Overcoming Fear with Faith

For the longest time Sally would not crawl through the tunnel. I was the last person to force her to go through...I'm claustrophobic.  She now has no fear and gets excited when it's time to take out the tunnels at ECFE.

Side note, we have a follow up for Sally's Kidney Reflux.  Here's where we were at last year.  This time around, it is much more telling, either she'll have surgery or she won't. I doubt there will be much more waiting. To help with her test today we're going to see if we can give her a sucker, something she doesn't often get, but can help her forget about what's going on around her and to her.

No matter what the results, we'll face it head on.  With a lot of faith and trust, we'll get through it.  It would be a whole lot worse!

We're off to visit Grandma, George, Nana and Grandpa after the Doctor's visit!  Happy Weekend!

Whaaale

I'm fortunate that two nights a week I get to sneak out and do workout classes with my Girlfriends.  Reid loves this alone time with Sally.  He usually has a funny story or a picture to share with me when I get home.  We've watched this video numerous times, you can't help but laugh! Enjoy!

Love and other things

We have a tradition of getting Famous Dave's for Valentine's Day.  The rational is that we don't want to try and navigate the busy restaurants, but we want to do something fun.  Since I'm such a great wife and I know that ribs are Reid's favorite meal we first decided on Famous Dave's and have continued to get it for four years now.  We usually get takeout, but we decided to venture out, especially since it's been so nice here!

It was great that Famous Dave's is a very kid-friendly place.  Sally had many kids to entertain and many kids to be entertained by.  She also loved that there were pigs everywhere!

My Valentine's!

Girlfriends!

He figured he better 'go big or go home,' and her certainly didn't want to go home!

You know you love being a mom when you go in the car without any kids and it takes you 10 minutes to realize you've been rocking out and singing to kids music.  You really know you love being a mom if this has happened on more than one occasion!

Love her and her giggles!

Very Blessed! xoxo

C is for Cookie!

I love this first picture. Sally had her buddy, Lucy, over for the Superbowl. Since it's kind of like a holiday we gave them dessert too. We told them to sit down and they could have a cookie.  I think we could have told them to roll over and play dead too =)

I've known for some time that Target gives out free cookies to kids.  I haven't taken Target up on that until last week.  Sally has a very good memory with associations.  She'll recognize where we are in the car and say what she's about to see.  Church=Jesus, ECFE=Lucy and Library=Goose (a Mother Goose stuffed animal at story time).  No matter how much time lapses between each visit, she'll remember.  So I don't want her to assume that every time we go to Target she gets a cookie.  On this particular visit she was extra antsy and I had an extra long list and Daddy was getting new contacts so I stooped to that level.  By the look on her face, she was glad I did!

Yesterday was Valentine's Day, how can you not share a treat on this day? Plus we got the cookies from our friends, Kyle and Laura.  Laura is a dietitian, so they must be healthy, and ok to eat in moderation, right Laura? =)

"I Looooooove Valentime's Day!"

Our Valentine!

Happy Heart's Day! Lots of pink, red and hearts today!

Sally has gotten some really cute headbands for gifts, however, she won't have anything to do with them.  I only got this headband in because I distracted her when I put it on.  3 seconds after this picture it was ripped off.

We hope you all have a wonderful love filled day! We're blessed to have so many people to love and care for as well as so many caring and loving for us!

p.s. Did you know yesterday was World Marriage Day? Give your significant other an extra smooch today ;)

One step at a time...

This is how Sally was, all day yesterday. So much to say! You can just see the wheels spinning, spitting out all the words she knows.

She's gone down the stairs a few times all by herself and never has it taken her this long.  I'm glad I was able to record our conversation, will be fun to look back at it some day!

**Happy Birthday to Marc, today! Happy Birthday to Joe Joe, tomorrow!  Happy Birthday to Laura, Sunday!**

Have a great weekend!

Bless You

Love this quick take of our caring little one.  Reid didn't believe me that she knew how and when to say "Bless You," so he does a fake sneeze.

Here's another video of her craziness right before bed when she gets to run around in her onesie. She knows she can't get away with much with two parents watching so she quickly delivers the forbidden remotes =)