Very Busy Week!

This week has been crazy busy! Monday we had the typical after school piano then I went to help my friend Susan work concessions at the girls basketball game. Tuesday was an okay day, not too busy and I canceled Addy's PT since she was cranky and running out of her diaper! I had Wednesday off so I could take Jarika to the hospital for all of her pre-admission paperwork and lab work. Then we went and saw the surgeon. She really feels this surgery will help Jarika out immensely so we are very hopeful! She even convinced Jarika to get a turnabout scooter to get around on after her surgery! Jarika was very against it until she took a spin on it! I'll get pix after the surgery so you can get the full effect! She was also instructed on how to use crutches. The PT took about five minutes with her and agreed that she is obviously a pro at crutches! Poor kid has been on them so many times! I took Addy back to Dr. Pediatrician Wed. afternoon to have her ear re-checked. This ear that is so infected is the one that still has the tube in it! Go figure. Anyway, it was still infected but much improved over Sunday since he could actually see into the middle ear this time! He also wanted to make sure that I called him on Friday if Dr. Tummy hadn't called us for an appointment. Fortunately, Dr. Tummy's office called Thursday and we are going to see him on February 1st!


Thursday night our preschools had a Polar Express Make It & Take It night. I took Addy since technically she is one of preschoolers! She had so much fun watching everybody. We tried to get good pics of her by our little backdrop but she just wanted to crawl away on the slick floor! She made a jingle bell, mitten picture frame, an ornament and some reindeer dust. She kept signing "book" to me all night and I kept telling her that I didn't bring a book. I should have known that all of the kids got a book at the end of their ride! So she came home with "Mooseltoe" as you can see, she LOVED it!


Last night Scott and Jarika went to Miami, Oklahoma to go to a concert that Scott had won tickets to. They saw Jason Michael Carrol. I LOVE his song "Alyssa Lies" if you haven't heard it, it will bring you to tears. The concert was at a casino and Jarika was pretty tickled that when they entered they both were asked if they were drinking for the night and she wasn't carded! It didn't matter anyway since they both wouldn't be drinking but she thought it was pretty funny since she's not even 18 yet! I'm assuming that if Scott had said they were drinking they would have carded her though! They didn't get home until 2 o'clock this morning! Yuck!

We left the house by 8 to get all of the kids to "Breakfast with Santa" at the high school. Cooper's singing group, the Junior Jays were performing at 9 and we had to eat! The kids did some crafts and socialized then we had to whisk away from there at 10 to get the boys to church for their Christmas pageant practice.

They were there until 12 then we headed to Springfield for the Down Syndrome Group of the Ozarks Christmas Party. It started at 11 so we missed lunch but that was okay. The kids sat on Santa's lap and each got a present! Did you know that some of Santa's elves have Down syndrome?? How cool is that??? The boys got remote control cars and Addy got a little Mickey Mouse car that she feels needs to be flung across the room instead of driven! After we left there we went to Cici's pizza for lunch. Once we got home Addy took a way late nap that I am sure I'm really going to mad at myself for letting her take! I'm sure she's gonna be up until midnight! Tomorrow our family is lighting the Advent candle at church then the boys have their pageant tomorrow night. We're really looking forward to it! Can't wait for pics of that! It's freezing cold here and I've decided that it's definitely no fun unless there is snow! We had some flurries on Wednesday that were gorgeous! Addy and I were driving back to Springfield for the doc and she kept signing "snow" it was so cute! It didn't stay around though :( I want snow but no "Snow Day" yet. If we get a snow day we have to make it up on December 23rd!!! I'm hoping not!