pets for the Mitchell house anytime soon!! Ragweed was another huge one, as well as Oak, Ash and Pecan trees (yeah, we just moved to The Woodlands...great). We also have a new food allergy: Corn. I didn't know that he had that food allergy, so we're now learning how to avoid corn and it, like egg, is in everything. The corn was his lowest registered allergy - 3. The grasses all registered in the 4 range too. So, we know why he has been so miserable. We obviously, can't keep him away from trees and grass, all of the time, but we are doing all that we can to avoid the pets and food allergies. I am meeting back with the allergist next week to come up with a game plan and to see if we need to do more testing.

In other news, T-Ball is gearing up here at ORWALL. Matt and I were going to try to skate this year, since we are new to the area, have 3 boys under 5, it is tax season for me, Matt volunteers at the rodeo non stop in Feb/March, Aunt Jen is getting married, and well, we're freakin' busy! NO such luck. Apparently, there were too many kids, they formed more teams and now Matt is the official coach. I tried to pawn off this team mom job, but there were no takers, so GUESS WHO is in charge? I had to go to a meeting last night to get the low-down on it all and Carson said to me, "Why do you have to go to a team mom meeting? To learn how to pass out snacks?". That's going down in the history books for him! Snacks, my A$$! I just spent almost an hour and a half drafting an email to send out with forms, dates, and everything else you can imagine. NUTTY. On top of that, I had to take Cannon to the doctor on Monday...double ear infection. Carson played sick yesterday and I took him to the pediatrician, only to feel like a fool. He's fine! Then Cade's allergy test. Oh, and I have a "real" job too, that is kind of demanding this time of year. STRESS.

Today, we worked on making some valentine's gifts for the boys' teachers...nothing big, but something to show that we aren't slackers. I kept hearing all of my friends talking about these great crafts they were making, so I had to do something! We made these chocolate dipped spoons for coffee and wrapped them up nice and cute. Here is a work in progress:

And my two cute helpers, yes, we moved on to dipping pretzels (okay, and strawberries too.).Here is Cannon in Matt's cowboy hat the other night.And a couple of pictures of my little stinkers before putting all three of them to bed at 7:00 tonight! They were being downright awful after no naps today (and maybe a tad bit too much sugar) and I had that team mom thing to deal with (and Matt has a rodeo meeting and Nilza is sick).This picture makes me smile! Cannon loves to crawl on the bottom trundle bed and lay on the pillow whenever it is out. He SO wants to be a big boy!! Not much longer...

Little update!

I have been a bad blogger. Sorry. We have been super busy with work, house stuff, company and just life.

We have had a couple of sets of visitors, which has been fun! Thorsen and Scott came up one weekend and we did some wedding planning. Then, Katy, Tere and Ridgely came up the following weekend, which was fun! The boys did great together...ummm, if you leave out the part where my boys were the "police officers" and poor Ridgely was the "bad guy" which they were trying to cuff and stuff under the mini slide. Poor kid didn't know what hit him! Yikes. We're sorry Ridgely!

Here is a picture of them playing quite peacefully. Notice my boys were still in their jammies. At least they had on coats and boots!

The weather has been nutty...some days cold, others, awesome. We have had lots of picnics out on the patio.

They also found this lovely lizard. They tortured it for a full afternoon. I sort of felt bad at first, but then, they were so entertained by it and I was able to cook dinner in peace. Sorry, little fellow! Any creatures that want to enter our yard are at their own risk! By the following day, it was totally dead and dried out, so they got even more entertainment out of it by pretending to grill it. Nice.

Carson is getting too smart! He has been writing down random letters. Sometimes, he spells words, other times, they are just jibberish that he likes to pretend are words. Well, today, he brought me a piece of paper and it actually said something! I was glancing at it, took a second look and read, "SECRETS OF A WHITE HOUSE MOM". Ummmm, maybe leaving the US Magazine on the coffee table isn't the most educational! I'm just glad that he chose that headline over "Jumbo Jessica". Leave the poor girl alone!

As you can see from this picture, some things never change. Cade is still obsessed with peeing outside. As long as they do it in the back, I'm pretty much looking the other way. I'm sick of battling over that!

Cade's teacher stopped me in the hall today to ask me to have a talk with him about "listening and following directions". She obviously doesn't know him well at all since we're new. He doesn't listen or follow directions from anyone unless he feels like it, you bribe him, or you beat him (and that still doesn't always work...)! I told her I would and then I called Matt and we had a good laugh about it. Carson and Cade are sharing a room now and EVERY night, I come out here and get on my computer and can hear Cade jibber jabbering on and on and on. Carson keeps begging him to stop talking, but he keeps on going. "Hey Carson! I'm talking to you! I'm asking you a question! Why you not answering me?". It's quite comical, but I kind of feel bad for my do-gooding Carson who just wants to follow the rules and go to sleep.

Thanks to my friend, Sarah, we've got gates! I can't believe we made it a month without them. It was miserable...everytime we would turn around, we were having to grab Cannon away from them. Well, they are up now and he hates them! He's been griping at them for the past few days.

Cannon is actually a little under the weather at the moment. He has had fever for a couple of days. Other than that, he's good. He still isn't officially walking, but he's getting too close for comfort! He's not scared to let go and try!

Until next time!