This Week Things

This week we counted down to Daddy getting home from his conference in TX.  And we facetimed.  A bunch.  I manned up and kept the kiddos busy and fed Saturday - Wednesday, and the night before Josh got home, Anna said she didn't miss him as much as she thought she would.  I did that good a job at solo parenting!  We all had low expectations for that. HA!

We had friends over for hours and other days we visited with buds at the park because temps in the low 80s in June are AWESOMELY awesome. 

And we played in the hot tub.  Lasa loved trying out her new arm swimmies.  Too bad they don't make swimmies for wide open toddler mouths.  This child kept choking and sputtering on water when her mouth would go under.  Sometimes grappling at her goggles in fear when she couldn't catch her breath quick enough. Makes water play a tricky business.  Cute beyond all words, but tricky. 

Josh got home late Wednesday night and we hit the road running Thursday morning with Lasa's second specialist visit of the week.  The day before ,we did a post op visit at the ENT and her hearing was back to normal and all looked good.  Yesterday, we checked in at the pediatric cardiologist to follow up on what the anesthesiologist had concerns about.  

After an echocardiogram, pulse ox checks, an EKG, and lots of tears throughout,  

it was determined that this child's heart is fit as fiddle and "stone-cold normal."  Glad for that reassurance! 

After picked the big kiddos up from a friend's house, we let them break in Lasa's new pool/puddle.  HA!  

That afternoon, Josh let me sneak away to to watch a movie with my sweet Cathy and we ADORED the flick we picked, Wonder Woman.  And that evening, we made a quick bolt across town to pick up a friend's free pass for Noah's Friday plans for a water park.  While out, we dodged downpours and gazed up in awe at beautiful rainbows, the brightest I have ever seen in my life!

The pics don't do them justice ... they were so bright in different moments and scattered all over the areas we traveled.  It was a special night!  Thankful.