Beautiful Blue Eyes

Audrey may end up having surgery on her eyes. She has had a blocked tear duct since she was born. It doesn't really seem to bother her much but her right eye waters a lot and there is often a tear on her cheek. It's only been in her right eye but I recently noticed her left eye watering too. She did already have an appointment with an opthamologist about a month ago. She said since her symptoms are mild (her eye doesn't get goopy and crusty) she wanted to give her three more months before we schedule surgery and see it resolves on it's own. She said it most likely will stay blocked though. So we go back on June 26 if it hasn't cleared up by then.

Owen and Audrey had fun coloring Easter eggs this year. Only one egg ended up broken on the floor. We colored eggs on Saturday. On Sunday we got up and had an Easter Egg hunt, had a nice breakfast before heading off to church. After church the kids took naps an then we went over to my mom's for dinner.

This is a little late but here are the pictures from Audrey's other birthday party at my mom's house. It's been a while since I took the pictures off the camera and put them on the computer. These kids keep me busy!

Ready to dive into the cake.

She got lots of adorable clothes. Girl clothes are so much fun!

And here is my nephew Nolan who turned one two weeks later, April 1. Happy birthday Nolan. He's such a cutie!

Audrey has started trying to walk. She only takes a few steps at a time and not very often yet. She prefers to crawl since that is so much faster. She had her 1 year check up last week. She is 30 1/2 inches (90th percentile) and weighs 22 lbs 6 oz (70th percentile). We got the kids pictures taken last weekend. They turned out really great. It was hard to decide which ones to order!

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Audrey had a lot of fun at her party last Saturday. That was just the first half of the celebration. She has another party coming up this weekend. I can't believe she is one already. I'm going to miss her baby days, but I'm so excited for the coming year. It will be fun to watch her grow and change! Pictures from her birthday are at the end of the slide show.

364 days old

Random cuteness, for your viewing pleasure:

GIANT kiss!

Sorry about my laziness in posting. My heart surgery went well and I'm starting to feel much better. The surgeon was able to repair my valve. I also had some ruptured chords that had to be repaired, which they weren't expecting, but that went fine. He did a MAZE procedure as well which should prevent me from going into A-Fib again in the future. It's so nice (and also weird) to not feel my heart beating so crazy and out of rhythm anymore.

I can't lift the kids or anything else that weighs more than 10 lbs for 6 weeks and no pulling or pushing. Dan has been the best husband ever, taking care of me and the kids and keeping the house in order. I am so grateful to all the people who have brought us dinners, it has made life so much easier the past couple weeks!



Here are some pictures of the kids right after they got home from the library, reading their books.

I love this one, even Ruby is enjoying the train book!

And this little cutie patootie turned 10 months old while I was in the hospital. What? 10 months!?! I know, I can barely wrap my head around it. I seriously feel like we just had her.

She has gotten very fast at crawling, and her goal is to get out of any room we are trying to keep her in. She just wants to go, go, go. She still only has 2 teeth at the moment but I think the top ones could be coming in anytime. She walks along the couch now or anything she can walk along. She has not tried to let go yet but that's coming, and too soon I'm sure. She loves to empty things out and put them all back again. She entertains herself for quite a while emptying all the blocks out and then putting them all back again. She likes to test the boundaries. She'll go find something she is not supposed to play with and then start shaking her head because she knows that I will say "no, no".

A couple weeks ago she started giving kisses. Instead of the mmmm-maw sound she says mmmm-baaa when she kisses. It's so cute, it melts my heart. I'm having a really hard time not being able to pick her up but she can crawl on my lap and I can hold her that way. She's getting to be such a big girl! In a month and a half, my baby will be one! But she will always, always be my baby!