Aftyn finished her swimming lessons this week. This year we found semi-private lessons for the same price we were paying for Aftyn to learn in a big group, and this year made ALL the difference. She can swim!!! She can do the elementary backfloat, she can swim on her front, and she can tread water. We were both SO SO SO excited, and now she really loves swimming. :) Happy parents over here! Bronwyn starts hers in another week and I am hoping for another swimmer after her lessons are done.
Aftyn is having her first piano recital tonight, and is really excited and proud of herself.
Lochlan waved for his very first time last night. To his favorite "Sunday Lady", Sister Arnold who has been taking him while we teach our Sunday School class. He loves her and tonight just proved it as he waved bye to her as she walked back to her car after dropping something off at our door. :) What a sweet memory.
Aftyn learned how to snap. Oh snap. Now she does it all the time. Bronwyn wants to figure it out REALLY bad so I'm sure she will quickly follow suit.
I bought a used double jogging stroller this week, and so on Friday we took it to the park for the free lunch that they serve there during the summer. My girls rode their scooters that I just got last week at a garage sale all the way there! They were so proud of themselves and in all it was such a fun adventure!!
Loving our ever changing, crazy, fantastic life
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Friday, June 10, 2016
Lately: In Pictures
Bronwyn put this outfit together and I had to get a picture.
This girl has some pretty good style! :)
Upside down boy.
For a long time, he kept doing this, putting his head upside down and looking around.
Man, he makes everybody laugh.
He's so funny!
Aftyn needed a picture this day.
She looks pretty cute!
Part of Bronwyn's birthday celebration.
Just before, we had had a water gun fight,
thus the wet hair on Aftyn and Bronwyn.
He looks like Mario with red hair
This kid.
He is SO ticklish!
This is a ticklish face.
Aftyn got her own basketball
and got to participate in a basketball camp for her birthday this year.
She loved it!
And since she's a girl who loves pink, I got her a pink and purple basketball.
Because.
Aftyn and Bronwyn playing outside with water guns
and what little water remained in our pool
So so happy
We sure love his happy spirit in our home
Aftyn got some birthday money and went to a garage sale with it.
Scored some Lincoln Logs and she's had a blast with them!
Aftyn Was Here
Post bath shot of the bath tub.
Mirren took the bath,
Aftyn came by afterward
to organize the letters to her liking.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
The Hand Foot and Mouth Plague
It all started last Monday, the 16th. We had had a fun birthday weekend for Bronwyn and we had an appointment for her to get her kindergarten shots around lunchtime. Because I knew she would worry and panic about it, I didn't tell her until about 2 hours before it was time to go. She was worried, but survived.
Fast forward to Thursday. Mirren had a fever, and wasn't feeling well. I thought it was probably her molars coming in. Friday she had the same fever and I thought nothing of it, except that she had it during the day.
Saturday morning, she woke up with spots ALL around her mouth. They freaked me out, but I linked it to the previous teething, but they didn't seem to be going away like they would once she was awake and her binky was out of her mouth. Mid-afternoon, I looked up her symptoms. And found that yes, she had ALL the symptoms of Hand Foot and Mouth Disease. Oh boy.
I immediately quarantined her to her room and one chair in our front room, so as not to spread this illness. Sunday was awful. Reed and I took turns going to church and all the kids stayed home so we didn't spread it.
Monday came and mid-afternoon Bronwyn had these 2 strange bumps around her mouth and a LOT of weird bumps on her upper thighs, but all of those disappeared within a few hours. I was still suspicious. I made her and Mirren share the bunkbed room and moved Aftyn in with Lochlan, since they weren't sick. Tuesday afternoon, Bronwyn got a fever. I was glad I had put the two sicko's together.
Wednesday. Today. Bronwyn still had a fever this morning. By this afternoon, Lochlan had a water blister on his right pointer finger and a fever. I gave him Tylenol and put him down for a nap.
We've used up 10 oz of hand sanitizer, and we're working on bottle number 2. I have an extra bottle by my bed, and one additional full bottle that I'm pretty sure we'll be utilizing. Everything I've read says kids are contagious if they have a fever AND if they have any oozing blisters. I thought Mirren had already emptied all her blisters but just now as I was washing her hands, I found a big one on her finger that hasn't popped yet. So, on her day 5 now, she's still contagious. 3 down, I'm so hopeful that the other 3 of us won't get it. Pictures to come. And by the way, this all came from that fateful trip to the doctor for shots.
