this neighborhood is one in a million... it is very family oriented.... it's all go go go families running kids everywhere playing... and well it's huge... i've never seen anything like it.... it neighbors ours which is a little older and more set in the mountains.... it's a pretty hard choice...
friday ended up being one of the best days we've had down here...... we went to this before school function called the round up... where the kids find, meet, and greet their teachers, eat free popcorn, icees, and get their feet back on the campus.... this is a great tradition and we were very fortunate to get to show the boys around their new school.... it was a surreal feeling actually walking them onto the campus of the school only months before we were dreaming of them attending.... it was the same feeling i had when i drove my kids through the gates of our neighborhood our first night down here.... it's that kind of feeling that puts a smile on you face and disbelief in your heart...the good kind..... and to add icing on the round up experience my boys were given the most fabulous teachers.... they are amazing.... zach's teacher took some extra time to get to know him and make him feel comfortable with everything being so new... noah actually got the teacher i was hoping for after reading her online bio from the school website..... i think the boys will survive the first few days... they are on the exact same schedule and even have the same recess this year.... there are 5 lunch times so actually those are different.... we left all feeling pretty good about tuesday coming up so swiftly.... and later that day we went on our first planned play date, one of my new friends had called and we went to a water park in her neighborhood, there is a skate park too! It was absolutely fun fun fun..... the boys played for hours..... the hardest part was the 10 min on the hour every hour safety break the kids impatiently endured....there were 3 during our stay.... her kids are exactly down to the month the same ages as luke and rae and her step son is noahs age so it was a perfect fit.... the kids had a blast.... i should have known the day was too good to be true as perfect when we got home i noticed rae felt warm despite her soaking wet swim suit and purple lips.... the ear therm has never surfaced in the move so we went to a late dinner with jess saying she not that hot, shes fine.... i noticed her nodding off in the car, but it was bedtime... not dinner time ok... bad brittney mom....by the time we arrived at the restaurant and i unloaded her, as i put my arms under her legs to carry her it became apparent she was on fire.... jess ran into rite aid to grab a therm and in the restroom she was 102.7 and with not a single urgent care around open.... closing at 8...uuggghhhh! it was 8:10...we decided to rough it through the night rotating tylenol and advil and hope it wasn't her ears.... we asked her over and over and she said no they didn't hurt.... the boys started saying their throats hurt as well..... well thank god we didn't rush her in because today after 3 hours registering and everyone seeing the doctor we all have a family flowing virus..... which is just another way of saying we wasted $150.00 in copays..... however wasted it was not.....the doctor told us lots of rest... luke was told lots of movies and popsicles to help his throat which he has repeated to me every 30 minutes or so... "remember mom the doctor said i get lots of popsicles and oh yeah mom movies....." trailing off into the kitchen to grab another cold tasty pop.... well that's ok we'll just stay home for once and hunker down.... we had to miss chase and landons party, so happy birthday guys, sorry we missed your party! we'll mail your packages asap! the silver or gold lining of this is that we've finally found our doctor that apparently i've been waiting to fall into our laps.... i've called a few offices to schedule but always ended up with a machine on lunch hour... so i met the most fantastic family practitioner today... we hit it off big time... i think we scared her at first with our big family but once we were all face to face and the diagnostics were over she started asking me all kinds of personal questions about how we do it all with four kids and all that...we talked forever from activities, adoption, to zithromax and come to find out she's a big advocate for international adoptions (China Khasikstan) so i know if we continue to pursue that i'll have some support there ...fabululous .....and so i asked her about the opportunities locally to foster to adopt and she said low to none in the immediate area, but venture 20-30 minutes south or 30 minutes north and there are many opportunities... and then she proceeded with well you never know and with sadness and disgust in her voice she told me that two weeks ago in her area very close to mine that her garbage man found a newborn baby girl in one of his trash cans!!!!! parents are in jail...thank god and the baby survived and was taken to a hospital cared for then put into foster care... i said,"i'll take her!" and our doctor said "that's what i told my husband!" I loved the passion, humanity, and brilliance this new doctor possessed..... she was a breath of fresh air in the medical community not hardened and burdened from years of being in the field... she was pure gold..... i have her card and we are now going to be one of her families.....yeah!....another hurdle we've jumped in the move.....
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