Huggin’ the girls a little tighter today!
By Michelle | July 15, 2010
Jeff and I spent the morning at Children’s Hospital in the hematology/oncology unit with Sarah Jo. We are testing her before her tonsil surgery in August to see if she has the Protein S deficiency that I discovered I have after my blood clot last year. The girls have a 50/50 chance of having the gene, and we will eventually need to get Samantha tested too. The great news is that no matter whether or not they have the deficiency it is easily treatable as long as we know before a injury/surgery occurs. Compared to all the other kiddos in that unit today, we are AMAZINGLY BLESSED to have the healthy girlies we do. Spending the morning at Children’s Hospital, puts everything into perspective on a really deep level! Hug your kiddos a little tighter today, I am!!
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Birthday Party Success…
By Michelle | July 14, 2010
We had a crazy, busy weekend with the parade for Redmond Derby Days, Sarah Jo’s 6th birthday party, and having our cousins spend the weekend with us. The girls are both still exhausted and have actually fallen back asleep on the couch this morning. Sarah Jo said it was the BEST BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER…so I will take that as success and pat myself on the back!! I still cannot believe that our big girl will be 6 in a few days, has a loose tooth, and is headed off to kindergarten!!
Our little baby girl Sammy Jane is doing great! I think she is really going to miss hanging out with her big sissy next year while Sarah Jo is in school. What one doesn’t think of, the other one does. She is doing pretty well on potty training (when we are home) and talks non stop.
Sarah Jo has an appointment tomorrow morning at 9AM at Children’s Hospital with a hematologist to get some blood work done. We are very hopeful that everything checks out perfect and that she did not inherit any craziness from her Mama! Her tonsil surgery is still scheduled for August 17th.
We have stumbled upon a new hobby….geocaching!! Lovin’ it and Daddy and the girls are waaayyyy into finding treasures. We hope to hide some treasures of our own soon.
Pictures from the birthday party and other weekend events will be posted soon. We are having an AMAZING summer, hope you are too!
I thought that I had also posted news from my endocrinologist appt before July 4th, but it looks like it got lost in the shuffle. Dr. Davies decided to give me 6 months off before doing any additional testing, so I do not have to go back to see him until January. He is super aggressive and super conservative, so Jeff and I are taking our 6 month pass and are running with it for the summer. Praise God!! Thank you for your continued prayers for my health and for our family, they are working!!
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Daddy’s summer project with his girlies….
By Michelle | June 28, 2010
Check it out…so darn cute!!
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Gymnastics Extravaganza 2010
By Michelle | June 13, 2010
Two show done, back to the gym tonight…these are a few of my favorite pictures from yesterday. We’ve updated the website with a lot of new photos, check them out. More to come from Sarah Jo’s team pictures tonight.
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First Official Day of Summer
By Michelle | June 9, 2010
The girls woke up exactly at 7AM…Sarah Jo first of course…jumping on me saying get up! Breakfast was served from “Flo’s Kitchen” aka mommy and daddy this morning. Between breakfast and the “first lunch” playdoh covered a good portion of the family room floor, a fort was built…and still exists so watch out trying to walk through the family room…and Sammy Jane fell and hit her head twice. Apparently a “second lunch” is going to be expected all summer that Flo was not aware of…and the girls are currently eating that now…while Flo is attempting to eat a mangled tuna fish sandwich. Flo needs to run to the grocery store because the fridge is already bare…thank goodness Flo is not in charge of boys…not sure she could handle it.
Happy Summer!!
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Samantha Jane’s 3 year check up….
By Michelle | June 8, 2010
So how did I forget that at the 3 year check up you end up with shots? If I would have remembered that, I would have not scheduled her check up on the final day of preschool for Sarah Jo when the entire Faith Lutheran parking lot was turned into a carnival for the kiddos. You can imagine the explanation to Sammy Jane of why we were going to the doctor instead of staying with Sarah Jo at school to play! In addition to some MAJOR Redmond traffic, it was quite an adventure. When we finally arrived, Samantha enjoyed the fish in the waiting room, but as usual we checked out every book in the place before the doctor came in to see us. Samantha did an awesome job and allowed Dr. Wen to check everything…Samantha even told Dr. Wen where her heart was. She is hitting all of her development milestones perfectly and Dr. Wen commented a number of times about how pretty she is…we think so too! She is following “her” growth chart which is all that really matters and she weighed in at a whopping 26lbs. 6 oz (3-10%) and she’s 35 inches tall (10%). Just because I was curious, I went back to look in Sarah Jo’s baby book and Samantha Jane is an inch and a half shorter and a lb lighter than her big sissy was at this age. Who knows though, Sarah Jo hit a growth spurt at 4. Speaking of Sarah Jo, she will have her tonsils out on August 17th (an overnight stay at Children’s Hospital in Seattle) with a pre-op appt with a hematologist at Children’s on July 15th to verify that she did not inherit my vitamin K deficiency that we discovered last year when I had my blood clot. Sarah Jo told me today that a blood draw hurts less than a shot (she had one last year) and she’ll be fine because last time she didn’t cry. We hope that she is just as positive about her tonsil surgery recovery in August. Happy summer to all…we are looking forward to spending some lazy summer days with our girlies.
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