FALL FUN!!

The hay ride
The tire swing

Caraline feeding the goat

We had a great Fall break!

The girls & I went to the Parkhurst Pumpkin Patch with some good friends. The kids had a BALL (& the "photo opps" were amazing!) When you go to a cool pumpkin patch with girls who are serious scrapbookers...you end up taking 100's of pictures!

Caraline LOVED the petting zoo! Lydia's favorite part was the hay ride. I loved each smile on my little angels' faces.
Caraline had a hard time deciding on which pumpkin she really wanted. She would carry one around until she found a cooler one. She would DROP the one she had to pick up the other. At one point, she was trying to pick up two!

Saturday was OSU homecoming! My girls love the parade! It is always a fun-filled day.
That day we went to another pumpkin patch in Perry. It was different than any pumpkin patch I had been to. You actually cut your own pumpkin off the vine. It was really cool!

What a great weekend! One that will not be soon forgotten!

"And you will always give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Ephesians 5:20

Caraline's eye surgery

Meeting "Besty" the puppet
Holding my "hospital bear"
Drinking juice after surgery
Do my eyes look red to you?

Scott and I found out that Caraline needed eye surgery in September. Her eyes were turning in even with her glasses on & she didn't want to wear them anymore. Her glasses were "too strong" for her eyes, her eye sight was getting better, but with her eyes still turning in, that meant more of a muscle problem than a vision problem.
Caraline's surgery was the morning of October 7th at Baptist Hospital. We didn't sleep well the night before! We all tossed and turned all night! We had to be at the hospital at 7:15am. Caraline was scheduled for surgery at 8:45am.
Caraline was playing on the chairs in the waiting room & met "Besty" the puppet. (Lydia met "Besty" in May 2007 when she had her eye surgery.)
She sat realy quitely with her hospital gown on as we read books to pass the time. I felt better once I saw Dr. Scott & he said "There's my cross-eyed patient!" We laughed because we sometimes call her our "cross-eyed girl".
Caraline was not real happy when the nurse took her back without us. (With Lydia, they gave her some meds to make her loopy & she didn't care when they came to get her.)
30 minutes later, Dr. Scott came out & said her little muscles were wound tight like Lydia's were. She did great!:)
When we went back to see her, she was a little fussy, but not as bad as Lydia was after her surgery. Caraline really wanted that IV out of her arm!
We were home for 11:30am & Caraline was running around the house like nothing happened! She was hungry & talking away!
Caraline hates her eye drops, but other than that, she is doing great!
Thanks to everyone who prayed for Caraline!

"He renews our hopes & heals our bodies." Psalm 147:3

What every parent wants to know from the teacher...

Every parent wants to know if their child has friends. Every parent prays that their child has friends & knows HOW to be a friend. They want their child to be friendly & well liked.

Today when I picked Lydia up from school, she told me "Ashley said she doesn't like me."

She stated it. She didn't seem upset, she said it every "matter-of-factly".

At first I wanted to tell her teacher, but I thought "What was she going to do? These kids are 3 or 4 years old."

I asked her "What did you say when she said she didn't like you?" Lydia said "I said nothing."

I asked her if she was in her class & she said no, she was in a different class. My heart broke!!

I thought, "This is why I didn't want her in public school!! I wanted to protect her from that."

I cried a little, hoping she didn't see me. Then I said "Well, Ashley just doesn't know you. Once she got to know you, she would like you!" Lydia said "I just played with Annie."

I said, "There will be times that people say things that aren't nice, but you know someone who will always love you & like you..." She said "I know, GOD!" "And me, your dad, sister, your family," I added.

Lydia looked at me & said "I know, thanks for telling me, mom!"

I know that in reality, not everyone is going to like me, Scott, Lydia or Caraline, but God is ALWAYS going to love me & like me. What God thinks about me is more important anyway.

" There are 'friends' who destory each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother."

Proverbs 18:24