Sunday, October 6, 2013
Navy Ball 2013
Every year there we attend the Navy Ball. With the shut down the Ball was in jeopardy of not happening but since tickets had been sold and reservations made it went on as scheduled. This is our one big night out every year without the kids. (They did great staying with grandma!)
Froggie's First Parade
Saturday was a day packed with things to do. October is always our busiest month and we typically have something (or multiple things) going on each weekend. This year is no different and we kicked off the month with Homecoming festivities, a fall festival, military ball and a birthday dinner.
I think I've mentioned before that we live in a college town and it just so happened to be homecoming weekend. Hubby and I are both Alumni of the school and I've been attending homecoming parades since I was a little kid so we continue the tradition and head out to watch the parade and participate in the festivities. We met up with some of my familyat the parade route and ran onto some people I hadn't seen in awhile.
This year the parade was an hour earlier but was still as packed as it's every been. Big Brother and Froggie got to watch and collect candy as it was thrown. Froggie did great for her first parade and was completely unfazed by the loud noises. After the parade we walked down the street to campus to see what was going on. Big Brother got some goodies, including a tattoo, and we all snagged a quick lunch before heading out to a fall festival. We walked around for a bit and I got some cute hair clips for Froggie and Big Brother got some sweets.
It was a nice start to our day and we were able to get home and relax a little before getting ready for the Navy Ball.
I think I've mentioned before that we live in a college town and it just so happened to be homecoming weekend. Hubby and I are both Alumni of the school and I've been attending homecoming parades since I was a little kid so we continue the tradition and head out to watch the parade and participate in the festivities. We met up with some of my familyat the parade route and ran onto some people I hadn't seen in awhile.
This year the parade was an hour earlier but was still as packed as it's every been. Big Brother and Froggie got to watch and collect candy as it was thrown. Froggie did great for her first parade and was completely unfazed by the loud noises. After the parade we walked down the street to campus to see what was going on. Big Brother got some goodies, including a tattoo, and we all snagged a quick lunch before heading out to a fall festival. We walked around for a bit and I got some cute hair clips for Froggie and Big Brother got some sweets.
It was a nice start to our day and we were able to get home and relax a little before getting ready for the Navy Ball.
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| Hubby and Big Brother |
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| Watching the parade |
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| Fire truck! |
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| Family picture |
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| Froggie and I |
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| Hubby and Froggie |
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| Baby's need to eat everywhere! |
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| Big Brother showing Froggie his tattoo |
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| Getting a ride with Hubby |
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| Fall festival |
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| Fall festival |
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| Fall festival |
Friday, October 4, 2013
Curls Sans Heat
Well tomorrow is the Navy Ball... Yes, amidst the shutdown we are attending a party. Every year the Navy has a Birthday Ball in October (the Navy's birthday is October 13th in case you were curious) and this year it was in jeopardy but things like this are planned WAY in advance so... tomorrow we will be getting all dressed up after our morning activities and will head out.
The Ball is really our big adult only night of the year. Unfortunately I don't really "do" my hair and my go to people for help with that are all busy or not around... SO I'm going to try curling my hair without the use of a curling iron or flat iron and just wrap my hair all up and see how it turns out...
It looks a little funny and I'm not sure that my headband is tight enough to keep my hair in so I wrapped a bandana over top to keep it tight. There is also a TON of hair spray in my hair right now! If this works it may be a new go to in my hair styling tool box since it took about as long as straightening my hair and I didn't have to blow dry it either.
According to the several blogs I saw posting about this hair style the curls will last "all day". My hair doesn't normally take curls well so we'll see how it goes. Off to bed I go with my funny looking hair!
The Ball is really our big adult only night of the year. Unfortunately I don't really "do" my hair and my go to people for help with that are all busy or not around... SO I'm going to try curling my hair without the use of a curling iron or flat iron and just wrap my hair all up and see how it turns out...
It looks a little funny and I'm not sure that my headband is tight enough to keep my hair in so I wrapped a bandana over top to keep it tight. There is also a TON of hair spray in my hair right now! If this works it may be a new go to in my hair styling tool box since it took about as long as straightening my hair and I didn't have to blow dry it either.
According to the several blogs I saw posting about this hair style the curls will last "all day". My hair doesn't normally take curls well so we'll see how it goes. Off to bed I go with my funny looking hair!
