Little Kickers, Golf Lesson and HIVES!!

We had a LONG night last night and a busy day today! Last night, Cody's rash got much worse. I ended up calling the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta on call nurse and after about 30 minutes on the phone, she had me at ease that it was only hives and that we might not ever find out what caused them. According to WebMD they can be hereditary and Dennis has had them twice that he can remember. She did say that the red dyes in his benadryl could be causing the outbreak to be worse, so Dennis RAN to Walgreens at 9:45 (they close at 10) and got Dye Free Benadryl. Guess what...they have not been HALF as bad as they were last night. But just to be safe, Cody slept with us just in case he had breathing issues. All night legs and arms were flying all over me. Oh well.
We woke up early this morning to get him signed up for Little Kickers Soccer. We were there when the email said they were open at 10:00. There was already a huge line with kids EVERYWHERE! We got him signed up and he was able to participate in a quick 15 minute demonstration class and he had such a good time! Cooper was able to get in the same class as him, so they will be playing soccer together this fall! There will be tons of pictures to come!
He had his picture taken with Hopper the Little Kickers Bunny several times.
Listening to Coach Jason in the demonstration class.
Cody and Cooper with Hopper
They were very glad to see each other. It had been 3 weeks!!

Then it was on to his golf lesson with Mr. Peter. He actually played a par 3 hole today and did VERY good. I was so proud of how he is listening to instruction and doing what he is told. We were worried right when we pulled up. He said he didn't want to go see Mr. Peter. When we told him about playing the hole and getting a golf cart, he perked right up and was ready to go!
Mr. Peter telling him where he is aiming.
What form!!
In the golf cart. He still looks sick, poor thing!
Putting it in on the green.
And getting his ball out of the hole!!

It has been a busy weekend and it is only Saturday night! Auburn just won with the score of 3-2 so it was ugly, but hey...a win is a win! WAR EAGLE!!!

We found them!!

This morning started off with a little scare. Cody woke up with a horrible rash all over his body. I freaked out a little and called the doctor first thing. We rushed over there and the doctor looked at him. No fever, no infection anywhere. The doctor said it was an allergic reaction to something and 9 times out of 10 you never figure out what caused the break out. Well THAT didn't ease me because what if it happens again? So he said to just give Cody benadril and it will take a while for the rash to go away. We snapped the picture going across the Chattahoochee this morning on the way to the doctor since we were stopped in rush hour traffic.

We have been looking for the Rescue Heroes. They do not sell them in stores anymore, so I've seen them on ebay (but they were $10 each on there) so I have been asking people to look for any they might want to get rid of. Today we went to Little Lambs Consignment sale. I've never been to one before and wasn't sure what I would find. We ended up finding a new Tommy wind breaker, a cute Halloween t-shirt, LOTS of scrapbook supplies, and RESCUE HEROES! All of them! They were $2.50 each and he also found a Power Ranger for $1. Since he has been doing so good at the potty training lately, I was happy to buy them for him. He has been playing with them since we cleaned them up. They are in almost perfect condition. I don't think they have been played with before. Poor toys! :)

So much for Pat Pat Rocket...

We NOW want the Ferrari F1 Pit from the Lego store. It broke my heart tonight to walk out without it for him, but I have to stick to my guns. If he stays dry the rest of the week and weekend with NO accents at all, I will GLADLY go and buy it for him. Thanks to Lori and Deb he now is a Lego Maniac! Daddy loves it by the way. We couldn't go to the Lego store tonight without him. HAHA!
Update coming soon!!

We've got a mission....

We are getting closer and closer to our Pat Pat Rocket! He has successfully finally gone to the potty like he needs to! We just needed the costume magazine and the toy magazine to help him concentrate. YIPPEE! So this afternoon we're going to the Lego outlet to get a new small bucket of Lego's to celebrate finally going to the potty instead of our pants (well, we had #1 mastered for a while now, it is the #2 we are celebrating)!

I was so excited so I snapped a very nice picture today that will be perfect to show the high school girlfriends and to put in his Senior yearbook! Join with me in celebrating! YIPPEE!!!

Build-a-Bear Celebration!

Since he kept his pants dry ALL last week, I let him go to Build-a-bear and build his own bear! Little K had never been before so she had the best time. Cody was an old pro and he finally picked out Clyde the bear. Clyde even has on his own 'bear big boy undies' so he had to go potty with us everywhere.




Little K made "Big Alice" because she is an Alabama Fan. I know, I'm working on it! HAHA
Loving on his bear!!
FUN TIMES!

Playing Golf at Sugar Hill

We played golf this morning. I had my 2nd par ever!! I had several double bogeys and higher, but my par was AWESOME! On a par 4! Here are some of the sights and views from today.

These geese were my friends! We had to sit and wait for a long time for the group ahead of us to finish and they just stayed there eating. When I hit my shot over them, they scattered FAST!

View from the Driving Range

Going to tee up

I have to take the self portrait!!

It was getting HOT as the day went on, so we're kinda sweaty!

Oh yeah...I forgot....

If you could not tell from the previous post...I cut bangs again. I'm digging them so far...ask me in another couple weeks if I still like 'em! This pic was the day I did it (and no, I wasn't driving...I was stopped in the neighborhood!)

