What an exhausting but truly rewarding project...building our fence. With the help of Uncle Jared and P'Bo, Derek and I - mostly Derek, built a beautiful split rail (4-rail) fence. Once the wood cures we will paint it black to match the front door and shutters. The iron gate was ordered today and should arrive in a couple of weeks. We are so excited. Grandma and Tom watched the boys one of the weekend days so that we could hammer out a good bit of work. We had Marma and Aunt Christina come join the boys the last night of the group effort and hosted a dinner out on the deck. The kids got to use their new picnic table. For the most part Derek took weekdays to build it. I took one week day and helped put all the slats up. That worked best with the kids at school - although they wanted to help. Hatcher was able to help some too as he had doctors appointments that cut into the afternoon where he was able to stay home and help Daddy outside.
Hatcher just got his second set of ear tubes. He has had 5 ear infections since December and we just didn't want him to be on antibiotics anymore. He did great and was our rock star patient. He bounced back in no time and you would never know he was ever troubled by them. Aidan is using more and more words and he and Hatcher are playing more and more together - running and chasing each other down the hallway. Hatcher is always asking Aidan to do what he does. It is too cute. They are both such wonderful boys with big hearts and great spirits. We are very blessed.
