Blue baby

I have never seen any one really turn blue before but tonight I did.

My side of the family got together at my sister Teri's to work on our family service project for Christmas.  Teri served us dinner.  Loren was feeding Hope and letting her eat off of his plate.  She started eating cabbage salad and I told Loren not to let her because she doesn't have teeth to chew it.  Within seconds she was choking and turning blue.  I was so glad that I knew what to do. Who would have guessed that learning things from working at Childcare centers would actually come in handy at home.  I got her breathing again, and the scare was over.  However, I was glad that if I couldn't help her that my sister Teri could. She is a nurse and knows everything.  Okay, not everything, but a lot more than I do about emergencies.
Hope is fine!!!

Activity Days

For activity days we had a Spa Night here.  We did homemade fruit facials, fingernail painting, foot bathes, hair and of course cucumbers on our eyes. It was a blast.

When activity days were over my children had to have a turn also.  Zach tried the cucumbers and  a facial, silly boy. Gotta love him.

Paige and Brinn did it all. Hope thought the foot bathe was great fun.

Our new addition

Sparta is our newest addition. Or as Hope calls him, Wuba.
Paige and I went shopping and saw a family with a box of free kittens.  Jokingly I said," we should get one". I honestly thought Paige would say," no way" because she is allergic to them.  But she said, "we should, lets go see them."  So we did.  This kitten was so gorgeous that we just had to have him. He is so cute and tiny. Hopefully he will help keep mice out of our house and yard.

No more braces

After little more than a year, Braden got his braces off!! He now has nice straight shinny teeth.  He has clear retainers to wear at night for the next year or two.  He says it feels so nice not to have a metal mouth any more.