BOO!

We spent October 31st with our good friends, the Ryans. The kids & dads had a great time inhaling the steam from the homemade rootbeer! The moms made homemade pizza and caramel apple dip. Yum! We always have so much fun together!

Vampire cutie

Howdy partner

East High Cheerleader

Pirate

Lleyton the Pirate with his BFF Darcy.

Did you have a Happy Halloween? We did!

Sophia's Surgery

Several weeks ago, Sophia had her deflux surgery (for the 2nd time). She was such a good patient! I took a few pictures to help document the experience.


Here she is with her "giggle juice" starting to work. She got very loopy. It was so cute! She kept looking under her blanket at the red light on her oxygen monitor (the one they put on your finger). It was so fascinating to her.
That stuff is perfect. It helped her to relax and not be worried when they took her back to surgery without us. It also has an affect on her memory, making so she doesn't even remember it.
After surgery, we had to document the IV.

Of course, Tarin the bear had to come along. She was allowed to take 2 items back with her. She took her blankie and her bear. They labeled them with stickers that had all of her info on them. She is still pretty out of it in this picture. She was just starting to smile, so the morphine was starting to work. :) They had to give her a couple of doses in her IV to help her feel better.

At this children's hospital, they give you as many yummy rainbow pops as you want! She broke a record with 5!

Sophia recovered so quickly. She was bouncing around like normal the next day. On Monday, we go in for another VCUG (not so fun test) to see if the surgery worked. Of course, our appt with the dr isn't until the 18th, so we won't know until then.
We really appreciate all of the thoughts and prayers that everyone has given on her behalf! Please keep it going!

(I was finally able to download pictures from my camera! Yea!)

lack of pictures

I am so frustrated! I am having problems downloading pictures from my camera to my computer. I have lots of great ones to post...

Hopefully, I can get it working soon.

On a happy side-note, I am getting lots done today! Laundry is almost finished, dinner is in the crock pot, banana bread is in the oven, the kitchen is almost finished getting cleaned and I have put a post up on my other blog!

Whew! I feel so productive! haha :)

Tooth Fairy

Tonight, the Tooth Fairy came for the very first time to Lleyton. He was SO excited!! Unfortunately, he didn't lose his first tooth the normal way. The dentist ended up pulling it this afternoon, because it was too infected to save.

My baby boy was such a trooper and didn't make a fuss at all! He was sufficiently numbed and, in fact, did not know that the tooth was gone until we told him after. (We have a wonderful dentist who is so good with the kids!)

For being so brave at the dentist, he got to choose a toy from Target. Corey helped him decide on a new nerf basketball hoop. Lleyton loves these. We go through them quite often, though, because of the frequent use!

Anyway, here are a few quotables about the Tooth Fairy...

* Where does she live? What does she look like? Dad - where does she live??
* Mama, how will she get in the house? I bet she'll ring the doorbell. No? I guess she'll use her wands. (I love that he still calls me Mama.)
* She has pink stuff in her hair.
* She likes ponies and stuff.
* I think she'll bring me 50. (50 cents or dollars?) 50 cents. (She actually brought $2)

He was so excited to go to sleep and promised me that he would fall asleep right away so she could come. One of the best parts was watching how much joy the older kids were getting out of seeing him so excited for this.

I have such great kids. I am so blessed to be their mom. I almost ate Lleyton up tonight, he was just so sweet and delicious!!

First Day of School

My big, handsome 4th grader. This is one of the few pictures where he actually smiled.

We "curled" her hair by putting it in rag curls the night before. Isn't she just adorable?

Lleyton wanted to get in on the picture taking.

Um, she is way too grown up. That is all I have to say about that.

chicken fight!

This was everyone's favorite activity at Noah's swimming birthday party!

birthday boy

Noah is 10 yrs old today! I can hardly believe it. Since today is the first day of school (pictures coming later today), we celebrated on Saturday.

We saved one final present for this morning - Wii Sports Resort game!
He was SO excited! He opened it right before leaving for school.
His other favorite present was his Cardinals shirt from Aunt Jamie. I hope that I can get it off of him long enough to get it washed this week!

Noah requested chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing. Yum! I added chocolate jimmies.