Kindergarten!

So I did something today that I try to avoid with everything I have and up until this point I've only had to do it twice. Today I took all 3 Kids to the pediatrician. ALONE. Now I love the Kids doctor, he's awesome the nurses are great and the office staff knows us by name (and I'm not sure if that is good or bad)! Cameron was scheduled for his Kindergarten check-up today, yes Kindergarten! Wow! He had his eyesight and hearing checked, his blood sugar, height/weight (50th percentile for both) and received 3 shots. :o(. He is officially a Kindergartener now, or at least he will be as soon as I take his shot record to the school. I do have to say though all 3 Kids were great and I really didn't have any problem at all with them at the doctor's office. Poor Cameron when it was time for his shots it took a female nurse a male nurse and myself to hold him down. It just broke my heart watch him get that upset, this is the first time he's ever really been upset about getting a shot, I guess because he had so many.

We spent a few hours outside this afternoon playing and washing the truck and the boat to get ready for the weekend. Its one of the first time we've spent outside since Harper really started walking. She would walk all the way down the driveway until one of us would go pick her up and bring her back. It was funny because as I was watching her walk up and down the driveway I couldn't help remember that last year at this exact time I was walking up and down the same driveway trying to go into labor. I would even wash my truck everyday hoping it would help. Needless to say it didn't. I guess Harper just wanted to make sure she was born on her Uncle Hershel's Birthday.

Well we are headed to Pickwick in just a few hours to start the holiday weekend. Its after midnight so it is July 2nd which is my Gram's birthday and if she were still alive she would be 79! Wow! She wouldn't have liked that. My sister and I constantly teased her about being old, even though she never acted like she was, but what we wouldn't give to have her here with us and actually be old. She passed away 10 years ago this year in April and it is unimaginable to me that she has been gone that long. Tonight though we will be on the lake when the fireworks start and it will be the first time Harper will see them and everyone else may be celebrating Independence day but not Harper and I. We will know the real reason for the fireworks, because its Gram's birthday.