Archives for May 2009

Update on Baby Girl

After our millionth x-ray yesterday we found out that baby girl’s arm was not healing properly. And that meant surgery and a pin in her arm. So we spent yesterday and last night at the hospital. It was not a bad experience until she came out of anesthesia. And that was rough. She comes out of anesthesia the way I do…kicking and screaming.

It took a lot of morphine to get her comfortable enough to bring home. She’s on codeine now.

It’s 3 am and we’re up for food and meds.
Please pray for her pain and the swelling in her hand. She is right handed and that is the arm she has broken.

We’re hoping and praying that the cast they’ll put on will be off before we go to the beach.

She’s in a splint now and a sling.
Updates to come. Hopefully we’ll be back to sleep soon.
Thanks for your prayers.
Please pray for peace and understanding in our house as I try to take care of our three boys too. We’re two weeks into this and basically starting all over again now. So it will be 6 weeks or more before we are out of a cast.

I hope this makes some sense.
Need to go get an ice pack.

Julie

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Posted: May 7, 2009 by Julie |Category: Happenings | Tags:

I HEART faces entry

When thinking of hats this is the photo that came to mind. This little one’s mother is so sweet and dear. She’s a wonderful friend of mine with the sweetest children.

Go check out all the wonderful pictures at I Heart Faces.Com

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Posted: May 5, 2009 by Julie |Category: Photography and Tips | Tags:

The Broken Arm

Although the ripple effect has certainly been felt in our family since baby girl broke her arm it’s affected her in a far lesser capacity. Since she is right handed she has trouble eating so we help her. She can’t climb like she did because she is not supposed to press on her hand. So we help lift her. Having three casts in one week and her arm reset was emotionally exhausting for mom. I think I went to sleep at 8pm that night.

But she still chases the cat

And NOTHING stops, no NOTHING stops the ballerina

The twirling must continue….

The posing must go on….

And crowns must be worn….

And songs must be sung…..

While big brother watches in amazement….

And still won’t ever pose for me.
Even when I’m being sneaky.

Have a great Monday

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Posted: May 4, 2009 by Julie |Category: Happenings | Tags:

Field Trip Thursday

Thursday was field trip day.

And it’s the perfect time of year to take one.

The flowers were AMAZING…

While we were standing on the bridge this big fellow surfaced.

And then a guy on his lunch break came to fish. He must have caught 25 of these in the 30 minutes we watched him fish. Each one he threw back into the river. He did catch a bass too and we saw a HUGE coy (sp?) at the bottom of the river near the rocks.

I wondered why this guy was so much fluffier than all his friends. Different kind? Likes his winter coat? Hmm….

This was a special treasure we found. Duck eggs

The ducks ate bread right from our hands.

These sweet fellows were the hit of the day.

We spent quite a while on the bridge watching and feeding them.

Son #2 found a squirrel nest way up high in a tree and pulled baby girl along since she’s broken her arm.

He even posed for a picture or two.

Don’t they look sweet???

Here’s one of the bridges where we saw the baby ducks.

And to our surprise the water park portion was open and running. At first it was "Lets see who can go through without getting wet." But that soon turned into "How wet can we get?"

See what I mean?

Not sure what this was at one time but it was a cool place to imagine knights and dragons.

This is on our way back to the car to go and get icecream.

And this one cracks me up because son ##1 is looking at that guy like he’s real.

See son #3 peeking out from behind the guy with glasses??? He’s a ham.

Now if this isn’t a place to rest and read a book I’ve never seen one.
Visit the Reedy River if you are ever near Greenville, SC. It’s a great place.