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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Dog biscuits, Pickles and Ice Cream

Well what can I say... Our family is constantly growing! Yep thats right... you read it right. Your not crazy although we may be... a baby and a new puppy months apart!! I mean what were we thinking... well the puppy was born March 17 and so we were ready but little did we know that we would get pregnant very early in the game and we did in New Orleans at Phil's best friends wedding. Guess thats what happens when you have a long weekend away, no kids, and lots of cocktails! Needless to say we have had lots to celebrate this summer. The boys are so happy to introduce to you their new little baby due January 8, 2013 (brother or sister will not be known until delivery - I know so not my personality as a type a planner to not find out the sex but as we all know this is it for us... so why not - right?! Plus not to mention Phil is adamant on not finding out the sex so like my mom always tells me, pick your battles! Ha!). The boys are super excited about the baby... they love kissing my tummy and talking to the baby (although I don't have much of a belly yet so I think Parker is a little confused - poor child!), and their other favorite thing is of course picking out names. Looks like this little one is destined to be called "spider girl" or "spider boy" no matter what we name it thanks to our current obsession with spiderman - awesome! Don't you know this little one will love tat nickname. But then again guess its better than Woody...  Im now 17 weeks pregnant and have been super sick since about 6 weeks and have just started taking weekly shots at the dr to prevent preterm labor which seems to be making me sicker... awesome! But I'm living on zofran and literally pickles and ice cream  which is fun (but no thank god Im not eating them together... not yet at least).  We will keep you all posted on our little peanut as he/she grows and ask for lots of prayers as we get ready to complete our family of five! And also just as exciting is our newest little brother... Tex II an english golden retriever puppy. He is 4 1/2 months, a bundle of love and potty trained so as you can imagine we are all very happy over here!! Philip of course picked out his name in case any of you were wondering or thinking we were morbid to have another family pet with the same name but as Philip put it in his argument when I tried to tell him that all dogs like to have their own names just like people, he responded with well I have the exact same name as my daddy so why can't this puppy have the same name as our favorite doggie ever?! So what could I say to that?!! Pretty good point in my mind... so long story short we went with Tex! Meet our growing family! We are so blessed and our hearts are beyond full!
Baby Brosseau #3 is on the way and due January 8, 2013... We can't wait!!

 The boys
 are so 
 excited
 to be
 Big Brothers!
 They are
the 


 Cutest
 Happiest
 Silliest
 and Cuddliest
 "Big brother" and "Little Big Brother"
 And now meet our...
 sweet
 cuddly
 and furry
 Texie!
 We are so in love and so blessed... God is so good!!

Friday, July 13, 2012

Summer Fun Days...

are always full of Summer Camps!! Philip started golf camp this week and absolutely loves it and Parker is in preschool camp at MPUMC and absolutely loves being a big boy at camp just like Philip! What can I say... Life is good! Hope y'all are all enjoying your summer as much as we are!!
All ready
for Golf
Camp... looking like a Pro!
And early camp mornings mean breakfast in the car... Breakfast of Champions - this kid loves him some raisins!
My big boy walking into his first summer camp ever!
And what can I say... look at that form and playing with his very own real golf clubs (thanks Gigi and Papa Doc... we love them)! Looks like another Tiger Woods in the making!

