My sweet baby

Back in June I decided to chop my finger off. Not really, but I did cut my finger to the bone with a butter knife! It was great. Anyways, I had just gotten the kids out of the bath, so I threw clothes on them and drove us to the ER clinic close to our apartment. When I opened the door to the clinic my sweet baby stopped in the door way, would not move and said "Oh No, what is wrong with me now!"

How precious can you get. He is so used to us rushing him to the ER. You have to love that boy. He is so wonderful!

Trav's 3rd Birthday!

This was the picture and caption. I first posted after Trav's birth. I cannot believe that my baby is 3!

I could not believe my eyes! This precious boy was mine.
To hold forever and never let go.
You are my heart Brother Bears!

The big boy wanted a Mickey Mouse birthday party. So Mrs. Wendee made him the most adorable Mickey Mouse outfit.




My angels!


He had no desire to take pictures for me.


Gosh I love them!

Daddy and his babies.

Audrey loves her Pap Paw!

Miss Brittany brought Royal. And Aunt Steph and Lys wouldn't miss the party.

Mrs. Angela watching the boys. See little Cade, in the green. I always call him my boyfriend. Travis always tells me NO HE IS NOT!

I wish you could see how hard he was laughing.

Ben and Jonathan being boys.

My perfect sis and dad!

He was mad because Daddy wouldn't let him light it.

Make a wish my love.

Can't get enough of this girl!

This is me thanking all of my friends and family for everything they do for my little man, aud and me. Do you think the kid cares what I am saying?

Wonder where he got it from LOL!

Our beautiful, wonderful Brittany!

Our Aunt Steph and Lys.

All the kids were so cute helping Aud and Trav open their big gifts.

Travis got a big boy bike (he has been riding my sister's old bike).

My tough little boy!

My sweet little boy is such a tough cookie. His skin has been so awful. He screams when I put his medicine on because he has little open sores everywhere. The excema has been out of control. Early last week we went to the doc, and he said no more medicine until we get it cleared up some. It still isn't so I am sure he will be on a round of steriods when we go back next week. I just pour Aquaphor on him. He hates it, but is such a good sport.

The 2 other times it has been this bad he ended up with staff.

I have been praying so hard- and so far no signs of staff!!

Thank you GOD!

You can see the concern on his sweet sissy's face. They love eachother so much!

What a sweet little angel.

Travis got to eat ............

Derik took the kids to Big Humphry's last night.

Joey and Derik have been working on a recipe for pizza dough that is safe for Travis.

Well.......

They finally found one.

Travis got his first slice of pizza last night!

Of course it did not have cheese- but did have everything else.

Do you think he enjoyed it????

Thanks Daddy and Joey! My little boy was so proud of it.

He had left overs, and this morning he was so cute telling me... "Mama I have a surprise for you!"

He is very proud of it.

Travis and the baby bed

The baby bed shown is one that has been in our family for many many years. It has a lot of meaning to me and my mom. 5 generations of Phillip's babies have slept their sweet little heads in the bed.

But Travis stopped that tradition not long after his 2nd birthday.

I have saved the bed, hoping to make something out of it. It had the most beautiful canopy.

It was broken in 4 places.

He knew mommy was upset.

Trav's Fun Night Out

While Aud and I were at Hannah Montana, Trav got to go with Mam Maw and Pap Paw to The Kemah Board Walk.

Go to this website and you can see pictures of my perfect little man.

http://kemah.photogra.com

Type in the ticket numbers one at a time

9402

9985

9394

The date has to say November 2007 the Sunday the 11th.

Travis and Milk

Hey Everyone,
If everyone could please pray for Travis. He is having a tough time. He has had bad stomache aches (due to food), hives and his behavor is CRAZY!
We recently moved, and in the same week Derik went out of town. Travis is not coping well, because he had lived at our old house his whole life. Every night he cries to go home. We are buying our friends' house, and he knows that Sean and Shaunda used to live here. I ask him how he likes our new home and he says, no Sean's home. He is very upset. I even caught him walking out the front door at 2:30 in the morning (he can unlock it, but we have a chain lock on it.). He told me- no I go my home. He even made a song up about how this is Sean's home (and a little dance).
He really misses his daddy, and daddy won't be home for another week.

