The Cast Revealed

What a week.

What a last few months.

What a last YEAR we have had in our home?

Do you all remember that we were actually (sorta kinda) living in New York at the beginning of this year? Then we sold our home in Missouri in 2 1/2 weeks in May and we moved to Indiana? Then we started building a house? Oh and we found out we were adopting our son? And, then we had to drive to a far away state to get him and then stay there for 2 1/2 weeks? Then a month later, David's sister got married and we were ALL IN THE WEDDING and so we drove back to Missouri for 2 days? Oh, and do you remember that Little Girl split her mouth open in June on an ottoman? And then a week later busted her eye open on the corner of a roll out cot in a St. Louis hotel?

Oh and then she fractured her collar bone in playland at church nearly 3 weeks ago? And then 2 1/2 short weeks later she falls out of the kitchen chair - ya know, doing something dangerous - sitting on her bottom eating goldfish crackers and loses her balance while being wiggly and BREAKS HER ARM!!

Is it just me or have we had some crazy seasons we've been in lately?

Jimminy Crickets!

This group could use a break. We could use a couple of major holidays to eat and be merry! :-)

Little Girl is doing well. She took pain meds the whole first day that they cast it (and had to re-break it - while asleep) and she hasn't complained much of it since then. My girl is quite the trooper!!

I will admit it was very hard for me to release my small 3 year old daughter to these strangers who were going to come at her with this big scary mask to "put her to sleep" - and I wasn't there to comfort her if she was scared.

Yuck. No fun.

But, it was over quickly and LG was ready to head home pretty quickly afterwards. She did throw up quite a few times on the way home from the anesthesia, but thankfully we had a trusty Dora the Explorer thermal lunch bag to catch the orange juice that the surgery staff gave her.

Orange juice stains go beautifully on a cream cardigan - don't you think?

Now my job is to just try to keep LG from acting too much like the wild woman that she is, but that is a losing battle I believe. Baby Boy just keeps growing and getting cuter by the day if I do say so myself. He is cooing so much and has mellowed out as a baby a ton in these last few weeks. He will be 12 weeks tomorrow. Wow.

Time flies when you are having fun.

Time Flew this past year with all our crazy activity.

Now - I want it to slow down over this upcoming year so I can enjoy every detail of my 2 precious children.

Here's my early new year's resolution:

No Moving, No Building a House, No Moving, No Broken bones, No blood coming out of the face, No major trips, No mounds of adoption paperwork (love the end result - hate the process! :-)) and No job and church changes.

Did I already say NO MOVING?? Forgive me if I did.

Enjoy the pics of the Prince and Princess.