What a week!

Sunday evening began our 2 weeks and 5 days without Fred home. Unfortunately he has business in London, England and will miss him terribly. The week went well. My only complaint is Lily's sleep patterns, or lack there of. No rhyme or reason as to why she sleeps some nights and doesn't other nights. All I know is that I could use a good 8 hours straight.
Dawn and I headed down to the social security office today after our morning walk with the girls. Glad we were together, as the girls entertained each other and everyone else in the office while we waited. Since Grace and Lily's ss cards never came we had to go down to the local ss office and reapply. Here is a picture of the girls applying for their cards....






Yesterday I decided it was time for Lily to have some outside toys. The weather has been beautiful and the only thing she had to play on outside was Mason's green machine. So, I went and bought her a cozy coupe car. It about kicked my butt putting it together but I conquered the assembly process and she is now proud owner of her own car. She loves it, as you can see.
From there we came inside and she decided she would go in the dog's crate and hang out with Lucy for awhile. She has never done this before. So funny...
Still waiting to hear back from the surgeon's office on the scheduling of Lily's surgery. Hopefully we will hear back by the end of next week. I am sooooooo not looking forward to this!

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Doctors & Portraits...don't seem to go together?!?

Well after 10 days of antibiotics, Lily's ear infection had not cleared up. So, yesterday after a morning at the Lazy 5 Ranch to celebrate Grace's 2nd birthday, we headed back to the doctor. Now she has an infection in both ears and to top that off as the doctor began to look in the previous ear that was infected, which now had pus coming out, her eardrum ruptured. Oh yes, blood came flowing out of her ear and she was screaming her lungs out. Poor baby.... They decided to give her a shot of antibiotics since she was non responsive to the last go round and I am assuming because of the extent of the ear infection. We went back in today for her second shot. I sure hope this clears her ears up this time! And oh yeah, the ulcer that the PA said she had on the last visit was not an ulcer at all but what I suspected in the first place....Lily's first molar finally popped through.
This morning Dawn and I went and had pictures of the girls taken together. Needless to say that is a task in itself. A two year old and a 16 month old (with a ruptured ear drum) that want to play with everything in the room and not sit for a picture. However, the photographer managed to get some pictures. Here are some of my favs...

Another Day, Another Doctor....

The kids first week back at school went great. They are meeting new friends and getting into a new routine. Lily had her eye appointment on Friday. It was brutal, but all checked out fine. The original diagnosis of her eye lashes turning in (I won't bother with the correct medial term) was not even an issue. The doctor did not see where they did that at all. This was a condition listed in her file when we received it from our agency. We ended up at her pediatrician the same day because she had clawed the inside of her ear up pretty bad. Of course, another ear infection! What to do.... she is back on antibiotics for 10 days. She also has a ulcer on her gum and an alergic reaction around her mouth from the impression that was done at the orthodontist. She such a trooper though and I am so honored that God has trusted us with her. I am proud to call her my daughter.

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