THE MOST EXPENSIVE PIMPLE!

Sorry for the gross story today!

Madalyn was complaining Sunday that her ear was hurting. She had been swimming, had water in her ears, and decided to be like mommy and use a q tip to get the water out of her ear. I was sitting right with her as she was doing this---usually this consists of mainly wiping the q tip around the outside of her ear, nothing too serious!

She started crying!!! I asked her what was wrong, of course and I got a "MY EAR HURTS REALLY BAD!" So Mark and I immediately start to think that she put the q tip too far into her ear. So we got the flash light out and started looking in there. We saw a blob of something. Unsure of what it was, I proceeded with a q tip to see if I could get the blob out.

BIG MISTAKE!

She started crying and screaming again saying how bad it hurt. Too my surprise there was ooze and blood on the q tip! I was scared about what I could have done to her! We looked more and Mark seemed to think it was just a zit that one of us had popped as we were looking around in there.

So later last night we decided to look again before heading to the doctor today---still the same--big blob and a little ooze and blood.

So Monday morning off to the doctor we go----he looked and yes it was a PIMPLE! He said that as one of us had pulled on the back of the ear to look closer in there, the pimple must have popped, and that is what caused the ooze and bleeding.

It must have been one of those under the skin pimples that just hurts because she was in some serious pain!

So needless to say, I think we may have hit the most expensive pimple in the books!

THE BELLY!

What a difference 8 weeks makes!

The first picture is 18 weeks and the second is 26 weeks.

It is REALLY sticking out now!

Madalyn likes to rub it and starts chanting "Rub the lucky belly."

Loraly just gets upset because she doesn't quite fit into my lap anymore.

If they only knew how much BIGGER it really is going to get in the next 13 1/2 weeks!

26 weeks pregnant...and Blast Off

I had my doctor's appointment today. I am 26 weeks along and have gained 16 pounds all together (5 in the last month). Not much to report, I will have another ultrasound done in 2 weeks to check my low lying placenta. The baby's heartbeat was higher than it has been but of course I had my glucose testing today so she was probably having a sugar rush.
Hopefully more to talk about in 2 weeks after the ultrasound.

Also last night we had "Blast Off" at Madalyn's school. We got to meet her 1st grade teacher, get her desk set up, and filled out lots of paperwork. Her teacher is super nice but poor Madalyn couldn't pronounce her name. I tried to take a picture of Madalyn and her but the camera didn't want to cooperate. So we will try again Tuesday morning on the first day of school.

How is Sophie going to get out of Mommy's tummy?

This is a picture of Mark and Madalyn when she was 2 days old while we were still in the hospital.

This is the question that Madalyn, our six and a half year old asked me tonight. She is really curious about why I go to the doctor every month, what the doctor does, and when he is going to get Sophie out.

So I was putting her to bed tonight and she said she had figured it out! She said that the doctor was going to cut me open and get Sophie out. So I figured this was a good time to have a talk... I told her that cutting me open was ONE way to get the baby out. So we talked some more and she just looked at me the rest of the conversation. She didn't ask anymore questions and I didn't offer anymore answers. I am sure her little mind will start wondering and more questions will be coming...

Last trip before 1st grade!

A few pictures of the girls at the Alamo.

First we have decided that it is really hard to take 2 kids to the Alamo and river walk. Second the reason we went was because Madalyn has been asking for quite a while to see the Alamo. I think we may stick to the beach for the next few family vacations especially with the baby coming!

We had a great time---despite the rain on Thursday from Hurricane Erin!

Friday we did Fiesta Texas, the river walk, and the Alamo. We had plans to watch High School Musical 2 in the hotel that night but our hotel had every channel but the Disney channel.

Saturday (today) we headed home, stopped in San Marcos at the outlet mall, and Cabela's.

AND WE ARE HOME NOW!!!

Now it is time to start getting to bed early, finish up a little school shopping, and making sure everything is ready for 1st grade!

A special gift...giving and receiving

Paul gave Madalyn this rainbow/sunshine craft he made at church probably around the age of 3 1/2. It has a bible verse on it that says: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. Gen. 9:13

For Christmas this last year, Madalyn decided she wanted to make a Build A Bear wearing Jeff Gordon clothes for Paul. Mark and I took her there up to Dallas to Build A Bear, we made a very special wish on the heart that you put in the bear, and then she gave it to Paul for Christmas.

Well today Madalyn received a very special gift. Leigh and Terrell, Paul's parents, decided that they wanted to give this bear back to Madalyn so she could have something to remember him by, something to love on when she is missing Paul, and something to always remember the friendship they shared. For being so young, they had one of the best friendships I have ever witnessed.

I am glad that when I was 18 my parents moved across the street from Leigh and Terrell, I am glad that we got to know them when sweet tiny baby Jack was born, I am glad that when Terrell told my mom and I that they were going to be having Paul that I got to tell them that I was going to be having Madalyn, and I am glad that my mom and Leigh started mini play dates with Madalyn and Paul, and I am glad that Madalyn and Paul had such a wonderful bond between them that grew and grew. They would always tell Mark and I that they were going to get married one day; and let me tell you as the father of a little girl that was not easy for Mark to hear! I would have loved for that day to have come!

What a wonderful 4 1/2 years they got to spend together on this earth...

Missing Normal Life...

Well as of Saturday evening, Madalyn spent the night with my parents, Sunday night Loraly decided she wanted to spend the night with them. And tonight they are both spending the night with my sister. I miss them and am ready to get back to a regular scheduled life where my girls are here with me all the time. I know they are having a great time, especially with my sister's new kittens (6 of them) but I miss their sweet laughter, their hugs, kisses, and wanting to sleep in my bed and telling Daddy he has to sleep on the couch or their bed.
This morning when Madalyn and I woke up together she started the missing theme----she loves to makes friends and family pictures. So she decided to draw a picture for my niece. She drew a huge beautiful, shiny star in the middle of the page. She says "this is God's star". She then drew a smaller star on the side and said that one was Paul's star. ----See in her sweet little mind, when someone passes away and goes to heaven, they become a star in the sky so that we can wish upon them at nighttime and so they can watch over us day and night.----So more of the picture, she drew a picture of her next to the star with a space helmet on. And then planets around everything. This is her interpretation of what Paul is seeing as he looks down upon her from heaven.


She gave this drawing to my niece because she said she didn't want Kaitlyn to forget Paul...