Horse love and CPR

Josie has fallen in LOVE....

With a Horse.....

At costco.....

Yes it is cute.....

very BIG....

Stuffed.....

she "could" sit on it.....

will it be under the tree?

HMMMMmmmmmm In a perfect world yes, but in our imperfect world, no. She has been talking about it for 3 days! At least we know she has a good memory right?  At costco on saturday, when i told her to ask santa for it, she told me to get my money out of my purse! So now i am off to find her a small comparison of a horsey....... 

Kids are too funny!  

Speaking of funny, Brendan came into my room on saturday (maybe there was something silly about saturday?) proclaiming he needed to give me CPR! and attempted to give my stomach CPR. After asking him where he learned about it (hello is mother is a nurse and I haven't even mentioned it...) and never getting an answer. I did go over the basics the best a 7 year old can comprehend. 


Of course he continued to challenge me asking about mouth to mouth resuscitation....Whom he could give it to and whom he could not. Strangers are a NO but his friends?? I assured him his 7 year old friends would most likely not need it, but yes if they did....I told him if it is a stranger the best thing he could do what give chest compressions between their "breasts" 


So hope I do not get a call from school that he is practicing......

Sneak Peak

Here is a little sneak peak of the fun FREE stuff I got from briare.claire.etsy! Can you believe I won something? I almost never win anything! That includes wedding/baby shower games, raffles, nothing. So it was such a great surprise to win one of Mckmama's contests here.  Ok, so I am seriously impressed i just figured out how to "link" you to the contest...(((pat on back))) . 

I got to choose a BUNCH of fun stuff. some for gifts, some for us, some for Mckmama's pediatric cancer hat collection. And I still have money left over! woohoo.

cute orange head band!

Seriously....so cute! silly face and all!

and of course i could not resist to post a picture of josie in an outfit that i think Mckmama would approve of....

Not the  best pic, but polkadot footless tights & limey green shrug? what is not to love?

10 Beauties....

Not so long ago, my baby girl had hands shaped like mittens, only one small little thumb free to explore the world

(josies hand prints about a week after birth)

Believe it or not, she figured out how to palm just about anything, infact she still can, kinda like spidey....

Then when Josie was 1 she stared having hand surgeries to seperate her fingers. Now we always knew Josies fingers would and will never function like yours and ours....She has NO Joints, so her fingers do not bed, only at the knuckle. We traveled all the way to Kentucky to have the very best hand surgeon we could find. You can find him here: www.kleinertkutz.com. His name is Dr. Luis Scheker and he performs miracles

It took 3 surgeries to separate her fingers, 1 to straighten her index fingers, 9 weeks of casts to give us the precious ability to hold her hand, to be able to feel her stroke our faces, to intertwine our fingers and it is awesome. Still every time she rubs my arms or holds my hands I get the chills. 

We never doubted our choice in going to Dr. Scheker, and this is proof why. We have seen and met many kids with apert syndrome and seen all types of hands. We are so very lucky that Josie's hands (which had a lot of bone fusion and no promise of 5 fingers) are so AWESOME.

How can you not smile when she brings home her "han-ints" from preschool??
She is so proud her work, and she does not even understand why she should be so proud! So precious and so innocent. So thankful we have such great doctors!!

Josie is just so thankful she can change her babies "oppey diaper" Is she amazing or what??

The reason for hair dye....

On our recent weekend trip to my cousin danielles wedding, i earned at least 100 more grey hairs! We traveled to Indiana and stayed in a hotel (which by the way was the highlight to the kids weekend). For some reason my kids LOVE hotels. And I mean LOVE, when we pulled into the parking lot, Josie was clapping and chanting "hotel hotel hotel".

Boy did I feel sorry for the other people on our floor, our kids are not exactly quiet... Not only did we stay there, so did all my kids grandparents, greatgrandma & aunt and uncle. So my kids thought this was free rain to run around from room to room.

Onto the big grey hair event.....Us girls decided to walk to the store next to the hotel. On the way back, Brendan who was hanging with the papa's and daddy was looking out the window and waving to us...Then he crawled up onto the window ledge/sill/airconditioner.....Then he tried to unlock and pull up to open the window......You can imagine our fear (no screens, 6th floor--you can do the math).

As you can imagine a whole lotta screaming took place, fumbling for our cell phones, fumbling to dial our cell phones, rushing up the elevator, then a bit of mommy scolding. Seriously I think he took 10 years off my life. I never imagined that hotel windows would open like a regular window, or would not have a screen?? Yes, my darling husband did remind me they only opened a few inches...but you never know. What if the window just fell out of the wall. Yes a bit far fetched, but I tell you the worrying us moms have to do is exhausting!!

How could you not love him??