The Love Of A Big Brother

Kaylee's right eye has been "drifting" to the outside quite a bit lately so yesterday we took her to the eye doctor. She did really good during the checkup. The good news is that most cases like hers can be corrected easily with eye exercises. She has to wear an eye patch four hours everyday for four weeks on her good eye so that the muscles in the other eye strengthen and we have to do what the doctor called "pencil pushups". Meaning we have to take a pencil and get her to cross her eyes as much as we can twice a day. The bad news is that in four weeks if her eye muscles haven't strengthened she will most likely have to have eye surgery. The eye patch is just a band-aid made for eye injuries. When the doctor showed these to us I thought there would be no way to get her to wear one for 4 seconds let alone 4 hours! She absouletly hates bandaids. But much to our surprise when we put it on she only tried to take it off twice and today she hasn't touched it at all. I'm going to give Conner credit for this one. During the blessing last night at dinner he prayed for Kaylee and asked that she would wear the patch. Then after dinner he made a homemade eye patch for himself out of toliet paper and tape. He thought it would help her if she wasn't the only one wearing one. He even left it on for about two hours! My children amaze me everyday with the love and kindness they show to Kaylee.

I Spoke Too Soon

Remember me saying on my last post that Brianna is always nice to everyone? Well I guess I was wrong! Tuesday night during Cam's basketball game I got a phone call from a frantic Makell saying that Brianna kicked her in the face and knocked out her front tooth! Her tooth has been loose for a few days but not loose enough to come out. She is now missing both front teeth. I am shocked that any of my children would do such a thing to one of their sibilings! (Not)

Happy Birthday Brianna

Brainna proudly displaying her new cars

She counted them and she got 27! new cars

Brianna claims she is allergic to fire so she was rubbing her eye the whole time we sang "Happy Birthday"

Kaylee enjoying some cake batter

Yesterday was Brianna's sixth birthday. She was so excited for her birthday to come. She has been counting down the days for a month. Makell woke her up at 6:30 to open presents! We got her an art easel, a blanket, new cars, High School Musical 3, a car mat (that still needs painted), shark attack for hot wheels, a barbie (just to keep her a little girlie) and a new shirt. Makell gave her a calendar and Cameron and Conner gave her candy. Brainna is our little comedian of the family. The video of her opening her presents is hilarious and a little long to post. All day she kept saying she had butterflies. When I asked her why she said because we were going to sing to her and so was her class at school. For the last two years we weren't allowed to sing to her and the year before she cried during the whole song! So we are making progress. Everyone knows she loves hot wheels and so everyone that came to her party gave her new cars. She has been playing with them all morning. She even keeps the packaging they come in and pretends they are the cars bathtubs. We are thankful Brianna is a part of our family. She keeps us all laughing all the time. She is kind to everyone and is especially kind to Kaylee. When it's the kids birthdays we let them choose a place to eat out at and Brianna choose Artic Cirle. When I asked her why she said because I know Kaylee will love the new playgound there. We love you Bri!

Kids These Days

I came downstairs the other day and this is what I saw. I thought it was funny and had to take a picture.

Enjoying Winter

Makell and Shadow
On President's Day the kids didn't have school so they invited Cody and Baylee to come over and snowmobile. They were outside all day having a lot of fun. The girls pulled Conner around in a sled behind a snowmobile and Cody and Cameron just had fun riding around. After lunch Stan, Kaylee, and myself decided to join them. Brianna hates to ride so we took her up to Grandma's to play with Kynlee. Kaylee on the other hand loves to be outside and riding on the snowmobile. We took them up on the hill sledding but I think they enjoyed just riding around more. It was a really nice day and some faces even got a little sunburned/windburned!

That's What Parents Are For

I am forbidden from posting pictures of Cameron on my blog......but I think that part of the job description of being a parent of teenager is to embarrass them as much as possible. Cameron made the 8th grade basketball team this year. He practices 2 hours three times a week and has two games each week. Needless to say I do a lot of driving him around! He really likes his coach and has fun with his team. On game days he has to wear dress clothes to school so I was trying to take a picture of him dressed up and then I wanted some of him at his game tonight but he wouln't cooperate saying that I would just post them on my "stupid" blog. Stan decided he would intervene and help me out by holding him down for the picture. He also told him he was going to stand under the basket tonight at the game taking pictures! Can anyone see Stan doing that? Cameron didn't believe him for a second. I am going to get some pictures of him playing sometime. I may even video him!

Hepatitis??Gingivitis??

No, that is not an actual picture of Kaylee's throat but the doctor did say her throat was all swollen, red, and had pus on it...yuck! Sunday morning she woke up with a fever and continued running one all day and into Monday so we took her to the doctor. They checked for strep, ($60.00 test by the way) ruled that out, diagnosed tonsillitis, and gave her a prescription. What I was wondering is if they were going to give her the prescription anyway why the strep test? I think doctors just assume everyone has amazing insurance that will cover all kinds of things. They gave her zithromax and she is all better now. She didn't eat much or drink much for two days so she made up for it yesterday....I think that's all she did was eat and drink. Cameron thought I told him she had had hepatitis and then he thought it was gingivitis. It was kinda funny! Makell stayed home sick from school today because of a sore throat but amazingly she was better about 15 minutes after the bus came. It really is amazing how that happens somedays!