DATE NIGHT!!

We had date night tonight! Since we are on a 'get healthy' kick, we decided to go bowling. It was so much fun and the place we went was VERY cool! It was nice to have a 'date' for the first time in a LONG time. We need to do it more often.


See...I DID make it to 100!

Catching up...3rd Birthday parties!

Here are Cody's parties!
Columbus (7/12/08):

Suwanee (7/15/08):

You can click in the slide shows to view all of the pictures in the Picasa albums.

More Dry Pants!!

YAY! We have two days of dry pants! But here is the tricky part. He has figured out that he needs to go #2 before he gets out of bed while he still has on the pull up. Hmm...any ideas on how to get around this new hurdle? It is 11:00 am and he is still dry this morning and he even has gone on his own once. We're looking better than ever in this process and I'm FINALLY encouraged that my child will not be 18 years old in diapers as he graduates High School.
On a different note, thank you so much everyone for the sweet comments on my purse I made. I have a LOT of practicing to do to get it right but your thoughtful comments mean a lot and encourage me. I'm doing these for free right now while I am practicing, so if you are interested in getting one, please let me know!! Hopefully I'll have a post this afternoon after I get my hair cut. I'm getting BANGS again! Taking it back retro on ya!

Getting Crafty

Okay so I know it isn't perfect. I'm learning slowly how to sew on my own without patterns (they are too much trouble to figure out). I made this last night without a pattern. It is for a 2 year old so that is why the straps are so tiny. The purse itself is small and it even has a flat bottom and a liner! GO ME! I'm going to attempt one today for a 4 year old so I need to go a little bigger. The mom said she was going to get her initial put on the front so I think it will be precious!



On a different note, the potty thing is still going good! We had 2 accidents yesterday so he didn't get his certificate this morning. He asked where it was and was sad when I told him he would have to be dry all day today to get another certificate tomorrow, and so far so good! We are going out of town this weekend, so it will be interesting to see if he stays dry!!! YIPPEE!

Mill Creek Play Date

We played at Madi's house today. They watched TV for a little while.
Then it was time to make their own sandwiches! They flattened out their bread, cut shapes out and then put peanut butter and jelly on them. Cheetos made it a complete meal. (yes, I'm being sarcastic)
Then it was on to decorating their own cupcakes! Messy but FUN!
Working VERY hard on his cupcake...
And then gives me chocolate kisses!
Madi wanted to play dress up so she fixed Cody up as a businessman/firefighter.

Dry Big Boy Pants!!

So I told Cody that if he kept dry pants all day yesterday he would have a surprise this morning. He had waiting on him this certificate. He could trade in his certificate for a prize from the dollar store so what did he get?!?! LIZARDS. Yuck for mommy but he loves them. We are still dry today (I'm not counting his accident that I caused because I didn't check with him) so cross your fingers it is actually going to work this time!!!!!
He was proud of his certificate he had to put it on his wall.
After he gets 7 certificates, he can take them to Target and turn them in for Pat Pat Rocket. He has been talking about this for 3 weeks now and I guess he finally decided he wants it. Be praying for us to get DONE with diapers!!

Rainy Days and Play-Doh

While outside did this (and worse) all day long....
We played with PLAY-DOH! I am very strange about Play-Doh. I do NOT like for the colors to be mixed. Cody, on the other hand, being the 3 year old he is, wants to mix the colors all of the time. I finally gave in today and we got this radioactive looking mess. It didn't glow in person, but in the pictures, it looks like it was glow in the dark!
He was VERY happy I finally let him mix the colors and we had a good time!
On a side note...his big boy undies are STILL dry from this morning! YEE HAW!

Making Pizza

We decided to make pizza one night for dinner and Cody insisted that he was going to make it by himself.




He pretty much did! I just helped spread the toppings out a little better. He was VERY proud!

The Waggle

Cody has been taking golf lessons. He is doing really well and enjoying it. Mr. Peter has been VERY good working with him. Here are some pictures from his first lesson.



Well, he had his third lesson this past weekend and Mr. Peter was teaching him how to 'waggle the club' when addressing the golf ball. Cody saw that he could see himself on the TV where Mr. Peter was recording him, so being the ham that he is, he jumped out there and started waggling his booty! When Mr. Peter played it back, he did in slow motion. Here is his entire lesson. He waggles around the 4:08 minute mark. (There is no sound to the video)

The rookie and the pro

Cody's friend Cooper had never been to Chuck E Cheese before, so we all went the other day.
Cody LOVES to ride Scoop from Bob the Builder. He spends at least 10 tokens riding it over and over again.
And what a treat! Chuck E Cheese came out and met all of the kids that day! Cooper and Cody got to have their picture made with him.
I think we've made a Chuck E Cheese fan out of Cooper now. Sorry Lori!!!!

Wow...I'm a slacker

I'm just now getting back around to blogging. I'm sorry! So here's what you've missed....
We had our first dentist appointment! He did VERY good and he loved it! The entire office was decorated like a town with each area being a different 'store.' Cody had his teeth cleaned in the 'pet store' which had real frogs and iguanas.

They had TV's on the ceiling and he was able to watch Cars the movie while having his teeth cleaned. He also got to wear the cool shades to keep the light out of his eyes.