Egg Adventure

We had our city egg adventure. It was not an egg hunt, it was more like trick or treating with eggs filled with little cheap toys. It was fun, we got lots of free crackers and cookies and other freebies. We also got our picture taken with the Easter Bunny. We were not planning on being in the picture, but Celeste was terrified of the bunny. Check out her open mouth (screaming).

Disney on Ice

We requested tickets from Shawn's work for Disney on Ice. We never know if we get the tickets until the day of the performance (or game). We only got 4 tickets so we found someone to watch Celeste (sleep) while we took the boys. It was so fun and the boys loved it even though it was a little heavy on the princesses. We had great seats and so much fun. Next time we'll have to take Celeste since she'd love all the princesses.

Fort Worth Zoo

Shawn had to work during spring break, but he took off one day so we could go to the Fort Worth Zoo. I will not be attending the zoo again during spring break. It was crazy busy. We barely had room to maneuver the stroller. It was difficult to step back when taking a picture. It was just super crowded. It was still fun to look at all the animals and this year Celeste was very interested in the animals.

Ice Hockey Game

Shawn's work gave us free tickets to watch the Dallas Stars. It was fun, but the camera died before I could get a picture of the hockey.

Our Garden

Last year we planted 2 tomato plants in a planter and only got flowers that wilted. Not one tomato. At Thanksgiving my dad gave us a topsy turvy. We bought one for strawberries (the red one) and another for tomatoes. One topsy turvy had regular big tomatoes and one had cherry tomatoes.

June update: I think our strawberries are about done giving us fruit. We only had a handful to eat. Hopefully next year we can do better. We've gotten several cherry tomatoes already and the plant has close to 20 growing. Our big tomato plant had 1 tomato for the longest time. It was only a day or two away from picking when I discovered something had beaten me to it. Our very expensive tomato was ruined. I ended up throwing it away because it was a free meal to some little creature. I was super sad, not to mention a very expensive little tomato. The little creature has now started on our cherry tomatoes too. Any ideas to keep it away (we are thinking squirrel)? On a happy note, our big tomato plant is now growing 1 more tomato. Guess it can only handle one at a time.

Playground Fall

We were at a park for a playgroup and Celeste and Wade were off playing with several of the kids that were there. I was chatting with the moms and didn't have my full attention on the kids when one of the mothers tells me Celeste just fell. I walk no run over to her (not thinking it was too bad) and pick her up off the wood chips and carry her back to the table. I hold her for maybe 5 minutes and notice her face is a little beat up from being attacked by the wood chips when she landed on the ground. She's calmed down and she wanted to go back and play. One of the moms mentioned that her left arm looked funny. She could move it and I let her go back to playing. So after coming home and eating lunch, I noticed Celeste kept favoring her left arm. She would still use it but then would bring it close to her body and hold it with her right arm. She wouldn't use it to bear her body weight (like pushing herself up from sitting on the floor) or pulling herself up on the chair. I was pretty worried and called the doctor. We'd never seen this doctor and our old doctor kicked us out of his practice, but they said we could come in NOW in case we need to get x-rays. I had a hard time finding someone to pick up Treyton from school in 1/2 an hour. Finally I got a hold of someone and was off to the doctor's office. They were really good about getting us in on short notice. Celeste cried and screamed no matter where the doctor touched on her arm. He wasn't convinced anything was really wrong and told us we should wait and watch it and come back if necessary tomorrow. I "knew" something was wrong, but I went along with the doctor. I went to pick Treyton up from a friend's house and Celeste went to play on their swingset. She still favored her arm, but didn't let that stop her from playing. She even hung from the rings. The next day I took Celeste to Target and she was running in the aisle and she fell down and caught herself with her hands. She started crying which was a huge sign to me that something was very wrong. She never cries when she falls down and she falls down all the time. The doctor's office was just down the road from Target, so I decided to just take her there right then and get x-rays. The doctor's office called me for the follow-up call while I was sitting in the waiting room. Once again they got us back to be seen quickly and sent us to get x-rays at the hospital. (We just switched insurances and found out the hard and expensive way that multiple doctor visits =multiple co-pays and hospital x-rays are completely out of pocket--yikes!)

I got a phone call an hour or two later that indeed she had broken her arm and we had to venture out again to the doctor's office to get her arm splinted and call to get her arm casted at another doctor's office. I pretty much got nothing done these last few days except back and forth to doctor's offices with Celeste. She learned very quickly that every time we went to the doctor's office she got a sucker. They gave her a sucker while they put the splint on and she got another one on the way out the door. She wore the cover that first day and I took it off that night to sleep and she never wanted it back on.

You can see above her lip where the wood chips got her.
She fell on Thurs. March 4, got her splint of Friday, March 5 and finally casted Tuesday, March 9. She was so good about getting her cast on, held very still, held the padding for the nurse and even helped pat the cast and rubbed it with lotion afterward. The cast does not bother her at all, only bothers me (like bath time and dressing her). She calls it her band-aid and even picked out her special pink color. Sorry this is so long, I wanted to get all the details down before I forget.

Everything in its Proper Place

Celeste lined up her cars in their proper place and when someone messed it up she got mad.
Intense concentration

Treyton did the very same thing when he was her age. Very cute.

March 2006