Skip to main content

Birthday Fun!

Image
By
Abby had a wonderful birthday!  Thanks to so many of you who wished her a happy birthday.  It means SO much to me as her mom that so many of you get it.  You realize how special each birthday is.  You understand the miracle of each day.  You celebrate the obstacles this child has overcome.  Thank you for that.  Thank you!

We started out the morning waking Abby up with a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday, then took her downstairs to open presents.  Abby's main present was a humongous rather large doll house with lots of furniture and people.  I wrapped the pieces separately so that she would have more presents to open, since that's the best part when you're two!


She also got a Hello Kitty hat and playground ball.



After seeing Caleb off to the bus, she got a little Daddy time while I went to the chiropractor.  We met up at the library for Monday Morning Movies and More.  This week was Angelina Ballerina, which Abby seemed to like.  They sang Happy Birthday to her too.  Matt left from the library for a pastors' retreat.  

When she woke up from her nap, I taught Abby the fine art of how to play in her dollhouse--which is now in her room.  She's definitely getting the hang of it, and it's cute to listen to her chattering to the people.

We got Caleb off of the bus and played in the beans for a while.  I don't think they had any fun at all--do you??
(These pictures were actually taken yesterday because I was remiss in taking any during today's playtime, but you get the idea!)






My sister and her family came over for a fancy dinner of grilled cheese and various party leftovers.  They only come here for my awesome cooking!  The kids played, ran a muck, and snuck candy corn.  Caleb and Abby also got a little Lucy snuggle time in!



Throughout the day, Abby had several birthday phone calls.  She even received sweet birthday cards from her favorite NICU nurse from all the way in Hawaii, and from some sweet members of a church who haven't met Abby, but who love and pray for her!

Caleb ended the night with a sweet prayer that included thanking Jesus, "For the blessings You have given us, for the miracle Abby is, and for letting her live to see another birthday."  His words, without any prompting.  I love that boy.

Now my two year old and my five year old are snug in their beds snoozing, and I'm posting pictures of just a "normal" birthday for a girl who is so much more special than normal!

It was a great day that brought a lot of smiles...and a few happy tears!


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Cerebrocostomandibular Syndrome

By
If you happen to pick up the latest Reader's Digest, there is an article in there about Piper Breinholt , a four year old with CCMS.  If you've been around here a while, you'll remember wayyyyyy back when we first received Abby's diagnosis that I was able to speak to Piper's mom, Reagan.  The article is more about their story and not as much about the ins and outs of CCMS, but I think it's probably enough to get some people googling it and I'm hoping a few will end up here. Every once in a while, I give a blog post the title of Cerebrocostomandibular Syndrome so that it would show up in Google.  My ever-present hope is that people will stumble across my blog and 1) be encouraged by the hope we have in Christ, 2) feel a connection with someone in a similar situation as them, or 3) get excited over the miracles that have been performed in Abby's life!!  (a combination of all 3 is great too!)  :)   Notice that it's not to get famous and it never wi
10 comments
Read more

The Potty Man

By
Caleb LOVES to go potty! I have never heard a potty training story like this one....Caleb tells us when he needs to go, we take his diaper off, and he goes! Now, is it perfect? No, not at all! We aren't trying to potty train at at all, but we figure every time he goes is one less diaper we have to change! The only time we consistantly put him on the potty is when we give him a bath (he always pees in the tub, so we know he needs to go!) He almost always goes on the potty now instead of the tub though. When he's not "really" going potty, he's pretending to go potty! He's such a funny kid!
1 comment
Read more

Lego Party: Favors

By
I'm a little slow in posting the Lego Party pictures, but I think I have a few excuses I could use.  At any rate, I wanted to share what I did for the party!  It will take a few posts, so stay with me.  I'll start with how I did the favors. These are the goody bags I made.  I just bought solid colored gift bags and matched scrapbook paper to each bag.  Then I punched circles and attached them with the 3D foam tape so that the circles were raised. I used the keychain (explained below) as a name tag on the outside. These are Duplo blocks.  I put a round magnet on the back and...voila!  A magnet!  (note:  hot glue doesn't work so well...I ended up reglueing them with my apoxy because the magnets fell off.) I made crayons using Lego man crayons.  Yes, I know this guy has lost half of his leg.  The others were already packaged and I didn't want to open one up just to get a picture.  I used a Lego mold  to make the crayons.  Caleb put small pieces of crayon in each m
1 comment
Read more