She's Lookin' Good!

Here she is! Lucy's glasses finally came in and we picked them up today. We are so excited and hope that these little glasses will help her out. She's doing pretty good with them and looks super cute!
Happy Sisters!

It's Been Confirmed

After 3 eye doctors, it's been decided that Lucy definitely needs glasses. We picked out frames for her last week and hopefully they will be in this week. All she asked is that they be pink. She is so excited. Let's hope that excitement continues when we try to keep them on her from the minute she wakes up . . . until she goes to sleep. She has what they call strabismic amblyopia. In other words, her eyes are straining so hard to see that one eye (or sometimes both) will cross inward. When this happens her brain will shut off that eye and only use the other to see . . . NOT GOOD! Hopefully she will notice a huge difference with her glasses on and will like to wear them.

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Dashing Through the Snow . . .

Nick has been wanting to get the sleigh out for some time now. Yesterday, when Janelle was up for the weekend, we went for a lovely sleigh ride. Nathan & Alisa came with us too. It was lots of fun to get all bundled up and get out!

I'M SO BEHIND . . .

Well, here's what we've been up to the last few weeks, very briefly. We spent Christmas in Oregon with most of the Bailey family. It was a great time and Lucy couldn't get enough of playing with the cousins. (They are actually my cousins, but several of them are very close to her age and some even younger! Crazy, I know.) It was great to spend Christmas at my family in Klamath- it's been years, probably ten!

Right after Christmas on the 27th, Nathan and Alisa were married. It was a great day. The temple was beautiful and there were lots of friends and family that were able to be there for them. Then they had a lovely reception in Klamath with dinner and dancing! We are so excited that Nathan and Alisa will be living close to us while they are finishing up school.

The rest of the break we enjoyed some tubing and sledding, a little ice skating, and a few OIT basketball games. It was Lucy's first time tubing and skating and she loved it!! The tubing hill was fairly steep, but that didn't stop her, she just wanted more. As she would go down she would let out this high pitched squeal til she reached the bottom. It was hilarious! And I don't know how she enjoyed the skating because she was just drug around and around the rink with one person holding each hand. But by the end she could kind of scoot around on her own!

We had a great Christmas and look forward to the new year ahead of us! Here's a couple of slideshows of Christmas and the wedding! It looks like they may have a hard time loading, so you can just click on 'view all images' and it will take you to photobucket where you can see them.

Christmas 2008

Nathan & Alisa's Wedding

Our Cute Little Six-Month Old

That's right, Kate is six-months old today. I can't believe it. It sure doesn't seem like it's been that long already. She is such a smiley little girl, as long as she is being held anyway! She loves Lucy and can't take her eyes off her when she is around. They are starting to interact more and more and no one can get Kate to laugh like Lucy can!

The Patch

I took Lucy to the eye doctor again yesterday. And she needs to wear a patch--surprise, surprise. Lately when she focuses on things up close her right eye crosses inward and it kept getting worse and worse. The first time I took her in the eye doctor said that she would grow out of it. No such luck, especially since I had the same thing when I was about her age. She is suppose to keep a patch over her good eye for four hours everyday, for a few weeks and then go back in and see how she's doing at that point. Then maybe they'll see about getting her in glasses. It has been a bit of a struggle already getting her to think the patch is 'cool'. I remember it being miserable. It's no fun to not be able to see good. Here are a few pictures . . .

Lucy's first day with the patch
Today, with her doll and matching patches with Elmo stickers. My mom was so good about trying to get me to wear my patch. She made patches for all my dolls, so we tried that with Lucy today. I still had to about sit on her and pin her arms down to get it on her.
Me when I was two, with all my pirate dolls.