I know this is a LONG one & the order of events is mixed up ...but I will do my best to summarize & make sense of it all.
Lily on the left & her 2 best friends Lizzy & Allie in their Christmas ballet recital outfits peeking out the window
Lizzy Allie & Lily enjoying treats after the recital
Lily's Christmas ballet recital, we practiced everyday, I was so proud of her that night! She is one on the end on the right who keeps waving at the camera
Story time
Mira standing on her own
Eddie started piano at the start of the school year, he is doing so well!
Me & the girls sledding
The 3 amigos, wheee!
Mira crawling away from the scene of the crime. She opened one of her own presents & one of Eddie's, not too bad I guess
Lily right before her Christmas ballet recital
Ethan worked really hard on his PACE presentation. PACE is part of the gifted and talented program that he goes to instead of his regular school class once a week. Brad got to go watch & said he did awesome!
hmmmm, this seems backwards to me but Mira loves it
We went sledding Christmas Eve with our friends the Nef's, This is Allie and Lily, they loved squealing down the hill together
Lily, Arianne and Mira taking a quick ride down the hill
Story time w/ Dad Christmas afternoon. We stayed home all day and spent time playing, reading stories, watching a movie and opening gifts. It was a really nice day
Lily Christmas morning holding a ballerina puzzle she got
Ethan and his new Christmas legos
Eddie and his Christmas lego truck
Brad's dad owns his own landscaping company and we decided to meet at his shop with all Brad's siblings and their families and; his parents. We hooked sleds up to the tractor and had a lot of fun taking turns riding them. Then we had hot dogs and; hot chocolate. It was a great day
Mira took a little ride too
Mira's birthday is December 28th. Big number one! She really enjoyed her b-day balloons
Mira's b-day cake. I used jelly beans for music notes because she loves to dance to music, not anything fancy but it was yummy!
Getting ready to blow out her candle, I think Lily helped her a bit because Mira just wanted to touch the flame
Yum! Happy Birthday big girl! So serious, I think she was tired
Games with dad
Lily helping Mira have a ride on her horse
Eddie and Lily using Lily's new "hair fix kit" that she got for Christmas for give the horse a new do
Ethan is our creative boy, is always making something. This is his viking hat made of a milk jug
Mira wanted to wear Lily's pretty boots, she clunked around in them all evening thinking she was such a big kid
Silly Mira trying to wear one of Grandma's toy buckets
Storied with dad
Pretty Lily coming in after playing in the snow
Mira went through a phase where she wanted to wear necklaces everyday, not just one but as many as she could find. She wanted them on first thing after breakfast and wore them until bedtime, only taking them off for naps, which she was never happy about
Decorating the tree.
Ethan sleeping in his Santa hat, he fell asleep looking at the Christmas lights in his room. Is someone excited for Christmas?
Mira undecorated our tree over and over, we had a constant pile of them at the bottom of the tree that I would put back on at the end of the day
Mira opening her Christmas presents at Grandma Diane's
Lily got a doctor kit from Grandma Diane and Grandpa Greg, she LOVED it
The boys got remote control cars
Mira got her first baby doll, she loves to hug her baby. Thanks Greg and; Diane for everything
Visiting Santa and Mrs Clause
There was an awesome igloo at Santa's house made from milk jugs
Mira reaching for her gifts from Santa on Christmas morning
The boys, I mean Mario and Luigi got some silly mustaches in their stockings! Someone looks a little sleepy there on the right
Mira ripping into her birthday presents
Mira and her little drum
The girls in their new Christmas dresses from Grandma Diane, so pretty
Lily loves wearing pretty dresses
November 5th someone left the basement door open a crack and Mira crawled over and yanked it open and rolled down the stairs. I heard the bumping sound and found her face down at the bottom of the stairs. I thought since they were carpeted stairs she was probably more scared than hurt, but something wasn't right. She cried until she fell asleep, then she'd stir a little and wake up screaming over and over. I was holding her the whole time and thought maybe she had hurt her ribs or back. I put her in her car seat and went in for x-rays. the Dr felt her all over. It was hard to know what was a hurt cry and what was a get away from me and stop touching me cry, but when he grabbed her foot and moved it around her whole body started shaking. So so sad. :( We x-rayed her foot and found a buckle fracture. He sent me home and said when we would put a splint on it in 3 days if it was still bothering her. Before she fell she had been up on her feet all the time cruising the furniture. After we got home she'd try to stand up on that foot she'd fall. We went back and splinted it. She was miserable in the splint, she couldn't crawl or stand with it and kept pulling it off. She cried and cried about it and wouldn't stay asleep when she was wearing it. But they couldn't cast it until the swelling went down. They told me to leave it on constantly. It was an awful few days. One morning I noticed when I was putting her splint on a big red hot circle on her heel. I took her in and he said her crawling movement was causing her foot to rub on the splint. It was causing a pressure wound! No wonder she cried so much, my poor little baby! It was infected inside of the wound so he put her on antibiotics. The blister swelled, poped and the skin ripped away. It was so raw under it. It was so hard to keep it covered and clean. It would crack and bleed. I couldn't keep her off it unless I held her constantly and that wasn't realistic. Finally we were able to buy some padding made from silver which helps to heal wounds and a bandage she couldn't take off. Finally it healed over. It was a terrible experience. She never had a cast for her break because by the time the wound healed so had the bone. I can still see the place on her heel where the wound was 3 months later, but she is running all over the house and isn't hurting anymore
Above is her splint, below is what it caused. This is what it looked like what it was starting to scab but kept cracking and bleeding because she'd stand on it. It was about the size of a quarter
We took a quick trip to WA before Thanksgiving and stayed with my mom. This is Lily and her cousin Issac, their mouths are full of pop corn having a great time on the trampoline
Ethan being sat on by Lily andtheir cousin Shyla. The pic turned out bad because the batteries on my camera were running low so the flash was bad, but I love his face
Mira loved my mom's little trampoline. She is wearing the bandage that allowed her foot to finally heal. She didn't seem to mind this wrap too much because she could still stand while wearing it. I kept her in PJ's almost constantly during this terrible time so she wouldn't pull the bandage off
Grandma Terri and Mira
Great Grandpa Gale taking a quick snooze, he looks so small in that huge chair!
My dad loves to play Santa, this year he grew a real beard! Since we were in town around Christmas my sister Jeni had a Christmas party and had Santa come. It was awesome! Thanks Dad and Carren for the gifts and Jeni for the party!
Eddie got Monsters University the movie. The next day we had a movie party at Grandma's with Jeni's family and watched it
Lily got a Rapunzel doll. She calls her "mapunzel"
Ethan got a gross science lab kit that made all kinds of icky stuff like buggers and yellow snow. The boys loved it! Mira got a unicorn pillow pet
My dad and his dad
I tried to get ONE pic with all of them looking...nope didn't happen
We got home from WA, Brad had shoulder surgery. Two days after his surgery was Thanksgiving. We stayed home and had a simple dinner, it was really a nice day
Mira taking her first steps right before Christmas, Merry Christmas to ME!
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