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Wanted to put out a little video of some of the winter time fun we’ve been having. The first frame is Colette, Lauren, and Brayton building a snowman after one of our many snowfalls this winter. For some reason, the past few months Lauren has been really camera shy, we don’t know why, but she will even go to the extreme of diving to the carpet when the camera comes out. It’s quite funny.

Frame 2 is me playing tic tac toe with Brayton. Colette taught him how to play, and so we thought a game would be fun.

Frame 3 is Lauren climbing up one of the inflatable slides at “Pump It Up” where we attended a friends birthday party.

Lots of fun! Hope you enjoy!

Following the normal routine last night, Colette gave Brayton and Lauren baths about 7pm.  Since there is limited room in the bathroom for me to help, I normally find something else to do while Colette’s doing the work of bathing the kids.  Last night, I decided to help put away some of the laundry that had been completed earlier in the day.  I was also spending a little time picking up random stuff in our bedroom.

After baths were done, Colette lubed up the kiddos with lotion and got them in their pjamas and ready for bed.  I was still working a bit, so the kids had come into our bedroom to “help.”

Colette and I proceeded to change the sheets on our bed as well as the pillow cases.  We placed two pillows on my side and three pillows on Colette’s side.  After we were done making the bed, Brayton jumped up on top of the bed and proceeded to place a pillow in between and perpendicular to the pillows we had laid down.

When I asked him “Brayton, what are you doing?” 

He proclaimed, “Daddy, I put that pillow there to keep you from pestering Mommy.”

Tonight I was rocking Lauren and singing to her just prior to putting her down to bed.  Colette and I do this every night for our kids, we read books, sing, and rock, and then we switch kids the next night.  Tonight I had Lauren, tomorrow I get Brayton.

I was singing “Jesus Loves Me” and rocking her.  As I was singing, she reached up and put her hand on my mouth and said “Daddy, stop.”  So I stopped, and said “what do you need dear?”

She then reached up and touched my nose.  She said “Daddy, you have a BIG nose.”  Emphasis on big was hers…

I said, “Oh, I do?”

She said, “Yes, and mommy has BIG hair.” 

Well, today Lauren got to go see the eye doctor. We had been wondering for some time about her vision. She had always seemed to run into things and had somewhat of a “floating” left eye. After talking to others who noticed the condition because their children had it, Colette scheduled an appointment with Dr. Lock.

Lauren was diagnosed with amblyopia and farsightness in her left eye. Dr. Lock was confident in her diagnosis and prescribed some exercises with an eye patch for one hour per day in addition to her new glasses. We’re going to recheck in March to see how her progress is coming.

Make sure next time you see her you tell her how nice her glasses look. She also likes the fact they are pink. I’m glad we got someone to look at it and that we are fortunate to have such a good eye doctor.

Click on the links to follow to the entire album. I will not keep them public for too long.

Portrait Innovations Jan-09