Happy Birthday Again

I just wanted to let it be known that I am so comfortable with the content of my previous blog, that I am happy to just let it stand as is.
I wouldn't dare wake MY kids up before dawn, just so they could draw more pictures in an attempt to one up my sister!!
I just wouldn't do that....
I mean after all...let's not lose sight of what's important...It's your birthday Daddy - and I was thinking you were only 57!! Who's right? I'm sure it is me...

Happy Birthday Bryan!!!

The girls had this GRAND idea of drawing birthday cards for you. They came up with it all by themselves - I mean they wouldn't have looked at Abbey's blog and seen that Austin and Ella had done that or anything like that!!



Happy Birthday from the Pittmans

[Pause the music on the playlist at the bottom, so that you can here the video sound]

Your Birthday Poem

There once was a man named Bryan

Who went on cruises all the time.

He left the kids, and took his wife.

Cruises became his way of life.

To here him tell it, you'd never know,

That from now on, this is how they'll go.

It doesn't matter what stops they make.

They just like the midnight cake

And the bingo games are fun for Mom.

And watching Fox makes Dad real calm.

He'll have a birthday on this trip

And won't be having chips and dip

But lobster rolls or succulent crab

Whatever they have, he's sure to grab!

So on your birthday we wish for you

A happy day, through and through!

It's hard we know, it's never fair,

To celebrate your b/d without us there,

But, please have fun, or we'd feel bad.

You're the greatest, our dear OLD Dad!!

BZZZZzzzzz AGAIN!!!

Okay...up until this point, neither Madison nor Audrey have ever been stung by bees, wasps, yellow jackets, etc.

So...when Madison gets in the car yesterday from school, she tells me that she was stung by a bee, too!!

Obviously, she was fine, but I just think that is so weird that they both were stung for the first time within days apart.

Madison told me about going to the office, and them putting an ice pack on it, and how she only cried a little bit.

She then told me that her friend CJ or Jacob (cannot remember which), told her not to worry about it, because when the "bee stings you, it gets a big hole in it, and it dies!!!"

BZZZZzzzzzzz

Well...it happened.

I got that dreaded call from the church where Audrey goes to Mom's Day Out. The first thing that came out of Mrs. Otillio's mouth was "Audrey is fine. But..."

I am thinking, Oh, great...so who did she hit or bite and how bad is it?

But..instead, she told me that Audrey was stung by a wasp. (Sigh of relief on the hitting thing....panic over the wasp thing.)

Thankfully, she had no reaction at all, and all seemed to be fine. [With her mastocytosis, she has the potential of having very severe reactions with bee or wasp stings, so this is always a concern!]

I went to pick her up at the scheduled time, and we were driving home, and she was just fine.

A motorcycle was in front of us, and all of a sudden it accelerated it's speed and made a very loud buzzing noise.

Audrey couldn't even see the motorcycle, but she said, "You hear 'd that?"

And I said, "Yep."

And she said, "That's a bee," and I couldn't help but laugh thinking that that is probably what she heard as the wasp or bee was approaching her sweet little face!!!

1st day of Mom's Day Out

Yesterday Audrey started Mom's Day Out again for this year. She was sick on Monday when she should have started, and of course, was out last week because of Hurricane Gustav. I think she was just as glad as I was that she would be going to play with her friends. Here are a few pictures of her morning.

Getting ready to leave for school.

Big Sis giving her a hug on her first day!
(with gloves on, don't know what that was about!)

Audrey insisted on wearing her socks "old school" as Grant would call it!!

I kept pulling them down, and she would pull them back up saying, "up high, up high!"

Thankfully, her teacher said she had a good day!! And that she was so "sweet!!!" Wait 'til Audrey gets used to them!