Luke in action

Kevin and his mini-me, or should I say Luke and his big-me!

Luke and his buddies Brody and Caleb (aka "Chocolate") celebrating Cassidy's birthday.

Luke running to get some cake - he L-O-V-E-S cake!

A few pictures of Joshua

Joshua and Daddy playing hoops.

Joshua played senior, "Mr. George" in his first play. He did an excellent job - remembered all of his lines, and said them at the right time.

Getting his GW face on!

Rising First Grader

Joshua "graduated" from Kindergarten, and is officially going to the first grade in August. He can read, add, subtract among other Kindergarten skills, and especially excels in anything to do with money. He's matured a lot over the school year, and he's such an awesome kid.

"Smoochie"

Luke's spring school picture. He's always smiling (as long as he's getting his way). Kerri named him smoochie b/c he gives the best kisses, and loves to give them. The nickname stuck, and he's no called Lukey or Smoochie!

Easter 2010

What a wonderful Easter weekend! Today we celebrated Easter by taking the kids to Easter service, and then to lunch. While the boys napped, I cooked dinner to celebrate both Easter and Stephanie's birthday. A lovely, and fun evening!

The boys dyed eggs the night before Easter. It was quite the production. Luke enjoyed squeezing them more than coloring them.

Brotherly love!

The Easter Bunny's gifts for the boys.

Right before we left for Easter service.

Roger carving the cajun blackened turkey, Stephanie assisting, and Scott reading the directions for the ant house.

TT, Joshua and me getting our Easter hug on!

Stephanie was the Easter egg hunt winner, fitting since she was the birthday girl! Her prize - a Dove chocolate rabbit.

Luke watching his movie the Easter Bunny brought - and also guarding his Toy Story bat and ball from TT, squishy balls and Easter basket.

Joshua doing his science experiment TT gave him.

Joshua telling Kevin, "just a minute Dad."

Luke getting his Easter jump on!

Just another Saturday

It's always something at the Milman house. Luke perforated his ear drum Thursday night, so off to the ENT we went on Friday. Luckily, all is well: his drum already closed and his hearing is still normal. We're hopeful that he'll stay ear infection free for a while so he won't have to get another set of tubes. Luke's fro is gone: we had his hair buzzed last night. Luke said, "no more crazy hair Mommy." Joshua had his second game this afternoon. He hit a single and tipped twice the other two times at bat. He was a complete stud, and even more importantly, he had a ton of fun. And Luke did too digging in the dirt and eating candy from the concession stand.

Joshua and Daddy

Kevin and Joshua at the park. He sure does love his daddy!

Playtime at the Park

and more park pictures

Before we head up for bed, we sometimes will watch a show and drink strawberry milk to help the kids wind down. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.

Luke digging for gold.

Clearly, it's not working - lol. Joshua going crazy, and Luke dancing.

Joshua came down with his first case of strep about two weeks ago. He took his medicine like he was supposed to, and his fever broke w/in 24 hours after his first spoonful. It appeared all was well. In the meantime, Luke spiked a 104 fever. Long and short - he went to the doctor a few times, and on his third visit, which was Friday, they did blood work to rule out anything more serious. Good news, all is well. As we were waiting for his results, my phone rang. I checked the caller ID, and low and behold - it's Joshua's elementary school - he was in the nurse's office w/ a sore throat. So, after we dropped Luke's prescriptions off, we headed to get Joshua only to go back to the doctor's office. Joshua was running a 103 fever. Sure enough, he has strep again, or maybe it just never went away. He's on another antibiotic and hopefully this time, he'll kick it. I'm suspect though that on top of the strep he may have what Luke had. My poor little Milman boys. They had a rough go of it, but the good news is that they are both on the mend.

Friday afternoon - Luke and Joshua were both running high fevers and pathetic!

Sunday afternoon - all is well in the Milman household - yay!

Snow hits the Southeast

The snow that the weather channels and AP predicted finally hit us on Friday afternoon. I made chili and we had a ton of fun in the snow both last night and this morning. Luke wasn't into getting wet and cold last night, but he hung in like a champ this morning while the boys made snowmen, and had a snowball fight. I think the highlight of Winter 2010 was driving, well trying to drive, the 4-wheeler and Jeep on the ice and in the snow.

About two inches of snow... and loving it.

Joshua getting ready to ride down the hill

The kids' rides kept getting stuck, but that's what made it so much fun!

Dried off, and ready to relax some.