Showing posts with label joy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joy. Show all posts

2.13.2011

Introducing the NEW Vivian!

Vivian has been asking for about 3 weeks to have her haircut. I have been putting it off, and putting it off. You see, she has spent the last 4 years (the length of time that she has been able to talk) telling me she WILL NOT let anyone cut her hair...

Oh-Oh, almost forgot: Tomorrow, Valentines Day 2011 is 4 years since the day we took Vivian to the hospital to remove her trach!!! Happy trach-a-versary baby girl!!

Anyways, back to today - So, I wanted to be sure she REALLY wanted it cut. Today was the day... She really did want it cut, so off we went to Lil' Snippers here in Vancouver. She was excited, and when we arrived and Levi saw the shop, so was he! Lil' Snippers is so much like the shop in Ohio that we had their first haircuts done at, and so much fun for the kids!

Vivian before:
She sat perfectly still. She was pretty patient, but she was also focused on Toy Story playing on the screen in front of her, LOL!
And... my little girl donated over 10inches of hair to Locks Of Love! I asked her about it this morning, and her first question was "Why do kids get cancer?" We talked about the Locks Of Love organization, and she decided that was what she was going to do with her haircut...


Isn't the "NEW" Vivian adorable?






Erika
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5.17.2010

Fun in the Sun...







The weather was great this weekend. Saturday was fabulous, and we went to Levi's soccer awards dinner. It was so cute to watch him. As I did, I tried to look at him in a different light than usual; that is, I tried to take into account the info recieved from the Pshycologist, teacher and therapists at school. I watched him a little differently. And I saw it, in a different light, the distraction, the different way of understanding the world for the moment. He was so excited: at one point he said, upon seeing the trophys, 'mom, if I get a trophy, I'm a winner!'... I said, baby, you all get a trophy. His jaw dropped and his eyes got as wide as pie plates!

Sunday, the weather was not as nice, but after church all of the kids and I headed to LaCamas Lake... We had a blast, and, as always, I enjoyed watching the big kids alongside the little ones... So, i'm sharing photos today, you can see on the kids faces that it was a good day!
Once again, my photos are from my camera phone, since I forgot the camera again.
Or thought I did, until we got home and I told Matt that I wished I hadn't forgotten the camera, and he said "you didn't, mom, it's in the outside pocket of your purse, I saw it in there at lunch..." I'm losin' it, I swear, I forget more and more lately...


The little ones getting their feet wet...


My boys...

It was a great PNW day, one of those days that reminded me how much I love this area!

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