Nikki's video. It finally worked!

I finally got the blogger to upload one of my videos. Yay! So you get to see Nikki's dance after all. Enjoy!

Primary Talent Show

Tonight our ward had a primary talent show and Nikki signed up to do a dance. At first she was going to dance by herself but when I started asking her this morning which song she wanted to dance to for the talent show that night she began to get nervous. I had seen on facebook that a friend of hers was going to dance too so I called her up to see if they could dance together. They said yes and so we went over to their house in the afternoon to practice with the song they had already picked out. It was the "ABC song". So yes, it only lasted about 30 seconds but Nicole said it was long enough for her. I think it helped a lot that she was able to practice before and that she wasn't doing it alone. She had fun and did a great job! Especially considering she's never had a dance lesson in her life. She made all the moves up herself.

Before the show. She's ready to go!

Grandma Vernie came to watch and help with the other two kids. Thank you so much!

Garrett and I were doing the "Popcorn song". He was doing the look out the window part. It's his favorite song. Even Jack likes to do the popcorn hand motions now.

And here's the certificate all the participants received. It says "Thank you for coming! You are a star!"

The Jumpin Jungle

A new business opened recently and we finally got over to check it out. It's called the Jumpin Jungle and the kids loved it. I had a hard time getting them to leave, but I did buy the monthly pass so we'll be going again many times. It was a better deal to get the monthly pass than to just pay for one time. $16 for 3 kids for 1 day or $35 for a monthly pass to come back unlimited times for the next month Mon-Thurs. This place will come in really handy on those days my kids have lots of energy and the weather isn't good outside.

Jack spent most of his time either in this little car or on my lap.

An Eventful Week

Last night we went over to my brother's house for my nephew's birthday party. Towards the end of the night most of the kids were running up and down the stairs and making lots of noise. The next thing I know Nikki is crying pretty hard and walking down the stairs holding her hand. Somebody had slammed a bedroom door on her index and middle fingers on her left hand. So I rushed her over to the sink to wash it off. I was going to just put some ointment and a bandaid on but several people suggested that she should probably get seen because it looked like her cutical was on top of her skin and needed to be cut off or something. Quickcare was closing in 15 minutes so I rushed her over there and left the boys with the family. We barely squeezed in the door as they were closing up but while we were in the triage room the doctor came in to look at it and said she would need to have it x-rayed to be able to help her so she sent us over to the ER which was right next door. Nikki hurt and cried a lot for the first 45 minutes or so and then finally started to calm down and the pain was subsiding. So there was lots of waiting in between everything but while we were waiting in the ER we got to watch a cake decorating contest on the food network, which we both enjoyed. Then they took an x-ray of her fingers and the man told her how well she was doing at holding her fingers in position and that made her feel really good. She even got a big Tootsie Pop sucker from him after. So after the x-ray looked fine they put some ointment on her fingers and wrapped them in gauze. They said it should heal itself and the nails may fall off by themselves or have a hole in the middle area. She'll be rechecked by her pediatrician on Thursday. Nikki did very well though. After an hour she started to smile again. By the time we left she said she felt little or no pain. We were at the hospital for 2 hours. By the time we got back to my brother's house she said she had fun at the doctor's and said "this was the best day ever". If you know her, she says that a lot. ha ha

Saturday I picked up the "New Moon" movie at Walmart and had a movie watching party that night at my house. We even had themed snacks.

Carlisle's carmel to go with the apples. Wolf biscuits (mozerella sticks). Dracucakes (mini quiches). Sun chips because vampires don't go out in the sun.

Flesh and blood (chips and salsa). Stakes thru the heart (taquitos). Vampire teeth (Bugles). We also had chocolate chip muffins, sub sandwiches, and brownies. Needless to say we had lots of fun eating and watching the movie. We had tons of food and not enough mouths to eat it, lol.



Last on our crazy week was on Friday Jack saw the allergist and they did a skin test for different foods. As you can see he reacted to most of them.

With this test he was positive for allergies to milk, peanuts, cashews, egg whites (pretty much the whole egg), wheat, and soybean. The ones that came up negative were walnuts and saline. However, they told me to keep all nuts away from him and they sent me home with a EpiPen trainer. I picked up the real thing from the pharmacy. I get to carry it around now in case Jack has a bad allergic reaction and give him a shot. I also had to take him to St. Luke's to get his blood drawn for testing that way. They will get a more accurate knowledge of how allergic he is to these things. Luckily, the wheat and soy were very small reactions on the skin test so he said not to worry about those if he's already tolerating them in his diet. The main ones to worry about were the nuts, milk and eggs. However, we can challenge the egg allergy by bringing in some baked goods with egg in it to his next appointment and having him eat them while there to see if anything happens. So depending on how that goes he may or may not be able to have things with egg in it.


So it's just been one thing after another here in our family. One thing's for sure, the healthcare system is getting their money's worth out of us this past year. Thank goodness we have the insurance through Curtis's work and our own personal health coverage. I just hope nothing else comes up. Each new thing that comes up is pushing us farther away from reaching our financial goals. But all we can do is our best.