Funny stories of McKenna

Usually I am so good about documenting things and remembering things but I think that all of these health issues with me have made me lose part of my brain too. So.....I want to document and remember the funny things that McKenna says and does so I am going to try and put them in the blog from time to time instead of little scrap pieces that I may loose. So here are a couple of recent ones.....

1. Many of you know my grandmother Amma....Well she has been very helpful to me during this and has come over some days to play with McKenna so I can rest. Well McKenna has this new play house (aka a refrigerator box that my dad got and made into a playhouse for her...it is her most favorite toy!) She had poor Amma get in the house with her. Well as many of you know even though she does not act like it she is in her upper 80's. Amma had a little trouble standing up from sitting down in the box and was holding on to the wall and I guess was a little "wobbly." When she was getting up McKenna asked her "Are you learning to walk Amma?" We both just cracked up. Later I realized where she got it. She has been liking to watch Bambi some and when Bambi is first born he is a little wobbly and they say that he is learning to walk!

2. This past Wednesday my dad took off and took McKenna for the day. He took her to gymnastics for me and just had a fun day together. They also went out to see Katie and Caleb. McKenna loves to hold Caleb. It is the very first thing that she wants to do. He was a little fussy but she held him anyway. She asked Grandad why he was crying and he said that Caleb was hungry and that Katie was heating up his bottle. She looked at Caleb, hit her "chest" area and said "Caleb eat Kenna!" I guess she has seen Katie feed Caleb and we always tell McKenna that Caleb is eating so she must think that he is eating Katie. She was just trying to help him out!!

Dying of the Easter Eggs

This year was the first year that we attempted to dye Easter eggs with McKenna. It was so much fun! She loved the whole process and since we are in "Miss Independent" stage she wanted to do it all by herself. "I do it, I can do it, My turn" are things we heard all night! It was a little messy but it was so fun! She was so proud of her eggs too! Every morning (until I finally had to throw them out) she would wake up and go straight to her eggs and look at them. Here are some picture from the great time we had!

Getting the vinegar in the cups




Watching it turn colors

Adding the eggs!

Lets check on them!

Is the color right yet?

Adding stickers!

Look at all my pretty eggs!

Better late than never

Well I finally have the pics from Easter on my computer and I will try and start posting some. Here are some from the Easter Egg hunt that we went to. A couple of months ago McKenna and I met some wonderful people at the park and ever since then we have just hit it off and have become great friends. The little girls name is Landry and McKenna and Landry have so much fun together. McKenna is about a month and a half older than Landry and she absolutely loves her and her big brother Cade. We have been so blessed by their friendship even in just this short amount of time. They invited us to this great Easter Egg hunt that was put on by The Ridge Church. McKenna had a blast! She loved hunting the eggs, the bounce house and most of all LOVED the Easter bunny. She would dance with him and follow him around. When it was time for him to go she got very upset and cried and cried. Here are some picture from the great day!

McKenna and the Easter Bunny!

Hunting her eggs!

She is getting a basket full

Showing off her eggs!

McKenna and Landry about to slide!

McKenna has so much fun with Landry

They loved dancing and turning around!

They espeically loved dancing with the Easter Bunny!

Very upset that the Easter Bunny had to leave.

Calebs Dedication and Eye update

Some of you already know the latest update with my eye but for those of you that don't I wanted to give a quick update. Unfortunately my eye is not getting better. I called the dr. last Wednesday b/c the pain after the injection was still so bad. He had me come in and told me that the injection did not work. He said he was not sure what was going on that he basically put a steroid bomb in my eye and it didn't help and only made it worse and that my vision was even worse. He told me that if I believed in a higher power that I should start praying. I told me that I definitely believed and that we were praying and will continue to do so. He gave me some strong pain medicine to help with the pain but didn't really know what else to do. Since this doctor had not seen a case like mine I went to a specialist for uveitis. There are only 4 in Texas and thankfully one is in Dallas. I went there on Friday and he confirmed that I had a bad case of uveitis and that yes the injection didn't work at all. He started me back on the drops every 30min to 1 hour and I go back this week for re-evaluation. He said his main goal is to get the inflammation under control and then we will work on trying to reverse my vision. My vision is very limited and I can only see blurred objects out of that eye. Since that eye is so bad I am not supposed to drive and it is also making me very dizzy and I am still having the bad headaches. Sweet McKenna is being such a trooper with all of this. She is the one that I feel so bad for. She is used to going and doing and seeing friends and for the past 3 weeks we have not been able to do that. Every day she asks me "Mommy, your eye hurt?" She is such a sweet little girl!!

On Sunday though I did get out for the first time (other than doctor appts) to go to Calebs dedication! I was not going to let this bad eye keep me from being apart of this special day! It was a great day and was very special to Katie, Josh and Caleb. There were so many family and friends there to support them during this time. You can read more about it at Katie's blog. Here is a picture though that Katie sent me of McKenna and Caleb!!

Thank you again for all of your prayers, support and help that you have given me and my family during this time. I have been so very blessed by such wonderful family and friends and I thank God for you daily.

Eye Update

I wanted to just update everyone on my eye issue. Sorry for the update this way but this is the quickest and easiest way to update everyone. Well I went back to the eye doctor yesterday and unfortunately my eye isn't getting much better so they did have to do injections. They numbed my eye so all I really felt was pressure but yesterday my eye hurt so bad and is still hurting pretty bad today. I have a huge blister like thing on my eye too which is the steroid. They told me that it might be up to a week for it to completely go away. It is smaller today so I can close my eye but it was so big yesterday and that I couldn't really even close my eye. I still have to do the drops too and have to do antibiotic drops so my eye doesn't get infected where they did the injection. My doctor is also concerned about what is causing this iritis to be so bad so he sent me to get labs and x-rays done yesterday as well. I am trying to stay strong with it all but I am in alot of pain and I am pretty scared too. I have been trying to hide it from McKenna but it is amazing how much she can pick up. She was talking to my dad on the phone yesterday and she said "mommy's sad." That just about broke my heart.
I go back to the eye doctor again next week and he will re-evaluate to see if more injections are needed or if the drops will do. I should also have all of the lab results back then too. Thanks again to everyone that has prayed and helped out and offered to help. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family and group of friends and I couldn't do this without all of you. You all mean so much to me!
I thought I would also post a pic too. There is no way I would post a picture of me right now. (you would think I was some Hollywood type since I were my glasses every where I go. Especially with this awful blister!) But I have been keeping cold packs on my eye and I got up to do something and here was McKenna on the couch copying me with the cold pack!