Parties & Sharing & Eye Docs, Oh My

Sit back and get comfy, this is going to be a Long One!!

Saturday we celebrated my former boss' 70th Birthday!
He was so surprised by the over 60 guest that showed up!!
It was AWESOME to see everyone!
Thanks Marjorie and Hampton for making it so wonderful!
Above: DeeDee and Leighann

Leighann is my inspiration in more ways than one!

We were co-workers and became the best of friends!

Below: George or as we say, Georgie Porgie!

Love Ya Georgie, here's to many more birthdays!

Now, all about the sharing!!

We had our first fight today over a toy and it was HILARIOUS!

There was a rattle type snake thingy a few scoots away from Lauren and Cannon. They looked at each other with that, I'm going to beat you face and the race was on! Lauren can roll anywhere she wants to go and Cannon does the swimming, nose dive type crawling. Lauren has extremely long arms and fingers and Cannon is -- well, Cannon is kind of a wienie!

After a few shirt pullings, ear grabbings, toe suckings, Lauren got the toy. Cannon immediately starting crying! Lauren held it tight and rolled away in victory! As soon as she reached her Lovie, which is anything silky, she dropped the toy and went on about her business! She is going to be the playground bully I tell ya!!

Their new favorite toy is pictured below. Our friend Denise let us borrow this because her daughter, Sara Kate, had outgrown it. The Kids love it! They bounce, turn, slobber on themselves in the mirror and bite the frog! Thanks so much Denise!

Now, all about the eye doctor!
It was our scheduled 6 month follow-up, you know, at 7 months! And off we went. Matt took the day off work, Andrea took Hannah Noelle to school and God decided it was a good day to water his flowers!! Needless to say, we were in for a trip!!
First stop, Kinko's to copy the Patient Info Pack. I always have them mail me one, I fill in all the generics, last name, parent's names, birth date, general questions that apply to all their health and then I copy that 3 more times and go back and fill in the questions that are kid specific! It saves LOTS of time!! We arrived at the doctor in Mobile, on time, whew, but it was raining hard! Thank goodness they had a canopy! I got out the mammoth stroller and Matt started heaving kids over the back seat! We were locked and loaded and rolling in within 6 minutes! After answering 7 ga-zillion questions we sat and waited our turn. I had two in my lap and Matt had the other two. Finally they called us back and the sweet lady pushed the stroller and we just walked back each with two kids in tow! We were strategic in our dilating process knowing that once Gunner was dilated, everyone would be scared because he gives out that warning cry to let everyone know what's happening is NO GOOD! Avery first, who to my surprise was pretty tolerant, Cannon, wimpy as usual, Lauren, never knew anything happened and then G-Man's turn. He must have liked the nurse because he never made a sound! Then we got escorted back out to the waiting room to wait for 30 minutes to let the drops do their magic. Gunner never made it back in the stroller, but daddy pushed the other three around and around just to keep the peace!

Cannon with his, What you talking about Willis face!

The girls got tired of the riding and decided to take a nap!
So Sweet!

Daddy, still going round and round trying to make Cannon happy!

Mommy and Gunner Chillin on the sidelines!
And just in case I didn't tell you it was raining,
look at the massive amounts of curls on my head!
The more it rains, the more it curls!

Whew, they're all asleep!!

Avery so asleep she quit sucking her thumb.

Lauren so asleep she quit sucking her fingers!

And, of course, as soon as they were all asleep, including Gunner, we got called back!

Gunner was first and he got a great report! He does not have to go back for 2 years.

Cannon was second. He has astigmatism in both eyes and both eyes are pretty weak.

He will go back in a year and will most likely need glasses!

Next was Avery and she also has astigmatism. Her eyes are a little stronger than Cannon's and we will hopefully be able to avoid glasses with her.

I then shipped those three out the door with Matt because they were getting LOUD!

Lauren was the last to be checked and her visit took the longest.

Lauren has different degrees of astigmatism and vision in her eyes which can make her tend to use one over the other and lead to future problems.

Right now they're all scheduled to go back in one year, except for Gunner. We will go back sooner if we notice anything that is alarming to us. Matt and I both have bad vision and I have astigmatism as well, so, we weren't expecting great results anyway, but at least it's not anything we have to worry about today!

Have any of you had Lasik Surgery? I need to hear some views on it!!

Have a great week!!