Cassidy's Last Day Of 1rst Grade

Cassidy's last day was Tuesday! It was "Field Day"! They had lot's of races and toss games and dancing! It was so much fun to watch them!!

Brooke's Last Day of the Year!

Today was Brooke's last day of preschool for this year. They blew bubbles, they had a pinata and they played corn hole!! What a day they also had cupcakes, candy and juice!!! It was a WONDERFUL day and I look forward to Brooke being in there next year learning as much as she did this year! She has learned so much and I'm a VERY proud Momma!! A special thanks to Mrs. Call & Mrs. Schmitz for not only their time but patience and hard work, they are truly wonderful ladies!!

*Cassidy has to go one more day next week*

Race Fans

Cassidy is ALL Jimmie Johnson!! She has LOVED the 48 Lowe's car since she was a little thing. She used to say go Lowes...go! It's was so funny! She has stuck right with that 48, I think she is may just be a forever fan. She now also knows it's her Great Aunt Becky's favorite so......she is all 48 fan!! We have molded Brooke into a Dale Jr fan!! She always says it's a junior shirt mom!! LOL

Teacher Gifts

Yeah so I'm one of those people...I love to give gifts to the teachers and bus drivers at the end of the year as a Thank You for not only their time through the school year but the patience and things they do that they don't have to! So I usually just give the gifts I make and have NEVER taken a picture of my creative talent! LOL So this time I took some picture to share with the rest of you!! I hope they like them. Plus last year Cassidy told her teacher "grandma" made it! What a stinker!! LOL

Cassidy's teacher Mrs. Youtzy LOVES Butterfinger - so I made a candy bouquet and of course I had to something with scrapbooking so I made this picture frame in the school colors she can place somewhere in her classroom!


Brooke has a teacher and a teacher's aid so I made them both "photo" cubes with differnt preschool stickers and school colors. Go GREEN & Gold!! Plus I had an awesome smelling candle for them and some dove chocolates!!

We LOVE the zoo!!

So this is the last field trip of the year for the first graders. They had fifteen parents to nineteen kid's, so only four kid's had to pair off. We went to the Toledo Zoo. Forecasters had said it was supposed to be sixty six and rainy. So we headed out and it was chilly. By the time we go to the zoo and started walking around it was begining to warm up and no rain. Hip Hip Hooray!! It was an AWESOME AWESOME day. It was warm but not hot and the sun was shining and we got to see plenty of neat things and take lot's of pictures! It was nice the two of us just set out and went where we wanted and the one on one time was well needed. It was one of the best day's we have gotten to spend just the two of us! It may just have to start a new tradition in our home!! After we got back from the zoo and school we headed off to pick up Brooke over in Indiana, she had had enough trucking and Shawn had four hours of driving to go. It was a shame we drove over picked her up at the outlet mall. So the girl's & I went shopping, I felt so forced!! LOL

Brooke has been back to school two days, that's it!

