Shorts weather?

With the show coming up next week the rehearsals are almost everyday now.

Baby RB has been having a hard time going to all these long rehearsals because she isn't in a lot of the scenes and gets tired and bored of just sitting and waiting for her scene to come up.

So today, with the weather being nice, I decided to hang out with her at the park by the community center with her younger sisters.

It was the perfect weather for playing at the park

I don't know what Baby Ponyo was thinking, but I was about having a heart attack watching her try to go up some of the things on the playground.

And Little A realized that maybe I was right when I told her I didn't think her moccasin's were the best foot wear for playing on the playground.....especially since I knew there were wood chips that would keep getting her her shoes.

Since it was warm out Baby Rootbeer decided that she needed to step bare foot in the pile of snow that hadn't melted yet.

She stood in one spot for just a few minutes and managed to get some glass stuck in her food.  =(

We were able to get it out and put some medicine on it and a bandaid before she was needed on stage.

Poor girl.

But I am grateful that she was happy that we stayed with her for a while before she was needed inside for her scenes.

Mouth issues.

She has a tooth that is out of place and they have to do some very minor surgery to cut the gum and stitch it out of the way and hook a chain on to the tooth so that we can get it to come down in the right spot. 

I am grateful that so far she seems to be handling the pain from it just fine.

Orange you glad.

I am grateful that her nose is healing pretty good.

=(

I am grateful that her injuries don't seem to bother her.

Ouch!

I let go of her hand so I could grab my keys and the second I let go of her she was off....

.....down the steep road we were parked on.

You would think that I would have learned by now that toddlers and hills don't mix....they just can't control their tiny legs or their speed.

I took off running after her.

My hand was stretch out.  It brushed her coat and...

Well, she biffed it.

And has the road rash to show for it.  =(

I am grateful she didn't cry for long and that it wasn't worse.

A pain in the stomach

Well last week she was complaining of a pain in her tummy that radiated around her belly button.  It kept her home from school but she started feeling better.

Last night, the same thing happened.  It was still hurting her this morning so I decided to take her to the doctor.

He sent us to the Children's Hospital for a CT scan.

Here she is patiently waiting the results of the scan.

The test came back positive for appendicitis.

And , of course, all of this is happening when my husband left this morning to be out of town for the week.  

All I can say is that I am SO SO SO glad that my mom is visiting or else I would be panicked to find someone to watch the rest of my kids during this ordeal. (especially since it just so happens that my In laws are out of town too.)

She was such a trooper about it all and wasn't nervous about the surgery.

Now we just had wait our turn for surgery.

I must say, that this hospital is awesome for kids.  Everyone that we came across was so kind to us and spoiled my Baby RB.

There was a playstation in her room and lots of games and movies to choose from.

One lady came around with crafts for her and left several for her to do.

Another lady brought these Buddy dolls.  My little girl got to draw on a face and hair.  Then she got to give the doll an IV in it's arm....she got to use real medical equipment just like they used to put the one in her arm.

Then they gave her a doll for her to give to each of her sisters.

Everyone was surprised at how well she was tolerating the pain.  But it was getting progressively worse.

Then the waiting was over and it was her turn to for surgery.

You can't tell from this next picture but with the way her hair was fanned around her head and how blue her eyes were when she opened them, she reminded me of Sleeping Beauty.  Maybe I should change her nick name on here to that.?

But I was thankful that she made it through just fine.  

While they were in there, in addition to removing her appendix, they also repaired a small hernia that we didn't know she had.

I came to a point where I was really torn with what to do next.  My little Trooper here needed to stay the night at the hospital but I really really REALLY needed to go home and nurse my baby.

My sister in law happened to call when I was trying to figure out what to do and said that she was on her way over right now to stay the night with Ash.

I must say again that I am grateful for my mom and all of her help and for my Sister-in-law for coming to stay with my girl even though she has 2 small kids of her own to care for.  I feel really blessed that I had these 2 to rescue me and help me through this day.

I almost posted it.

I almost posted a picture of the bloody toe, but thought that that might be a bit much. So I opted for an after shot. After all the commotion, all the tears, and yes, blood.

I never knew that one of those little magna doodle things could do such a thing, but apparently, when dropped at just the right angle it can cause a bloody toe. So, after it was all bandaged up all she wanted to do was cuddle on the couch with a blanket and watch a show....so I let her.

I am grateful for how nice it feels to cuddle up in a blanket....esp. when we arn't feeling the best.