Smarty Pants

The first nine weeks are over and the results are in.....Addison and Alyssa are 2 smart cookies! So proud of these two! This week is Red Ribbon Drug Awareness week. Today was crazy clothes and hair day!

Lunch with Daddy

The girls were surprised by Blake last week on his day off. They always see me at the school, so it's a special treat to see daddy!

Paint Party

This paint party was planned long before there was a hurricane by the name of Patricia. There was no way a little flooding was going to stop us! We had a great turnout with lots of moms, and a couple of dads, from school. The painting always looks a little intimidating at first, but after a glass or 3 of wine, piece of cake! I also made candy corn jello shots for the party and they were a huge hit! Next time I'll add yellow food coloring to the yellow layer.

Tooth #4

Finally! 10 days later the other top tooth came out last night 10/18/15! Although, it was helped along by a kid at school who bumped into Addison's mouth last Friday. Today, I believe there is nothing in this world more adorable than a little seven year old missing her 2 front teeth!

Perfect Eyes

I'm giving myself a huge pat on the back today! For the first time in 5 years I drove without Blake to downtown! If you've never been to Houston and driven during rush hour, then you won't understand how big of a deal this is! I already avoid all of the major freeways and will do without something before getting on them. Yesterday, we made a trial run and my fears were all calmed. From the time we started going to Texas Children's 5 years ago, there has been major road construction all around that area. It made it difficult to navigate to the parking garage and seemed like each time we went there was a different route. Well, hallelujah, ALL road construction was gone yesterday and it was easy peasy! Traffic wasn't too bad either.

Alyssa's eyes are perfect and she never has to go back to TCH unless there's a problem specifically with her coloboma! From now on she can see any ophthalmologist.

Alyssa's first visit at 3 weeks old

Alyssa's last visit at 5 years old

Smile

The girls got a great report from the dentist! No cavities and a healthy smile! The dentist offered to to go ahead and pull Addison's other front loose tooth, but she kindly declined.

Where's my sunglasses?

Tooth #3

I knew this tooth would be gone by bedtime! It's hung on by a thread all day! At 6:30 we were reading books and Addison was wiggling her tooth. She suddenly said 'MY TOOTH' and held her hand out. Then followed with 'JUST JOKING'! At 7:15 it was time to get tucked in and lights out. We were just walking out of the room when Addison jumped up and said 'MY TOOTH, MY TOOTH, MY TOOTH CAME OUT'! We turned the lights on and saw a snaggle-tooth little seven year-old smiling and holding a little baby tooth! She was in disbelief and super excited!