We had a VERY VERY busy March...Van was sick fro about 24-25 days out of the month between 2 ear infections, roseola, chicken pox, fever viruses I had all I could take of that month! We celebrated his and my birthday, both monumental ones, a visit and first meeting for him, from his Paw Paw and MelMaw who live in Texas (Antho's Dad and his wife), ballet classes, play groups.....I am very ready for a much less busy time. But I don't see that coming soon, and I think i can pretty much count on being busy for the next 18 years!
Lilly is all enrolled for Kindergarten this fall and very excited. She will be attending Central Christian, where her cousin Emma has gone for the past 8 years. It is taking me some time to get used to even the idea of her going to school. So please, Moms out there who have school children I am open to ALL kinds of advice!! I frequently have little mini anxiety attacks, silly I know, about her being away from me for an entire day where I have absolutely no control over what she says, what she does, how she behaves, how she treats others, her attitude. I guess this is where I have to start trusting our job as her parents and how we have raised her. Which i totally do, just nerve racking. lol I can't believe my first born is headed off to school in a few months. I remember holding and rocking her one night the first week she was home. I t was a late night feeding, of course, and I was just finishing up rocking her back to sleep when it was as if she was staring straight into my eyes knowing what I was thinking. I looked at her and said to her, 'One day you are going to be headed off to school and you will be the smartest little girl there.' And here we are, headed to school this fall and I can still say the same, she will be the smartest little girl in the class!
Ok I am getting off track...We have added a new member to our family!
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Lilly's school had a silent/live auction last week for a fundraiser and we knew a puppy would be there. I had started kind of dinging my wonderful husband that we maybe could possibly bid on the 6 week old pure bred golden retriever. He reluctantly agreed. Or was it all just a macho show? hhmmmmmm j/k! I have never been to an auction before so I was pretty excited to see how it was gonna go. And there we found ourselves right in the middle of Storage Wars! Yuuuuup! Before we knew it we had won the puppy! I couldn't believe it and by the look on Anthony's face, neither could he! I went to get Lilly from childcare and she had asked if we won the puppy or not. I, being a mom who does what it is we do best, redirected her attention to something else. lol We got over to where the puppy was stayign in her kennel and I told her to start thinking of names cuz we won. She broke down in tears, covering her face with her hands just saying over and over again "I can't believe it, did we really win? Oh my goodness" It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. Priceless!
We had to leave that night without the puppy cuz she wasn't quite 6 weeks yet. In fact we just went tonight to pick it out from the litter of 8, 4 boys and 4 girls. We chose a girl, who took to Lilly pretty fast. I had my mom go with me to help me look at them. She has been doing this her whole life and has a pretty keen eye for dogs, so I thought I better take her along before I pick the barky one or something. lol Lil was simply in love with her pick. She put on the fusia rhinestone collar and that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship between those two! :) We haven't named her yet but we have soem ideas we are throwing around.
I have now officially joined the millions of other americans that are known as "Pet Owners." It looks like this is going to be a very busy summer for us!
