Goin' on a HUNT...

The boys LOVE our traditional egg hunt every Easter morning before church. The Easter Bunny always put some eggs in their shoes, hides eggs all over the front room, and the special "bunny" eggs have "coupons" for the boys. These coupons consist of trips to Sonic with mom or dad, any toy they want at the dollar store, a movie date with mom or dad, etc. The boys love getting them, storing them in their wallets, and REDEEMING them throughout the year! The Easter Bunny also left each of them some fun little Easter baskets with lots of goodies!

Like Totally, Dude!

We had a totally RAD, BITCHIN', GAG ME WITH A SPOON time at Sara and Rich's 40th Birthday Celebration! It was an "80's Theme" and we had TOO MUCH fun dressing up for it! THANK YOU to my dear friend, Simone, who is a HUGE "Duran Duran" FAN, and had a CLOSET full of clothes I could "shop" through! It was a RAD night...

TRADITION!

Ever since my nephew, Daniel was a little baby we have been coloring eggs on Good Friday. After the somber, reflective church service; we decided to spice things up with some margaritas, Mexican food and EGG COLORING. We started the tradition 10 years ago, and haven't missed a year since! Julia had an EGG HUNT prepared for the kiddos before our coloring...it was a fun night....OLE!

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What a CATCH that #20 is!

Bless his little pea pickin' heart! Max is in his 3rd year of baseball with the CUBS....and he is an AWESOME catcher! Following in the footsteps of Daddy...too precious. Our team is the BAD NEWS BEARS (not very good)...but we sure look CUTE in our uniforms, and we have more enthusiasm than any of the other teams! GO CUBS!

A special visit...

We had such a great time with Aunt Gail and Uncle Jim while they were here over Spring Break! We did lots of fun things, including going to two SPRING TRAINING games to cheer on their hometown team...The Cincinnati Reds!
We love you Aunt Gail and Uncle Jim!

Pottys and Preschool...

I got the call on March 17th...."Yes, Mrs. Webb...I have GREAT news! Your son is going to be able to attend Apples to Zebras Preschool! He was 9th on the waiting list, and we were able to form another class! School starts March 30th!" YEAH! I was thrilled (I honestly did NOT think he would be going due to him being 9th on the waiting list!). Then I got to thinking....I have 13 DAYS to have him out of diapers and ready to go.....

well, WE DID IT!
Webb Potty Training Boot Camp:
NO DIAPERS
NO PULLS UPS
JUST UNDERWEAR and M&Ms!
3 M&Ms for "trying" and a handful of them for "going"
It worked! And we have been accident free every since!

Day 1 he spent the whole day sitting on a potty...

Day 2 we had lots of fun wearing our underwear and did "shows" for mommy...

And before we knew it, he had it down....I was asking him every 30 minutes, and he was getting VERY frustrated with that....he said, "I will tell you when I have to go!" and by golly, he does, and that was that!

So....the day finally came! PRESCHOOL DAY!
Sam was up at 6:00 this morning and wanted to be dressed and ready right away!

We got our traditional picture by the front door that we've done with all 3 boys (just like DADDY did when he went to school!)...

So proud...

Waiting for the door to open!

class list...

He's got his name tag and is ready to go...

He had a GREAT time and can't wait to go back on Thursday!
He said, "We didn't have goldfish crackers for snack, just regular crackers. We sang "Mr. Golden Sun" just like Barney does. I have 2 teachers, Ms. Maria and I don't know the other ones name. I colored you a picture. I showed my friends my doggy, "Sam Webb" (it was show and tell day). And I went on the potty!"
GREAT first day!

A truly "out of this world" weekend...

What a weekend!

Bob Moody came back in town to conduct SYMPHONIC STAR WARS! Such a fun concert to "Ooo and Ahhh" in (not many "words" to sing in that music)! The chorus didn't add much, but we sure had fun doing it! Powerful music! And SO fun to be back with our good friend, BOB!

I made a new friend...

We had a great time celebrating after Saturday's performance at the Sheraton Hotel Lobby!

We love and miss you, Bob!

Sweet Bob Moody...
Celebrate GOOD TIMES!

There was a LIVE band that played awesome dancing music! We danced and partied like rock stars until 1:30 in the morning (see how tired I look)....FUN NIGHT!

RECOVERY......ugh.

I have to be completely honest.....this recovery process is the PITS! I secretly wished it was going to be like the Brady Bunch episode, where Cindy had to have her tonsils removed. She laid in bed with her silky pajamas and perfectly curled pigtails eating ice cream and sucking on popsicles. Not the case....

...but, Sam handled it like a CHAMP!
The above picture is the face (picture running frantically around the house screaming for 30 minutes) I had to deal with every 4 hours that pain medicine had to be given, and every 6 hours that antibiotic had to be given. So hard to have to swallow gross tasting medicine when you don't even want to swallow your own spit....what ever happened to suppositories (my mom just raves about them and how great they were when we were kids!)?