Thursday, October 3, 2013
UPDATE: Froggie's Hips
So, I know you've all been waiting all day to hear how Froggie's appointment went.
We got moving a little early and dropped Big Brother off at school. He's always a little thrown off when he gets dropped off alone since we go in as a family every day. Hubby stayed in the car with Froggie since she had fallen asleep and we headed to her appointment from there.
Traffic was not as bad as I thought it would be (read as we didn't get stuck behind as many buses as I thought we would) so we sat in the parking lot and talked while we drank our coffee for a few minutes. It was nice since Hubby and I don't get a lot of time to talk without the kids around. We will be going out in formal attire this weekend, but that's for a later blog.
We got in and were quickly sent back to radiology. The ladies there were very nice and were exceptionally tolerant of Froggie's melt down. She has become very uncooperative for people she doesn't see very often and even though we have the same staff every time we go to Shriner's she was not happy to see any of them today.
We got through the X-ray and there was a marker in the wrong spot. It didn't obstruct the view of the joint space, which is what Froggie's doctor wanted to look at, but they needed to check with the doctor before they sent us back to the main waiting room. Once they tracked down Froggie's doctor he said the image was readable and we were sent back to the waiting room.
Froggie got to eat her oatmeal and watch the bubble wall while we waited. She really seemed to like the bubble wall and she REALLY likes being able to move herself around.
We got moving a little early and dropped Big Brother off at school. He's always a little thrown off when he gets dropped off alone since we go in as a family every day. Hubby stayed in the car with Froggie since she had fallen asleep and we headed to her appointment from there.
Traffic was not as bad as I thought it would be (read as we didn't get stuck behind as many buses as I thought we would) so we sat in the parking lot and talked while we drank our coffee for a few minutes. It was nice since Hubby and I don't get a lot of time to talk without the kids around. We will be going out in formal attire this weekend, but that's for a later blog.
We got in and were quickly sent back to radiology. The ladies there were very nice and were exceptionally tolerant of Froggie's melt down. She has become very uncooperative for people she doesn't see very often and even though we have the same staff every time we go to Shriner's she was not happy to see any of them today.
We got through the X-ray and there was a marker in the wrong spot. It didn't obstruct the view of the joint space, which is what Froggie's doctor wanted to look at, but they needed to check with the doctor before they sent us back to the main waiting room. Once they tracked down Froggie's doctor he said the image was readable and we were sent back to the waiting room.
Froggie got to eat her oatmeal and watch the bubble wall while we waited. She really seemed to like the bubble wall and she REALLY likes being able to move herself around.
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| Bubble wall! |
We were taken back and Froggie weighed in at 16lbs 2oz and she is getting SO big. We were taken back to an exam room where we played with Froggie to keep her entertained. We hadn't ever been in this room and it had dolphins in the lights!
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| In the exam room |
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| Dolphin light! |
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| Hubby making Froggie smile |
Before Froggie's doctor came in the nurse and an intern came in to talk with us and check on Froggie. The intern wanted to do a hip exam on Froggie and she once again went into a melt down. Screaming, tears, batting at anything and anyone.... As soon as I picked her up she patted me and smiled.
Froggie's doctor came in and said that her X-rays looked good and there was a consensus that her hips were stable and still in the proper position. Her treatment is officially considered over and she will have to go back only one more time in 6 months (once she's walking) to have one last X-ray.
On our way out we took Froggie's picture with the Frog statue in front of the hospital. Overall it was a great day!
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| Froggie and the Froggy |
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
LBM Update
The wonderful ladies at Poison Control called me at approximately 7:30pm to check on Addi. She reminded me that if she hadn't thrown up or shown any signs of belly pain that she was in the clear and the LBM wasn't poisonous (or she didn't actually ingest any of it.)!
We were a single car family today since Hubby's car needed to be inspected. While we were waiting to pick up Hubby once I was done with work I took the kids to the zoo. It was in the 70's again and it was another beautiful day. They have been setting up for the zoo's Halloween festivities and some areas of the zoo are closed off for setting up but Big Brother and Froggie still had fun. We tried to snap a group picture and it turned out ok.
Tomorrow is the day... we head in bright and early to have a set of x-rays done to determine whether Froggie's time in the Pavlick Harness remedied the issues with her hips! Wish us luck!
