Callie

about 3 night ago Callie woke screaming in pain saying her leg hurts. I really didn't think that much about it. I actually thought it was growing cramps(Owen used to get 'em). SO i rubbed her leg but that night was terrible! She was up every hour or so crying in pain. The next night was O.K. Sh did wake once saying it hurts but then slept the rest of the night. Now we are at yesterday:: She complained off and on that her leg hurt and asked me to hold her throughout the day. I still didn't really think that much about it. Thought she just wanted me to hold her. She went to bed at 7:30 but was up by 11:30 with more leg pain.. She had another terrible night.. tossing n turning & screaming out! So this morning she is walking with a limp on her right side. I ask her to show mommy what hurts. She pointed to her right knee. I gave her some Advil and pondered taking her to the Doctor. I called them and they wanted to see her right away. Her Dr. took one look at it and said it swollen, I wanna do blood work to check for Lyme disease! My head started spinning!! Ticks cause Lyme and we are in the middle of winter her in Pa! LYME?? REALLY??!!!! I told him I never saw a tick on her and he said well with little ones ya never know and this is how it starts. Good point. She sat so still while he drew the blood. She cried hard but sat still. Then he sent us up to the hospital to have an xray done. That terrified her as well. We were to go back to his office after the x-ray for results but I met Dr. Lancellotti on my way out.. He said go home, call the office after 1. He won't have the Lyme results for a week. A WEEK!! But he is thinking of starting her on antibiotics to be safe. He wanted to review the xrays first!!
OMG!!! I am a nervous wreck!!!
New New::: X RAY is okay.. not sure if this is good or bad news! Just got off the phone with her doc. He says give her motrin or advil 3x a day, continue her antibiotic, if her knee gets red and/or fever 102 or higher, I need to call him.. we are to return on Monday at 9a.m. for a follow up

Summer Preview

I found a lady on Craigslist that lists Gymbo clothes for a really good price. This is the 2nd time I have bought from her. Today when I picked up & said "just email me when you are ready to sell more!" Then she told me about her yearly yardsale where she sells her Old Navy & Children's Place stuff for a buck a piece.. SCORE!!

Here is what I picked up today..

dress from the tennis match line:

Complete outfit from Beach shack line:

Shorts (NWT): tank & Sandals

A mixed lot:: Palm Springs & spring Rainbow

Love this one:: Tropical Garden outfit

Complete with sunhat(nwt), shorts(nwt), tank(nwt) & sandals

Complete outfit from Bon Voyage line:

pants, "dad" T, and short sleeve hoodie (all NWT) and socks

I got all this for less than 50 bucks.. what a bargain!!

She wore a

Teeny weeny ...

Yellow polka a dot ...

Bikini!!

Welcom Faith Chantelle

Last week Jason's sister in law gave birth to Faith Chantelle. She weighed 9lbs 14oz and is 23" long!! Lastnight we went to see her. So sweet & cuddly. I could've held her the whole night long(I had to share her..LOL) She has the longest fingers of any newborn I have ever seen.

Faith Chantelle

Carter with Faith

Callie with Faith

Owen with Faith

Playdate

Yesterday Callie had a playdate here with Autumn.They had loads of fun and Callie really enjoyed having Autumn here at her house. They played so nice together and only 1 minor lil squabble.

The Nursery at GSCC

Our church, Good Shepherd Communtiy Church, remolded. We expanded our kidz ministry areas. That gives us so much more "breathing" room to work with our children.

I got to pick out the paint scheme for the nursery and chose "ginger bite" with "delta sandbar" as an accent color. I will have to update this with and over all picture of the room(s).It's technically 1 big room divided by a half wall. That helps keep the babies from getting ran over by the 2 year olds..LOL

This is the window...I made the curtain by "upcycling" a tablecloth and adding some ribbon. the roll up shade is flat stick bamboo. The sanitizer container has a monkey on it..My mom picked that up.. it's a perfect fit.

My main bullentin board.. this is the 1st thing you would see when you walk into the room. I had Jason rip down some bamboo and cover the generic wood trim of it.

This bullentin board has our monthly lesson on it. It is placed so the "teacher" can see it while sitting with the lil ones. Jason also added his touch to this one by adding bamboo to it.

"sprouts" & "shoots"
I made words out of thinner bamboo and wrapped the joints with raffia. This was really fun. I picked the words sprouts and shoots to represent how bamboo would start off.. Sprouts being the babies and shoots being the 2 year olds.

This piece of bamboo is awaiting monkeys to be painted from it.

we have an in house artist that is going to draw the outline and then I am gonna paint it with "milk chocolate" It won't be detailed. and the color is all off.. poor lighting ;(

regal bedroom

I redone my bedroom.. It took much much longer than I had planned. I started late Saturday morning. Since it is the bedroom I just couldn't move everything out and paint. I had to paint in sections.. what a pain that was. Then the paint took "multiple" coats.. so not fun! I finished painting yesterday afternoon but still need to find homes for everything that was in my room. I have decided to purge things out that I am not attached to .. and what doesn't match. My room was purple and sage.. with angels and fairies. Now is sleek and regal.