July Pictures

Logan and Savanna putting gloves on their hands and feet.

Savanna and Olivia at the birthday party.

Justin and Logan sleeping together on the couch.

Justin and Logan at Savanna's Hawaiian birthday party.

Olivia goofing around with rubber gloves.

Savanna's 3rd Birthday!

Savanna with her coconut cream cake.

Savanna and Olivia. Savanna with her new baby and sling "Like Momma's"

Grandma Shane told her to show us the back of her dress
and she posed like this. Isn't she beautiful!

Savanna wearing her Hawaiian dress.

Savanna turned 3 today. We had a great time and she had a fun day. We decided to have a Hawaiian theme since it's summer. We had chicken and beef kabobs with rice pilaf. We also had a giant fresh fruit salad with a pineapple and coconut creamy dip. For her cake I made a coconut cream cake. She got a lot of nice presents and a ton of Dora stuff.

July 4th

We had a great time on vacation. I had major camera problems though. Bummer. First my media card was full at 417 pictures and Walgreen's couldn't seem to handle that many pics at once. I bought a new card, but when I went to use it on Saturday the batteries went dead. Ugh. We only got one picture before my camera died and the kids ran off to play in the sand. Isaac was still sleeping at 10AM from being up to late and that's why he's not in the picture- plus he wouldn't wake up.

Logan's Leg

Logan had his first mishap this week. He has been limping since Thursday after falling in the garage. By Saturday night he would hardly put any pressure on the foot. Sunday morning I took him in for X-rays. It doesn't show any breaks that they could see, but kids his age don't have all of their bones fused yet. Also they have a large amount of cartilage in their foot. He clearly has a bad sprain at the least, so they decided to put a "soft cast" on it. We have to see the pediatrician this week to see if he needs a hard cast.

Yucky Face

Justin after his feast of chocolate cake.

The other morning Justin came to my bedroom door that was open slightly and stood there yelling "Momma come out." When I said to him "Come in Justin" he hollered back "No- come out, I'm dirty". We went back in forth a few times with the same conversation since Logan was sleeping still; then I got up to see what he was talking about. It seems he got up, went into the kitchen, took the lid off the chocolate cake, helped himself to as much cake as he could eat; then he got a dish rag out of the drawer to bring to me to clean him up.

Logan after playing in the mud puddle.







The bicycle handle is blocking Logan- but look at his clothes!

Random pictures....

The day we took Logan home. Kids have their big sister/brother shirts on.

Olivia's Latest Catastrophe.......

Sorry it's been so long since the last post. Olivia has kept me quite busy. Almost two weeks ago Olivia had her biopsy done on her left thigh. Her neurologist felt like it was time to finally do it since we were putting it off for the past few years. Up until the stroke she was fairly controlled with meds alone. The surgery day was terrible for Olivia and for me! There was no real way to prepare her for surgery since she really doesn't understand any of it, but she knew something was going on when we got to the hospital and she was scared. Because she was so scared, she was acting out TERRIBLE. She was screaming and kicking at anyone who came near her and when no one was in the room but me, she would cry that she wanted to go home. We arrived at the hospital at 9:00 AM for a 10:30 surgery which she never got until 3:30 because of legal complications. Because she is in limbo in the courts and we have not adopted yet, they would not let me sign the paperwork for the surgery. The whole process was hell for me. I have raised her since she was two years old, we have spent literally over 30 days in the hospital with her but I CAN'T sign a paper for a biopsy. UGH! Anyway, surgery went well and we were home that night.

Fast forward two weeks to Memorial Day. Olivia has been healing well and the stitches are still in place. The steri strips fell off after a week which was our first hurdle because she tried to pick at them all the time. Yesterday I went to the store and Rick was home with all the kids. He called me in a panic that Olivia fell and ripped out ALL of her sutures! He was really upset because he couldn't get the bleeding to stop at first. I rushed home and he took her to Zeeland Hospital ER. They really didn't do anything because the wound was so bad. They put a dressing on it and told us to see our pediatrician in the morning. We went to see her and she took one look and wanted to call the surgeon for advice. Now we are going to see the surgeon tomorrow to see what to do with it. Luckily she has not complained of pain.