Friday, May 29, 2009

Owwwwww!

This is a painful entry for me to make, thus the small pictures again, but I feel I need to make it just in case it helps someone else prevent this from happening. Almost 2 weeks ago, while I was showering, Julia got a glass off my nightstand. I saw that she had it and got out as fast as I could, but obviously not fast enough. I couldn't see what happened but heard a crash and scream and jumped out to find her leg seriously sliced. I wrapped her leg up in a towel and had Eliana get my phone. She helped me call Christian and he left work right away. He got home, we took her to urgent care where they told us that she needed stitches which they couldn't do and to take her to the hospital ER for stitches. They recommended we go to Chandler b/c it's better and faster, so we did. They were very fast, the Dr. looked at it and said yes, she needed stitches and sent us to the PA and nurse to do it. Well, they decided it would be better to glue it and told us all the reasons why we should have them do so, including much less pain for our Julsie. We agreed that would be good, since they were in fact the experts not us. They said there was a small chance that it could come undone but they were pretty sure it would work great. As you can see in the first picture, the glue came undone, within 24 hours. I called or pediatrician and he said there was nothing we could do now, and that they should have never glued her leg. That first of all glue doesn't hold well on body parts which move (such as legs and arms) and that second with a toddler, it is even more unlikely to hold. How FRUSTRATING for us!! I feel so bad for her! She is going to have one big scar! Do scars stretch to take up the same amount of her leg as the leg gets bigger??? I don' t know.
So here it is at the beginning of this week. At least it is healing and she doesn't even care but it makes me so so so so so SAD!
Lessons Learned that I want to share:
1. Never leave a glass where your toddler can reach it. Also, they sometimes grow so fast you don't realize they can reach it when they can so keep a close eye on this.
2. If stitches are needed, DO NOT let them glue your child's leg or arm or anywhere else that has a lot of movement. I wish I had known that!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Party at the White House

One of Eliana's best friends Emily got to play at our house for 3 days this week and they had a BLAST! They are such good friends. They are pretty similar in their personalities and tend to be quite mischievous together!


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They played in the water A LOT and if your not in AZ I would like you to know that it is already 104 -105 degrees everyday! Photobucket

I was setting up my lighting for a portrait session and they jumped in for a few shots.
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I went downstairs for 2 mins (seriously) and came back up to find them plastered in baby powder. I just had them get back in the studio so I could at least record their craziness. This must mean they are going to be very intelligent b/c they are so curious. At least they have fun together. We loved have Emily spend some time with us.

Fun in the Mud

We are making a spot for a sandbox in our backyard and right now it is MUD. The girls of course LOVE it!
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Our Garden

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You may be asking yourself, is it a garden or a jungle? We definitely planted way too much in this one, but it is so fun to see it growing! Our sunflowers are getting ready to bloom and Eliana is so excited.

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Monday, May 11, 2009

How to get bigger images on your blog...

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So Carson asked how to make the images bigger and I am thinking others may want to know too, so here goes.....

1st You have to change the HTML code for your template and have to be in Minima.. don't know how this will work if you use a background from places like cutest blog. To change the code follow these instructions,

Click on the Template tab and then the Edit HTML tab... look for it there and replace with these values. Dont copy and past just change the numbers.

outer-wrapper {width:1000px;margin:0 auto;text-align:full;font: $bodyFont;}

#main-wrap1 {width:760px;float:left;sidebar-wrap {width:220px;float:right;margin:5px 0 0;

sidebar-wrap {width:220px;float:right;margin:5px 0 0;

2nd you need to upload your photos from a hosting site like photobucket. From there you can get the HTML code for the picture. Then somewhere toward the end of that code you add in

width="650" when it's pasted in blogger.

Okay so if that is confusing, I pieced this together from Here and Here. I used stuff from the comments of the Brian Khang thing, not the HTML code he wrote about, which doesn't seem to work. I used the HTML code from the open source site by the user DawnHass. Okay so maybe I even confused myself with this post, Good Luck !

On Being a Mom

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Happy Belated Mother's Day to all you moms! I have been contemplating my roles in life. There are so many wonderful things to do in this world, good things that can occupy much (or too much) of our time. I find myself wanting to do everything and be everything and then I have to remind myself that there is a time and season for everything. Right now my most important role is wife and mother. I have been so blessed with a caring, loving husband and these two amazing little girls. I am SO blessed to be their mom! I learn so much from them each day and find so much joy in being with them and seeing them laugh and learn and grow. I was gone for the day on Sat. shooting a wedding with another photographer and at the reception found myself attracted to all the little ones and missing mine. It almost surprised me, I mean really I had only been gone for a few hours. I think we as mothers do need those times away sometimes to realize how blessed we are to have and be with our children. I am so blessed to be able to be a stay-at-home mom. Life is good, even when I feel discouraged or frustrated with life's trials, life is good.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

I did it!!!

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Yay!!! I figured out how to get larger images on blogger. Now I need to do it to my photography blog!!

This is a picture of our daredevil Julia.

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Let's Play Music

Eliana has just finished her 1st year of Let's Play Music. She had her recital on Monday (May 4).Her teacher is our neighbor and great friend Amelia. Eliana learned a lot about music including the solfeg signs and the beginning of reading music. She can play a song with her bells (xylophone). She has really enjoyed the class. Amelia is an amazing teacher and is so great with the kids. They think they are just playing. Thanks Amelia!