Daddy- Daughter date time

My husband works weird and not your typical 9-5 job, but he loves his kids and tries to get creative with each of them. We have one daughter in between two boys and we want to be sensitive to her needs but also making sure that she is well, daddy's little girl. I want her to one day say, I want to marry a man who loves Jesus just like my daddy does.

Now that she is getting older and much more in to girly things she gets the idea of a "date night" much more. So, here are some ideas:

- going to a local restaurant when its not as
- a trip to the park for a bike ride, hike, time on the swings...
- ice skating or roller skating
- shopping at a more girly store and then maybe a daddy store so she can be well rounded ;)

I'm sure you get the idea. It is our prayer also to get some things set up through our church, so please pray as we take the lead on something new. Blessings,

Becky

p.s. here are some more ideas

http://theideadoor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=458

Cute winter cupcake ideas

How cute are these little cupcakes? I love snow and snow men so I think I will be whipping up my own version soon :)

Cool Free Giveaway

Hey all, I am hitting up tons of party sites trying to get ready to plan my daughter's 4th Birthday party and an amazing bridal shower-- I know, a lot going on ;), anyway, one of my favorite sites is doing an awesome giveaway, so head on over and try and win! http://karaspartyideas.blogspot.com/

McDonald's Math Center

This is a simple and fun way to practice logical number association! First, ask a fast food place for some extra small size fry bags and then tape numbers on each bag. Provide enough Popsicle sticks for the child to count out each number for the coordinating bag. Child has to count out the correct number of "fries" to fill each bag. My daughter does the lower numbers and my son practices on the higher ones and the baby just likes to dump out all the "fries".

Happy Birthday to my Baby!!

Can't believe that my little guy is not just one-- but almost 14 months! Our camera was out of comission when he turned one, so I finally got these from my mom's so thats the reason for the delay friends :) We had a small family party where I made his favorite food-- Italian! Made meatball subs, baked wagon wheels, minestrone soup, dips and appetizers (I shaped one cheese ball into the shape of a pumpkin), and maybe a few other small things. I did a race that morning, so I was dragging by party time, but so worth it to see how happy he was eating his little cupcake-- Love at first bite! I do believe he may have seconds ;)

Fall themed Birthday Party

the setup was fun and as always, budget friendly :) I actually used one of my older son's sheets for the tablecloth, bought the leaves fabric and then cut it up and stretched its uses, and made all the goodies and decorations myself. The cookies are a chocolate sugar cookie with orange icing, the cupcakes were pumpkin pie with cream cheese icing, pumpkin pie with a pumpkin on top, pb and chocolate brownies, and then I also set out some candy corn and carmel corn.

Gaining some Confrimation and Answers

This is my daughter-- she is the sweetest cuddler and the most curious little mischief maker around. About four years ago when we were expecting her, I just knew her gender before the ultrasound and feeling her roll and kick with such severity, I knew she would be a little ball of constant energy and well, she pretty much is. So the Christmas right before her 2nd birthday our little girl who hadn't been feeling good and slept in Mommy's bed woke us all up to her first of five seizures. She has turned blue, gone into deep sleeps, fallen off her chair in the middle of eating, and just recently, had one at VBS. They are beyond scary to watch and we were finally sent to a neurologist. We were so happy as we were just getting really frustrated... we were at a point where we had to give her Tylenol just for a cough in order to try and prevent one from happening and then set our alarms through the night because we were afraid if we missed a dose she would have one all alone in her room. But, maybe this finally dawned on me today in the crazy dr.'s room, but I can't be there every moment and I can't stop these.

sigh

I am so type A personality and this is so hard to learn and even more so, accept. I want them to stop-- I don't ever want to look in her face and see a blank stare and feel like she has left me....

But, today at the dr.'s, we also received some hope.... we no longer have to take her into the er or doctor's each time one of these happens which will make the first 24 hours easier and more peaceful on us all. Secondly, he said we could stop the (in my words) overdoses of tylenol and motrin-- can you say "Hallelujah!" It was so nice to have this concern that the pediatrician's might be wrong in having us give her medicine way too much every time she had a sniffle or cough.... phew!!! There is no cure for febrile seizures and so we don't ever have to feel that we could have caught it or prevented them by giving her medicine first... again, phew...

So, it was bittersweet... because she has had so many, she will probably have more and they could get longer and then, oh, how happy her 5th birthday will be for that's the age these stop as her brain slows down in growth. Also, he did mention that kids with febrile seizures for some reason have higher IQs--- but thats a small consolation when we would rather he have none of this at all: but thats who she is and we love her anyway.... even when upon returning home she dumped a whole box of toothpicks into a kitchen drawer because, well, she was curious :)