Gillis Family

I'm not sure why, but Ben was looking up childhood sleep apnea a couple of months ago. A lot of the way that it manifests in children were things that we see in Samuel: short stature, snoring, bed-wetting (which he doesn't do, but did until his 7th birthday), and a hard time focusing. After a Dr's appt, an x-ray, allergy meds, blood work, Dr's appt, and specialist appt, we were told his adenoids should come out. The pediatrician and ENT were surprised because in 90-95% of cases both the tonsils and adenoids are enlarged. In Samuel it was just the adenoids. The recovery for an adenoidectomy is much easier than for a tonsillectomy. After the surgery the ENT told us that his adenoids were huge. He had surgery on Thursday and was out at the pool yesterday for almost 4 hours. He seems to be fine.

Next up: Henry. We are going to have him checked too.

Overnight trip to Atlanta

When I heard that the Atlanta Temple was re-opening after 2 years of renovations, I knew I had to take my kids to the Open House. We were hoping that Ben could come with us, but it was not to be. So, we headed up on our own. I took the kids out of school and drove up on a Friday. It is supposedly a 6 hour trip, but I aways plan on 8 hrs. The traffic from everyone leaving from Spring Break vacations was crazy, so it took us almost exactly 8 hours. Friday night we went to the Laser Show-it was fun as usual. Saturday, the Open House didn't start until 12:00, so that's when we got there. I am so glad that we went. Before we went in Henry leaned over and whispered that he wished he had taken a shower so that he would be more clean in the temple. Samuel told me "I'm so excited!" The kids were really well behaved.

Henry in Henry County, GA

Our favorite Atlanta restaurant

So over the road trip!

The Peabody Ducks & Downtown Disney

It was kind of a bummer of a Spring Break. I didn't plan anything, and it ended up raining almost every single day. We did go out on Wednesday though. I took the kids to see the ducks at the Peabody hotel.

After the ducks we headed to Downtown Disney and checked out the Lego store, got our free chocolate and rode the boat.

Seriously-"I missed my nap for this?"

Trying out the body scrubs at BASIN

Best Buy & WonderWorks

Here's William at his new job: vaccuming at Best Buy.

After Best Buy we decided to take in WonderWorks. We had one day when Ben was in between semesters, and the kids were on Spring Break and we made the most of it. When we first drove into Florida (this time around), we saw many billboards for "WonderWorks." It's an upside down looking building. Then, Samuel got some tourist coupon books that included coupons for it. We finally went. It's an expensive, tourist-type, science center. It was fun. William's favorite part was the giant bubbles: