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Easter Fun

Easter has come and gone. We had a wonderful time and enjoyed every minute that was spent with family and friends. This was the first year R. really got to enjoy some of the events - the egg hunts, dying Easter eggs - running rampid at the auditorium where we have Easter dinner - playing with her cousins - Every little minute she enjoyed. Well almost every minute ( I will get to that in a little bit)

We went on 2 Easter Egg Hunts - one with friends earlier in the week, and one on Saturday with her cousins. This one we used Real Eggs and all 34 of them ended up cracked after we were done. Oh Well.

R. also spent a lot of time playing with her cousins. We stayed with them for 2 nights then ventured to my dad's for the Easter Day festivities. While at my sisters, R. was playing with some toys and her cousin L. (who is 6 weeks older) smoked R. in the head with a frying pan. It was a little 1 egg pan, but it still hurt like the dickens. We decided that after the first night of him testing the waters and smacking her a few times with no response from her that he determined he could do what ever to her without her retaliating. Well he was partly right. He did get a good talkin to about the frying pan incident. We laughed about it a little as no real damage was done. That's the difference between staying home and going to daycare. R. does not know how to fight back - AT ALL.

Overall it was a wondeful weekend. We loved spending time with our family and eating oh so scrumptious food. Pictures will come soon, but as always they are still in the camera!

I hope all had a wonderful Easter Weekend.

Easter Shindig!

Tuesday we had a little Easter get together for R. and her friends H. and N. Of course this mom took tons of pictures so this post is loaded with them.

Here is little mister N. He is so adorable and I couldn’t help but snap quite a few pics of him.

H. and R. decorate some yummy sugar cookies. Thanks Jodee for the yummy recipe! We even made homemade butter cream frosting.

H. being cute as can be!

And the same for this little cutey pie!

R. picking up Easter Eggs during the Egg Hunt. She wasn’t so sure about it and kept wanting to fill her bucket and dump it out!

N. kept trying to take the eggs out and put grass in his bucket. And if it wasn’t going in the bucket it was going in his mouth. He is a total boy!

H. was so funny. She did an excellent job of picking up the eggs. Good work H.’s mommy on teaching her to pick up good! She is such an expressional little girl. She always has the cutest expressions on her face whether smiling, laughing, crying or squinting. Totally Adorable.

H. was so happy and kept trying to give R. hugs and loves. R. on the other hand is a little sensitive and tends to run away. We are working on that!

And finally a shot of N. attempting to walk. This was one of my fave pictures from today. He is so adorable.

We also dyed Easter Eggs and sat on the porch in the wonderful warm weather and visited while the kiddo’s played. It was a very enjoyable afternoon.

R. skipped her nap today to hang out, so we did treatments early and she was off to bed early also. Hoepfully we can get on a little better schedule so that we nap earlier so we can enjoy the beautiful weather we’ve been having in the afternoons.

The Vest and the IPod Touch

I guess i never really explained much of what the vest is about and why we have been so excited since getting it.

Up until now, we did treatments twice a day by using these little pink pounders (percussors) to pound 10 different spots on R’s body. We would pound each spot for 2 minutes. The purpose of this we to break up the mucous in her lungs and help her to move it out of her lungs. We also do albuterol nebulized medication to help open her airways up to allow the mucous to move out. This process took between 20-30 minutes depending on how well she tolerated it at the time.

The vest basically takes the physical pounding out of the picture. We strap R. in this vest which has an internal air bladder that inflates and then pulsates or shakes. We still use the albuterol nebulized medication to help open the airways.

R. is super good about her treatments. She sits on the couch by herself with her vest on and her nebulizer strapped to her head. She watches her favorite music video’s (Taylor Swift – This girl loves her some Taylor Swift) on “Her” IPod Touch. (this was originally bought by her daddy for workouts. He still uses it, but it sure does come in handy for this little miss. She uses it during her treatments and doctors visits. )

The vest has been so good for R. She gets a 30 minute treatment all over her body vs. a 2 minute pounding on 10 different spots. She sits so well and It has been nice for us too. We can sit next to her and watch Taylor Swift with her, or we can get some much needed work done around the house – dishes, sweeping, breakfast and supper made, etc.

We are very thankful she was able to get the vest. It’s amazing and we love it. They sent a black vest, however we ordered a hot pink one. I just figured they didn’t have one in stock, and honestly I would be totally OK if they had sent the ugly blue vest as regardless of the color, it is a vest and it serves the same purpose. Well we got a message on my phone the other day saying that they are shipping out the pink vest. So she will have a hot pink vest! YAY! How cute will that be!

What We’ve Been Up To!

 

We’ve been busy playing outside. 

Busy practicing our driving skills

Busy running away from daddy

Busy playing in the Garage

Busy swinging in our pink swing

Busy playing catch and go get it with the ball

And busy going for walks to the park

We’ve been busy.  BUSY BUSY BUSY.

And we are loving every minute of it!

We Got The Vest!

Rylee got her new vest this morning. We are so excited. She did awesome with it. We expected a few tears but none were shed. They told us to start her at 5 minutes and work up to 30 minutes but the trainer brought it to our house and set it up for 20 minutes. She figured if she started crying we could shut it off but she did so well and sat so nicely that she did the entire 20 minutes! We were so proud of her.

We took a small video of her and a picture but of course they are still on the memory card and I am headed back down to finish painting the playroom. Pictures of both things will come later! YAY HAPPY SATURDAY!

For The Love Of Sidewalk Chalk

This girls mommy loves side walk chalk. Of course only crayola side walk chalk is good enough because all of the others totally lack the brightness of colors. I could sit outside and draw on the sidewalk all day.

Apparently, my love is rubbing off on my little precious girl. She appears to really be enjoying her first go at sidewalk chalk.

And of course, some little smiles from when she was watching her daddy shovel snow off of the lawn. Daddy didn’t want the snow with the gravel in it from scooping the driveway to melt on the grass and leave rocks shooting from the lawn mower this spring so he scooped the snow. While doing this he made quite the sound effects and R. was eating it up!