We were a single car family today since Hubby's car needed to be inspected. While we were waiting to pick up Hubby once I was done with work I took the kids to the zoo. It was in the 70's again and it was another beautiful day. They have been setting up for the zoo's Halloween festivities and some areas of the zoo are closed off for setting up but Big Brother and Froggie still had fun. We tried to snap a group picture and it turned out ok.
Tomorrow is the day... we head in bright and early to have a set of x-rays done to determine whether Froggie's time in the Pavlick Harness remedied the issues with her hips! Wish us luck!
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| I'll take what I can get from them... |
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Beautiful Weather, Pirate Baseball, LBM's and Government Shut Downs
So I decided to walk the kids to the park furthest from our house so that I could get in some exercise and they could play. It was a nice walk and Froggie fell asleep while Big Brother tried to point me in the direction of the park every couple minutes. Hubby met us there and we enjoyed the park for a little while. I decided that I also wanted to take pictures of the kids.
Big Brother went first and I had to bribe him with the offer of a new cup to get him to participate. Luckily I pulled his camel back bottle out of the cupboard and he doesn't remember the 1 other time he used it so he was really excited about his new water bottle.
Froggie was up and she really liked playing in the grass and trying to eat it. Hubby and I were pulling her hands away from her mouth the entire time and she would crawl a little then sit back up with a handful of grass. At one point she found a mushroom, an LBM to be exact. LBM stands for Little Brown Mushroom and covers any small brown mushroom since they all look the same. This is good and bad. Good because they're common so we were able to find another very close to the one she grabbed to have. Bad because not only did she find a LBM she was chewing on it... LBM's range from harmless to poisonous and after 15 minutes of searching for the type of mushroom on the internet I found a site about LBM's.
After reading a little I decided we should probably take Froggie in to the ER to be checked out since I didn't know which type of LBM she had chewed on and I wasn't sure if she'd actually swallowed any of it since I had nearly gaged her trying to get all the little pieces out of her mouth. Big Brother didn't want to leave the park and, honestly, we were pretty abrupt in our decision to go. Once we got in the car I had Hubby call poison control (I didn't immediately think about poison control for a mushroom, but I'm glad we called).
The woman was really very calm and nice. She was patient when Hubby asked to put her on speaker phone so that I could hear what she had to say. She was very insistent that we didn't need to go to the ER (yet) and that observation would be suitable for the time being. We were instructed to look for vomiting, diarrhea, signs of nausea and abnormal behavior. If we noticed any of these things in the next 24 hours we were directed to contact her doctor/head to the ER.
When we started unloading the car at home Hubby tossed my picked mushroom into the yard (I almost strangled him!) and then started kicking around the grass for it when I explained that we should keep it until we know that she isn't going to have to go to the doctors. I was pretty angry that he hadn't even thought about keeping it until we knew Froggie was ok (it must have been a mom moment) but after asking where he had thrown it from I picked up something of a similar weight and tossed it from the same spot and TADA mushroom found... It's now in it's own little bag in the fridge until about 6:30 tomorrow evening.
Froggie has been fine so far but I will probably still not sleep much tonight since I'll be in observation mode... At least now I have the blog to work on and Pirates baseball to watch while Froggie sleeps in Hubby's lap. The Pirates are in the playoffs for the first time since I was 11 and they're holding strong so far! I wore my Pirates gear to work today and if Hubby didn't have to wear his uniform and I wasn't afraid that Big Brother would ruin his Jersey EVERYONE would have had pirates gear on today. Big Brother did sport his Pirates hat, which is amazing since he rarely wants to wear anything but his Lightening McQueen hat.
Speaking of uniforms... Hubby is still heading into work though some of his civilian co-workers have been sent home. If you weren't aware the federal government shut down today it has... lots of things are closed or have lost funding/priority. If Hubby's school schedule wasn't up in the air before it is now and we're back to waiting to see what's going to happen.
Ok... That's enough for now, I'm off to obsessively stare at Froggie for the rest of the night!
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| Climbing at the playground |
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| My favorite! |
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| Love this little girl! |
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| My cute crawling girl |
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| Chasing my camera |
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| Mushroom Mouth! |
Daddy Day Spa
In our rush to get out the door Monday morning Hubby tried to do Froggie's hair. Before I took over I snapped a few pictures. Hubby actually did fairly well but didn't wrap her hair tie tightly enough and it fell out which is why I took over. He'll have to learn sooner or later!
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| She was so patient with him |
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