ssshhhh…

It’s very quiet.

My girl is over at Ms. Claitlin’s house – playing with her ‘yrie (and possibly washing Mr. Brad’s car).

A has gone to one of her favorite places (church).

And Marcus has gone for a jog in the hopes of recovering from a MONSTER hangover (never send a Latino to a Nascar race).

And I’ve finally managed to dump upwards of 200 pictures/video clips from the camera into the computer and am going to try valiantly to muddle through them. 

Ready?  Here goes

She wore it!

The dress I made for her birthday – she FINALLY wore it!! Hurrah!!

 

if only those leggings could talk.  they are size 1-5 Zutano brand leggings.  She’s literally been wearing them since she was about a year old.  They stretch like crazy, don’t fade at all and as they get taller, become capri length.  Best. Leggings. Ever.

On October 2nd we celebrated Baby Brooks’ 1st birthday.  Emilia had a blast playing on the new trampoline, eating a ‘dirt’ cupcake, and playing in the sandbox.  Happy Birthday sweet baby B!

 the dessert table (sans desserts obviously). 

enjoying a cupcake (and looking a bit disheveled after jumping on the trampoline for about 2 hours straight).

It’s back :(

The asthma and the ick.

The cough and the persistent runny nose.

And the wheezing.  Oh the wheezing.

Emilia had barely started school when Marcus noticed that she was sounding kinda congested.  Sure enough, after her usual Fall check-up with the pulmonologist, it’s ‘asthma season’.  According to Dr. Ashe all his patients starting getting really ‘icky’ about 2 weeks ago (Emilia definitely falls in to that camp, as does her neighbor buddy Graham)

how dr. ashe recommends we spend the morning for the next two months.  since i’m clearly about to ‘give light’ he really wants to keep her healthy, so we’re skipping the fast-acting inhaler and going for daily nebulizer treatments.  fortunately she’s gotten much better at sitting and taking the medicine (a little morning show doesn’t hurt much either).  sidenote: dr. ashe has twins and a daughter 3 years older than the twins.  when I asked him what the ‘trick’ was to surviving, he suggested this by the case.

And with that, “quiet time” has ended.