Our Easter 2012 Pics

Finally I get to post an update . I have been so busy trying to get ready to home school Riley she is going to be starting kindergarten this year , I almost have her curriculum ready . I am considering signing her up with a Christian School as an umbrella school because I just don't want to deal with TN laws . My pregnancy is going well , I will update on that soon , I have been leaving comments on every one's blogs and realized that it has been leaving them as anonymous for some reason , if I can't figure it out I will start putting my name on there .

No More No No's

The Doctor told us during our last visit we could take the no no's off which was a relief , but he said that Leah's mouth is not healing yet so she has to stay on her soft food diet for another month , but she is already used to it . She don't really care as long as it's food , she has a huge appetite , it really surprises me at how much she can eat . The no no's were not so bad this time for us anyway because we found a better way of keeping them on , the last time we used socks but as I was packing for this trip I came across a pair of leg warmers that I had bought Leah at Target last year so I gave them a try and they worked a lot better than socks , all you have to do is pull them over the no no's at the wrist , I'll add a picture. Leah is also walking now :) .     

                                                             

Last Surgery Update

Leah's surgery went well , thank you to everyone for your prayers . The pain was a lot less this time because they gave her Lortab liquid since she can't take codeine anymore . Most things were the same as last time like the No No's and sleeping in the car seat , the only thing different is her diet she can only have food the consistency of baby food , I thought this would be hard for her at first but I think she understood she went back to eating it just fine , it will take a while for her to get back to normal , as usual after a surgery she cries more and wants to be held more and gets up more during the night . The Dr. assured me that the palet was completely sealed so that was a relief  , both of us will be glad that no more food will be coming through her nose , before the palet surgery when Leah would eat whatever went up into the palet would later come out her nose , this was not pleasant for her , once I had to pull out long pieces of chicken that she hadn't chewed up very good . As far as pain and recovery goes this surgery was better than the last two , it seems she recovered a lot faster and the Lortab worked wonders for her pain . Will post more when I become less busy :)

Recent Happenings

Since my last post we have celebrated Leah's 1st birthday , I will try to post about that later . So much has been going on lately , Leah's last surgery will be tomorrow so please pray that everything goes ok and that she recovers quickly , I just hope that they will be able to control her pain better this time , I will try to update as soon as I can . I hated to leave town because my grandmother is very ill she is dying . Also I am pregnant 4 months to be exact , I am so excited about that but so depressed over my grandmother , will try to update soon ....

Dress Up Center

I didn't get finished making all the Christmas presents for the kids last year with all that I had going on but I did finish a few of them , I made some play drinks for their kitchen and one of their big gifts was the dress up center , it didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted it to but I used a small chest of drawers and the dresses drag the bottom when you hang them up but Riley didn't mind and it looked so cute in their room .

Anyone who wants to make one of these I would suggest maybe using a normal size chest of drawers or anything bigger , they have a lot of ideas on the Internet , some people put fabric on the inside and others put knobs on the outside to hang bracelets and necklaces , I left one drawer in the bottom for that stuff , also Hobby Lobby has a great selection of drawer knobs and pulls . If I find something bigger at a yard sale this summer I will probably make another one so it will grow with them .

The Greatest Gift

Please watch this video and get saved today , salvation is the greatest gift . Merry Christmas !

Our First Advent Calendars

Until I started reading blogs I never knew what an advent calendar was , since then I have wanted to make them but was always to busy , well this year I just made time to do it , one of them that is the other one was store bought .

Since I never had anything like this growing up I think I was more excited than the kids were about Dec. 1st rolling around , but after that first day Riley has been getting up every morning and just can't wait to see what she gets for that day , I think the calendars also help kids wait more patiently for Christmas . 

I am definitely going to make this a tradition at our house and hopefully will get to make some more next year .

These are just Christmas goodie containers I found these at ABC distributing  , my mom has an account there and sometimes I order stuff on her account but you get exactly 24 of these for around 5.95 .

I made this one out of toilet paper and paper towel rolls , I just put scrap booking paper around them and then  a cardboard bottom on each one , I think they look kind of like candles , you can also use fabric if you want to but I have a lot of scrap booking paper .

I also used ticket stubs and to my surprise Riley liked these better than candy or prizes , on the tickets I wrote things like Ice cream , board games with mom , her favorite was a trip to pet smart .