Adventure 44

So we took the kids camping this weekend but this adventure is not going to be about the camping trip, it is more going to be about a specific event on our camping trip.

while camping we made a trip into Gatlinburg. we were going there to trick or treat with the kids. we went trick or treating 6 years ago. I blogged about that trip here

we went trick or treating on the strip (we didn't even know that they did trick or treating there, and we had so much fun) my hubby has been saying that when Halloween fell on a Saturday again he wanted to make a trip there. this was the year. again that isn't the adventure that I want to blog about, but hopefully I will get around to blogging those pictures.

the adventure that I want to post is out adventure on the ski lift.

we honeymooned in Gatlinburg, we have been to Gatlinburg many, many times since we have been married, but I can never remember riding this ski lift. I texted with my mom asking her if we had and she thought that we had but my dad couldn't remember ever going on it so my mom said that maybe it was there when she was a girl and she remembers going on it from when she was little.

the kids wanted to go on it do badly. we were not going to go because the price was insane. $55 for all four of us to go.

granny and papa had given them $10 each so we told them that if they really wanted to go that they could put the $10 up for the ride.

there was no hesitation, they were ready to ride it.

we paid the money and got on. Little girl rode with me and Golden boy rode with Michael.

it wasn't until I got on and there was no getting off the I was a little freaked. to be honest going up wasn't all that bad but I had my arm wrapped around Little girl and she was gripping on to me as well.

we went over the river

and then after paying the $55 to ride it when we got to the top they wanted us to buy a photo that they took of us as we were coming up the mountain.

um, no thanks

but the view on top was beautiful

I put the camera round little girls neck and had her snap this picture of us

then it was time to go down. if I thought going up was bad this was worse

my hubby asked me if I could turn around and snap a picture of he and Golden boy.

UM, NO WAY!!!! not happenin'

I told him that when we got lower I would try and snap one.

this was my attempt to hold up the camera and try to get a picture of the two of them.

FAIL!

I had a death grip on the side pole

little girl decided that she didn't want my arm around her and that she didn't want to hold onto me either.

WHAT!?!?!

I was crazy scared, it would have been a comfort to have my arm around her, but I let her sit untouched.

she did occasionally reach up and hold on to the bar.

here we were pretty close to the bottom and I turned around and got his picture of the two of them

here are the ones from my phone

Adventure 43

Honey coming to visit is always an adventure

every October my mom comes to visit and takes the kids shopping for their Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes and we go to the pumpkin patch. We have been doing it for a few years now and it is always a fun time.

She takes them one at a time to shop for the boxes. i need to join them one year and snap some pictures as they shop

this year we attended our church harvest fest

went to the pumpkin patch, we went to a different one this year.

Honey left on Saturday night but we still had another harvest fest to attend, one at Granny's church

Golden Boy got the meet Steve from Minecraft

Adventure 42

four years ago we helped host a murder mystery party

it was Mystery in the Library

this year my sweet friend Mrs JCrew wanted to host one

it was an 80s theme

there was a wide spread of foods present

 

and there is nothing like going back to the 80s but with some new friends.

we had such a wonderful time and Mrs JCrew and her hubby threw a great party. it will be a night to remember for sure

 

 

 

 

 

Adventure 41

When she get's excited apparently she clenches her fist

i was first made aware of it when we went to Disney, two years ago, when she was three. This picture was taken at the Akershus Royal Banquet Hall

and when i posted it my sister said "Her hand."

i mean the pure excitement it all over her face but her hand. I mean seriously, she wrecks me, i love her.

 see the tiny hand

she had to reach out and grab onto some Elsa magic. she was so excited

we had a fun Disney trip but Little girl had a nervous tummy pretty much the whole time. right as we were about to get on a ride the didn't feel well but then loved the ride after being on it. even rides as low key as Peter Pan.  We tried to get her to ride a few rides with Golden Boy or Daddy but she wanted to be by my side every time. she would grip my arm or hand very tightly. it got frustrating there for a bit until my sweet husband reminded me that she won't want to hold my hand forever. that tiny fist of excitement, i want to remember to hold on to it as long as i can, because one day sooner than i would like, that tiny fist is going to be grown. hoping she still wants to hold my hand some though.

Adventure 40

puts us right in the middle of our Disney World trip.

oh what fun we had too.

this is the first family picture we took while we were there so I am posting this one but know that I am hoping to post more pictures of the trip in days to come.

such exciting times

such a great place

people I love

adventures and fun had

ready for next time

This

When he first got his hearing aids we were still in shock from the news. we have taken everything in stride, therapies, new molds, new hearing aids

nothing though, prepared me for preparing him, for how to handle the questions about them.

 

I have to admit that I wasn't all that aware of children needing and wearing hearing aids until we were faced with the fact that Golden boy would indeed, need to wear hearing aids.

 

I mean hearing aids are for older people right? that was my thoughts on it all.

my how I was so wrong. and how vastly different hearing aids are from my stereotypical mindset of how they should be.

 

they are way better than I imagined but again being prepared for the questions.

let me state that I don't mind people asking but I have to also be honest at saying that I am mostly introverted and being asked what he has in his ears or what they are for and all, makes me uncomfortable, but I always try to answer and not be so shy about it.

I am not ashamed or anything about them but I sometimes get blank minded when asked questions about them.

 

since he first got them, over 5 years ago, I see children and adults with hearing aids or cochlear implants all the time.

 

  the first couple of times he was asked he never responded. I realized that we needed to talk to him about what to say because maybe, just maybe he was coming up blank like I was.

 

if I was around I would usually answer for him. but them I realized that he was going to eventually get asked when I wasn't around and he  needed to know how to respond.

 

we told him to tell people that ask him about them that, "they are his hearing aids and that they help him to hear."

sometimes I would even go so far as teaching him to say something like, "do your either of your parents wear glasses? that helps them see just like these help me hear."

 

or if the kid themselves wears glasses, "they are my hearing aids and they help me to hear just like you glasses help you to see."

most kids are just curious and completely innocent about it all.  I love that kids are not afraid to ask the questions that they are curious about. (even thought sometimes if makes me go blank.)

 

my hubby captured this picture of him telling some boys at the hospital fun run about them right before the race.

I am so glad that he snapped this picture too. 

his hearing aids are going to be part of his life (even though it hunts me when he asks questions like, "am I going to have to wear these forever.")

he is growing up. he is able to answer some tough questions. he is a fun and happy and the friendliest kid I know. he loves big and i love him more then he could ever possible know.