To add to it all, his milk allergy has become worse. He cannot tolerate ANY contamination of milk. Please pray for him. He is having such a hard time with all of this.

Love yall,
F

HOUSE BIll 2827

So last week was so bitter sweet!
Last Tuesday we received Travis' new test results.
Of course it still showed the Peanut, Milk and Egg allergy.
He has grown out of his corn, tomato and pea allergy (but he still cannot eat). YEAH!!!
Another praise- all of the nuts- pecan, walnut, almond (Mommy and Daddy's favorite), coconut, and one other- HE IS NOT ALLERGIC TO!!!
We found out 2 horrible things, one that I was totally prepared for. I had been telling Derik for months I knew he was allergic to Wheat.
The thing that totally stop me in my TRACK- that he is more allergic to a HORSE than to a PEANUT.
Now, the blood test could be a little off because of his exposure to horses, but he is allergic for sure.
He has not been exposed to a peanut since September of 2006. Little disturbing that it was so high, considering his exposure time was so long ago.

Of course we had a hunch about the horse, but had hoped it was the pecan pollen at his grandparents'.
It totally devastated me. He talks about his horse in his sleep. But I know he will grow out of it, he is just the perfect cowboy.

So we went out of town, and had a wonderful Father's Day weekend together.

But the best thing that could have happened did!
On Friday House Bill 2827 became a law!
Big thanks to GOD,
Cari Christman and Carrie Simmons in Rep Taylor's office, and Beth Black in Sen Jackson's office.
And of course to our wonderful Representative Taylor and Senator Mike Jackson.

Thank you to my parents for telling me to call both legislatures. A very special thank you to Janis Roderman, my wonderful husband, my mom, my dad and sister, and all the friends and family that supported me through the process. I would like to thank my uncle, Dan, for staying on top of the process and his efforts. Thank you to all the allergy parents.
None of this would have happened with out that special little boy being brought into my life.

Don't be shocked when I am back in Austin!

We are already working on legislation for next session, and I want to add asthma to the mix.
We are seeing a connection with Autism and food, so maybe I will tackle that one day.

Thank you to everyone that called, prayed and supported. You don't know how many lives you have saved!

Trav's Potty Training

JUST JOKING!!!

Travis feel asleep the night before in just his diaper. Little did I know it was a future disaster!

Every morning Travis wakes up while I'm getting ready. This one particular morning he woke up when I was finishing my make-up. I thought. Oh he's fine, I'll finish. WRONG!

I could hear him laughing louder and louder. I walked into the room with a smile that faded really quickly- so did my voice. As I was saying what are you doing- I noticed he had taken off his diaper (by the way it had poop in it), most of it fell out in the bed, then he wiped it all over the bed, the bedding and oh yes HIS FACE! I'm not sure if he was trying to taste it or what. Mamaw said he was just wiping himself.

Really quickly he started crying and gave me that pitiful face. It didn't work at first, because I had a really important meeting.

We have found Travis with his diaper off a lot lately. So we make sure he has something else on with it. His new thing is to stand up in the tub and pee on sister.

Yes, we know he is all boy.

Trav's Reaction

Everyone is always asking what a reaction looks like. Here it is, this is a very mild reaction. He has not had anything close to this since March. This was to something unknown (we believe a milk product), but obviously not peanuts. Thanks for all the prayers. I know he will be cured in Jesus' name!

Days Later

I made tons of cupcakes. They tasted awful, but Travis didn't know the difference. So he ate all of them. He had so much fun eating them up.

He couldn't stop laughing at himself.

He's such a sweet boy. He kept offering Mama some.

Travis' 1st Birthday

Mommy's Boy!

We decided to go to Granny's house from Trav's bday.

We could barely keep him still. We took his clothes off to eat. He is just like Daddy and PawPaw- messy!

Daddy was showing his boy the baby chicks Granny just got. Travis could not get enough of them. He walked around and around the cage.

We all know how much Audrey loves being a big sister. He had the best time playing at Granny's. It's probably because she lets him get away with everything!

My little boy is all grown up! I cannot believe he is one! He has the sweetest face.

But he is half demon- he gets that from Derik's side. Last weekend at my mom's he tore the texture and sheetrock off of the wall in her bedroom. Of course Mamaw wasn't as upset as Mommy. We will have to take that out of his college fund.