We celebrated "Boop's" 2nd birthday on August 14, 2008. We had dinner at the park then came home for cake and presents. I can't believe that my baby is 2! We are still waiting to finalize her adoption. We had our last post-placement visit last week so we are getting close.
"Bean" is a "toe-walker". Her dr. has ordered foot braces to try to correct the problem. This is one of the hazards of walking on your toes. She tripped while running around the play area in the waiting room at the dr's office. She fell and landed face first on the train table. Big black eye and a smushed nose - Ouch!
While celebrating Boop's 2nd birthday at the park, Bean fell off the monkey bars and broke her elbow. Note: This happened the same day as the train table incident.
Bean is quite pleased with her new pink cast, we bought her a princess bracelet that fits on it.
CJ jumped off a ramp while riding scooters with his friends. He landed head first on the gate latch (the big steel bar that slides down into the cement). The boys "took care" of the injury by putting CJ's head under the hose. I found out about this 5 hours after the fact. It definitely could have used a couple of stitches! The good news: He wears his helmet now!
What to say about our little T-bug, she smashed her mouth and knocked out yet another tooth (this makes 3 total). She injures herself for "fun", she loves to hit her head and face on things. We are still unclear exactly how she hurt herself (I was loading kids in the car when it happened). We did a little CSI and followed the "blood pattern" in her room, we think that she was standing up, holding onto something bouncing, as usual, and lost her balance. Miss T maintains her status as a sweet, adorable, delightful, little handful of mystery.
We started the summer with news from my dad in Las Vegas. His Dr. told him that he had a tumor in his left eye (which would require removal and cause blindness)and his chest (which would require very extensive surgery to remove, cracking open his sternum, spreading ribs and at least a week in the hosp. with a chest tube). They said that it was cancer that had metastasized. We quickly made arrangements for him to move in here and have surgery and treatment so that I could care for him. After consulting with the doctors here, it was decided to remove as much of the orbital tumor as possible without causing nerve damage. He had the surgery ("after" photo above) and as it turned out, it was NOT cancer! Not even one "suspicious" cell was identified. He went for a biopsy on the chest mass and... same result. We are so glad that we brought him here and that we didn't let the Dr's. in Vegas crack his chest open and remove his eye! Holy Cow.. you gotta love the Medicare Supplement HMO. My dad stayed with us from mid-May until mid-July, then he went home to resume normal life.
I was adopted in June!! My Dad and I went to court in Las Vegas to finally have his name listed on my birth certificate as my father. It only took us 34 years to get it done. When we got back to Utah, my friend Judy had put this "It's a Girl" banner on my door. I thought it was so cute, we had a lot of curious neighbors asking if we had adopted another baby.
May 28, 2008 - Andrew graduated from High School!! I can't believe that he is all grown up! We all went to the ceremony, Andrew played the piano for the choir. After the graduation we had a party at our house. It was a very fun and exciting day!
