Saturday, August 20, 2011
Party Pictures
Here are some pictures from Lauren's party today. It was a great day and both girls (and myself) are exhausted. Kristen made the cupcakes and they turned out WONDERFUL. She enjoyed making them and decorating them.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Happy Birthday Lauren
I can't believe that today Lauren turned 3 years old. It seems like just yesterday we were visiting the NICU everyday and I can't believe how fast time has gone by. She keeps us laughing and on our toes daily. Here are some of the things she likes.
Favorite T.V. Show - Calliou and Dora
Favorite Movie - Dora saves the Mermaids and The Wizard of Oz
Favorite Breakfast food - Pancakes
Favorite Lunch Food - Chicken nuggets and french fries
Favorite Dinner - Hamburger Helper
Favorite Snack - Cool Ranch Doritos or strawberry applesauce
Favorite thing to play with - Loving Family Doll house and Baby dolls
Favorite Game to play - Hide and Seek
Favorite Book - Dora Saves the Day
She is a cuddle bug and I hope she doesn't grow out of that. I am so proud of all she has accomplished. She has brought so much joy to our lives and I thank God daily for her and all He has done in her life.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
We have a contract
Yep, you read that right. After just two weeks on the market, with two people looking at it, we have a contract on our house. I couldn't believe it and actually got teary just thinking about leaving this house. This is the house that we came back from our honeymoon too, we celebrated all of our first holidays as a married couple in this house, we brought both of our girls home to this house. It has seen many tears and lots of laughter and has been a very good home for us. It is going to be very hard to leave it now that the reality of it has set in. We close on October 3rd and have yet to find a house, but will start looking next week. I hope they do not find anything major during the inspection. I don't think they will, but I had a dream that termites had eaten all of the wood in our house and left little toothpicks and that was all that was holding it up. As we climbed out from under the house it collapsed on the inspector because Kristen had flushed the toilet. As long as this doesn't happen we should be good.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Random Things
It has been so long since I have posted that this post will be nothing but randomness (if that is even a word). I guess I will start with the BEST news. Paul got a new job. We are so happy and God really worked everything out. Things are a lot more stable than what they were at his old job. I know a lot of stress has been lifted off of him since the switch.
Also, I don't have a picture but will post one, but there is a new member of the Harris family. Oswald the Beta. Paul thought it would be a good idea to get the girls a fish. I made it clear that I would not be cleaning out any tanks. I have enough things to clean around here that I don't need something else added to my list. The girls were very excited when we first got him. Now they don't pay him any attention and rarely even notice he is there. His name, which I am assuming it is a he(I don't know how to really tell or that I even care to tell), started out as Little Shella. This didn't surprise me. If you ask Kristen what her baby dolls name is, or anything for that matter, she always says Little Shella or Ollie. She then changed it to Oswald and it just stuck. I think she was thinking of Oswald the Octopus. Anyways, now Oswald is one more thing that I have to remember to feed.
The girls are getting over being sick. I noticed last week that Kristen's eye was pink and had some eye guke in it. I was not familiar with pink eye, but when Paul came home he said he was pretty sure it was pink eye. I took her to the doctor the next day. God really worked everything out for us and I realized that he really does care about the little things in Michelle Harris' life. First, Kristen made it very clear that she only wanted to see Dr. L. I wasn't sure that I would be able to make an appointment that day with her. The receptionist got all of the information then said I have a 3:45 appointment with Dr. L. I was extremely happy. Also, I hoped that Paul would be home in time to watch Lauren, but he didn't make it, which turned out good. When Dr. L was checking Kristen she noticed that her adenoids were swollen. She asked if she had been running a fever. I told her no. I had checked it a couple times when Kristen had complained about her head and throat hurting, but she never had a high temperature and didn't when they checked it in the office. I also told her that both girls hadn't been eating all that well. She decided to do a strep test. I was NOT looking forward to this. The last time Kristen had a strep test she threw up all over herself, her shoes and my arms. The nurse came in and started getting everything ready. Kristen asked her what she was going to do with that. The nurse said she was just going to tickle her tongue. Kristen stuck out her tongue and said ah, then she started crying and gaging, but she didn't throw up. Another answer to pray. The nurse came back in with another strep test for Lauren because Kristen's had come back positive. We sat Lauren on the table and I thought she was not going to cooperate because she just saw Kristen do the same thing. The nurse told her to stick out her tongue and say ah and Lauren obediently followed her directions. She never cried or gagged, just let the nurse do what she needed to do, then got down and started running around. A another answer to prayer. Lauren's came back faintly positive, but they sent both to the lab. See, God was in control because Kristen's actually came back negative at the lab. If it had came back negative in the office they would have never check Lauren. Lauren's came back positive at the lab. It also worked out because they both were started on antibiotics and Kristen had a couple of spots on her knees I was watching. Her eczema was coming back and was very red on her knees. I told Dr. L about it when she called and she said to just keep her on the antibiotic to get it cleared up. It all worked out. God knows what He is doing folks!
