Back Surgery Tomorrow

(Not actually Seth's back MRI.)

Seth will be having surgery tomorrow morning, a microdisecktomy. We are hoping this will take away the pain and finally be the correction to his back pain. We have to be at the hospital tomorrow at 6 and his surgery is scheduled for around 7am. He should get to go home the same day. On the scale of back surgeries, this is on the minor side, but it is still back surgery. He is taking two Sundays off preaching. My mom is coming down to take care of Charlie and Macy while we are at the hospital and the church has scheduled a few days of meals for us already-which we are looking forward to! Please pray for Seth and the doctor and that his pain will be gone. I will update again sometime tomorrow and let you guys know how it went!

Paul, Kim, Addi, Levi and Lila Visit

My brother and his family were able to come for a visit today! The kids sure had a great time together. We have a fun day of lunch together, lots of playing, feeding the ducks, a walk to the park and dinner at Babe's Chicken. We are sure they glad they drove all the way out here from Alabama, one of these days we will make it out to see them. Here are some pictures of the day!

There goes the mother of the year award...

I have blogged before about my hair falling out. I knew it was annoying, but didn't think it would cause harm to one of my kids. I was changing Emma's diaper this morning and happened to see her toes (she was wearing footed pants) and there was a hair TIGHTLY wound on two of her toes and then together. I tried to cut it off myself, but her toes were so swollen and the hair was tight, there was no way I was going to get it off. So I called Seth and told him what was going on and he said he would come home. I called the doctor's office while he was coming home to see what I should do and they just told me to bring her in. Seth tried to get it off, but her toes were cut on underneath from the hair, we decided it would be better for the doctor's office to get it off. Thankfully Seth was able to stay with Macy and Charlie and Emma and I hurried to the doctor. They worked at it for a little bit and the nurse was 95% sure she got it all off. They said the swelling should go down later today. Here is a picture a while after coming home from the doctor's, can you guess which two toes they were?

So now I feel horrible, she had fussed a little bit earlier this morning when I touched her foot before I knew what had happened, and I thought maybe I had pinched her or something. The hair has had to be wrapped on her toes for at least a few hours. The nurse tried to make me feel better and said this happens alot and that it looked like I caught it relatively early. Sorry Emma!

Father and Son Picture

Happy Birthday Macy!

Has it been 4 years already??! We celebrated Macy's big day on Saturday with a small family party with both sets of grandparents. Macy was VERY excited the entire day! She wanted a Strawberry Shortcake party this year and specially requested pink punch for some reason, but I happily obliged and we had a nice afternoon all together.

Proudly displaying her new age at breakfast: Seth's parents were there also, but I only managed to get a picture with my parents, I wasn't thinking: Macy with her gifts! She saw her gift bags in the morning and was excited about them and I was kidding her and told her we got potatoes so the first thing she said with suprise when she opened our gifts was "Mom! It isn't potoatoes!": The birthday girl with a gift from Grammy and Pa-pa: Opening another (Doesn't Seth look thrilled!): A life size Barbie from Grandma and Grandpa:Blowing out the candles!:

Happy Birthday Macy! We love you!

The first day of bible class proves to be exhausting for Emma...

I am teaching the cradle roll class at church and we have service first and then class and Emma normally sleeps during class since that is normally her nap time. However today, she wasn't asleep when class started, so I just decided to put her in the table so she could participate. I wasn't expecting this to be her first day of class, so I didn't have my camera, but Thanks to Catherine, we were able to get this picture of her to document her big day! She stayed awake for about 15 minutes and then put her head down and she was out for the rest of class. Hopefully this isn't an indication of what kind of student she will be in the future.

Happy Bye-Bye Paci Day!

Today was a big day for Charlie! He said so long to his much loved pacifiers. We did this same thing for Macy when it was her "bye-bye paci day". First, I made cupcakes during nap time and then we all decorated them together. Afterwards we tied his pacifiers to balloons and all went outside to watch Charlie set them free. He did not want to let them go. He stood there for a few minutes just holding onto it. Finally, Daddy had to help him let them go since it was really windy and one of the balloons was deflating, we didn't know if the others would last much longer. Charlie was not thrilled with him helping him let the balloons go. Off they go... This is my favorite picture from the day; his reaction to seeing his pacis float off. But then we went inside to enjoy our cupcakes and all was well. Way to go Charlie! He cried for about 30 seconds when they were floating off and has asked a couple times about them, but then talks about them going "high". Overall he has done really good and is happily in bed.

Poor Emma...

We're Still Here

I know I haven't updated the blog in a long time, so I thought I would just do a quick update:

1. Thursday will be "Bye Bye Paci Day" for Charlie. I am sure I will post an update about that on Thursday.

2. I just went to the put the kids to bed and their room reeked like pepper. So I asked Macy why it did and she said "Because I poured a bunch behind my kitchen." I looked back behind her play kitchen and there was a mountain of pepper.. ugh.

3. Emma still continues to be an easy baby thankfully. She is chewing on my arm at the moment while I am typing this. She does a great job sleeping and eating and I am about to stretch her feeding schedule out to 4 hours, so then she will be going 12 hours at night! Yeay!

4. Seth's back/leg continues to hurt. For those of you that don't know, it has been bugging him for about 6 months and it seems like surgery is the only option left.

5. We bought at picture wall system at Michaels yesterday for 50% off. It is a thing where you hang a template on the wall that shows you where to hang the frames in the kit, so they look nicely put together. So now I just need to find a bunch of pictures to fill them, so we can hang it up.

6. My hair is falling out. After each baby it has done this, I am definitely not as worried as I was when it happened with Macy; I swore I was going bald, but now I know it will grow back, it is just annoying.

Those are all the things I can think of now! And since no post should be without a picture, here is one of the older pictures on my computer of Seth and Macy taken by Judson at OC. I love how Macy's hair use to stand straight up!

3 Months

I know this post is a couple days late, I have had the flu, but I feel better now. Anyways, I say this every time, but it has flown by! She really has been an easy baby and for the last few weeks is going 9 1/2 hours at night. She likes to suck her thumb when she is sleeping, Charlie and Macy never did. She also enjoys playing/talking with Macy and Charlie and her favorite thing is when I am putting Macy and Charlie to bed and we all read a story and sing a song. She enjoys the kids and my singing, however off key it is. This is my favorite baby age; from when they are sleeping through the night to before they start moving all over the place and getting in to everything. Happy 3 months Emma!