For any of you who read Kara T blog I really was not looking forward to moving Kiley into a big bed b/c I thought that she would give Audrey a run for her money....But tonight was night one and she is out cold. I read her a story and laid her down as always and have not heard a peep since!!! God knew that I did not need a battle tonight.

not the best picture, but they had been wrestling around and at least they were looking

Happy Birthday Kiley!

Friday my baby turned 2 already! Hard to believe. We celebrated on Saturday with some family and she had a lot of fun. Great Grandma Frazee made her an Elmo cake and she loved it, she preferred looking at it and touching the frosting to eating it. I do not think that she is going to be a cake girl she had a muffin again like last year. She loves her new baby dolls (thank you great grandma Frazee and Sanner) Eli gave her one too and she carries all three of them around with her in a gift back. She even tried to convince me this morning that they needed to go to church with her this morning.

Eli, "all ready for bed," as he put it?!

Last weekend we went to see Brian's aunt and had a great time! The kids both enjoy spending time there too. We rode the four wheeler, the motorized tractor, went fishing, rode a carousal, and Eli got introduced to a BB gun. It was Eli's first time fishing and Aunt Betty had the perfect spot - we used hot dogs as bait and caught 5 fish in a little over 30 min! Perfect for a first timer!

Kiley met her match in the ducks - she is holding onto a piece of crust from the bread saying, "No Mine!" while the duck is holding onto her fingers!!

Last night Eli asked me why God made Adam before Eve. We were discussing how Eve was made from Adam when he interrupted and said, "...but it is not polite for men to go first." I told him that was right it was polite to let ladies go first and he said, "So was God not being a gentleman?!"

I know that it has been awhile...

I started back to work two weeks ago and that seems to have made things a little more busy. We have been loving the weather. We have been doing a lot of outdoor activities and soaking it all up. Eli started back to preschool too and is adjusting well to his new teacher AKA mom :) Kiley is becoming Daddy's little. Here are a few pictures from the last couple of weeks.

We made it home!! We got home from Mayo at Rochester late Saturday and Grandma and Grandpa brought Kiley home this morning. It is so nice to be home.

Kiley did great at the grandparents and is already going through withdrawals asking about Papa and Pee Wee(the kitten) all afternoon or at least after I woke her up after sleeping for almost 4hrs. I think that they wore her out.

Eli did amazing this week. He was a champion w/all the blood work and tests. It was a long week, but we did have a little free time between procedures and appointments. We went bowling, did a paddle boat, swam, and got to see Sesame Street Live thanks to the Ronald McDonald House.

Eli made a little friend at the house, Noah, they played together and got to go to the show together. Eli was on a liquid diet for two days while there so the night after his scopes and biopsies we got him a pizza and he ate the whole thing!

All of our doctors this week were great and the facilities are amazing, the picture below is in one of the waiting areas. Eli was waiting for his last round of blood work w/his doctor hat on that they gave him at surgery and his plane that one of the office doctors gave him. I wish I could say that they know for sure what is wrong but we do not, they like previous doctors are leaning toward chrones but also looking into the possibility that he has something else on top of that b/c of the severity of his ulceration. We are waiting on two test that Mayo sends out for a little more direction or at least knowledge before making major decisions about his future treatments.