Foto Friday

Just pictures today of my sweetie.  She was sick a lot of the week so we got in lots of cuddles but I hated her feeling badly.  I'm excited for the weekend!

Oh my.  Be still my heart :)

Love her.

Happy Birthday, Granddaddy!

Happy Birthday Granddaddy! We love you! 89 years ago you were born and we are all so glad! Without you none of us would be here. Seriously, though, you are a blessing to all of us. I love getting to see you often since we live only an hour apart, and I LOVE seeing Savannah watching you and getting to know you! So many people live so far from their grandparents these days and I feel very lucky to have you so close. Anna and I are so lucky to have a 'second set of parents' in you and Grandmother growing up-y'all never missed our events or birthdays or special occasions.  I can surely speak for Anna too, we both appreciate you so much.  You've always been there for us and shown us unconditional love.  Easter is coming up and I remember you always hiding eggs for me around the yard all afternoon, so I am looking forward to you hiding some eggs for Savannah this Easter! (She has figured out what Easter eggs are since I put our the Easter decor this week, and she LOVES them, carrying them all over the house!)

We hope you have a great day and are so glad we got to celebrate with you last night!  (also, happy 15 months to my sweet little girl!)

2-year old fit.  Mama has to join in the photos to get them done. (yes my 15 month old is
 in the "throws" of the terrible twos with her fit "throwing" hah!) 

Also, since it's your birthday and you love jokes, you might find these funny.  And Grandad too.  :)

Weekend Wrap-Up

We had a productive weekend around here! I'm happy to report that the dish fairy, coat rack fairy, and the pantry fairy all did visit Birc and me in our sleep apparently because we found the motivation to get our whole house cleaned and some other projects that have been waiting to get finished are all done now.  I took absolutely no pictures except some of Savannah after church this morning.  Cutie in her Little Bo Peep smock! Unfortunately she's a SERIOUS moving target and I basically couldn't even get a smile with a clear shot.  Ah well...

Friday Fairies

I need some fairies at my house.  Dish fairies. Pantry fairies.  Coat Rack fairies.  Can anyone point me to some?

Seriously, though, this week has been crazy busy and I have not had 5 minutes to do anything productive.  [and if I have, I have decided to rest and sit down for those 5 minutes instead]  I am looking forward to the weekend when I can catch back up and my house won't look like a tornado hit it! Have a great weekend!

Cuteness.

I might have used that title before for a post but that is just because Savannah emits such cuteness and I can't help but call it like I see it!  Here she is the other day in her tie-dyed shirt from CC and Grandad, in her cheerleading pose.  

And here she is rocking her Glo Worm in her rocking chair.  While singing "rock-a, rock-a, rock-a" (she hears us sing "rock-a bye baby" but only gets out the first part when she repeats us) This is right after we visited a new baby at the hospital who had just been born and she pointed to him and said "babee? babee!" no less than 1,965 times while we were there for twenty minutes.  She loves babies!

sweet girl.

And the news is...

All good! Not perfect but we'll definitely take it! Savannah used to have hydronephrosis on both kidneys when they first found last year, it but now one kidney has healed on it's own without medical intervention over the past year! YAHOO! And her other kidney is "the same if not better-and definitely not worse" so that is great news! She is getting taken off of her daily antibiotic which I am thrilled about because her risk for infection is so much lower now.  The doc said that she has a 70% chance of growing out of this completely by age 5 and Birc and I about cried! We are so happy she's growing out of this yucky condition and we're also glad she's getting off the daily antibiotic.  She did fairly well during the tests, all things considering, and was such a trooper for the whole event.  Every time someone came in a door in an exam room (we were in many different ones) she tensed up though and starting clinging to me and her Flopsy.  But you couldn't even tell she had had a rough day by the time the evening came around.  She was my Spunky Spicy Savannah.  :) We love her so much and I am so glad the tests are over for the next year.  Yahoo! Here are some pics of my little patient. :)

pitiful

We try not to give her our phones to play with but this was an extreme situation and she loved it :)

new toys that the nurses let her play with!

Hold Me Mama.

all done with tests and Daddy showing her the fishies while we waited to talk to her urologist.

YAY! Thanks for the prayers and good thoughts you guys-we definitely felt them and they were heard because she is healing!

Tuesday

Well, the dreaded day is here.  Savannah is having her big once-a-year tests today on her kidneys. I am so nervous and ready for it to all be over for the next 365 days.  We'll be at Children's Hospital from around 9 until at least 2 with tests and appointments with doctors.  Might as well focus on something happier, her PIGTAILS. Oh my the cuteness. I showed them yesterday on here but I'll post some more pics now just for my own enjoyment.  I'll let you know how the tests go.  Say a prayer that her kidney condition is gone or at least getting less severe.  Thanks y'all.