Last night at the park (while Makenna was playing softball) Maddie ran away. We aren't just talking wandered, she really was gone. Joe and I were looking everywhere while Seth was playing on the toys and Makenna was playing softball. We finally found Maddie in the neighborhood on the other side of the baseball park, 30 minutes later, but it was really far away. She was really lost. I could kill her. Just as we found her, Seth fell a long way down from sone slider thingy and hurt his arm. I called my dad and he said that we should wait until morning so it wouldn't be an emergency, so we did. He cried and cried and finally fell asleep. We had his arm wrapped up and in a sling. What a sad little dude. We felt so bad. Then this morning we had his graduation and then had to go and watch Makenna do her end of the year dance thingy and so we waited until almost 2 o'clock to see grandpa. He sent us over to Orem Community hopital and found out that he had broken both the bones in his wrist. The poor little dude. He now has a blue cast and at least it doesn't hurt so bad. He is so sweet. I was so worried about finding Maddie that I neglected my boy. Actually it was the teenage girl that was helping him to play on that dangerous toy thingy that I should blame, right? Just teasing. It was an accident. I don't think that I can go back to the park with that rascal girl anymore. She is such trouble. It is so funny that most of the traumatic things that I post about all have a little bit to do with Maddie.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Seth's Broken Arm
Last night at the park (while Makenna was playing softball) Maddie ran away. We aren't just talking wandered, she really was gone. Joe and I were looking everywhere while Seth was playing on the toys and Makenna was playing softball. We finally found Maddie in the neighborhood on the other side of the baseball park, 30 minutes later, but it was really far away. She was really lost. I could kill her. Just as we found her, Seth fell a long way down from sone slider thingy and hurt his arm. I called my dad and he said that we should wait until morning so it wouldn't be an emergency, so we did. He cried and cried and finally fell asleep. We had his arm wrapped up and in a sling. What a sad little dude. We felt so bad. Then this morning we had his graduation and then had to go and watch Makenna do her end of the year dance thingy and so we waited until almost 2 o'clock to see grandpa. He sent us over to Orem Community hopital and found out that he had broken both the bones in his wrist. The poor little dude. He now has a blue cast and at least it doesn't hurt so bad. He is so sweet. I was so worried about finding Maddie that I neglected my boy. Actually it was the teenage girl that was helping him to play on that dangerous toy thingy that I should blame, right? Just teasing. It was an accident. I don't think that I can go back to the park with that rascal girl anymore. She is such trouble. It is so funny that most of the traumatic things that I post about all have a little bit to do with Maddie.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Dentist experience/ Baldness
Monday morning I had to be to the dentist office with Seth and Maddie at 7:30 a.m. They couldn't eat for 12 hours (standard) because they were going to be put out to get their teeth done.
Seth, because he had so many cavities and Maddie because she just can't do the whole dentist thing, period. My children are blessed to have such great teeth. NOT! They sometimes make you take them up to Primary Children's Hospital to do it, but there is an anesthesiologist that comes right to the dental office and puts them out right there. It was so handy. Expensive, but handy. Maddie went first and she came out of anesthesia pretty well. She started to move around and got right mad about being there. It wasn't very long until she was asking to watch a movie. Seth on the other hand took forever to wake up. They must have had to give him more because he had more work to be done. He slept for about 45 minutes until I could finally just pick him up and take him home. He was so mad in the car that he didn't get to have his teeth fixed. He didn't remember being in the chair with the dentist so he was sure that he didn't get his done. It wasn't until we got home that he finally realized. It was not an adventure that I hope to repeat anytime soon.
A few hours after the dentist I had to take Maddie to the dermatologist to find out why she has such huge bald spots all over her head. The doctor said that she has what is called
"Traction Alopecia" and it happens when a person has really weak hair (ie: red) and even more so because of her Down Syndrome. Black kids get it all the time from their moms pulling their hair so tight and it causes the hair to fall out in patterns. The doctor told me that since I have been putting it in so many ponytails (because she cut all her hair off) that it was causing it. I am so sad that I caused her to go bald. He told me that I can't put her hair in any ponytails for a few months and it will grow back. At least it isn't permanent. I really do feel badly about it.
Seth, because he had so many cavities and Maddie because she just can't do the whole dentist thing, period. My children are blessed to have such great teeth. NOT! They sometimes make you take them up to Primary Children's Hospital to do it, but there is an anesthesiologist that comes right to the dental office and puts them out right there. It was so handy. Expensive, but handy. Maddie went first and she came out of anesthesia pretty well. She started to move around and got right mad about being there. It wasn't very long until she was asking to watch a movie. Seth on the other hand took forever to wake up. They must have had to give him more because he had more work to be done. He slept for about 45 minutes until I could finally just pick him up and take him home. He was so mad in the car that he didn't get to have his teeth fixed. He didn't remember being in the chair with the dentist so he was sure that he didn't get his done. It wasn't until we got home that he finally realized. It was not an adventure that I hope to repeat anytime soon.
A few hours after the dentist I had to take Maddie to the dermatologist to find out why she has such huge bald spots all over her head. The doctor said that she has what is called
"Traction Alopecia" and it happens when a person has really weak hair (ie: red) and even more so because of her Down Syndrome. Black kids get it all the time from their moms pulling their hair so tight and it causes the hair to fall out in patterns. The doctor told me that since I have been putting it in so many ponytails (because she cut all her hair off) that it was causing it. I am so sad that I caused her to go bald. He told me that I can't put her hair in any ponytails for a few months and it will grow back. At least it isn't permanent. I really do feel badly about it.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Just another day in PARADISE.
