Showing posts with label Family Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family Life. Show all posts

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Halloween

I hope you all had a fun Halloween!  We sure did!  Emma got a goody bag at school, which she loved.  There's a little pumpkin toy in it that she's been carrying around (and sleeping with!) ever since.

That evening we went to the Harvest Hoedown at our church.  I discovered on the way there that the battery on our camera was completely dead!  So frustrating!  At least Daniel had his iPhone, so we were able to get a few pictures.  I don't have them on the computer yet, sorry.  We did the cake walk first, and Emma won!  She got to pick out her cake.  Despite Daddy encouraging her to select the pumpkin swirl cheesecake, she chose the little pumpkin shaped cake with Mr. Potato head embellishments.  Then we went upstairs to the games.  Fortunately, they have a little kid room that Emma enjoyed.  She did the bean bag toss, basketball toss, bounce house, hula hoop toss, lasso toss, and pumpkin sweep.  Andrew was not a fan of any of it, except the pumpkin sweep.  I think he was pretty overwhelmed with it all!  After Emma did the maze/slide twice (once with Daddy and once by herself), we decided to head home and go trick-r-treating at a few houses on our block.  Then we asked Emma if she wanted to hand out any candy, and she said yes, so we picked out a few things that the kids can't eat (like Jaw breakers).  We only had a couple kids come by since it was starting to get late, but fortunately, the first thing to go was the whistle that Emma got a church!  Woo hoo!!  Sorry to the parents of the child that got that!
Our sweet little princess
Our handsome sailor enjoying some cake

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Bad things come in 3s...

It seems like people always say that "bad things come in threes."  Well, we definitely experience that recently!

It all started 3 weeks ago when we were at H-E-B on a Saturday morning.  Emma tripped and hit her chin on the Buddy Bucks machine, biting her tongue in the process.  It was bad!  It started bleeding like crazy.  This was her first major injury, and it kind of freaked us all out!

The next week Andrew was fussy, but didn't have a fever or anything, so we didn't worry about it.  That Friday we took him to his 18 month check-up and found out that he had an ear infection!  Poor guy!

Then the next Friday Daniel hit his head on a piece of equipment at work.  He got a really bad cut from it and had to get 7 staples!
After 5 days
The GOOD news is that Emma tongue has healed beautiful, Andrew's ear infection went away after one round of antibiotics, and Daniel has experienced very little pain.  The cut has not gotten infected, and it is healing nicely.  He is very ready to have the staples removed on Tuesday, though!  They're driving him crazy.

I'm thankful for friends and family who prayed for us during all this craziness, for doctors and friends with experience and wisdom, and for pain medicine and antibiotics that help our illnesses and injuries.
Our God is greater and stronger than any other. Our God is healer awesome in power.