Just had to show ya...

Okay, I was going through my old pics of the house from the time we bought it till now. And wow! You oughta see some of the colors we had painted on of the bedrooms (the one that is now the girls play room). Man O' Mighty! I can't believe no one said anything!

This is how it started....

Then we painted it green. Not any shade of green either. It was actually lime a lime neon green. It was so bright that the room looked like it was glowing from the street. So John had to go through the room and give it a white wash to kill some of the neon effect. OH LORDY!

This picture is pretty funny....maybe to me, not to John. To him, this may represent the death of his bachelor hood, along with the mustard yellow corduroy pull out couch, coffee table, and his beloved TV fish tank that he built.

Then we painted it some weird red/orange/yellow looking color. I have no idea why either! Had to be John's idea! Or at least that beer sitting on the windowsill had to of had something to do with it.

I think I had it my way this time....I painted it a nice cream color. It took several coats of kilz and the behr paint to cover that read leather lookin' paint job. I ended up hating that color too. After having the room with color for so many years, I got use to it. The creamy color looked blah and dull. But clean I guess. Lookey...Spot is in the picture! I sure do miss my kitties!

Awwww, look at my Lucky!

Then after the blah color, I painted the room a nice light blue! I actually found out I was pregnant with Presley when I started paint it that color. Presley grew up with those walls that color....

And she grew attached to them. When I painted them this antique white color a couple of weeks ago, she was NOT happy at all! She wants color back on the walls. Maybe in our next house.......

So that would be the color history of this room.......pretty fun walking down memory lane.

A Tutu for Piper's Bed!

This evening I took a break from giving our house it's face lift to make Juliet a cute lil' bed skirt! It's a TUTU bed skirt! I love it and need to work to improve it a little. Presley wants one now, so I will get some practice perfecting it!

Here's Juliet lounging on her bed playing the ukulele. She'd strum it and sing, "shoo fly shoo".

After the bed skirt, I had to get back to painting.

The only thing worse than painting a ceiling is having to paint the darn thing twice! The 1st time didn't work and I had to paint the freakin' thing again!

So so far, I have painted the girls play room, my bedroom, the master bathroom, the foyer...twice...in one day, and the foyer's ceiling.

Next on my list is to paint the darn ceiling in my bedroom and then we have to move outside to start painting the outside of the house!

Okay, I need to get back to cleaning....

CHA - CHING....

Piper made her deposit of a nickel Saturday night about 9 pm.

I still can't believe it and still laugh about it. I should have known though...when thinking back she use to stuff everything in her mouth! That's why we let her have the pacifier until she was about 1 1/2 yrs old. Funny...

Here's her money. The nickel got a lil' beat up on it's journey. Looks like the acid got the best of it, especially on it's backside.

Oh and Presley says she didn't want her money back.

A Penny For Your Thoughts....

That's what the doctor said when he walked into the examining room yesterday to examine Piper. The girl swallowed a coin. I still can't believe it! Seriously, I thought I'd never be one of those parents having to take my child in for that. When it happened, I was in a panic...like OMG! You should have seen her face when it happened too. She was in as much disbelief as I was. She kept saying, "Money mouth, Scout's money mouth".

John kept trying to convince me that it's normal for kids to swallow coins. He said he swallowed several in his early years. He even told me to call my mom and ask how many I swallowed. By the way, that would be none!

Here's what happened....

Presley shook her penny bank till she could get a coin to scratch off a sticker that came in her Highlight's magazine. Piper was right behind her catching coins that fell out too. Anyways, while Presley was with me scratching off the sticker, Piper was on the floor with John stretching and arching her back over him. The coins slipped out of her hands and into her mouth. I could see it as it happened but couldn't move fast enough to block the money........ I wished I would of had some kind of speedy super powers at that moment!

Anyways, I called the doctor and took her in to get an x-ray to make sure it safely arrived in her belly and would have a smooth journey back to the outside world. The doctor said there was only one coin and everything looks okay.

And Piper is doing fine today! She's keeping Presley's coin in a safe place for a couple of days.

