7!

We have two brand spanking new Seven year olds in the house! We enjoyed a weekend filled with friends, aunties, uncles, cakes, art, music, dancing, hugs and kisses. Thank you for Celebrating with us! oxo

BIG day tomorrow!

Mimi's PORT is coming out!

She has known that once she no longer needs chemo the port will come out. She also always said she wanted it out before her 7th birthday. We met with the pediatric surgeon and although he wanted to wait until after her birthday, so she won't be sore for her birthday, she insisted she wanted it before.

Tomorrow, December 1st, Mimi is scheduled in the operating room at 11:30am. She will go under general anesthesia and the surgeon will try to use the same incision they used to insert the port, for minimal scars. The surgery itself should not take more than an hour. Mimi is hoping to keep her port read below to find out why...

"My Port" by Mimi, almost 7

"What is a SuperSib" by Iza

White Halloween!

On Saturday the three Princesses and I were at the annual Costume Bowl held by Griffin's Friends. Thank you Griffin's Friends and volunteers! The girls always look forward to bowling with our clinic friends every year! This year Iza has shown a hidden talent, she seems to magically make the ball do whatever she needs it to do. She won twice!

At some point while we were bowling big giant white fluffy snowflakes started coming and covering the ground, turning the outdoors into winter wonderland. It was really pretty but also very strange seeing the fall colored leaves covered by snow. Due to the cold and snow the last soccer game of the season was cancelled and so was their schools Pumpkin Festival. Good thing though because winter wonderland turned a little scary, all the heavy snow was too much for the trees that still had leaves, all night we kept hearing branches snapping and trees falling. There were a lot of power outages and power lines down on the streets. We stayed home and when it got too chilly we went to my parents who somehow did not lose their power. Everyone was safe. Monday school got cancelled, Halloween was a day off. Miss MagiBoo got to spend the day with her family and friends, we will always remember her 4th birthday as the Snowy Halloween complete with a SNOWkin made by Toto.

Happy 4th Birthday Magi!!! You are our little Treat :)

6 1/2

Happy half birthday! In 6 months I will have a set of 7 year olds! Seems crazy, a good crazy. The girls celebrated by bringing muffins and cookies to school.

Crazy is also one of the words to describe yesterday's weather happenings. It was hot, humid and unbearable, with warnings and alerts of tornadoes, that I am sure a lot of people dismissed at first. Tornadoes is not something we worry about here, snow storms are more our thing. When I came home around 4:20 everyone was cranky due to the heat. We decided to go out for dinner to support “Allie’s 5 O’Clock Fund” Right before we were to leave My mom called to put the TV on, I could not believe what I was seeing, live coverage of a tornado going through the highway and crossing over to downtown Springfield which is just miles from our house. We made sure everyone we knew in that area was okay. It looked like the weather seemed to calm down, so we did go out to dinner, sounds silly now. The weather got bad again we waited it out while eating dinner, the kids were distracted enough in the loud restaurant that they did not seem too scared at the time. When we returned home and everyone had a hard time falling asleep, including me thinking of our friends who were effected by the tornado.

Happy Birthday to the youngest!

Little Miss Magi spent her first day being three today with her big sisters, buddies, aunties, uncles, Babcia & Dziadziu. Of course there was way too much food but it was all yummy!



When Magi was born one of the nurses told me Magi will be a wonderer, a traveler. For a while I thought she got her all wrong. She was not into walking until much later, she didn't really talk early. Well All that changed and she has grown so much this past year and not just in shoe size. She talks like she is much older than she is, sometimes I forget how old she really is. She is very independent, although she pretends she is not and likes things done for her. She is our little fire cracker our little BOO!

Happy Third Birthday my tiny monkey!

Magi and her Giant Birthday Doughnut.

Asleep on the couch with some of her favorite things bunny she called bear forever and her night-night

Happy Fifth Birthday Tomorrow!

It was so hard to hold back tears, laugh out loud,

and to wonder about every picture I just looked through,

on all three hard drives of pictures...

I love it all and I am thankful for every day of the last five years.
The sleepless nights of double colic babies, synchronized naps and nursing times, endless giggles, Hugs, 9 month old runners, Hugs, "Capu Capu" Time (aka bath time), Diaper heads, finger painting, wall painting, self painting, Iza's MEAN face, Mimi's numerous silly faces, Hugs, Tea Parties, Hugs, Being Princesses, playing with Princesses, watching Princesses, daily adventures, Bubbles, tantrums (yes I even love those), couch time with two and now three... I can go on for hours and pages.

Happy Birthday Girls!!!
I can't wait to kiss you in the morning!!!

(I am sure I will sneak in before I go to bed)