Turkey Time

This is just cute, had to include it!

Well it's that time again, turkey decorating time! Every year at least one of my kids has had to decorate a turkey for a family project. I must say that some I have seen up in the hallways are amazing! I'm pretty sure that several of the ones in my end of the building (preschool) definitely had very little input from the four-year-old! Anyway, Avery wanted to decorate his turkey this year to look like Picachu from Pokemon. He plays the games and reads the books all of the time. I don't know much about him, I know bad mommy, but I followed Avery's lead and we went with it! We were to just use things around the house, fortunately for Avery, I do work with little kids so I always have "stuff". Avery wanted to make sure he used pretty much everything we had around! You can never have enough paint, glitter, glue, pom pom balls, balloons and feathers! So here are some shots of our masterpiece!






Avery and Addy were playing with blocks tonight, it was too cute! Avery kept spelling things and putting them in order and Addy would just mess it all up, throw them everywhere and crack up! It was too funny!

Fun with Food!

This contest is about celebrating our families through our FUN with FOOD photos. The winner will receive a $500.00 grocery card for a grocery chain in their area. Who couldn't use a $500 grocery card the rate prices are soaring! I know our family of 6 could go through it in nothing flat!

This is Addy when she first tasted icing! No it wasn't her first birthday, it was her first GOTCHA DAY! She didn't even touch food at her first birthday but nine months later, she thought it was okay!

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Happy Birthday Papa!

Today is my dad's birthday. I miss him so much. My kids miss their Papa. Happy Birthday Daddy, we love and miss you so much!

Doctor Update

I took Addysen to see Dr. Ford, her surgeon yesterday. I was too caught up in the election to post last night!
Anyway, he checked out her button and does continue to feel that this issue is not hurting her, just an inconvenience. Since it appears that a lot of the problem is acid burn from stomach leakage, he discontinued her nighttime feedings! I'm very happy about this! Yeah!!! She does leak a little at night since she is usually laying on her tummy or side.So now we can wear jammies with feet! Not that she will ever wear jammies with feet because she is so hot natured, but she could! So now we are doing four bolus feeds a day, and we added two ounces to her daily total. This will hopefully help some with her bowel issues. He checked her back side and she does have some scarring in there that may also be hindering her a little bit too. So we go back in a month and if things aren't any better we will have to do some dilations a little bit longer. Not a big deal, I just hate putting her through that even though it doesn't seem to bother her one little bit!

Yesterday morning Scott caught Addy playing in the sunshine. She loves to wiggle her toes and make shadows, she starts cracking up, I must get it on video. So here she is playing with those beautiful sun rays that are going to be hiding the next few days! At least now she can wear some more of her darling fall clothes again! She's barely made a dent in them, we are still dressing for July here!


I must brag on Avery Jacob today. I called his teacher to have her remind him that it was church day and he needed to ride the bus to church. She told me that he did a very good deed today. She said that there is a boy in Avery's class that is a very anxious child and was having difficulty taking AR tests (Accelerated Reader). If you don't know what that is, children read books and then take a comprehension test on the computer about the book. Each child has a personal goal set for them by their teacher according to their reading ability. They have to get so many points to reach the goal. She asked the class if someone would be willing to help this little guy get some points toward his goal. Avery volunteered! He missed his recess to read with his classmate and help him take the test so he wouldn't be behind! It was no nice to hear my son being described as being very compassionate! Aw, good job son I am so proud of you!

Proud to be an AMERICAN!!!

Reece's Rainbow Angel Tree Project

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Visit http://www.reecesrainbow.org/angeltree2008.htm to view all of the beautiful children in ONE PLACE and to have the opportunity to sponsor these children in honor of family members, friends, or coworkers!

The Angel Tree is Reece's Rainbow's largest fundraiser of the year and there's a great reason why. For each donation of $35 or more to any one child you will be mailed a beautiful ornament with your sponsored child's photo on it. These ornaments are the perfect gift for teachers, coworkers, friends, family, and all those hard-to-buy-for people. Not only do they receive a keepsake, but the knowledge that their gift went toward a wonderful cause- helping an orphan to come HOME.

The children shown on the Angel Tree page are all UNMATCHED children who do not yet have a family (but as the tree continues children will be marked 'matched' as their families find them and commit to their adoption!). Also, it's important to note that every dollar that you donate to any child goes directly to their sponsorship! Paypal, ornament costs and shipping are all paid for by Reece's Rainbow and are not deducted from your donation. Reece's Rainbow is glad to say that every penny goes toward that child's grant fund in hopes that they will soon have a "forever family" commit to their adoption and bring them home.

The Angel Tree Project runs from November 1st-December 31st and all donations made by December 15th will receive an ornament gift (donations after this date will still be shown on the Angel Tree page but will not receive an ornament). We welcome international donors and we will also ship the ornaments internationally!

In addition to the Angel Tree Project, Reece's Rainbow is happy to offer you a free 12 month calendar that you can download and include with your ornament as an additional gift this Christmas. Each month features a different "currently" available child (we hope that by the end of the year the calendar has all MATCHED children on it!) and is available in two formats. The first is 12cm and when printed is the size of a CD case. This is a great office calendar size and perfect for gift-giving :) The second is a .jpg format which can be printed in many different sizes or used in documents each month if you want to distribute them monthly. A HUGE THANK YOU to Lu that donated her time and talents to make this calendar!

These children are precious gifts that deserve a family! Please help find a way to get them home! I have sponsored Liza and hope that her mommy can commit to her soon. I so wish it was me, but I don't think that is God's path right now, but I still have hope!

Obama!! Yes We Can!

Waiting in a very LONG LONG line!

Our family headed to Springfield last night to see Barack Obama!! We had VIP passes so we were really close, but to the side since we had Addy's stroller. There were over 40,000 people in attendance! We went with my sister-in-law, Jill and my nieces, Laura and Liz and her sister, Cori (who I consider my SIL and her son Jacob). We got the VIP passes since Jill's mom, Nancy Hagan, is running for State Representative for the 135th District! We Fancy Nancy! I say that's pretty amazing since apparently there are no democrats in Southwest Missouri! Sarah Palin was at Bass Pro last week and didn't have half of the crowd! Cori and her older son, Tyeler got to shake Obama's hand! Pretty cool considering it was also Cori's birthday! Anyway, I am so glad that we went and we got to hear such an awesome plan for our country! Please everybody go out and VOTE!

Our next governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon! Avery loves him so he got on Daddy's shoulders so he could see him better.

Here they come! His girls are darling!

I wish this picture was clearer! They boys really enjoyed chanting "YES WE CAN!""

Can you believe that this picture was taken about 11 p.m.! Our kids did so well considering it was such a long night!