This is our first child that let's us know she's teething. Our other two would just have a tooth appear! It was great. I didn't know what people were complaining about when they said their child was teething. She just started drooling like crazy, has drippy nose, fussy butt at night, screaming, and NOT sleeping! Hope this passes soon! Momma needs sleep!
Today for the first time she raised BOTH arms up high to tell us how big she is! "SO BIG!" She waves goodbye now, knows where her head is, stands up against everything and anything she can get up by, and the cutest thing of them all....I tell her to give me some love, and she lays her head on me, pats me on the back and and says
ahhhh like I do! She will do it to anyone and all stuffed animals! She is such a cuddly lovely
dovey baby. Can't ask for better than that!
Thanks to everyone that has sent their prayers our way for Mom and my hubby! Jeff finally went back to work 1/2 days last week after being off for 3 weeks! He was in the hospital almost a week and was even worse the week after he came home spiking high fevers and barely moving out of bed. It was so scary! In the hospital his white blood cell count went really low, his blood pressure got low and his liver enzyme tests came back really high. He had every test known to mind kind done. Everything is better now but there are a few things they are keeping an eye on and he has a few more tests coming up. It's been very hard on him since he's Mr. Type A and likes to work, work, work! He was just so worried about his yard! We managed to keep it looking
ok for him! Even had some help from our neighbor which was nice. We also had MANY friends bring us food! I had no idea how much we would appreciate that
until this happened. His Mom also came for awhile and she was so much help, as well as my Mom helping as much as she could with the older kids. He's on the mend just still very fatigued and weak.
Mom goes in for lung surgery in a couple of weeks. She was diagnosed with stage one lung cancer. (that's hard to type!) We are kind of in
denial since she feels better than ever. They found the small nodule on a routine chest x-ray. Then she went through all the other tests and then a biopsy recently. The one thing that really concerns me is she had emphysema and asthma from many years of smoking (no longer) so they are not taking the whole lobe which they normally do. (the right lung has 3 lobes) They will take a good portion but can't take the whole thing because it would be too much for her lungs. She just doesn't have enough lung capacity. So for all you smokers out there........ Mom wouldn't have had her aortic valve replaced in her heart, lung cancer, emphysema or asthma if she hadn't smoked. Just a FEW things to keep in mind!
Our smarty, outgoing 5 year old got her progress report from her teacher today. We were so excited that she is on the "wall of fame" for knowing her vowels! And it doesn't suprise us that she only had "Satisfactory" for listens to and follows directions, stays on task, and obeys classroom rules. Everything else she got "Good". She said that sometimes she is still talking to her friends and it is so hard not too! That's our talker! She literaly NEVER stops! Sometimes I tell her, "Let's not say anything in the car today so we can listen to the music". But it works better if I put in a CD she likes and we can sing along to the songs. We love to sing to number 10 and 13 on Fergies CD! Beautiful songs and my girl has a voice to go with Fergie! I love listening to her sing! I keep telling her I'm going to get her in the local childrens theatre since she loves to perform. The only thing is she can get really shy around people she doesn't know. But it usually doesn't take her long to warm up. I'm currently trying to take all artifical colors out of her diet. We may try other things as well like dairy. But I can totally tell if she's had something with artifical colors and it's in EVERYTHING. Well not everything but you know the junky snacks kids like! I found suckers, gummy bears, cheese nips and mac and cheese that doesn't have it. We're ok as long as she continues to love fruit. But try going to any friends house or party! And what about the snacks that others bring to school? Do I just furnish other snacks she can have? I did that at her day care because they were giving M&M's when they were good in the afternoon. I had to put a stop to that! She would be wild and crazy all night! Any tips on this appreciated!
I know she will be mad at me when she gets older for this picture. But I thought we needed a shot of her chubby belly since it may not be here forever! She is crawling fast and standing up so much, she ends up sweating! 
I bought her these cute white boots in brown, pink and white. They stay on her feet so I love that! 
She LOVES to swing!
Mom made my hair look funky!
Cheerios stuck to my face!
Very upset that I was leaving! Put her head down on her arms on her desk and sobbed!
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