ABBY YANKS HER 1st TOOTH!!!!

Abigail had been wiggling this tooth for weeks! She was ready for it to come out. This particular day Sunday April 29, 2012 she would NOT leave this tooth alone. It was dangling from her mouth so I offered to pull it for her. She declined. Steve said to leave it alone and it wasn't ready to come out yet. Abigail took matters into her own hands and in the video below you can see that she was pretty shocked that she actually pulled it out! She was pretty excited about putting her 1st lost tooth under her pillow. The tooth fairy was very generous and brought her some new HELLO KITTY peedle jaddles (our fancy word for PJs) and $2.00! She has had fun showing everyone the hole where her tooth used to be. We love that she is growing up and is excited about EVERY aspect of it.

REALLY?

I have had recurring discomfort in my right foot for years now.  It stems back to working for Geraldines bake shoppe and deli in 1998-2002.  Sometime during my stay at that job I dropped one of the bread pans on my right foot.  Now these aren't just bread pans.  There are 4 or 6?  linked together.  These things weigh in I am guessing 15 lbs a piece.  I don't really know all the details but I know they are heavy!  and it really hurts to have one drop on your foot.  I was going against the dress code that day and was wearing flip flop sandals.  I was living with Shayna Black at the time in an apartment by the Idaho Falls Temple.  She worked for an orthodontist at the time and we rigged up some way to get my foot x-rayed at her office.  It appeared at the time time that there was a small fracture on the top of my foot.  I didn't go the doctor because I didn't  have insurance.  Years passed and I have pain with it all the time.  About 2 months ago now I was kicking laundry down our VERY DEATHLY STEEP stairs.  About 6 stairs up I slipped and fell down the rest of the stairs.  my left leg was out in front of me and right foot was under me hitting painfully on each stair as I went down.  I thought for sure I right leg was broken.  Luckily Steve was home and came to my rescue.  I couldn't walk on it for about an hour.  My knee is still bruised but thankfully only bruised.  My foot however is still in quite a bit of pain.  With the previous injury and now this one on top I couldn't image the damage I had done.  About a month ago I entered into a biggest loser challenge at work.  I was in full force!  I was going to the gym everyday for a few hours and had lost 12lbs so far.  One night about 3 weeks ago I can home just about in tears because my foot hurt so bad.  That saturday I knew I was working at the gym where there would be a free health fair held.  I knew there would be free foot and ankle screenings so I decided I would wait to see if It was just  really bruised or broken.  The Dr. started touching where I said it hurt and I am pretty sure I jumped at least a foot out of the chair.....hahahah!   He felt some more and suggested that I come in for an X-RAY.  I went that following tuesday and sure enough my sesamoid bone was broken.  It's a tiny pesky bone on the ball of the foot.  Also have a fracture in my big toe.  I think that warrants the pain I was having.  The doctor fitted me with a pretty red bottomed boot.  The thing is huge and bulky but I can't tell you how great it felt to have that on for the rest of that day and going forward.  I was not limping in pain and was pretty comfortable.  I have now been in the boot for 2 weeks and have 4 to go.  I am getting another set of x-rays in a few weeks so see the progression of the healing.  If the boot doesn't heal it I will have surgery to remove the bones.  The doctor also treated the previous injury with a steroid shot in the top of my foot (OUCHEEEEEEE!!!!!) to try and break up the scar tissue and help with the nerve damage I had caused by going untreated for 10+ years.  If the boot doesn't help with that injury in addition to the break, I will be having surgery on both parts of the foot.  I guess it's a blessing it's all on the same foot so I can have it all fixed at the same time.  Here's to many upcoming prayers in hopes that the boot fixes what needs fixing.

HELLO KITTY STUDS!

Last week Noodle got her ears pierced. I asked the ladies to do them at the same time but one of the girls was still in training. I didn't feel okay with Abby being her first so I let them do one at a time. It happened exactly as I expected. She got one and it took us several minutes and bribes to get her to do the 2nd one. You would think that after nearly 2 years of begging to get them pierced she wouldn't care what it felt like. I went through a pre-pierceing period of worry .... could take care of them? Was this going to be a huge regret? It wasn't a nice moment for me of the video when I was mumbling under my breath at the lady doing the piecring. I am sure she gets that ALOT! I did apologize and felt like a total idiot. But I am the mom and have a right to get what I want sometimes right?!

I had to wait until I was 12 to get my ears pierced. I remember the day VIVIDLY! I was so excited all day I could barely stand it. I was in the 7th grade when I turned 12. On my birthday I remember school getting out and getting ready for track practice. I had an appointment at 4:00 pm. My sister Gretchen's gift to me was getting my ears pierced. She had a friend or roommate that was a cosmetologist. They were at the house when I ran home from track practice. I sat down on a stool in our Stosich Lane house and got my ears pierced. Immediately afterwords I ran right back to track practice. Showed my sister Emily that I JUST had my ears pierced and went on with my day.

With several of my siblings they have waited until their girls were 8 to let them pierce their ears. Steve's sisters waited until adulthood to pierce their ears. I didn't want it to be a scary thing for Abby and didn't feel like there was a reason really to make her wait. Makeup, shaving legs are definitely things she MUST wait to do. Anyway....we let her do it. The first time we went she was too nervous so we left and she decided again later that day that she did indeed want to do it. I was kinda a mess during the whole thing because I was worried she would flip out and be walking around with just 1 ear pierced. It all worked out fine but the video is kinda funny :)