Top 20 things I am very thankful for during this week of recovery....
20. waffles with SYRUP
19. Nutrigrain bars
18. Kraft macaroni and cheese
17. soft cheesy quesadillas
16. GIANT lollipops
15. lots of comfy cotton pajamas with super heroes on them that we could wear a different pair every day (thank you, McClendon family for the hand me downs!)
14. SPRITE
13. Wow Wow Wubsy (his favorite TV show)
12. Diet Coke for me!
11. Sam's blue blanket
10. the Wii
9. PLAYDOUGH
8. BUBBLES
7. TV trays
6. Laurie, for making our family some delicious dinners AND dessert, so we could have a substantial meal each night!
5. The Stephen's for coming over and bringing Sam some goodies!
4. All the get well cards and wishes from everyone
3. Cherie and Jennifer for bringing my boys home from school each day, so I didn't have to load Sam in the car!
2. Max and Luke coming home from school each day...it totally brightened up the rest of the day for him!

and last but not least....this WATER BOTTLE...I don't know what it was...but this hideous, not exciting looking water bottle was exciting to Sam. He would drink water all day out of it! I was SO happy!

Here's a happy time during our week...Great Aunt Gail and Beverly sent stickers and Sam decorated his guitar...

Another happy time...the Stephen's family came over with a GET WELL BAG full of goodies for Sam.. so nice!

We are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, and are SO happy we did the surgery! Sam no longer SNORES, and can breathe through his nose for the first time! I'm SO happy Sam is only 3...he will not remember this, and therefore not resent us for making him go through all of this...

Bye bye, TONSILS!

Well, the day finally arrived. Sam was so excited to go and do all the things we have been talking about for (what seems like) FOREVER! He was SO brave.

and we're off!

Aunt Lynn gave him a balloon the night before, and he wanted to bring it...

Mickey got a special bracelet, too!

getting his vitals checked...

Sam got to decorate his mask with stickers and pick what flavor he wanted to inhale when he went to "sleep" - he picked cherry.

taking a little ride before surgery...

This next picture just breaks my heart....Sam experienced "emergence delirium" for an hour and a half "coming out" of surgery in recovery. Thrashing, kicking, screaming, scratching his face and eyes, pulled out his IV 3 times (you get the idea!) - Rich and I, 3 nurses, the surgeon, and anesthesiologist couldn't get him to calm down - he wouldn't open his eyes and was incoherent. Sam is STRONG, and my arms are still sore from trying to restrain him and not get him to hurt himself (or me!). He kept screaming, "Get off of me! Mommy! Daddy! It's hurting me!" We could smell a burnt smell coming out of his mouth (from the surgery) and there was black fluid dripping out of his mouth. They finally had to give him some narcotics to knock him out a couple of times, and after those and time he finally calmed down. He looked up and asked for a lollipop. The nurse ran out of the room down to the gift shop and BOUGHT HIM ONE! He held onto it for the next 7 hours after that. He had scratches all over his face and had a fever of 102 after it all. Worst thing I've ever experienced.
We now know that because of his sleep apnea, as a precautionary measure, they gave him a lower dose of narcotics during his surgery. We also learned that he stopped breathing during surgery (!!!), and levels had to be adjusted more. Because it was a weaker narcotic, they think that had something to do with triggering the delirium - now that we know that about Sam (emergence delirium), if he ever has to have surgery again, they will give him more narcotics after surgery (and this won't be an issue now that sleep apnea is CURED!) to slowly let him "come to" after surgery.

We made it up to our room and he finally could RELAX.

Bless his little heart.

Luke visited!

Max visited!

This totally lifted his spirits!

Papa and Grandma came and gave him this GIANT lollipop which I think he will be working on until he graduates from high school! He just like carrying it around and taking occasional licks.

BUBBLES!

My good friends from chorus (Tia, Jon and Mohammud) came with goodies for Sam and I! Bubbles, balloon, books, DIET COKE...all our favorite things!
So nice of them.

Aunt Lynn came to visit with dinner for mommy and playdough for Sam!
Cheers Aunt Lynn!

Cardon Children's Hospital was THE BEST! We got to be on the pediatric oncologist floor and were treated like royalty. The nurses were so helpful and sweet and Sam was such a good patient for them!

We are now home and recovering! His pain meds make him a little "cooky" (last night he said there were bugs everywhere and in his mouth). He is eating and drinking GREAT and we are getting used to his new voice (the little raspy one is gone, it is now LOUD and froggy sounding!)

5th Annual Webb Invitational

Another successful year of Rich's golf tournament! Here's some pics from the day and night.
Check out www.webbinvitational.blogspot.com for more details from the day/night!

NEALS came to visit!

Rich's friend of 27 years, Chris Nealy came to visit from Minnesota! He came to play in Rich's golf tournament.....his parents live in Arizona during the cold Minnesota winter months. The boys LOVE hanging out with him. They talk and play SPORTS. They had a BLAST shooting hoops in the back yard and then I made a Southwestern dinner for all! It's so fun to hear Rich and "Neals" reminisce about childhood.

Send it in, MAX!

Air Nealy!

"Neals" and "Webber"

MUSICFEST 2010

Tia and I were unable to participate in Musicfest this year (WAAA!), but I didn't want to miss Max's Science Fair (which was the same night), and to be honest, it was really nice to be able to sit in the audience (we got to see the GLORIOUS 2nd half!) and CELEBRATE with everyone after. Wonderful concert and even more....wonderful friends.

SCIENCE NIGHT at BBS

Science Night was SO cool at the boys' school! Each classroom showed some of the experiments they have worked on as a class this year, and the 4th grade classses showed their individual experiments.

Luke's classroom...

WOW...Science is COOL!

Max was so proud to show off his findings...

...and his #1 fans were there to show their loving support!

Mrs. Killingsworth's classroom (Max's 3rd grade teacher)...

So proud of my little scientist!