The Heflin Family

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Friday, March 13, 2009

Tuesday night we had Jarika's cheerleading banquet. It was a pretty small affair since the squad started with 20 members and ended with 10. Long story, not going into it. Jarika won the award for: Best Sound Effects. Sounds like a pretty good award for a cheerleader but since it was due to her unbelievably loud hiccups (which has also happened and church and Pastor Gary swore it was an Amen!), her disgusting burps and yes the flatulence. My child, the sound effects girl. For winning this award, she was given a can of Flarp (too funny, a fart in a cup) and a little megaphone that is really annoying. I must say that this has been the worst year in Jarika's cheerleading life that has been ongoing since the age of five. I am so thankful that this season is over and we can put all of the issues in the past and hopefully have an awesome year next year. Her senior year should be the best and I'm truly hoping it is!

Avery's first baseball practice of the spring season was cancelled due to rain on Tuesday but he did have it last night when the wind chill was below freezing. I would have taken pix, but the dedicated mom I am was sitting in her nice warm car reading Beth Moore! Shame on me, I know but there will be more practices when it's much warmer!

Addy had a cardiology check up yesterday. Her doc said that her EKG is improved from four months ago and her echo looked okay since she was screaming the entire time! She is usually an angel there, but she is definitely leary of scrubs since her hospital stay last month! I am happy that things look good and her ASD is so tiny that it won't need surgery. He did think her right side of her aorta, is a little enlarged, but nothing too worry about since it may have just been the angle but he'll check it again in four months. So good news! Her pulse ox was a little low but still above 90 so no alarm there either, thank goodness! I didn't take pix at the appointment since she was so hacked off, but here are the way home pix!

These are just pix of her today because she is so darn cute playing Pat-A-Cake!

Pat a Cake, Pat a Cake

Roll It

Throw it in the pan!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Wordless Wednesday

Monday, March 9, 2009

Weekend stuff

Friday night I took the boys to the Carnival at school. I wasn't about to take Addy into that crowd! The boys had a blast jousting each other and thoroughly enjoyed the slide, too bad my camera stinks and these are the pix I got. Not one of their adorable faces zooming down!

This is one of my favorite kids ever! She is a friend of mine's daughter and she is a hoot! The face painter was amazing, this pic does not do the work justice because there were sparkles all over the girls' faces! My boys aren't into the face painting thing but I at least got pix of L!!

Addy is feeling better, we are still not 100%, her sleeping is still messed up and having the time change has definitely not helped matters! Her g-button is leaking a lot and that's driving me crazy, good thing we go and see the surgeon in a couple of weeks. I'm probably going to ask to have a mic-key put in again. It looks like her skin is reacting to the Bard too so we may just be out of luck with that. Her nurse is going to start oral feedings tomorrow. She has tolerated her 30 minute feedings since Friday night so I think it's okay to re-introduce food. I'm sure Addy will have a much different attitude about it, but that's okay!!
I went shopping with my mom after church yesterday, it was so much fun! We haven't been shopping together in ages! We got Avery new baseball pants and cleats (which are too small so I'm gonna have to exchange them), we got both boys new Cardinal shirts, and we got Jarika a new shirt and necklace from the Buckle. She had a job interview with them today, we are praying really hard that she gets it! She needs a job in the worst way and it's something she would really enjoy. Sonic hasn't been giving her any hours so it's time to look elsewhere! We went into Gymboree and got Addy the cutest Easter dress! She is going to look darling as usual! We even got me some things in a size smaller than before!! Woo hoo! I was pretty stoked about that!

Don't you just love that tongue!

When all else fails, put her in the Jumperoo!

Friday, March 6, 2009

The Girls

Yes Jarika as pink stripes in her hair. Not sure why but they are being removed tomorrow. I guess I'll just blame it on the fact that she is a teenager and it is her job to do something crazy once in awhile! The last pic is of a little ritual that Scott and Addy do. She will hold out her foot while she is in her feeder seat and he will put his gargantuan foot against teeny tiny one and she will push it away. It's so cute, her little foot comes up, she does the Addy "squawk" and he immediately obeys and gives her his foot, it's too cute.We are really working on Addy's expressive communication. Strange that I would want to address that since I work on increasing kids' expressive communication all day, but you know! Anyway, one of the things we are really trying to get her to do is to say "no", shake her head "no", sign "no" or "stop". Addy prefers to just squawk at us. She is doing a lot in these pix, I'll have to get it on video. Her nurse today swears she said "no" plain as day when she told Addy it was time for a nap! I'm so hoping she did!!