The Pig Farm

Yesterday was Chloe's class field trip to the Pig Farm. I was a little worried since we have been having really unpredictable weather lately. One minute beautiful blue skies and sunny, the next minute it's a monsoon with sideways rain. It's been like that all week, and it seems that it goes through that cycle about 5 times during the day...so we had no idea what to expect. Chloe on the other hand, thought it was great that it had been raining because "pigs like mud, so there will be lots of mud for them".

It ended up only lightly raining on us and then the sun came out for most of our time there. It didn't do a big dump of rain on us until we were all safely home.

Out of all the animals we saw, Chloe's favorite by far was the kittens. There were about 5 or 6 kittens and everytime we walked by their cage Chloe wanted to hold one. They were really cute, and only about 2 weeks old. All in all it was a good trip, and not too smelly :- )

Alexa, Fergus, Chloe & Zachary at the Pig Farm.

Llama

Chloe trying to feed the horse.

Chloe holding a kitten. (Her most favorite thing of the whole trip)

Chloe holding a duckling. So cute- her favorite movie for a long time was Fly Away Home.

The baby piggies.

Petting a baby piggie.

A Daddy pig. (I didn't get a really good picture, this guy was HUGE!! I have never seen such a big pig before in my life. The kids were all scared to go in and see them. We had them go take a quick peek and then they were done.)

Emu (it was taller than me and getting very close to my face)

Old time Merry Go Round. I used to play on one of these when I was a kid, but can't remember the last time I have seen one.

Chloe and Ezekiel in front of the calf.

Chloe and Ezekiel so happy watching the kittens.

Christy's Surgery

So I normally only talk about or show pictures of the kiddos on this blog, but I wanted to let my family and friends know about my upcoming surgery.

This coming Monday I will be having arthroscopic surgery on my hip. After lots of different diagnosis' and PT I finally had a MRI back in March that determined I have a Labral Tear of my hip. The Labrum is the cartilage that surrounds the hip ball socket. I also have a small piece of bone floating around in there that they will remove. And since we don't know what caused this tear, they will shave down the bone a little while they are in there too.

I'm a little nervous, mostly about the needle that will be giving me a nerve block. But more than anything I am kind of looking forward to the surgery. I have been in constant dull/achy pain, and sometimes excruciating pain since Late August. So needless to say I am looking forward to the surgery and the rehab that will follow. I will be on crutches for at least 2 weeks. And since it is my right hip, I will have to be cleared to drive. So pray that it's only 2 weeks that I can't drive, otherwise the kiddos and I might get on each others' nerves!! Or hope that the weather is really nice so the kiddos can play in the backyard.

I start the Physical Therapy rehab just 2 days after surgery, and will be going 2 times a week for 3 months. If that goes well I will go down to 1 day a week for 3 more months. I have a great support system. Chris will be taking off the first week to care for me and entertain the kiddos. (and get them to school for their last week). Then Chris's mom will be watching them the next week. Hopefully that's enough to help me recuperate.

I plan on being at the kids last day of school celebration on next Thursday and take pictures. I just don't know when I will get pictures on the blog- as that requires me to go up our stairs to upload the photos!!

Well that's all for now. I will try to post an update the week after my surgery.

Chloe's Music Performance

Last night was Chloe's big night. The 4's Music Program. There are 7 classes, each 12-16 kids. They each got to have a little part in a song holding up a sign, animal or letter. They mixed them throughout the almost hour long performance.

The program didn't start until 7pm. Which that along with seeing a big audience made for almost no smiles on a usually very peppy Chloe. Of course she was all smiles and couldn't stop dancing before, and then after she was running around with Caleb and Ezekiel.


Chloe all dressed up for her big performance.

Chloe waving to us from on stage.

Chloe the butterfly.

Chloe and Ezekiel.

Chloe and Fergus.

Dinner Conversation

So we were just having a nice conversation about penises at the dinner table tonight. Caleb wanted to make sure Chloe knew how to push her penis down when she sat on the toilet.... I said "Chloe doesn't have a penis". He looked up at me shocked and said "WHAT?" I said "only boys have penises". Girls don't.

Then he asked why do boys have them, and girls don't.... I am not ready for that conversation with a 3year old boy and 5 1/2 year old girl. So I said.. that's how boys and girls are different. He seemed satisfied with the answer for now. Chloe is way too comfortable talking about male anatomy. And I got to enjoy all of this on my own, while Chris is at work!!:- )

Caleb's Music Program

Caleb and his teacher Mrs. Burton.

Last night was the 3's Preschool Music Program. It was 3-4 classes of 3-4 year olds. It was about 30 min. long. They did such a great job singing their songs from all year that they have learned.

Caleb was Mr. Serious. He didn't smile once during the program, and turned around to watch the piano player alot. Then after the show he was Mr. Silly and all smiles.

We were too far away from the stage to do a video of him singing, and the pictures are a little grainy, but he is still pretty darn cute. I will try to get a video of him singing one of his songs, here at home and post it.