C is for Cookie!

Thanks again to my dad and his military connection he was able to get us tickets to the

USO/Sesame live show. This was such a fun experience for everyone involved. The kids got to sit right up front in all the action. And there was alot of action, non-stop singing and dancing for about an hour. All the characters even came down at times to connect with the kids. The girls absolutely loved it!

Kayla got a special hug from Cookie Monster!!

Rosita

of course ...Elmo and Cookie

Wordful Wednesday - A little lipstick?!

The girls found this lipstick and decided to go to town!!! They did ask me "am I beautiful" of course I replied "absolutely"!!!



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Kennywood Park

We went to Kennywood Park last month courtesy of my Dad. It was military families day and since he is retired Air Force he got us tickets to go. We hadn't been there since the previous year and although the girls had fun last year, this year they had a blast because they could ride more!

Here is Shawn, Kayla, Chloe, and Pap pap waiting to ride the Mouse Bounce. This

is the 1st time the girls ever rode this.

Their Dad told them to keep their arms up. Here they go, up, up...

Here they come down, look at their little faces. Kayla's even keeping her hands up, what a trooper!!

Shawn and Pappap think this is pretty funny!

Whew!!! They are done and believe or not they said they liked it and even rode it again!!

Pappap's girls

Kayla's not really choking Makenna even though it kinda looks that way!!!

Pap pap pretty much let's them do anything they want. Things my sister and I never would have gotten away with, but I guess that's the benefit of being a Grandparent!!!

they are too much...

Can someone please tell them this is for their baby dolls and it's not meant for them!!!! Unbelievable!!

Pneumonia strikes

About a week ago Shawn was complaining of a cold, then by Wednesday he said he had the flu because he was achy. Thursday he came down to tell me he was having trouble taking a deep breath and he wanted to go to the hospital. We first went to Medexpress but after they did a chest x-ray they said he was too sick for them and needed to go to the e.r. He went to the e.r. and they did another chest x-ray along with a breathing treatment. They said it looks like pneumonia and after his breathing treatment he can stay at the hospital or go home. When I talked to him after the breathing treatment he said he wasn't feeling any better. I told him he should just stay at the hospital then. Because if you can't breath why would you come home. Apparently during the night he was trying to get help from someone and no one would help him, he kept asking the nurse to call the doctor but he never came. When the am nurse finally got to his room around 7am they had to call rapid response then he had to be put on a ventilator to breath and he was moved to ICU. I have to get more details on this situation because the rapid response could have been avoided if someone would have checked on him through the night. The ventilator was doing 100% of his breathing and they said his chest x-ray was 100% worse than the night before. He was on a ventilator for 2 very long days. When they took him off his O2 levels were in the 80's and they want them in the 90's so he been on O2 since they took off the ventilator. They dropped the O2 down to 60% yesterday and this morning it's now at 30% so he is improving. His chest x-rays still look really bad but that will take time to improve. They might move him out of ICU today to a step down unit. Hopefully he will be home this weekend, but I'm sure it will take months before he feels totally normal again.
Thank goodness for my mom and dad they took the girls camping this weekend so I could be at the hospital. And thanks to my friends and family that have offered to help out with watching the girls or with whatever else we need. We really appreciate it.

Surfing allowed!

Last week sitting at work one of my co-workers (a guy) suggested we have a contest on who can gain 10 pounds the fastest. Well being in an office of mostly women we all looked at him like he had 3 heads. But he was on to something since we are a little slow (bored) now the suggestions just kept coming.. like who can sit at their desk without a jacket on all day since our office is like the frozen tundra, that would be impossible, denied! Wear clothes inside out, denied. Have a conversation with someone in the office you don't normally talk to, denied. Walk backwards to the restroom, denied...yeah we must be bored! I said no internet for a week we can only check our emails and go online if it's work related. The five of us that were having this conversation agreed! Which I couldn't beleive. We all put in 5bucks and whoever caved 1st would be out. Let me just say it was quite the challenge. I actually had to call information for a phone number instead of google-ing it! I really can't remember what it was like not to surf the internet. I must have been a lot less informed before internet! Well, yesterday was the last day and NOONE caved, needless to say noone won any cash either! mmm...I wonder what our next contest can be! Maybe who can get the most WORK done at work!!!!

Pre-school update!

I'm knocking on wood as soon as I write this, but yesterday went wonderful. I knew as soon as I would post their dislike for school they would change. My mom dropped them off yesterday she said they walked right into the classroom and told my mom to wait outside for them and that was it! Yesterday was RED day so they read Clifford the Big Red Dog and colored a picture of Clifford. They told me they ate strawberries and pretzels and sang songs. I really hope this is a sign of good things to come for them!!!