Can I wear this mom?

Little Miss picked out her outfit today all by herself. She came upstairs with her hat, boots, clean underwear, pants, and shirts, threw them on the ground and proceeded to dress herself. It was absolutely hilarious to watch. It took her for-ev-er to get completely dressed, but she did it all herself. I am looking forward to many more slightly strange random outfits...

A Beautiful Day for a wedding

My dearest cousin Ben got married last weekend! We are SO happy for him and Kat (Kathryn). They are the cutest. It was an awesomely gorgeous day here, and we had all sorts of family in town to celebrate with us. Plus, my aunt was able to take us out to look at a couple of houses while she was up!! It pays to have a Realtor in the family! And please don't mind my lack of makeup/sickly hair. I came last minute, and didn't have time for any of that fun stuff.

So here is my FAVE pic. This is just classic Ben. Always happy...and of course he is especially happy this day, but I love it. He saw me standing there, after I told him I wouldn't be able to come because of Brooklyn's adventures, and when he saw me, this was what I got!!


How gorgeous is she!? And every bit as beautiful on the inside as the outside.
Adorable.


And rewind back a few days to when Grandma made brownies and let Makayla lick the bowl. She was a bit excited if you couldn't tell.


And today she wanted me to give her princess hair, and put a ribbon in it. She was very specific.

And then she turned that other piece of ribbon into a "necklace" by holding it around her neck...haha.


The end. I'm off to get me some food, because I am STARVING!!!

RSV is of the devil

Our poor little Brookie B sure gave us a scare this last week. If it's not one thing, it's another right? We had to take a trip to the ER last week, a week almost to the day after she broke her leg.
The poor little thing had a Febrile seizure on our way to the doctor's office. After many hours of sitting, and all sorts of fun things, and x-rays and waiting, and waiting some more, we finally got them to come in and tell us she was RSV positive. Great. The kid can't catch a break. She was so lethargic from the super high fever, and her chest sounded so bad, they were *this close* to admitting her to the hospital. Luckily we were able to consult with her doctor and he had us do a breathing treatment with her to get her O2 levels back up, and then watched her stats to see how she did. Thank goodness she improved enough to come home. I think the fact we only live 2 blocks away helped too, otherwise they probably would have kept her just to be safe.
This is why I have been scarce lately. She's been back and forth to the hospital for breathing treatments the last couple of days, and it's been some loooong sleepless nights. I think I am getting by on caffeine and sugar highs...yikes. So much for the diet. Thanks stress. I'll charge you for the extra 4 pounds later.
But hopefully she's on the mend. I think it peaked last night. She sounded the worst at about 4 am. Today she has been sounding ok, so we're keeping our fingers crossed that between now and the weekend, this thing clears up!!

A Bad Bad Day

Well, it happened. I have always known that someday, one of my kids would get hurt. Like more than a bump on the head kind of hurt. My poor little Brookie went and rolled off of the bed onto the hardwood floor. She landed on her leg, and has a Buckle Break in her femur.
After a trip to Instacare, and then over to the hospital to see the Orthopedist, she came home with a pillow cast, which is essentially a real cast with tons of padding inside. It goes on soft, then they wet it and as it dries it hardens.
Oh man, I think I about died when it happened. I felt horrible. And it's taken a week, but now I can talk about it without coming to tears. I was having a hard time with it for a while.
And now that she's not in obvious pain, it's actually kind of cute. It pretty much doubles her weight though...