Hello friends! 2018 has gotten into somewhat of a rhythm. Sort of :). Here are a few old pictures and some new...
Here's one I forgot from Christmas...Ellie about to doze off in the van next to her big sister.
Then on the way home from our holiday trip, Ellie had an eye appointment at Emory. The outcome of the appointment was that she would still wear glasses to hopefully correct her eye crossing issue. Here she is in the van on the way to the doctor.
And here we are waiting for the appointment. Jeff was either blinking or....nodding off :).
The doctor was very thorough and made a slight change to her glasses prescription. Since last summer when she first got glasses, I have discovered these fabulous glasses that don't break and are very comfortable. I found a way to get them at no cost to our family (praise the Lord) and they are great! She loves them!
I was tucking Ellie in the night of the Super Bowl and took a picture - her team didn't win but isn't she the cutest?!
We can't easily attend things like a pro-life march downtown so we made up our own signs and walked around the house for a little while in silence.
Mommy's birthday - the kids all made me special drawings.
This is a really sweet picture of Ellie and her Grandma ♥.
Mommy and Daddy go on a date - a play we saw back in 1998 in Athens was at a local theater. A 20 year college graduation anniversary! We had alot of fun.
The next morning we were having a slow start when our family had a little emergency. On the day of Xavier's 11th birthday party, he sustained a minor injury in the kitchen that caused him to faint and hit his head on the kitchen floor. Pretty traumatic for everyone. I am beyond relieved to say tests didn't show anything too serious and even though we had to stay in the hospital for a night (very tough for him), he is perfectly fine.
Here he is the next day taking it easy having a fun dinner while watching basketball.
Ellie enjoying a popcorn snack while watching a show.
On a walk - she is getting so big that her legs are filling up her big girl stroller!
I found this picture on my phone from the last time we had a time change. Ellie fell asleep around 6:00 p.m. those first few days! We'll see how she does with "spring forward". I'm reminded of the months of October - December being a little challenging with a couple things Ellie was doing. She went through a phase where she absolutely hated being left at the house with anyone - me, Jeff, Grandma. It didn't matter - she wanted to go with whoever left the house! When Jeff left with the older three - that was the worst. She'd cry for the entire time, sometimes 3 hours! Nothing would console her. It was so painful! But, that is alllllll over and now she says, "bye" and is off to play or resume her show or dump out all her matchbox cars. Glad that ended.
I had to put this picture on here. Xavier is following concussion protocol and can't do any physical activity for 2 weeks. Very hard for an 11 year old boy! So he's watching his soccer games from the bench. Yesterday, Julia wore his jersey for her game - his number 18. She scored two goals for Xavier! It was very neat.
