Tubes it is...

Ear tubes that is.

Sept 24th Alex will go under anesthesia to get ear tubes put in. Although we are a little worried/scared (even though we know everything will go fine and worried/scared isn't really the right words to describe how I feel....) we are looking forward to having him feel better, not have to take systemic antibiotics and sleep better = we sleep better.

The surgery will take place at Children's hospital and he will be back to daycare the next day.

That's it for now. Things are just so busy at work that blog posting hasn't been as much as I'd like. Sorry about that. I will try to do more in the upcoming days.

Before Kids

We had so much time... and we didn't even appreciate it! But, we did have some fun.
Oceanside, CA (near San Diego) before we were engaged ~Spring 2003

This was when we were first dating back in 1998! We went on a ski trip up to Whistler and this classic of a photo was taken. Lance was only 25 and I was 21!

First time to the zoo

We went to the zoo for the first time recently. It was my company's summer picnic, which I helped plan, and it was a blast! Alex was too little for many of the bouncers, face painting, etc - we had so much fun looking around the zoo and on the carousel.

Here is a picture of Alex and his new favorite word -"Turtle" says Alex as he points at the turtles in the nocturnal house at Woodland Park Zoo. We stayed at the turtles for a long time and found that there were so many turtles in just one area. So many different kinds!

He has a couple of turtles on the wall of his bedroom and one day I was telling him what was all on the walls. There was an Octopus, a crab, a whale, and many fishes. Then, we got to the turtles. He said "turtle"right after I told him what they were. And the rest is history. He stuck his tongue out on the "t"s and it was so cute!

We visited the Petting zoo and Alex was petting a Goat.

On the carousel! He cried so much when it was time to get off! It was by far his favorite activity. A close second was the turtles.

We're not sure when we'll be able to go again, but we're sure it will be so much fun!