Just when you think that life is going along pretty well, something happens to change your mind, right? I haven't had too terribly much of a Maddie problem lately, but yesterday at Grandmas house she got a little crazy. We were all together celebrating my 30th birthday, and after dinner all the kids got together downstairs to play. They had been playing really well for a while and all was great. I hadn't heard too much from the kids in a while and when I got up to go to the bathroom, I noticed that the light was on in the bathroom and someone was in there. I knocked and said who is in there? Well Maddie responded its ME. When I opened the door, there was Maddie completely nude with water EVERYWHERE!! As I was picking up her soaking wet clothes I noticed that her underwear was missing. I asked her where it went and she said toilet-all gone. She had flushed them down. Well then she had tried to flush it and that's where all the water came from. So lucky for us Cyndi had an old N.K.O.T.B. (vintage) t-shirt for her to wear and away we went. Today I got a call from grandma Helen and she wondered if it could have been possible for Maddie to have flushed all the toothbrushes? Well apparently the toothbrushes are M.I.A. and the toilet is still clogged. I asked her where the toothbrushes went and she said gone. I can't believe that she is doing the toilet thing. I don't know where we all were and how we missed her going into the bathroom. I don't know if Phil is going to have to take the toilet off or what, but its not going to be fun. I feel so bad. I just can't take Maddie anywhere!!
Monday, April 20, 2009
I have been changed "For Good"
It was December of 2005 and I had been talking constantly about the play and the music. I was obsessed with it. I was super determined to see it, and didn't know how I was going to, but I wanted to so badly. Joe bought tickets to go to New York, to see Wicked and he Blue Man Group, and lined up babysitters all by himself and surprised me for Christmas. It was about the most incredible thing he has EVER done. It was so wonderful. It was freezing, but a fabulous trip.
My brother Mark, and his wife Kristen got us all hooked on the show in 2004 and they even got the chance to see it with Idina Menzel before she stopped doing it. They gave me a CD and I was enchanted!! My little brother even loved it. He wasn't really into that kind of music, but he listened to it all the time. His favorite was For Good. I know this is kind of long, but I really love that song and it means a lot to me.
The words go: I've heard it said, that people come into our lives, for a reason bringing something we must learn. And we are led to those who help us most to grow, if we let them and we help them in return. I don't know if I believe it's true but I know I'm who I am today because I knew you. Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes the sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better, but because I knew you, I have been changed for good.
It well may be, that we will never meet again, in this lifetime so let me say before we part. So much of me, is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end, know you have rewritten mine by being my friend. Like a ship blown from its moring by a wind of the sea. Like a seed dropped by a sky-bird in a distant wood, who can say if I've been changed for the better but because I knew you I have been changed for good.
It is the most beautiful song. My little brother Dave passed away on April 21st 2005. I knew that I needed to sing a song at his funeral (call me crazy) but I just knew that I needed to. My brother Mark told me how much Dave loved that song and it clicked that it was the song that we would sing. Kristen played and sang it with me (during the time of the family prayer). I know that he loved it. I miss him so much. To this day I can't listen to that song without thinking of Dave. I know that because I knew him that I have been changed for good. We even had the words "you'll be with me like a hand print on my heart" put on his headstone. He was such a great guy and so funny too. I am feeling especially sad today because it has been 4 years tomorrow since he died, and it was such a hard time. I just wanted to say how much I love him and miss him. I love you Dave, I can't wait to see you again!Friday, April 17, 2009
Easter 2009
We had a great Easter this year. My niece Belle was baptized the day before Easter and we had a wonderful family gathering for that. Lizzy came over to color eggs with the kids, and then they also colored eggs at their grandma's house. Then on Easter we went over to grandma and grandpa Johnson's house for dinner and an egg hunt. Grandma Helen bought the kids these darling clothes and I thought that I would show off how cute they are.
Aunt Cyndi, Belle, and Makenna
I found one!
Makenna at the hunt
Lizzy looking for the eggs
Cute boy
All 8 of the Johnson grandkids
Lainee
Dezirae
Handsome Seth with the darling dimples
Cousins
Cheese
Kids right before church
Kissing Seth
My Boy in his Easter duds.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Oh no not again!!
I don't think that having a trampoline is in the cards for our family. When we tried to have a tramp the last time, we got it almost completely put together, and it started to make a taco. It was defective. We got a new one and had it up for a week and it got blown over the house, hit the fence, neighbors roof, and landed in their front yard. We didn't have a tramp for over a year and thought that we would try it one more time. (Makenna got it for her ninth birthday). We put it up one week ago, and today while we were at church, there was a huge windstorm and our tramp was blown across our yard and landed upside down on the roof of our shed. Talk about not having any luck with trampolines!! I feel so bad for the kids. Maddie was up yesterday morning at 6:30 and was trying to escape to jump. She LOVES it. I just wish that it hadn't happened AGAIN. What do you do??
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Makenna's Birthday Party
We had a get together for Makenna for her 9th birthday at the park. It was on March 21st -last saturday. I love being so close to all the family so we can get together all the time. My sister in law Anna made her a cake that was a horse (she loves horses) and it was so cute!! We had a great time. If anyone wants to know how Anna made the cake, http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50134
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