Reid and Angie's Place: The rest of April 2017

April doesn't just mean the beginning of our string of holidays (Easter, anniversary, birthdays) but it's also full fundraiser season. My friend planned our 4th annual tennis fundraiser, and true to fashion there was a lot of drama with this event. If it didn't bring in money for CF research I would not do this each year. Between coordinating tennis pros who refuse to commit or keep their commitments, to finding a date and sponsors, this event takes a lot of work.

These two make me laugh. Note the snow in the background. Whatever this game was, it involved lots of hugging. Too cute!

Bree spent a week asking for cupcakes. So, I bought purple cupcake batter and hot pink icing. She was in heaven.

Our primary president makes a full mini-birthday cake for each kid for their birthday. But she only wants to bake once a month so the kids all get cakes on the first Sunday of the month, which meant that Bree spent the rest of the month asking about her birthday and waiting for her birthday. And on her actual birthday, they didn't sing to her or give her anything because she got it at the beginning of the month. I'll admit, I'm not a fan. But Bree loved her cake and she insisted on eating it all by herself.

On Friday April 14th the kids had the day off of school and Finn had a GI appointment in Denver so we spent the day at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Kai worked hard on this ball ramp.

After our time at the museum, we headed to the hospital. Because it was still April and the hospital was under flu precautions, I wasn't allowed to bring in the other two kids. So, I had brought two Mia Maids with us to the museum and they had fun wandering around for the day and then they babysat Kai and Bree for me while Finn and I were in with the doctor.

Easter 2017 (we have a lot more videos than pictures)

Bree loved her new Easter hat!

The GI doctor that we saw on the 14th prescribed a new medication to hopefully help with his ongoing tummy pain and accidents. This is a one month supply of Mucomyst (a mucolytic) that helps with inflammation and thinning of the mucus in the gut. This medication smells slightly like sulfur, so it's a good thing Finn has a g-tube to get this in him. It definitely has helped with his stools (at least for the first two weeks) but we are still working on adjusting.

For her birthday Bree was begging to go to the zoo. We had originally planned to go with her preschool group, but the weather forecast wasn't looking good, so we went on our own ahead of schedule. She loved feeding the giraffes.

I'm awful at selfies. This picture is here because Bree looks so adorable, so just ignore me and look at her!

While at the zoo, we stopped to visit Logan's rememberance tile at the entrance to the elephant house. It was just days before his birthday and I thought we should say hi.

This girl was happy just playing on this statue!

The last week of preschool at our house and the girls were all getting along. One of these little girls has a quite annoying personality and the other girls struggled with her. But we finally figured out a system that kept them all happy and playing together. I was pleasantly surprised and proud of all of them!