rounding out june.

I have a few things I want to play catch up on. One of them is my birthday.

The girls were so excited for my birthday - they adore birthdays. They woke me up with cards and had told me, the night before, that they had a surprise make up and pedicure party planned! At first I thought "That's going to be such a mess." BUT then I realized how awesome my children are and how fun it would be and I wanted to document my own birthday part of the way that I do theirs! A friend had sent us funfetti cupcake mix and all the fixins to have a party, so I decided that my surprise to them would be cooking cupcakes as well.
 

First we made cupcakes.
 

While we waited for the cupcakes to bake, it was makeup time!!! I braced myself for a scary clown face, but she did awesome - even my mascara!
 

Sawyer brought out the dance-red lipstick while Aidan gave me nice purple toenails.
 

We went to check on the cupcakes - Reese came in to make sure she didn't miss a minute of cake time.

We also got A and S bikes :D :D :D


and lastly, for this post... my oldest baby is growing up so fast. this year has proven that days fly by without even knowing it.

when i look at these pics from her graduation and the last day of school - i cannot believe how much she's grown up. how is it possible that i'll have TWO KIDS in elementary school!?

reese came with me on aidan's last day. swoon. the kids in aidan's class know all about her and just... sigh. love her.



look how happy she is!!!



oh mrs. G. i cant express my gratitude that God gave us such an amazing teacher for my sensitive little sweetheart during such a rough year. you know how to make aidan smile. you know when she's a little sad... you are THE best tooth puller (aidan's first AND second!!) and i hope we are blessed with you as sawyer's teacher next year.


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merry christmas catch-up.

i am a creature of habit. i dont get twitchy when i buy a new brand of cell phone, id rather take the longer way to a location bc thats what ive always done, i am over the top about traditions.

this was the first year for any kid that i didnt get to wake them up by singing happy birthday. nor did i get to take aidan out for her 6 year old photos [yet]. nor did i get to take "OMG YOURE SIX RIGHT NOW!!" photos of her waking up that day. 

and it makes me sad. 

i havent written a blog post for miller for 9 or 10 months. which is hard bc my blog is basically her baby book. i had grand plans of printing it all out and such, but now there's no point. 

none of this matters, of course, in the grand scheme of things. but i guess, just to say, that not only do big things suck, but sometimes they make tiny things suck, too - that for a person like me... sigh... 

so i want to go back and do a few things -- just a regular ol' blog post of "whats been up" that ive missed a bit. 

we left the hospital on friday :) .....after surgery on tuesday. what a stud, right? 

reese goes back for chemo on thurs morning [in-patient] - so i'll be there til saturday, i think, while EJ works. 

the past few days with reese have been... interesting, to say the least lol we have had to wean her from dexamethasone and ::holyshit:: she was HULK SMASH REESE. for sunday and monday. her, what we assume, 'roid rage was horrible. she would scream for 30 mins because we didnt understand what she wanted. or bc she wanted to do xyz and we couldnt. or because the sky was blue. and i dont mean "ohhh cmon, 2 year olds scream bc of that". i mean, she has almost no voice today. we took her in on sunday night to the ER to make sure there wasnt something wrong. she didnt sleep. only screams. but pain meds didnt help - and honestly, i knew it wasnt pain bc it wasnt random spurts of not being able to be settled. when she was settled, it was ::poof:: over it. then she'd be like "mommyyy!!!" all happy. //crazy. she has been on dex several times, so honestly, i dont know what happened. but we swapped over to just the stress dose of her hydrocortisone and the day was simply dreamy. 

miller was happy reese is home ;) she let loose with some ziti haha

A and S at the dr for aidan :) and PJ'd miller.

now let me go back --- the first wkend of december, aidan was a part of the children's dallas christmas parade with her dance studio. its a huge deal bc the parade is so freakin' big. 

anyway, the night before, sawyer, aidan, and i stayed at the omni downtown :) it was a fun girls night and fun for the kids to play with their friends. 

aidan dancing with the group :)

and they rocked their #gingerfight shirts!!!! 

then there was christmas ::eek!!:: 

we made cookies for santa. 

sawyer and aidan asked santa for one thing each -- aidan: a doc mcstuffins dr kit. and sawyer: a new dvd player. she broke her last one lol



and it was a WHITE CHRISTMAS!! only aidan and sawyer went out - and only for a few mins haha we were not prepared ;)

and the rest of the day was fabulous :) my parents, bros, sil, niece all came over -- we ate and had fun. then the skelte 6 just hung out the rest of the evening.

and today, back to normal routine... a bit. 

but i guess, in the end, i should say that this normal is okay. things change and i have to roll with it. no one is going to be on my case in a few years bc miller's e-babybook isnt up to par for my own personal standards. aidan will never say "hey, where's my 6 year old HB song vid?!" and if she does -- i will explain. life right now is a roller coaster, but at least we're all on board. 
i hope everyone had a very merry christmas. :) new chemo starts tomorrow. prayers wanted.