Your eyes...

Last week I had the opportunity to speak to some future principals at UCA. One of my old Professors has asked me to come out the last few semesters and speak to her classes about bringing the world to my students. Although I get a little nervous about speaking, it's always the most amazing opportunity. I've been able to share with them how God used my trip to Rwanda to literally change my life and how, in turn, He's allowed me to use the story of the Invisible Children to change the lives of my students. I ended my talk with this video. It's such an amazing song about how we just walk around in a fog and seem to not even notice those around us. It's so easy to do, especially here in America. We're so consumed with me, me, me. What a wonderful prayer, "Give me Your eyes".

Whew.... I'm tired

I have tons I'd like to add to the old blogger-roo but am too tired to do it. This morning I went to Race for the Cure with one of my best buddies, Stephanie. I miss Stephanie. We taught together at the Jr. High for the past 3 years. We were VERY close and still are but just hardly ever get to see each other since I'm at the elementary. We had so much fun chatting and catching up during the walk. I think she likes hanging out with me because I make her look so nice and tall:). But then again, I'd make an inch worm look tall:).

We went to the pumpkin patch tonight. I'll have to upload pics later because... remember... I'm SO tired! Anyway, when we got home Andrew wrapped up a little baby pumpkin with a big mommy pumpkin and said, "This is how mommy wears the baby". He's seen me wearing Piper in some baby wraps. Isn't that sweet?:)

Gotta go catch up on all of my lost sleep....

Princess Piper

I'm home again today with poor Andrew:(. He seemed to be getting better but had a really bad night last night. He coughed for about 1 1/2 hours. At times he had a hard time catching his breath because he couldn't quit coughing. It was scary. I took him back this morning to the doc (of course a different doctor/the same one who thought it was croup:/. She gave him an inhaler. She said she would've given him a steroid but hated to because it was his first visit.. I'm like HELLO... we've been here 3 times in 1 week. Anywho, I'm hoping the inhaler works. She seems to be convinced he's going to have asthma. I'm hoping not. She said his lungs were really dark like an asthmatic but it could just be the pneumonia.
We sat outside some this morning and Andrew brought me some flowers for baby Piper:). I took some pics with my phone. She's such a little bundle of sunshine:).

I wish everyday was a weekend day...

I SO enjoy the weekends! I have so much fun hanging out with the kiddos and Cameron. We've pretty much stayed at home all weekend because Andrew was sick. He's feeling MUCH better but still has a terrible cough if he gets to moving around too much. He hasn't ran fever for about 3 days. I'm sending him to school but am making him hang out with me during recess because I don't think his little body can handle too much excitement.
Today I made sissy some baby food. I steamed some carrots and some sweet potatoes and pureed them. She's not eating veggies yet but will be pretty soon. I'm just keeping them in the deep freeze until she's ready. She was eyeing them awful hard though... don't think it will be too long:).

As a mom, I've always said every stage just gets better and better. All weekend Andrew has been writing little stories. Most of them have to do with Spiderman and getting the bad guys. It's so funny!! I was sweeping tonight and found this behind the clothes basket.

Also, today while we were changing Piper she started rolling around the floor before we could get a diaper on her and Andrew said, "Piper has 3 hinies, no wait a minute, she has 6, WOW... she has 7 hinies!!" Poor Sissy, she can't help it she has so many rolls.

Who knew they all needed glasses?

Last night we went to check out our new school. Classes will begin there October 13th. We're all so excited. It's been pretty difficult housing 2 elementary schools in 1 elementary school building. Andrew is SUPER excited about his new classroom. It's HUGE. The entire school is just breath taking! It's going to be a LEED school, which means it's a green school. Almost all of the classrooms have an entire wall that is just windows. They're set to let in a certain amount of light which will cause our indoor lights to dim.
Several teachers have several boxes outside their classrooms that have FREE stuff in them and we found some super cool glasses:). All the kids just had to try them on:).

* Also, Andrew is feeling a little better. He's not had fever for about 36 hours, so that's GREAT! I learned a valuable lesson, when your child has pneumonia, don't let them try out the new playground.... even if it is for just a couple of minutes!

Cooper pics:)

Today I took some pictures of Crystal and Chad's little boy:). He's such a cutie! He wasn't thrilled about sitting still for longer than a second because he had too much exploring to do. It was suppose to be pretty today but it was SO cloudy but the pics turned out okay anyway, with lots of iPhoto help to lighten them up:). Here are a couple of collages I made with Comic Life.

Still sick...

Poor Andrew has pneumonia. I had a feeling Monday when the doc said he had croup that she might be wrong. I knew I heard him wheezing last weekend and apparently you don't wheeze with croup. The doctor said I probably heard something while he was coughing but it probably wasn't wheezing... well, today we go BACK to the doc after he's missed a week of school (including the Kindergarten stick rodeo:(. After a different doctor listened to his chest, she ordered x-rays and said that he did have pneumonia. Poor thing, he's been coughing horribly and running fever all week. Please pray with us that it's better by Monday. She talked about the possibility of treating it in the hospital if this medicine doesn't work. Hopefully he'll get well soon and the rest of the kiddos won't get sick.