Happy Birthday, Murphy!!!

Murphy you are finally ONE! It seems like it took forever and at the same time, it feels like yesterday you were just a tiny little squish!

We are so blessed to have you here with us!

Happy Fathers Day!

I just realized that I did not get any pictures of Clayton with the kids. Just one with Clayton and Murphy...

We had an exciting day today! We were going to stay home, but we decided to go down to Minnehaha Falls to Sea Salt Eatery. While standing in the ungodly line, we got the news that the offer that we put on a house was accepted!!!

After we ate, we went down to the "wading pool" and let the kids swim. It was beautiful out. The water was chilly at first, but you got used to it fast.

At one point, I looked over at Faye and was watching her as she swam in the water. She was down further than normal and further than my comfort zone, but I watched and then she was being swept away in the current. I freaked out. I grabbed Murphy, who was playing in the water, and took off running and yelling her name. With Murphy in my arm and absolutely no place to put him, I never would have made it down to her. Fortunately, a woman further down grabbed her and I was there seconds later.

If you thought those rocks hurt while walking slowly and carefully, try running on them! Oh. Em. Gee!

Later, Faye told me that she was blowing bubbles, trying to ask for help. What she was doing in the first place, trying to swim in the current! She said she was holding onto the rocks. I asked if that was working and she said no. I told her I was terrified that she was going to be swept down the river and mommy ran as fast as I could with Murphy in my arm, but I wasn't going to make it in time. I asked her if she was scared and she said she was a little scared.

I hope this was a lesson learned, and not a "better luck next time" experience...

I decided to write this at 2:14 AM, so clearly it was a traumatizing experience for me!

Somebody's got a tooth!

Officially, Murphy's tooth has broken the surface and is now white and visible!

He's also started pointing to things that he wants. Just yesterday, really. Unfortunately, he cannot have juice boxes and, well, most of what he points to, so he gets pretty mad. :)

It's still cute though!

Murphy's Shutterfly Photo Book

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God Bless AJ B.

Most nights I'm laying here thinking "Is this kid EVER going to let me out of bed?!" But after an acquaintance of mine posted about having to go to a 5 month olds visitation on Friday, I spent the last hour in bed reading his CaringBridge and snuggling with Murphy and feeling very blessed. 

I don't know how I deserve to have this amazing little guy, but I am feeling incredibly blessed for him and so heartbroken for this family and for so many others that would give anything to be snuggling in bed with their little ones right now. 

Changed HA Battery

4/16/2013

Keri

Learning to walk

Murphy has been letting go and trying to walk since around Easter (3/31/13). He's been really trying for about a week. He was up to 5 steps a couple days ago. Yesterday, I stood up next to me and walked a couple steps to his activity cube. He's constantly standing up in the middle of the floor and just balancing. Then he tries to take a couple steps. He normally gets excited and drops down and crawls away. Any week now, he'll be walking!

Picture: 3/30/13

Faye's Hearing Aid

Today was Faelyn's appointment for her hearing aid fitting. On March 11, she had a consultation, where they made an ear mold and let her pick out the kind and color of her hearing aid, plus what color she wanted her ear piece to be. She chose a pink hearing aid with a clear ear piece that has pink glitter inside if it. It wasn't really the bed one for finding if it got lost... But that's what she really wanted!

Today, her hearing aid was in and we got a bag full of stuff to go with it, including a stuffed Otter named Otto, who has two hearing aids!

She was VERY excited to go this morning. She has been waiting for her hearing aid! We learned how to put it in, take it out, clean it, change the batteries, etc. They fine tuned it and got rid of most of the whistling. Now it only whistles when Faye touches it, which she wants to do a lot because she is enjoying being able to make it whistle. She was afraid it was going to fall out, so she was holding it a lot. Then she thought the wind would blow it away, so she was holding it. Now she's over that, it just sounds cool.

They did another hearing test on her. No significant changes. We had hoped there would be, after seeing the Chiro 3 times. She has profound hearing loss with low frequencies and moderate, up to the lower end of mild, the higher the frequency. The Dr put up a sound chart and her hearing was below all of the sounds, which means she cannot hear any of them.

She will have another hearing test later this month. That time, they'll test her hearing with the hearing aid. I'm sure they probably do it all in one day for older kids, but she was pretty burnt out by the end of her test. She did an amazing job the whole entire time.

Happy Birthday!

Preschools the best place to go on your birthday!

And that's exactly where I went on mine! It's a good thing to. It was a bad birthday. First crummy birthday I've had in years. But the 2.5 hours that I spent at school with Faye were wonderful!

Several of her friends got together with her to make me a birthday crown. Several of them made me birthday cards at the creative cupboard during choice time.