MIA

Hello!
I've been missing in action on the computer front. Sometimes life happens, and it gets in the way of blogging. I feel like such a slacker. I'm going to try and blog some of the fun things so I don't forget, but this is just what has happened in the past two days.

P.S. If you don't read this post, that's fine. Just check out my little Ruby on the video at the end.

Zane woke up on Monday morning, saying that his arm hurt. I looked at it, and it was like a Popeye arm. He had this big bulge on his forearm. There was a bite mark but I didn't know what kind of bug or spider got him. I put ice on it and Monday we gave him benadryl. Lewis took a pen and circled the redness so we could see how far it spread over night. (We learned this trick during Sweet Lew's staph infection). It had grown quite a bit, and it was really hot this morning. He had not had a fever, or any barfing. I was still nervous today so I took him to the doc. His doctor said that he was bitten by a mosquito!? Zane's body just has a funny reaction to mosquito bites. This picture really does not do it justice, and he would not stop wiggling. He has some meaty arms anyway, but that's a bit too swollen!

Now, the other fun thing the past two days...
Ruby graduated from preschool! I think I am having a difficult time with her growing up. I'm mentally challeneged lately. It has all happened so fast. She was just born a few weeks ago! I was just so worried about how I was going to get her off the bottle and now I'm worried about how she is going to deal with going to kindergarten! Sometimes it feels like an out of body experience. Like I am watching all of this happen. I will be fixing my kids lunch and sub consciously thinking that I'm still 17 and getting excited to watch a movie with my friends could the mom of these kids come to pick them up? And then I watch my prescious baby girl stand up on a stage and belt out a sweet little tune and I just want to hold her all over again. Oh how I miss cuddling her in the middle of the night!

Anyway, let me tell you how awesome this preschool is! They have a program that the kids preform. Each kid has a solo to sing. They dance and sing. The boys and girls dance together. It is so sweet and so amazing what they can get these kids to do! I love Aunt Sand's preschool.
This is a picture of Ruby and her friends after the program; Baylee, Ruby and Shannon.

This is Ruby, Baylee and Brynlee.

All these girls did an incredible job in the program. They even had a super stressful day. They went to school. Came home, had lunch and obeyed teachers orders and took a rest. Ruby listened so well that she took an hour nap! Sweet! All four girls then had to go to the rehearsal for dance class. This was at Hunter High. It started at 4. They had to learn the finale and run through it a few times. They then had to do their dance on stage. Thankfully Shellie (the owner of the dance studio) is very willing to help us and made their dance #2. Our sweet cousins teach there as well and helped us get out of there as soon as possible. I raced Ruby to the elementary school and stuffed chicken nuggets down her throat. Parked in front of the school and stripped Ruby down to her underwear. She was wearing dance clothes and had to have on her pretty dress for the program. We dressed in record time and had her in the doors by 5:45. Whew!

Here is a short, short video of Ruby singing her solo. She had a few other parts, but this is all I will include on my blog. She is Mulan. Ruby loves to sing and I am so proud of her. I think we will be watching her sing a lot more in the future.

Oh yea, this is our little family.