Teddy Bear days

Again, I am going to start with today and work backwards. I guess that is just how my memory works best!

Today we had another wonderful family day. Hubby had the idea this morning to take the girls to the zoo. It was "Teddy Bear Day" today. Which means you bring a teddy bear, or favorite stuffed animal, and they have staff on hand to help fix any "boo-boo's" your animal might have. Kasey brought her Hokie Bird and Courtney didn't have a stuffed animal with her (long story) so they gave her a little tiny teddy bear to take in. The lady who gave her the Teddy Bear told her that the teddy bear fell off the swing. When you check in they ask you what happened to your friend, so you tell them, they fill out a form and send you to where you need to go. We said that Hokie feel out of the nest. So they sent us over to x-ray. X-ray consisted of a desk lamp that turned off and on with a box over it, but the kids don't really know. The x-ray techs had some photocopies of x-rays to hand out saying what the problem was and then told the kids where to go. Courtney's Teddy broke his foot and hand, and needed to be splinted. Kasey's Hokie had a bump on the head. So, we took them to see two nurses who splinted Teddy's Foot and put his arm in a sling, and the other one put a bandage on Hokie's head. It was very cute. Courtney also asked for her Teddy to have a shot when she saw some syringes on the table. This is the girls watching their animals get fixed up:


They had several booths to walk around and look at and get goodies from. They also had an ambulance for the kids to get in and look around. So, Courtney and I got in and looked around and she asked lots of questions about it. The EMT on duty was very kind in answering all her questions. Hopefully it takes some of the scariness out of it for her God forbid she ever need to be in one.

Here are the girls at the zoo today:
Yesterday a friend of Hubby's from his days at Virginia Tech came to visit. He is in the Air Force and he and his wife and step-son are relocating here, he got stationed at Schriever. So, I spent the day cleaning the house, and then they arrived for dinner. It was nice to meet them, they were a very nice family. They also brought their dog, as they are staying in a hotel at the moment. She wasn't dog friendly, so we had to keep our dogs looked outside while she was inside, but it all worked out ok.

Friday I got my first hike in of the season. Which is a bummer that I had to wait so long, but I finally got an opportunity! My friend Trisha has 2 early teenagers from a previous marriage, and a 4 year old. Courtney and Trisha's daughter Maddison get along well, and are in some of the same classes at church. So, I brought the girls over to Trisha's house and her older kids watched the younger kids while we went for a nice hike. We hiked at Red Rock Canyon, which I had never been to before! There are so many trails in there! It was awesome. I can't wait to go back there someday, it was beautiful. This coming Friday we are going to hike in Cheyenne Canyon.

A few days ago we had some excitment around here. About 9am Courtney noticed a baby bird on our front lawn. He (we called him a he, who knows what he really was) hung around all day. He was a robin, and mama bird was hanging around too. We saw her feed him once. And she was sitting on the fence most of the day. He eventually hopped through a gap in our fence and into our backyard. He hopped all around our backyard. Our friend Kim and her 2 girls were here for a while, so the girls had a blast watching him all day. We had a pretty heavy rainfall that afternoon, and he looked miserable. We eventually called our vet and asked her what we could do. She informed us that unfortunately not very much. We put out a small box, on it's side, and using gloves put the baby bird in the box. By the time we did this in the evening, he really wasn't looking so good. Hubby and I were pretty sure he wasn't going to make it thought the night. The next morning Hubby went outside to check on the baby bird, sure enough, he had expired. He took the box and put it in the trash. We didn't let Courtney look in the box, Hubby told her that the bird finally flew away. Yes, we lied, but in this case we figure it saves just a little bit of heartache.

Here's the baby bird!:

On a happy note, Hubby got his motorcycle fixed. Well, kind of. He had a fuel injection light that was on and would not go off. Thankfully it was still on when we dropped it off. But guess what, when they went to plug the bike in to their fancy machine to get the code to tell them why the light was on, it went off. They tried multiple times, over multiple days to try to get it to come back on. No such luck. So after several days of the bike being at the shop, they called and said, "sorry dude, we can't help ya!" We went and picked up the bike and all seems fine now.

Last week Courtney went to see her neurologist. We took a copy of her MRI, which looked great. Well, I should say her brain looked great. Apparently her nasal cavities did not. Her nasal cavities showed major infections. But she had NO symptoms of it! Her neurologist said that she needed to see an ENT right away. I called her ENT the next day and they didn't have any openings for 3 weeks. I left a message for the nurse who called back and said that the doctor said to see our pediatrician immediately and still come to see him in 3 weeks. So, we saw her pediatrician a few days later. Her pediatrician was quite upset that the MRI showed the infection that was really bad, but that Courtney had no outward signs of it. She said that really worried her. She put Courtney on an antibiotic and a nasal spray. We will see what her ENT says in a few weeks.

Back to her neurologist, he is still pretty sure that she has a form of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). She does not have the hyperactivity that most people expect, but he is pretty sure that's what she has. We start seeing a new behavioral therapist this upcoming week.

The 4th of July was last week. We went down to my folks' house for it. Susan and Zak were down from Greeley. We also had our cadet Grant with us from the Academy. It was a beautiful (and HOT) day. We spent most of the evening outside. About 9:10pm we walked over to the dam to watch the Country Club's fireworks and the Broadmoor's fireworks. The girls loved them! It was Kasey's first time seeing them and she LOVED them! Here she is on the 4th teasing Phoebe with bubbles. Both of them love bubbles:


Last blog post I mentioned how I was worried about how Courtney would do at VBS. Turns out I really had nothing to worry about. She LOVED it! I had to drag her out of the backyard of the lady's house every day! And on Friday they throw a big party down at the church. The kids sing the songs they learned and then they got to go crazy. There was a bounce house, ice cream sundae's, crafts, tattoos, and a movie of all the kids from the week with popcorn! It was fun, Courtney really enjoyed it, and Kasey did too. She just has to do everything that big sissy does!

Recently I finished the book "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. WOW, what a good book. I highly recommend it!

Well, I think that's about all I have for now!