After we got back from our NC/FL/NC trip for Christmas last year, we got back into our schedules. Mom went to NJ for 10 days to help Aunt Julie while she was having back surgery. While she was gone, Bailey ate something that ended up almost killing the poor cat. Fortunately, we took a drive one night (the whole family!) to the vet when Bailey wouldn't come out from under Emerson's bed. The vet said something was definitely wrong and it didn't look good. He sent us to another Surgical Vet to have him checked out. He ended up having surgery to remove pork loin netting that he had stolen out of the trash that was stuck between his stomach and intestines. Since the surgery, he's completely recuperated and Dad has his best friend back. Bailey sure gave us quite the scare!
We have such a snowy winter this year. While we were away in NC, CT had a blizzard. Since we weren't home to shovel our driveway after that snowfall, it turned our driveway to solid ice for most of the remaining winter. We've had a total of about 50" for the winter!
Uncle Eric took a train ride up to see us for a weekend in February. We had a great time! We took him to see a Danbury Whalers Hockey game. Both Emerson and I LOVE going to these hockey games! They play great music and this time Dad's friend Mr Raemdonck (who is very involved with the team)let us go out on the ice at half time to pick up the pucks after "Chuck-a-puck". Chuck-a-puck is when spectators can pay money to buy a puck that they then try to toss into a bucket (in this case, a toilet) to win money. The money that people spend to buy the pucks is donated to charity. After all the pucks are tossed, they have kids who go around the ice picking them up....we were 2 of them this night. Definitely the highlight of our night at this game!
In March, Mom had Spring Break the week of the 7th through the 11th. She really wanted to drive down for the week to not only have a little break from the cold, but to hopefully be there to when Aunt Jessy's new baby arrived. When we got there on Sunday the 6th, Uncle Eric was in town visiting. It was cool to get to see him one last time before he heads out for his deployment in Afghanistan. We spent most of the days playing outside in the nice weather. Poppop told us it was ok to go play in the woods (we called it the "forest") behind his house as long as we watched out for snakes. We got to see Miss Connie and Brooke a couple of times during our visit too. Miss Connie gave me, Em & Trey our own kites! One night we all went to CiCi's pizza together too. Every day we rubbed Aunt Jessy's baby belly and tried to convince her baby to come out. Aunt Melissa came down to Poppop's house on Thursday night and brought baby Lawson with her. I changed his diaper THREE TIMES!!! I even changed one that was POOPY! Mom couldn't believe it! He is such a sweet boy. He's 18 months old and loves to play with us since we are the big boys. Friday night Mom and Aunt Melissa were making dinner when Aunt Jessy came into the kitchen and told them that she was going to be having the baby that night! This was around 5:45pm. Lucky for Mom, Aunt Melissa finished up cooking dinner and got me, Trey & Em to bed so Mom could go to the hospital with Aunt Jessy & Uncle Carl. Baby Christian "Riseley" Wilson was born at 11:16pm! Mom got to be there for his arrival and she was SO happy! The next day Uncle Carl picked up Trey and brought him over to the hospital to meet his new baby brother. He was so proud! A little while later, Mom and Aunt Melissa took Me, Em & Lawson over to meet Riseley too. I held him 1st! He was just so sweet and I didn't want to share him. Mom made me pass him to Emerson who tickled his little piggies. After our visit we went and picked up Trey and took him to Sonic to celebrate him being a BIG BROTHER! Mom let us play on the playground and she even bought all of us ice cream! Later that afternoon, Aunt Melissa and Lawson had to head back to Raleigh. Once they left, we played a little more until Mom decided it was time for us to take a tub. She put all 3 of us in Poppop's BIG bathtub in his bathroom and gave us lots of bubbles to play in. She got us all dressed in jammies and took us all back over to the hospital for one last snuggle with Riseley before we had to leave early the next morning. It was a nice quiet visit with just the boys, Aunt Jessy & Uncle Carl, and Mom. We didn't want to leave!! The next morning, we were up bright and early to head back to CT. Poppop Suter rode with us to MD so he could pick up Uncle Eric's car and drive it back to his house. We did stop at Aunt Julie's on the way home and she made us a YUMMY dinner. Meatball Mommom & BangBang Poppop came over to eat with us too. Meatball Mommom even brought some of my favorite.....MEATBALLS! I ate 5 of them! After dinner, we hit the road again and made it home to Dad around 9:30. It was a LONG day, but a great week!
Monday, March 21st was Emerson's 6th birthday! He made himself a birthday crown the night before so he had it available to wear to school on Monday. Mom brought us to school on Monday so she could bring cupcakes to Emerson's class. After school, Mom picked us up and got dinner ready. In our house, you get to pick what we have for dinner on your birthday. Emerson requested ham, corn, and chicken wings! After dinner, Mommom Lenor and Poppop Ladd came over for cake, ice cream and presents. Em got the big Hogwart's Lego Castle, the MegaMind BluRay (from me), walkie talkies, a drawing book, and a dot paint set from Mommom and Poppop. He sure racked up!
This past week we also had our first Pinewood Derby for Cub Scouts. Mom took us to the woodworking shop down the street from our house to cut our cars to the right shape. We each got to use the saw and then they used the belt sander on our cars to make them nice and smooth. We spent some time painting them and getting them ready for the competition. I named my car "The Speeding Bullet" and Emerson named his "The Sonic Mobile". I won 1 of my 4 races. Emerson was in the "non-competition" category because he isn't a Cub Scout yet. He won EVERY race he was in and had the fastest car in that category!
We've been pretty busy as you can see, but hopefully we'll be a little better about posting from now on!