Brooke started back to school finally on Tuesday, she was so excited to see her friends and teachers. Later that night she started feeling warm. Wednesday she woke up with a slight fever but it was gone by ten so I sent her to school and she did well. We went to meet up with "Angie" who WAS going to watch Brooke while I went on the zoo field trip with Cassidy, yeah was Brooke has another high fever spike on Friday morning so she had to go in the semi and she was not happy, She had woke up at six thirty so excited to go to Angie's! Back to my story......By four on Wednesday she was so whiny and we were out and about running errands. When we got home I felt her and she was on fire 102.5 so it said. So Wednesday after supper we took her to urgent care clinic and the doctor said the fever was 103.1 so needless to say I was very worried. He concluded very quickly that she has a "slight" infection just on her sides of her mouth and her tounge. So back on antibiotics, and they said to follow up with the ENT or pediatrician the next day. So Wednesday night was a LONG night. Shawn left in the semi after we went to urgent care and so I had Brooke the great on my hands. Cassidy went to bed and ((by the way has been back to school since last Thursday and doing WONDERFUL))! Brooke was up until 2 am crying and tossing and turning and burning up! I got up at six thirty put Cassidy on the bus and waited to call the ENT at eight. It felt like forever and so at 8:02 I called I was put on hold over seven minutes and finally told Bridgett my four year old daughter had surgery two weeks ago yesterday and she is running a temp of 103 and the urgent care doctor thinks she may have an infection, the lady sounded off back to me well he is in surgery all week call your pediatrician, I said okay....click she hung up. She must not have yet had her pot of coffee. So then I had to wait until 8:30 to call Dr. Chrissy's office and I called and right away they were so positive as well right away they say I think she is all booked up and I let out a BIG UGH!!! I got an appointment that afternoon. As soon as Dr. Chrissy came in she said you should really have seen the ENT for this not that I don't mind but.........I told her what happened and needless to say no one really wanted to take care of us. So, Dr. Chrissy confirmed yes it looks like an infection and to stay on the antibiotics. WHOA what a time to get to the bottom of a fever!! I tell you what if it's going to happen to anyone it's going to be.................ME!!!! Brooke has had a fever since Tuesday and today Saturday is the first day so far no fever!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Happy Mother's Day

Cassidy & Brooke are feeling BETTER!!

I just wanted to let all of you that read this Cassidy & Brooke are feeling better. Cassidy went back to school a half day yesterday and the whole day today!! She still hurts some when she swallows and if she does to much she get's tired pretty quickly. Brooke is still at home with me! She still talks REALLY quiet and slow. Other than that she complains of pain in her neck and her throat burns some. They are both up doing lot's more and feeling better for sure.

Update!

Cassidy & Brooke are doing well. They both seem to be drinking and eating pretty well. Not GREAT but well. They are starting to want to get up and move more which is good and bad. I will keep everyone up to date!!

Surgery Day

The girl's both had their surgery on Wednesday. Cassidy had a little more anxiety as she thought she knew what was going on. They ended up in seperate room's cady-corner from each other. We had to be there an hour early and they where running an hour late so we had a pretty long wait. Brooke's nurse was awesome and she kept them both pretty busy. She told some CRAZY kid jokes that Brooke thought were HIL arious!! The girl's got a stuffed animal and coloring books and crayons. They also both wore a surgeon's mask, hair net and gloves. They looked so cute.
Brooke went back first and she started to cry and her nurse just scooped her up and took her back. Her surgery took about thirty minutes and as soon as she went into the recovery room they took Cassidy back. We could hear a child screaming and I do mean the worst scream I have EVER heard from a child. I finally asked the nurse to please go check if that was my daughter, although we didn't think it was but then I knew she would sound a little different. She came back and assured me Brooke was sound asleep in the recovery room. Then once Brooke got back into her "room", Cassidy was being taken into the recovery room. It was pretty back to back so we didn't have time to really be upset or anything with how busy they had kept us. The nurse came out to ask me to come into the recovery room because Cassidy kept telling them "I'm trying not to cry but I want my mom"! So I went back with her and Shawn set with Brooke while she slept. After awhile Cassidy went back to her room and as she got all settled and back asleep Brooke woke up and she was so "confused" and she just started hollaring I want my grandma, whom I had just called as she woke for a second time, so she said if she wants me I'm coming and she did!! Grandma got down there SPEEDY quick and she held and rocked Brooke for a good long time then Cassidy woke up and so we all gathered in one room and they ate popsicles and pudding and drank gatorade. Finally they both went potty and they started to get us ready to go. After a bit of craziness we did get to go home. My mom went to get the RX's and I thank her so much that she did because they told us it would be fifteen minutes and she was there an hour.
A special thanks to Mom for coming down to the hospital on such a short request!
We would also like to thank EVERYONE who has come by and called asking about the girl's. Thanks to all who have brought gifts, you didn't have to but we do thank you for them!!