Early 2012 Happenings

Hi Friends!

2012 is well under way and I'm still trying to catch up (actually it's my parents trying to keep up).
The month of February was plagued with sickness that cycled through each of us two or three times. 

In January I had a sleep study done which led to the discovery of sleep apnea and compelled the Dr's to send me home with oxygen once again... We're not incredibly faithful on this as it's very hard to keep me from strangling myself with the cords, thus rendering the O2 useless!!  However, we are taking steps to hopefully remedy the situation.  We met with an ENT at Children's Hospital yesterday and will soon schedule a tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy to clear my airway while I sleep.  Not too excited about the surgery, but hope that any long term bad effects will be avoided.

March has started kinda crummy with all of us still dealing with the effects of upper respiratory viruses... it seems that we are all on the mend though.
 
Let me take you now on a picture tour of my year thus far:



In January we went to Colorado Springs to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa T.  We went to Focus on the Family and got to play in their theater... the audience was puddy in my hands.

I read the story at Focus on the Family while Daddy acted it out with the puppet.

The girls enjoying the great scenery around Colorado Springs.

My Daddy can beat up your daddy!

A mixed media masterpiece.

Really happy about my art career.

In the words of the Everly Brothers, "Waking up is hard to do..."  Oops, I think they actually said, "Breaking up is hard to do."  Oh well.

Only a few minutes later and I'm up and at 'em.

Mommy took this picture for an "Emotions" book she is compiling... I wonder what emotion this depicts?

This is me at the Valentine's party at my school... The only day of the year I get to wear this outfit in its entirety.

I am quite good at putting on socks... still need to work on the rest of my clothes (ultra flexibility is a bonus when using this method of sock application)

Mom wanted me to point out that the clothes in the laundry basket are clean and had once been folded... I love to make her fold them twice.

It's a secret what I was up to this day... Mom found me playing like this.

My choice for the new carpet... Mom and Dad didn't appreciate my opinion, they went with the one on the right.

My cold really wore me out.  I fell asleep while watching LHOP (Little House on the Prairie)

Mom's first hair dressing client:  the before photo

The aftermath... she said that the first cut was kinda hard to do, but then she started to enjoy it.  By the way, my mom placed me in a garbage bag while cutting my hair... is that considered allowing a child to play with plastic bags - should she be reported?

Well, that's the skinny.  Still managed to do lots of things between sicknesses.
Hope you enjoyed the pictures... I will send more when they're available and when we have time to update!
Thanks for following my blog!
Love, Lydia