God Speaks

Dawson and I had a brief discussion tonight about what happens when we die. There were several series of questions and answers before Dawson asked, "Mom, what shape is our spirit?" I explained that we can't "see" our spirit but God see's our spirit so only God could answer that question. He then replied, "well then I'll just ask God." He went into my bedroom and I overheard him talking in there. He came out of the room and said, "God said my spirit is a trapezoid!"

Hospital Visit

There are several new posts so it may make sense to read from the bottom up.

With kids there are many firsts..first tooth, first foods, first word, etc. We experienced a first on Monday, our first E.R. visit with one of the kids. I had laid Jackson down to put his swim trunks on him so we could go to the pool. When I laid him back he started coughing and choking and said, "I need my money!" I soon discovered that he had swallowed a penny. He wasn't having any problems breathing but my dad convinced us to come out to the Drs office for an x-ray. The first x-ray was questionable so they did a second one which looked like the penny was in the trachea. We took him to Children's Mercy figuring they would probably do a bronchoscopy to retrieve the penny. At Mercy they did another x-ray which thankfully showed the penny in the stomach. We were so relieved that Jackson did not have to go through any traumatic procedures. I was more worried about an IV start than anything! He has horrible veins for blood draws! Dora was great at entertaining during the whole thing. Let me just say that portable DVD players are the best invention ever! Thankfully, the penny came out today and it, ironically, is a 2005 coin, which is the year Jackson was born!

My cousin, Adam, got married last week on the beach in FL and had a reception and dance this past weekend to celebrate. It was fun for the kids to play together. These are my cousins' kids.

Trey, Jackson, Hunter, Connor, and Dawson

Dawson was picking up younger women at the dance!

Connor, Hunter and Dawson. Don't they look innocent!

Where have we been #2?

My dad and Dawson at the zoo.


We went to Lake Thunderhead in Unionville, MO a few weeks ago. My brother-in-laws parents live on the lake and took us boating and tubing. Dawson was on the tube with Wade but didn't like it this year. He and Jackson had more fun watching Wade and I attempt to stay on the tube!

Where have we been?

Wow, it has been a long time since I have posted anything. I have kept up reading friends' blog pages but I just haven't taken the time to update mine. Thanks Amanda for prompting me to add pics! Samantha, if you read this please add me to your list to view your blog. Thanks to you, I cut my hair this last week. I saw your picture and loved your cut. I now have a "bob" cut that I love. So here is briefly what has happened since my last post.

My baby brother, Camden, graduated high school. He will be attending Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO with a major in religious studies. He is staying busy this summer with Centrifuge (church camp), a trip from Texas to NY on a solar car built by students, a trip to Italy to play baseball and getting ready for college! We are going to miss him when he is at college but I'm sure we will see him plenty when he is home to get his "nephew fix".

Along with Cam's end of high school came Dawson's last day of preschool. He was sad to leave the Montessori school but is so excited for kindergarten. He did a kindergarten readiness class in summer school to prepare him for kindergarten so now he thinks he is ready for 1st grade!
My friend from college, Katie, got married this spring and Dawson and I went to the wedding. Dawson met some new friends, Evan and Ethan (Shanna's boys), and Joseph (Adrienne's son), and Seth (Amanda's husband!) who enjoyed collecting bugs in the "bug farm".
We went to the KC Zoo with my family in June. Dawson was laying down on the ground watching a nearby lion and another lion ran over and started batting at his head(on the other side of the glass, of course). He did that for several minutes and attracted quite a crowd. Dawson must have had alot of faith in the glass because he never got scared or moved away. You can see Dawson's reflection in the glass.