Last but not least. Our church had VBS a few weeks ago. The theme was The Big Apple. I only have one video from the last night that Paul took. We are not videographers in this family and in fact often forget we are video taping (hence the floor and feet shots), but we do our best. Lauren didn't really enjoy VBS. It cut into her bedtime and she was struggling during the week. She took a couple days off because of a stomach bug issue. Kristen took one day off because she was just very crabby and needed a timeout from VBS. I didn't work with either of their groups. My girls are very attached to their Momma (big smile) although I know everyone who has to deal with them crying are not smiling. It makes me feel like I am doing something right. Anyways, I think once Kristen got there and got going she really enjoyed it. Her favorite part was the music. Her dance moves are quite impressive (wink).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXFHH8sKqs8
Also, I don't have a picture but will post one, but there is a new member of the Harris family. Oswald the Beta. Paul thought it would be a good idea to get the girls a fish. I made it clear that I would not be cleaning out any tanks. I have enough things to clean around here that I don't need something else added to my list. The girls were very excited when we first got him. Now they don't pay him any attention and rarely even notice he is there. His name, which I am assuming it is a he(I don't know how to really tell or that I even care to tell), started out as Little Shella. This didn't surprise me. If you ask Kristen what her baby dolls name is, or anything for that matter, she always says Little Shella or Ollie. She then changed it to Oswald and it just stuck. I think she was thinking of Oswald the Octopus. Anyways, now Oswald is one more thing that I have to remember to feed.
The girls are getting over being sick. I noticed last week that Kristen's eye was pink and had some eye guke in it. I was not familiar with pink eye, but when Paul came home he said he was pretty sure it was pink eye. I took her to the doctor the next day. God really worked everything out for us and I realized that he really does care about the little things in Michelle Harris' life. First, Kristen made it very clear that she only wanted to see Dr. L. I wasn't sure that I would be able to make an appointment that day with her. The receptionist got all of the information then said I have a 3:45 appointment with Dr. L. I was extremely happy. Also, I hoped that Paul would be home in time to watch Lauren, but he didn't make it, which turned out good. When Dr. L was checking Kristen she noticed that her adenoids were swollen. She asked if she had been running a fever. I told her no. I had checked it a couple times when Kristen had complained about her head and throat hurting, but she never had a high temperature and didn't when they checked it in the office. I also told her that both girls hadn't been eating all that well. She decided to do a strep test. I was NOT looking forward to this. The last time Kristen had a strep test she threw up all over herself, her shoes and my arms. The nurse came in and started getting everything ready. Kristen asked her what she was going to do with that. The nurse said she was just going to tickle her tongue. Kristen stuck out her tongue and said ah, then she started crying and gaging, but she didn't throw up. Another answer to pray. The nurse came back in with another strep test for Lauren because Kristen's had come back positive. We sat Lauren on the table and I thought she was not going to cooperate because she just saw Kristen do the same thing. The nurse told her to stick out her tongue and say ah and Lauren obediently followed her directions. She never cried or gagged, just let the nurse do what she needed to do, then got down and started running around. A another answer to prayer. Lauren's came back faintly positive, but they sent both to the lab. See, God was in control because Kristen's actually came back negative at the lab. If it had came back negative in the office they would have never check Lauren. Lauren's came back positive at the lab. It also worked out because they both were started on antibiotics and Kristen had a couple of spots on her knees I was watching. Her eczema was coming back and was very red on her knees. I told Dr. L about it when she called and she said to just keep her on the antibiotic to get it cleared up. It all worked out. God knows what He is doing folks!
Last but not least. Our church had VBS a few weeks ago. The theme was The Big Apple. I only have one video from the last night that Paul took. We are not videographers in this family and in fact often forget we are video taping (hence the floor and feet shots), but we do our best. Lauren didn't really enjoy VBS. It cut into her bedtime and she was struggling during the week. She took a couple days off because of a stomach bug issue. Kristen took one day off because she was just very crabby and needed a timeout from VBS. I didn't work with either of their groups. My girls are very attached to their Momma (big smile) although I know everyone who has to deal with them crying are not smiling. It makes me feel like I am doing something right. Anyways, I think once Kristen got there and got going she really enjoyed it. Her favorite part was the music. Her dance moves are quite impressive (wink).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXFHH8sKqs8
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Independence
Kristen has become quite independent these days. She wants to dress herself and brush her own teeth and hair. This usually makes me a little sad to think that she is growing up so fast. Well, this morning I was very happy that she is such an independent girl. This is what her hair looked like when she woke up. She got to brush it all by herself.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Gravel Lick
We are still alive for those of you who were wondering. Time has been going by so fast that I just can't believe how long ago it was since I last posted. Since then we have gone to visit my grandmother for the 4th of July holiday weekend. We celebrated my grandmother's 93rd birthday. I hope I still look as good and get around as good when I'm 93. What am I talking about....I just hope I am still living at 93...well, maybe. I did bring my camera and can you believe I didn't get one single picture of the girls with my grandmother. My mind is starting to go real quick. In fact, I didn't get hardly any pictures at all. I guess I was just enjoying my time. We did go to the Natural Tunnel State Park while we were there. It was really neat and I would have liked to see more of it, but with two small kids it just wasn't going to happen. I guess at that age once you have seen one rock, tree and creek you have seen them all. The water has, over time, made a tunnel through the rocks of the mountain and now trains travel through it. It really shows you just how awesome our God is. We also caught some fireflies. Paul actually did all of the catching, the girls and I just put them in the jar and looked at them. Another highlight while we were there was that we got to see the famous raccoon Rocky (who might just be a girl). We ended up seeing two adult raccoons and about 5 or 6 small raccoons. We fed them one night. Not up close, we aren't crazy, we put the food over the bank of the creek and let them eat while we were safely behind a chain link fence. The kids loved it. We also put off fireworks for the girls two nights and they enjoyed them so much. It was a really good trip. Here are some pictures that I did snap from our trip.
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