more muddy day pics

Sorry the pics are in different posts - something went wrong during the upload - anyway, I hope you enjoyed them!!



More muddy fun!

Grandma has the best ideas

Sunday afternoon was picture perfect for sure.  On the way home from church Grandma suggested to Joshua that they head outside for some fun in the sprinklers.  Well, it certainly was fun!!!  Joshua ended up going from fully clothed to just his underpants as he played "mud bath" in a mud puddle that the sprinkler created.  He had the time of his life!!!  He certainly is blessed to have the best grandma ever - and a pretty good mommy too (mommy and grandma both thought this was too much fun)!

A suprise trip to the Toledo Zoo

The other day Randy and I decided we needed some family time.  We opted to take Joshua on a mini road trip to the Toledo Zoo - we kept it a suprise until we pulled in - he was VERY excited!  Here are some highlights from our trip.

Polar Bear enrichment - getting frozen fish out of a ball

First ride on a merry go round - what a fun memory with his daddy!

Jelly fish!

We were thrilled to see Joshua's favorite animal - CHEETAH'S!!

Watch Out a T-Rex is gonna get you!

Love this shot of the snow leopard - very cool!

Cyclical Vomitting Syndrome = CVS

It's been quite some time since I've last done a blog update.  Several folks have been asking me to get back to it - so here is my feable attempt.  We've been SUPER busy lately - I'll get to those reasons on another blog entry.

Anyway, some of you may know that Joshua has had many vomiting episodes (starting back in November - every 3 weeks or so without any other symptoms).  Well, it's gotten a bit worse so the doc wanted to see him.  He's been diagnosed with Cyclical Vomiting Disease/disorder/syndrome.  Basically, it is best described as a migraine in his stomach.  This happens in the middle of the night and is very scary for Joshua.  We are working through elimnating certain foods from his diet, adjusting sleep times, and some other natural remedies - the meds that he was given cause other crazy side effects that we would rather not have to deal with.  Please pray for our sweet boy - he asks Jesus for complete healing and we believe that Jesus will certainly heal his body of this horrible problem. 

Typically, after an episode he chooses to snuggle on the bathroom floor just in case more vomiting occurs.  It breaks my heart for sure!