To Whom it May Concern: Please Excuse My Absence

I'm sorry I haven't been around for a while! Please allow me to explain:

I was at the hospital all day with Abby on my birthday and there's no internet access there...not even for the staff! Archaic? Why, yes, yes, it is!

Then Matt and I went to dinner with our good friends Jenn and Steven for my birthday. By the time we got home, I was too tired to post. Plus, I had to get a good night's sleep for my first day "back" to work!

So, Thursday I went to work. No, I'm not really back. We're all just taking it one day at a time and I'm working whenever I feel like I might be able to. So I worked yesterday, and will work the two days before winter break. After that, I'm not sure yet! Nevertheless, it was really nice to be back into some kind of normalcy and I have definitely missed my kids! (And yes, we did work--hard--on rise and fall climax maps and analyzing characters!)

I picked Caleb up and we high-tailed it back up to Baltimore for the RMH holiday party (which was fab-u-lous, by the way...but more on that in a different post!) When we finally retired to our room, we spent the rest of the night looking at the photos from the photography session we had back in the NICU!

So yeah, that's why I haven't been posting recently. So sorry!

But I'll have you know that Abby did, in fact, handle my inexperienced trach change just fine! I just kept telling myself that it was just like doing it on a baby doll. Oh yeah, except that I don't hold the baby doll's life in my hands!! It was really okay though, and I will feel a whole lot less nervous next time...maybe!

My birthday was nice. I spent the day rocking my girl and the evening with good friends. My present is my amazing camera...which will be my present (and Matt's!) for a very looooong time! Matt also made me a very cute calendar with lots of pictures of our family. Thanks for all of the birthday wishes!

In other news: Remember to get your questions to me by Saturday. I'll do the post Saturday night. I've gotten a few good questions and am ready and willing to answer them! :)

In other, other news: For some reason, Blogger is saying that I have run out of space to load pictures and have to purchase more space. Blog hoax? I'm not sure. Any ideas? I tried to delete a few old pictures that don't really matter, but it didn't seem to free up any space. I would love suggestions, because I miss posting pictures! In the meantime, you can go here to look at the professional pictures we had done!

Cerebrocostomandibular Syndrome

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

The Potty Man

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!

Lego Party: Favors

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

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