Do you see the coin????

BAD GIRL!

Look what Maggie Bell did!

Camping

Over this past weekend we finally got to go on our camping trip at Lake Ray Roberts. It was short lived for the girls and I but while we were there we had fun!

Presley woke up Friday morning telling me her teeth hurt...I'd tap and tap them and she couldn't tell me which one hurt. So I dismissed the pain...and told her I'd take her to the dentist on Monday. Then when we finally got out there to Lake Ray Roberts, she started grabbing her mouth crying telling me her teeth really really hurt! So I take another look and see a big sore on the side of her tongue. At first sight it looked like she just bit it but as the day and night went on, the sore got larger and larger and the pain got worse and she wouldn't eat or drink. It was so painful to her! I felt awful! I told her I'd take her back to Dallas in the morning to see the doctor. She wanted to stay and be brave for the rest of the weekend...but I couldn't let her be in that kind of pain all weekend long.

After we got the kids to sleep Friday night, John, David, and Nicky took a long bike ride down some sandy paths....they were kinda huffin' and puffin' when they returned. Also when John rode back up to camp in the dark, Maggie wanted a piece of him. She didn't recognize him at all. She was growling and showing teeth and everything! I was so proud of her! It was very weird that she did that too....I was just telling Liza before that happened that she was lover and not a fighter and a worthless guard dog! But now I know different! And while they were gone, Liza and I finished off the Kahlua and had a beer. We talked and giggled all night long, at least til 4 in the morning.

So, we head to bed and I wake up at 7 with Presley crying. I just threw on my clothes and grabbed her and headed back to the house to shower and get to the doctors office. Her lymph nodes had gotten huge during the night too. So when we got to see the doctor, she looked at her tongue and diagnosed her with a mouth ulcer and then did a strep test (it's pretty protocol there) and surprisingly it came back positive! The doc and I were bother very surprised. So that was it....no more camping for us that weekend. Presley was devastated! We went out there to get out stuff and grab Piper and Maggie. While I was doing that, I asked John to take Presley on some trails with her bike, just to make leaving a little easier for her.

Anyways, like I said, we had fun while we were there. We missed out on smores and the big breakfast though. :( There's always next time!

Here are some of our pics!

We had that truck packed full! Poor thing was putt putting along!

See how excited the girls are to get to go camping!

Juliet is just double checking that John hammered the stakes good into the ground.

Maggie trying to snag some of Presley's food.

We walked to the beach with the girls. It wasn't bad walking there, but walking back in wet flip flops was a different story.

Maggie is not a water dog! She was ready to get out of there!

Presley's self photography

Saturday, lunch time!

Not sure who he is sticking his tongue at...

Road runner!

John wanted to take the girls on a hike before I took them home.

Presley's photography, pine cones hanging from the tree.
Pretty cool!

Presley's photography, horse poop.....

And lastly, Presley snapped a shoot of this fireplace.

When we got home, I bathed all the girls including Maggie, fed them, played with them, and put them to bed.

So I ended my Saturday night with the girls all snug in there bed and Maggie Bell and I snuggled on the couch and watched Marley & Me. OMG that was sooooo sad! Maggie tried cheering me up by licking the tears from face. What a sweet puppy!

Plano Pediatric Imaging Center

Presley had to go in for a test to make sure she has no reflux in her bladder/kidneys. And to see if there was another reason as to why she may be having all these darn UTI's. 1st she had an ultrasound and then a VCUG. She did great during both and everything was normal! The kid is healthy as a horse (as Dr. Lu would say).

This is her post ultrasound....see, all smiles.

Just got done with the VCUG and sleeping off the gas. She didn't like the smell of the gas and fought us a little. She said it smelled like garbage. She was a trooper though and stuck with it for as long as she could.

Just waking up & a lil loopy. She said, "hey, where's the medicine and the x-ray machine??? Did I just fall asleep? I was really tired!"

Ready to go home! And so happy!


Plano Pediatric Imaging Center was so great with her! She has a great experience!