Pumpkin Patch Picnic

One of our favorite things to do is go to the pumpkin patch across the street from the girls school and have lunch with friends!  It also lends itself to some really cute photos- when my settings are right :)

 

Callie’s School Birthday Party

Think she enjoyed herself?!

Birthday Party!

This year we (I) kept it pretty low key for the girl’s birthday party.  Being pregnant I just didn’t have the energy to do a big blow out like they had last year.  However, I don’t think they minded one bit and had a blast just the same! We had it at a local park and fun was had by all!

Chicago

We headed up to Chicago with my parents for the True Value Hardware Show.  We had been to Chicago  before for my cousins wedding but we had never been to a hardware show before.

They have just about everyone thing at the show, even cute little ducks :)

We were at the show a good bit of the time, but we did manage to have some fun too!  Pizzaeria Uno is delicious!

Even made it to a Cubs game, perfect weather for it

My cousin and his wife live there so we got to spend the afternoon with them.  They are a ton of fun and love visiting when we can!

Dinner at the Big Star, every had yummy beer/margaritas, I had a coke- boo

Already trying to finagle our way back to the next Chicago show, so fun :)

First Day of Dance

The girls were so excited to start another year of dance! This is Chloe’s first year going, she’s been wanting to go for a while now.  Chloe’s class is Kinder Moves 1 and she gets to do tap and ballet. Callie’s is Kinder Moves 2 and she does tap, ballet and tumble!

First Day of School!

Oh how I love EDS!  We have missed our friends and I’m not sure who was more excited about going back to school- me or the girls!  It’s Chloe’s first year at EDS, she’s going into the Twos.  Callie is going into the Fours. 

I pray that they always love school this much!!

MUSC Visit

We were able to get an appointment with MUSC pretty quickly, which was nice.  Chloe wasn’t all that excited to have all the attention on her, can’t say that I blame  her.  After getting her height, weight, temperature and blood pressure taken went and waited on the Dr.  We are lucky enough to have two Dr.s working on her case, Dr. Murray Passo and Dr. Laura Parks, Passo’s fellow, and we love them both.  They looked Chloe over and determined that she does have arthritis in her right knee and in her fourth toe on her left foot.  They call her type Oligoarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.  Which means that its in less than 5 joints (which is good).  She needed some blood work taken, which she did not like, to make sure all her blood count levels were good so she could receive a cortisone shot and fluid extraction from that knee. They wanted to do it at MUSC but we were able to talk them into letting us do it at the Children’s Hospital here.  We learned that she could outgrow this, 50% chance, but could also develop more joints.  There is no cure, just treatment of a joint once it becomes inflamed.  She will also have to have eye exams every few months since arthritis can effect the eyes without any symptoms.  We are very hopeful and optimistic that she will do well with the treatment plan we’ve started.  Thanks for the prayers for our Chloe, we know God has big plans for this sweet girl!