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(pictured: Nannie, baby AJ, me and my mom)

Tonight my sweet Nannie went home to be with the Lord. She was just 1 month short of being 95. I wish many of you could have known her. She was a permanent fixture in my house growing up and a source of many funny stories and many, many, many life lesson learned. Death is bittersweet. I know that now she knows all again in heaven. AJ said it best when she said, " Its okay Mommy, she is still alive up there". Out of the mouths of Babes. So, I carry on. I carry on with her in my heart and with every imprint of how she lived as a guide. Please pray for safe travels of many family members coming home this weekend.

Halloween pics

Make a Smilebox greeting

Go cheeleader!!!

AJ got to pick out new toys after our trip to Nashville to see the eye dcotor because she had done so good. She picked out a "new purple cheer leader" as she would say and some play make up. She already has 2 other cheerleading outfits so this one adds to the collection. Now she cheers for the purples. She's such a hoot!

She Can SEEEE!!!

( this is the only picture she would let me take- spaghetti-o face and all)
Well as some of you may know we have been seriously concerned about our little AJ this past week. I 'll try to make this brief, but feel I need to give you some sort of explanation so you can appreciate my concern.

Last Wednesday I took AJ to the bathroom and when she looked up at me, her eyes were crossed. I didn't think much about it but she did it again later that night. I mentioned it to Weston and he said well lets just keep an eye on it. So, by Saturday she was doing it fairly consistently. I could only think all the worst that things that go through your mind. All I could think about was my cousin who lost her battle with cancer that was discovered through an eye exam after some blurred vision and headaches. I called the pediatrician's office and they said that she need to see a pediatric ophthalmologist. So, I waited for the call for an appointment. Really the call could not come soon enough. Finally I got a call on Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 pm and said that the specialist could see her on Thursday morning (yesterday) at 9:30. Talk about notice. She said it normally takes like 3 months to get in, but they were able to get her worked in. Relief!! Soon we would know what the problem was.

We got everyone squared away at grandparents and off we were to Vanderbuilts' eye clinic to see Dr. Morrison. (who by the way I highly recommend). My fears were somewhat eased when we walked in and saw some other children her age that had the similar problem and they seemed fine and so did their parents. So why couldn't I have remained calm the week prior to now. Anyway, we saw the Doctor and found out that she desperately needed glasses. She has severe farsightedness. She could barely see anything at all in her right eye. So the problem corrects itself in 60% of cases after wearing glasses only. Then you move onto patches or a blurring drop and then onto surgery if needed. We hope that the glasses will be the fix. So after several hours of looking for very small glasses we found some and were able to get them yesterday. YAY, now she can see!!

I know that she's mine, but she really does look pretty darn cute in her new pink specs!!

Anyone ready to be baptized?

If you decide that you would like to become a christian, Rev. Ansley Jane can do the job of baptizing you. She has really enjoyed baptizing people lately. She watched a girl named Joy get baptized at Church a couple of weeks ago and has really been fascinated with her since. She has begun "dunking" everyone. We even have a little Church of Christ humor thrown in about how all of who ever's body not going completely under. It is funny to hear her say the standard," in the name of the father and the son and the holy ghost"... then she will squeeze your nose so hard that it hurts and throw you back. The trouble is you have to get up by yourself.

AJ baptizing her dad
again
and going all the way back with him
here she is dressed up like Mother Mary with her blue bobby.

Chicago Trip - Day 2

The first part of Friday was spent at the Field Museum. It was fascinating. They had everything a kid could ever want to see. Tucker really had a great time seeing the mummies and was actually really concerned about how they all died. He worried about it all weekend after that. I tried to give him a really good lesson on diseases and how they used to kill mass amounts of people but I think I was talking over his head.

The second part of the day and night was spent Going to See Cory Hart play in Milwaukee. It took us 4 hours to get from Chicago to Milwaukee. It should on be like 45 minutes but the Highways there are horrific. We think Scottsville road is bad...we've got nothing on them.
Tucker got to see Cory play and really enjoyed the ball field. They had several games in the stadium for kids to participate in . Tucker got to take batting practice and swung with his left hand and didn't even come close to hitting the ball.

Field museum
Brewer Stadium
Brewer Stadium again
1/2 family shot

field museum
underground exhibit
man eating tiger that some movie was made about
mummies
Sue the largest T-Rex dug up to date