Wisdom teeth and a visit from Auntie Sharice!!!

For those who don't know, I decided that my wisdom teeth needed to come out ASAP about two weeks ago. Well when I decided things just kind of fell into place really fast. After calling my little sister Sharice near tears begging her to come out and watch my kids for me while I was recovering, the plans were set and in motion. Sharice was so wonderful to come out, especially on such short notice! We couldn't have done it without her, she was a HUGE help and it was so great to finally meet baby Kael! She was such a trooper and traveled with a buddy pass and just took whatever flights were available. My surgery got bumped from Wednesday to Thursday so we had a day to ourselves where we went and got my hair cut and got to enjoy one another. She didn't get to see much of East Tennessee, but what she saw, I think she liked. :) Who knows, maybe she and Derek will come out here for medical school? We could only hope! After my surgery she was only here for a couple of days, but we still managed to give each other pedicures and have some fun. I was pretty out of it from my pain medication for a while. I had trouble with the "creepy crawlies" on my skin, but Sharice and Brian took great care of me. I think everyone has that really embarrassing story of something they did when they were coming out off of their anesthesia, evidently I had to pee urgently and then they were taking me out to the car and when they got to the door, I INSISTED that I had to go again....those poor women were so patient with me. Sharice and Brian can probably tell you more about after I got home and how "non-compliant" I was. :) That's my drugged up and crazy story, I want to hear everyone elses, so if you have a funny wisdom teeth story, leave it as a comment so we can all enjoy it! Sorry...these are the only pictures I have, hopefully Sharice will send me some of hers to post too. Love, Shelly. p.s. I can't believe I'm going to do this, but I'm going to post the video Brian took of me coming out of the oral surgeon's office, hope someone else can get a good laugh out of a drugged up pregnant chick too! :)

I think Brian handled the nearly two hour wait before the surgery better. :)

VERY MUCH tired of waiting. :)

All three of the boys just hangin' out.

Jeffrey and Kael getting to know one another.

A short note for Great Grandma and Grandad Sapp

Dear Grandma and Grandad Sapp,
Thank you so much for sending us our halloween treats. We especially LOVE the balloons you sent and Mommy says that the air pump was REALLY nice! Here are some pictures of us enjoying our balloons.

Love,

Ben and Jeff

34 weeks and still going!

Here is the much requested belly shot. :)

Just a few pictures from my camera.

We finally got a charger for our camera's battery. Here are just some pictures of my guys from the past month.

Ben's haircut.

Thanks to all who participated in the poll. After all of your helpfull suggestions we tried to "give it a go" again with Ben's hair ourselves. As you can see, we still have a ways to go. For Shannon, the tickle monster worked for about the first 3 strokes, but at least he wasn't crying. After that it got interesting to say the least. This is the furthest we've gotten to buzzing his hair so far. Maybe next time we'll get even further. For now, here are the pictures of how it turned out. Sorry to all of the Grandmas, it looks like we won't have any really handsome pictures of Ben for a while. -Shelly-

The final product when all parties decided to call it quits.

This was after he calmed down.

Poll

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Just a few pictures.

I haven't had anything to post lately because I haven't taken many pictures. Good news on baby Megan's part, I passed my glucose test first time around this time so I don't have to go back for the 3 hour test. I had to do that with both of the boys, it was not fun. This was the 5th time I've had to drink the wonderfully syrup-like orange drink. I've been watching baby Paxton for the Wilhite's (our neighbors/friends downstairs) while Emily is at school lately. We had a wonderful morning today, Paxton slept nearly the whole time! When he woke up he was all smiles and giggled at Ben a lot, so I had to post a picture of him smiling (sorry it turned out blury). We went to Dr. Eason's house on Saturday for some good BBQ and swimming. Of course we forgot the camera, but Jeffrey and Ben absolutely loved getting a chance to swim again and discovered the hot tub too. I'm going to have to get Ben in swimming lessons next year. Yesterday the boys were playing with some of the neighbor's outside toys and Ben decided he wanted to push Jeffrey, and Jeffrey wanted to be pushed, so it was nice not having to go through the effort of entertaining them. They're doing an excellent job of entertaining each other. All I have to do is make sure they don't try and kill each other at the same time. :) Jeffrey is BIG into anything that has a wheel he can turn. That's about it for us, enjoy the latest pictures.

This is Mr. Smiley Paxton!

These boys do everything together now!

They even went to time out together last night when they wouldn't be quiet and go to sleep in their beds. It's neat to see them playing together though!

Jeffrey loves the neighbor's fire truck, he climbs in and out over and over again.

And I wonder why I can never keep my house picked up!

Brian has been back in school for a few weeks now and I've been adjusting to having him gone again. The boys are adjusting in their usual way (getting into as much trouble as possible). Time is just flying by. Ben is 2 1/2 and Jeffrey is 15 1/2 months old now. Jeffrey has FINALLY started walking just this last couple of weeks. I always wondered what was taking him so long until I saw what happened every time he tried to walk. I guess Ben isn't thrilled about the idea of Jeffrey being able to keep up with him, so every time Jeffrey starts walking Ben jumps on the opportunity to knock him down. Ahhhh brotherly love. :) Somehow Jeffrey has overcome that opposition and is getting around everywhere now. Unfortunately the only video I have of him walking right now is a video where Ben is throwing a tantrum, but Brian and I thought it was hillarious how Jeffrey was showing off his cool Cookie Monster slippers in front of Ben (the slippers used to be his). Of course Ben is insanely jealous. Enjoy! -Shelly-

Jeffrey INSISTED that I let him play outside in the rain.

I don't know why I even buy toys for these kids. These guys tear EVERYTHING apart!

Jeffrey taking advantage of Ben being asleep.