Happy 4th

We had a very fun and EVENTFUL to say the least 4th of july weekend this year. Our dear friends The Bells invited us to their amazing beach house at Garden City Beach this year. So we packed up and headed south for some good food, good times and even better company. The boys were in love with sweet baby Anne Harrison who is 1 and is literally the sweetest baby I have ever met. The boys loved calling her their baby and even more so loved helping take care of her. Saying we had an the best week would be an understatement. From fun in the sun on the beach and boat rides with the kids to fun dinners and drinks watching the sunset (and yes McSwaim that was the best sunset I have ever seen - ha)... it was the best vaca ever despite all our drama. See, the first morning we were there Philip decided he wanted to show Anne Harrison his room so they went into his room and the door somehow locked. Anne swears the doors lock on themselves and after the first night where my bedroom door locked (which I didn't lock) I am a believer. Anyways I digress... so all of a sudden the kids decided they wanted to come out but realized they couldn't bc it was locked. And to make things worse... their was a child lock door handle on the inside of the door so as much as I tried to coach philip he couldn't open it by himself. The kids then got scared and after 10 minutes both began to cry. Philip kept saying "mommy I promise I will be good if you will just let us out. Please." So I did all I knew to do and I got on the floor and put my fingers under the door and told him to hold my hand and together we would get the door open. However these were some good ol fashioned doors and as much as the guys tried to get it open - it didn't even have a hole on the outside to get it unlocked. So after trying to unscrew the door knob... we had no other option but to bust the door down. We talked Philip into taking Anne Harrisons hand and walking her safely to the far side of the room and when we saw that he had done this (praise God for video monitors), McSwaim used all his manly strength and knocked the door down. So the kids were finally free and the mommies could finally breathe again and though we had one broken door... things were looking up again. The second morning we were there, a bad storm set in and the power went out at like 5am. I of course woke up and then woke Phil as I was worried the kids would all get hot if it was out too long and after it had been out almost an hour I had Phil wake up Anne and McSwaim to tell them the power was out. They laughed and said - great, thanks we know but its still night time so what are we going to do. I of course had the great idea that we needed to call the power company and report it but Phil, Anne and McSwaim had a better idea of going back to sleep and I guess they were right b/c shortly after that we got Power again! So when the kids all woke, even though the adults were all super tired, we got all ready for the beach which we then realized we couldn't find the golf cart key that we rode to the beach each day. Anne supposedly had it the night before but it was no where to be found and after an hour of searching everywhere, McSwaim told us his secret that he had a spare and so we dodged that bullet thankfully. We joked that day that there must be something about the mornings b/c every morning we had drama... hopefully tomorrow would be different. However we were wrong!! The guys got up extra early on friday (our last day) and went to play golf and when the kids got up Anne and I were getting everyone ready for the beach. Philip was chasing after Parker and Anne Harrison and somehow tripped over the uneven floor from one room into the next and banged his head smack in the middle on the side of the door frame. He dropped in screaming tears. Anne was standing right there and when she went to pick him up he looked like a character in a murder horror movie. He was covered in blood and so I grabbed him and took him to the sink to get something to put pressure on it and to see it. When I finally got it cleaned and looked it was a huge deep cut straight down the middle of his forehead. I knew immediately he was going to need stitches so we rushed him to the ER and after lots of phone calls finally got the guys off the golf course. We ended up going to the big ER Grand Strand in Myrtle which was about 45 min away in hopes of a plastic surgeon. As we got to the ER the dr looked at it and said you can request a ps but we can stitch this up as he will need stitches for sure. So we of course requested the ps since its going to be on his face forever and couldn't be in a more perfect spot = smack in the middle of his forehead! The plastic surgeon however was enjoying a little golf time on the 4th holiday weekend and refused to come in so after lots of phone calls to my brother the dr and lots of him making phone calls to drs in myrtle we were told it was best to let the ER dr stitch him up. And when I say Philip was the bravest 4 year old ever... that is an understatement for sure! He did great! He cried a little when they put the numbing shots in the wound which looked beyond painful as open and as deep as this cut was (they said it was cut as deep as all the skin- so gross). And then the dr showed Philip the blue spiderman (as we called them) stitches that he was going to put in, Phil and I held him down while singing soft lullabies to him to calm him and he literally fell asleep. Yes you read that right - he freaking fell asleep as the dr was sticking what looked like a fish hook into his forehead multiple times. So he was perfectly still and the dr took his time and the end result looks great so far. The dr literally was laughing at the end as he said... well that was a first! He hadn't ever had a patient fall asleep without giving them something to fall asleep (which they didn't do for philip) during stitches before. Philip woke up at the end and we were all so glad it was over... next stop - well the ice cream shop of course!! Everything feels better with ice cream, right?!! So needless to say - we had the best trip ever but it was eventful for sure. Phil joked that the Bells will probably never invite us back and after all that drama - I probably wouldn't invite us back either. It sure was fun while it lasted though!! And Im sure this will be the first of many trips to the ER with these two boys! Thank you so much Anne and McSwaim for an amazing 4th of July vaca... we will never forget this trip! So. Much. Fun!! We love y'all! 

The whole fam
 Spiderman loved the boat... and so did Woody (obvi)
 Pretty sure this isn't legal... good thing the boat was docked!
 Me and my sweet Parker in his cool spiderman shades
 Twins!
 The boys
 couldn't 
get enough 
 of the beach... THEY LOVED IT!!
 Sweet Anne Harrison... sweet as sugar!
 Playing and
Jumping 
 in the waves is AWESOME!
 Cutest Beach Baby Ever!
Mommy and daughter... love love love this pic 
Hey mom, look how tall I am now! 
Being 
 Silly
Brothers
 Is
 Always
 So Much Fun!
 How loud can we scream... happy 4th of July!? Sure the other people in the restaurant were thrilled!
 Oh yea... and now they play the sweet innocent card... look how cute we are! Priceless!
 McSwaim, Daddy and Woody taking shots... oh boy this could be an interesting night or morning after for sure!
 Daddy and Parker cheersing (daddy with vodka oysters and Parker with chocolate milk of course) - no need to call child services on us I promise!
 Sweet chocolate kisses... life just doesn't get better than this!
 Whats better after dinner...
 Why dancing of course!
The kids loved it! And needless to say these 3 cuties were the entertainment of the entire restaurant!
 
Taking the boat to dinner
was so much fun and so was
looking for Pirate ships - look theres one! The boys were beyond fired up! 
 Sunsets
 on the boat!
 Ice man... our driver
Good thing he had my sweet Parker as his co-captain! Ha!
 
And ER... here we come (the second trip of many for this little one Im sure)
 
My sweet angel laying so still just waking up after the stitches were finished in the ER... gotta love how my boys can sleep at anytime anywhere! Unbelievable!
 And nothing heals our boo boos better than ice cream!! 2 scoops please with a cherry on top!!
My sweet precious brown eyed hero! Hope the girls will still think he's super cute and looks tough when he's older.... then again... with eyes like that Im positive they will! We love you Philip -you are the bravest and sweetest 4 year old we know. You made us so proud! Now don't scare mommy like that ever again! :o)