Sharing the Good News

Yesterday afternoon, my Mom and I took Hadleigh to the pediatric orthopaedic. Our appointment was at 1:30 and we waited and waited and waited. The Dr. came in and examined Hadleigh and then sent us off for x-rays. She was so good during the entire visit.

Then the x-ray tech set up the x-rays on the screen for the dr. to look at then she left the room. Why did she do that?? Mom and I were going over the x-ray with a fine tooth comb and we had Hadleigh diagnosed with all sorts of stuff when the dr. finally came in.

The dr. said everything looks NORMAL!!! SHE IS FINE!! RELAX!! GIVE HER TIME TO LEARN HOW TO WALK. The average baby walks around 14 months. He couldn't explain why Hadleigh is not using her left leg when crawling but as far as her hips are concerned, the hips look great!!! YAY!!! Such awesome news!! Hadleigh was happy about that!!

Today we went to the neighborhood park and it was crowded!! Definitely spring break around here!!! Rocco (who is usually my shy one) jumped right off the jungle gym and about scared me to death! He thought it was hilarious.

He was climbing all over the place.

Jillian was honing her skills on the monkey bars and can now successfully get all the way across!! Very impressive!!

Hadleigh-boo was trying VERY hard to climb up the slides.

But brother wanted her to go down the slide with him!!! She thought that was pretty cool!!!

They also think it is so cool to go up the slide (anything to break the rules, right???). They went up and down about 100x and just thought it was so funny.

I am so glad we are having a restful Spring Break. I am feeling better and less stressed!! Last night, I was cleaning out drawers and giving things to Goodwill and I like getting little projects like that done!!

That Boy is Mine!!

Our Spring Break is off to an awesme start because Rocco has decided to use the potty!!!!!!!

I thougtht it was a fluke but Rocco has had such a monumental week. That boy of mine has decided he wants to be a big boy and use the potty. He is doing ALL of his business in the potty and sometimes without anybody even asking!!!! What a difference a week makes!!!! We are all soooooooo proud of him!! We got him more underwear and he wanted Thomas!!!

but he said I could NOT take any pictures of him wearing the underwear!! OK!! The only time I have to put a diaper on him is at night. At naptime, he does pretty well (only a couple of accidents)

Now remember that age when your sweet little baby becomes mobile and all of a sudden they are into EVERYTHING???? Yea, Hadleigh just reached that age. Grrr! They get into things you didn't even think possible!!!

She likes Max & Ruby like the other two!!!

What?? Mommy you do not think I should be this close to the TV???

Here are the sisters reading some books!!!!!

Updated

I didn't want to leave ya'll hanging....

Not the news we wanted to hear.

Dr. is worried about her hip. Bryan said the Dr. watched Hadleigh scoot and pull up. The dr. held on to her and guided her to walk. Then took off her diaper and looked at the joints of her hips to her leg. Long story short, Dr. does not think they are symmetrical.

Dr. referred us to an orthopaedic.

Yes, I have been crying. Yes, I will be OK. She brings me such joy. I am glad I have time off to deal with all of this.

Brrrrr!!!

Well, it does not feel like the start of Spring Break!!!! This front brought some chilly weather and some killer wind.

Please say a little prayer for Hadleigh-boo this morning. Her physical therapist recommended we take her back to the doctor because she wants to rule out any physical problems with her left leg. She is still not using it (her left leg) when scooting across the floor. Also when she pulls herself to a standing position, she stands with her feet out (very duck-toed). The therapist thought wearing shoes would naturally correct this problem but it hasn't improved it at all.

So Bryan is taking her to the doc this morning and I am praying we get some good news that she is developing normally. Hopefully, this can all be fixed with some hard work at therapy.

I have 8 hours of school and then I have some freedom!!! I am counting down the minutes!!!

Rocco's Potty Humor

As we are approaching Rocco's 3 year 2 month birthday and
since Rocco still refuses to use the potty
(can you picture me banging my head against the wall??),
I thought I would share his potty humor:

Rocco: (in a very serious voice, with a very serious face) Mommy, where does a toot come from?
Mommy: laughing so hard on the inside and trying to think what to say. Before I can get an answer out....
Rocco: Oh Mommy, I know. I know it does not come out your pee-pee.

Rocco: Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a teacher just like you.
Mommy: heart melting and I literally saw an outloud "Awwww, Rocco."
Rocco: I want to be a teacher so that I can teach my pee-pee to like my big boy underwear.

As I am putting on my make-up before work, I make Rocco sit on a potty for a minute. I know it is a minute because we put on a timer.
Rocco: (Yelling at the top of his lungs) Mommy, going potty is so boring!!
Mommy: Well, maybe if you actually went potty it wouldn't be so boring!!
Rocco: No Mommy, I don't think so!

I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO DO WITH HIM!!!!!!

Here is a Jillian story....

In November, Grammie bought Jillian some new jeans. The girl does not wear any jeans and refused to wear this pair as well. Then Jillian woke up Monday morning and declared to the world that she wanted to wear the pair of jeans. First we had to find them as November was a while ago. Then we found them and she paired it with a cute shirt and a fur vest.

Our neighbor was outside walking the dog and Jillian tells Ms. Anna,
"Miss Anna, look at my new jeans. I am so stinkin' cute. I am so cute I could hit myself."
I have no idea where she gets that!!! ha ha!!

I need this humor this week as school is full of testing and the test books are incorrect and the kids are wild. 3 more days and I get a break!!!!

Beautiful Day

It's a beautiful day

Sky falls, you feel like

It's a beautful day

Don't let it get away

I love me some U2. Saturday was such a gorgeous day!!!! We drove down to Devine to see my Grandma and to see this....

Mom and Dad asked Bill to install a gate on Mom's land that she owns in Devine. He did such a great job (it's not totally finished yet)!!! The wildflowers are just starting to bloom, the sun was shining and I just started clicking away with my camera!!!!! The bluebonnets are just beginning to peek out.

Me and my girl!!!

My handsome boy was having so much fun in the "cun-twee.

Jillian was in heaven with all of those wildflowers!!!!!

Can you tell how happy I am?? It was sooooooooooooo dang beautiful!!!!

He loves her so much!!! Melt my heart!!!!

Poppy was put in charge of the flowers!!!

Mom put the kids in charge of spreading a lot of seeds out!!! They took their job very seriously and were throwing seed everywhere!!!!

THEN Grammie found some deer bones! These boys thought that was the COOLEST thing ever!!! Rocco kept talking about "dem bones" all day!!!

Cousins!!! Working so hard to spread the seeds!!

More cousins!!! They were not so impressed with the "cun-twee" or the wind!

We had such a wonderful day! We took Grandma to the DQ for lunch and ice cream!!

Can you hear U2? It's a beautiful daaay. Don't let it slip away!

Look where we are going??

Shhhhh!!! Don't tell the kids! They have no idea!

Details to follow....