Post Edit: Reed came down with the fever yesterday. It's just Aftyn and I, except Mirren may or may not now be not contagious. And I broke my baby toe yesterday. We got this. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Fast forward to Thursday. Mirren had a fever, and wasn't feeling well. I thought it was probably her molars coming in. Friday she had the same fever and I thought nothing of it, except that she had it during the day.
Saturday morning, she woke up with spots ALL around her mouth. They freaked me out, but I linked it to the previous teething, but they didn't seem to be going away like they would once she was awake and her binky was out of her mouth. Mid-afternoon, I looked up her symptoms. And found that yes, she had ALL the symptoms of Hand Foot and Mouth Disease. Oh boy.
I immediately quarantined her to her room and one chair in our front room, so as not to spread this illness. Sunday was awful. Reed and I took turns going to church and all the kids stayed home so we didn't spread it.
Monday came and mid-afternoon Bronwyn had these 2 strange bumps around her mouth and a LOT of weird bumps on her upper thighs, but all of those disappeared within a few hours. I was still suspicious. I made her and Mirren share the bunkbed room and moved Aftyn in with Lochlan, since they weren't sick. Tuesday afternoon, Bronwyn got a fever. I was glad I had put the two sicko's together.
Wednesday. Today. Bronwyn still had a fever this morning. By this afternoon, Lochlan had a water blister on his right pointer finger and a fever. I gave him Tylenol and put him down for a nap.
We've used up 10 oz of hand sanitizer, and we're working on bottle number 2. I have an extra bottle by my bed, and one additional full bottle that I'm pretty sure we'll be utilizing. Everything I've read says kids are contagious if they have a fever AND if they have any oozing blisters. I thought Mirren had already emptied all her blisters but just now as I was washing her hands, I found a big one on her finger that hasn't popped yet. So, on her day 5 now, she's still contagious. 3 down, I'm so hopeful that the other 3 of us won't get it. Pictures to come. And by the way, this all came from that fateful trip to the doctor for shots.
Post Edit: Reed came down with the fever yesterday. It's just Aftyn and I, except Mirren may or may not now be not contagious. And I broke my baby toe yesterday. We got this. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Pictures
Sunday
Amidst the hustle and bustle of choir practice, Sunday School teaching, baby blessing, and all the other various responsibilities I have on any given Sunday, I had this wondrous moment that made all the crazy, horrible, uncomfortable, s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g moments of the past year worth it.
In pondering my busy day and accomplishments I said to my Self: "Self, what a good day you've had! Look at all you've done, look at how genuinely you have been yourself in the things you have done." And I felt a sense of satisfaction that I was truly needed today. At choir practice, in church, and just in general in my life. And while feeling all the feels, I felt a truly resounding happiness deep to my spirit that whispered "You were needed. You are needed. You are important. YOU matter."
And so do YOU.
In pondering my busy day and accomplishments I said to my Self: "Self, what a good day you've had! Look at all you've done, look at how genuinely you have been yourself in the things you have done." And I felt a sense of satisfaction that I was truly needed today. At choir practice, in church, and just in general in my life. And while feeling all the feels, I felt a truly resounding happiness deep to my spirit that whispered "You were needed. You are needed. You are important. YOU matter."
And so do YOU.
Sunday, April 24, 2016
ANGRY Eyes
Mirren had eye surgery this past week to fix her right eye. Here are some pictures of what it looked like:
1st Day
2nd Day
3rd Day
On Day 2, Mirren woke up with very watery eyes and a swollen lower lid. Reed was rightly worried, and so I put in a call to the doctor after putting her antibiotic eye ointment in her eye. After waiting a few hours for a return phone call, I began to notice that the swelling was gone and the wateriness was SO much better. Many hours later, the doctor called back but at that point we'd decided she was fine.
All in all, the surgery was worse than I expected because I didn't know WHAT to expect, but after the first day, she has done amazingly. Just expect your child's eye to look red, expect the time as they come out of anesthesia to be awful and expect some tylenol for the first few days, and you'll be good.
On Day 2, Mirren woke up with very watery eyes and a swollen lower lid. Reed was rightly worried, and so I put in a call to the doctor after putting her antibiotic eye ointment in her eye. After waiting a few hours for a return phone call, I began to notice that the swelling was gone and the wateriness was SO much better. Many hours later, the doctor called back but at that point we'd decided she was fine.
All in all, the surgery was worse than I expected because I didn't know WHAT to expect, but after the first day, she has done amazingly. Just expect your child's eye to look red, expect the time as they come out of anesthesia to be awful and expect some tylenol for the first few days, and you'll be good.
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