Nov. 17, 2008 - The Baby is Growing...No More Braces...Style, Style, Style...and Surgery for FOUR!!!
My precious little nephew is growing so BIG! Here is the most recent photo of him:
Isn't he just the cutest thing?
We recently had a Fall Harvest Party at church (very fitting, I think, since our church is called HarvestPoint 
). Everyone played this game where they got into two lines and there were two big baskets full of clothes at the front of each line. Each person had to run up, put on the first piece of clothing they grabbed from the basket (no matter WHAT is was), and run to the back of the line - then the next person was up...sort of like relay. Well, people just kept piling clothes on until everything in the baskets were gone...so people ended up having 8-10 layers on! It was hilarious!
I volunteered for camera duty, so I got out of having to "dress up", but it was a lot of fun to watch. Rhett and Maddy were playing other games at the time, so only Abby and Maicee participated, but here is a cute snapshot of them all "gussied up":
On another note, Madalyn lost something very important recently. She doesn't care that she lost it. In fact, she's happy that she lost it...and so are we! What is it, you ask? Her braces!!! She's been wearing them since July 2005 - so almost 3 1/2 years - and there were no tears present the day we got to say good-bye to those things.
I'm missing photos - sorry! I know you guys can't believe, huh?
She is loving not having braces and being able to eat anything that she wants. Now, if we can just not lose the retainer...We've already been down that road with her brother...but I digress.
Then, to finish off my lovely tale....the children all had surgery last week. Yes, I said ALL. As in ALL. As in 4...at once. It was NOT fun. They had some warts that had popped up on their hands and Rhett had them on his feet (we are assuming from the trampoline). We were going to have them removed one child at a time...but when we went in to see the surgeon, we discovered that they were contagious warts - that they had caught them from someone and that they would only pass them back and forth to each other if we didn't do all the surgeries at one time and get rid of them.
So, Thursday morning, bright and early, we headed to the hospital and they all had surgery....they were all in pain when they woke up - they used a laser to remove them, but the pain was quickly taken care of by some pain meds. Except for Rhett. His were the worst (the ones on his foot) and he ended up having to have some really strong pain medication shots before he was out of pain.
When we got home we had to clean the entire house with bleach. I mean EVERYTHING. All the school books, pencils, toys, floors, bathtubs, showers, counters, every surface, etc. All bed clothes had to be washed in hot water and bleach. All of Rhett's shoes had to be washed in bleach. The computer, all video games, EVERYTHING...literally had to be washed down with clorox wipes or washed in bleach. We even had to go outside and bleach the trampoline. We were at it from 3 pm until 12:30 that night! Talk about exhausted. BUT the house is clean, sanitary, and wart-virus free! I called my brother (who lives across the street with his family) and told them to check their children for warts...if they have any, they must go have surgery, too, before they are allowed to come over and play again!
They all seem to be doing pretty well. Abby and Rhett had them the worst (Maddy and Maicee only had 2 each), so they will obviously take longer to recover. Abby only had a couple that clustered, so her recovery time will even be shorter than Rhett's - he had a HUGE cluster area on his foot so he will be in bed for the rest of the week!
Oh, well....this gives him plenty of time to work on that research paper he has to write for Bible class!
Please pray for quick healing and for the pain to subside quickly as well.
