Before and After....

Before...

After...


I need to get a picture of it when it is dry. The curls are now huge! I guess because all the extra weight is gone. What prompted this move? It's actually been something that Dolan and I have been talking about for weeks. Hannah refuses to leave hair ties in, rubs food in her hair, and chews on her hair. It was time to say good-bye. We kept the "first" haircut pony-tail. It measures 7 inches! WOW!

We've adopted!!!

We are adoptive parents!

We received the phone call a couple of weeks ago. On the other end was a desperate plea. They needed to find a good loving home for these babies quick. That's right! BABIES!

Well, we picked them up and fell in love! Bright blue eyes! Imagine! We are going from brown eyes to blue! This will take quite a bit of adjustment but so far everything is working out. Hannah absolutely loves them and is extremely protective! She also likes nurturing all four of them.

Our barns and out buildings are going to be mice free before too long! Imagine! No mice! What a thought.

*What? Did you think we were talking about human babies?

"The Babysitter"...

The weather was absolutely beautiful this morning. Hannah and I headed outside to play, camera in tow. Hannah was in quite a pleasant mood this morning. Here are some pictures of her playing with Izzy the cat and some "pity!" yellow flowers. As you can tell by the photos, Hannah enjoyed pulling the flowers off of the stems.

Hannah with Izzy. We jokingly call Izzy "the babysitter". While outside, we can always find Hannah just by looking for the cat. She will follow him everywhere! Izzy does a great job of leading her to safe areas to play.

Hannah had to smell the flower. Don't let this photo deceive you. She had already separated the flower from the stem.

I have to explain. This is Hannah doing the "Itsy bitsy spider". The sun had just come out and was drying all the rain!
Flower popping Hannah!

I love this smile! I actually caught her off guard so she didn't have her weird smile face on.

Hannah's hat...

I am amazed at what a "girlie" girl Hannah is. She loves to dress up, wear hats, necklaces, bracelets, and carry hand bags. This was one of her hat moments.

Her smile is a little wonky as well. She goes into weird smile mode as soon as she sees the camera.

Monkey see, Monkey do...

While Jasmyn was covering and decorating textbooks Hannah wouldn't leave her alone. So Hannah got her own paper and colors.

Monkey See...

Monkey do...

Whatever you can do...

I can do better...

And this is Hannah being very protective of her "buke".

Dilemma...

Back in January Jasmyn had a series of tests done to try and figure out what was causing her to have migraines. They didn't find any cause. She will just be a person who suffers with migraines. We have accepted this and moved on...until recently. We had found a medicine that actually made her migraines tolerable. The doctor had been giving us samples of this medicine. Since school was about to start I had to actually get a prescription filled so that she could take her medicine at school. I went to the store to pick up her prescription only to find out that insurance won't cover it. They say that this medicine should only be used as a last resort. They will only cover it after we have tried other, less potent medicines. So the doctor was informed and we received a different prescription. Friday, Jasmyn ended up with one of her really bad migraines that made her nauseous and not able to function. She had took her new prescription and it was absolutely no help. So, home from school she went. I am at an indecisive point right now. I know that the school requires a prescription to be in a prescription bottle with the child's name on it, but right now I am really wanting to just send her to school with the samples in her book-bag so they are available to her, but then we run into the chance of getting in trouble. I would purchase the prescription but without insurance covering the cost, it would be way out of our price range at the moment. What am I to do? I don't want her to miss a day of school every week or two because of these. I also don't like seeing her in that much pain. No parent should have to watch their child suffer so.

Creative...

Jasmyn has traded in her crayons, markers, and colored pencils for computer programs. She has discovered the world of "Photoshop". She had asked me what I liked for style one day while she watched me playing on "photoshop" and then she disappeared. About 30 minutes later I received an e-mail from her with this enclosed. A career in web page design is in the making.