PE Tubes and Anesthesia

Well, Trevor's surgery is over.  He has his fifth set of tubes in place.  Let's all cross our fingers, say a prayer to God and hope that they work.  We have been dealing with ear infection after ear infection with Trevor.  I think he has had at least one every other month since he has been born.  Funny, the other two don't get quite as many.  In fact, I think they had one set of tubes each and were infection free after that.  Now, I should probably knock on wood.  McKenna did tell me the other day that her ear was bothering her.  Nothing compared to Trevor, though.  In fact, his ruptured a few days ago.  Nothing like blood and puss in your ears.  It is no wonder he has had a bad attitude for the past several weeks.  Maybe now he can start to like school again.  I can dream, can't I?  He is still struggling with wanting to go to school.  He loves to learn and loves to read, learn Spanish, do math, etc. when he gets home.  However, he is really having a hard time at school.  I am hoping a conference will manifest some new techniques or ideas to help him get back on track.

Caleb, on the other hand, LOVES to go to school.  There is no arguing or reluctance when it is time for preschool.  He is doing well also.  He loves to learn his letters and is in the emerging stages of reading.  Of course, I am eating this up...making flashcards, creating word family activities and singing silly "mat, cat, sat" songs.  Of course, Trevor remembers them from when he was learning word families and is loving to help teach Caleb (and McKenna) how to read.

We also took a quick fall walk last night.  I figured this would be the last with the beautiful trees, since I will be having the baby next week.  The leaves are sure to change when I am in the hospital for 4-5 days.  I would be pretty devastated if I did not get any pictures of the family with the spectacular background of orange, yellow, brown and red leaves.  That is one thing I love about Cincinnati...fall colors...  The process of snapping this picture was no easy feat.  Just be happy that everyone is looking at the camera.  I know Aaron is happy that I finally replaced the other family picture at the top of the blog.  He has been bugging me to do it for months.  You are welcome, honey...

Science Rocks!!

Trevor has discovered his new found passion in life...to do science experiments.  Cracks me up.  I think he is going to be like his mommy.  Loves reading, science and math...HATES, and I mean HATES, social studies.  Story of my life.  I couldn't tell you any more about the US Constitution or World War I, but I could figure out the Pythagorean Theorem...lol. Anyway, everything is a science project for Trevor.  He wants to guesstimate/hypothesize about everything science related.  He is interested in tree species, the difference in weight between things, how pulleys and levers work, how to grow things from seeds to plants, how bones are formed, etc.  Of course, this means that he also is interested in how babies are made too.  NOT a conversation I expected to have with my barely 6 year old, along with his 4 year old brother and 3 year old sister.  At least that is one uncomfortable conversation out of the way.  And no, I am not a "pee pee" and "wee wee" kind of mom.  He knows exactly what things are called, where they go and what happens.  Just so you know.  Let's just hope and pray he continues wanting to learn about earth science...