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6 More Days Until Our Vacation!!!
There is an awesome story behind our pre-surgery vacation that we are taking next week that has been almost completely donated. Tonight I will just share where we are going! Squeeeee! We are leaving in 6 More Days!! The kids can hardly take the wait. And neither can I!Keep Reading Here »
How to Make a Upside Down Tomato Planter with Flowers
I promised that I would share how I make my DIY upside-down tomato planter, so today I managed to get everything together and vlog about it. There are many different ways to make these, I have seen 5 gallon buckets, gallon milk jugs, heavy duty plastic bags and all sorts of random things like...Keep Reading Here »
Special Mother’s Day Parade from My Little Nuts
Every once in awhile, the kids managed to pull something out of their little brains that not only makes me smile and giggle, but also pushes back both dinner time and bed time. It’s like they know if they do something special for me that they can get away with anything. Kinda like the...Keep Reading Here »
Things My Kids Destroy {3} Mirrors
This is another video of yet another thing that my kids have destroyed. Sorry about all of the rambling, but if you have seen any of my other videos or blogs you should know by now that I ramble a bit. This is how I started my day, cleaning up a bloody little boy...Keep Reading Here »
Sleeping Sleeping All the Children are Sleeping…
I asked Wing Nut to take care of the younger kids tonight while I took a shower. Usually there is all sorts of chaos and arguing while I try to get a few minutes to myself. This time he had all the kids playing a game that I have heard them play before, but...Keep Reading Here »
The Nut House Gets Flooded
I tried taking pictures, but that really doesn’t show the mess that my children created. The video doesn’t really do that great of a job either, but here it is anyways, lol. There are 2 videos because somehow I stopped recording in the middle of it. I was thinking that we were going to...Keep Reading Here »
Honey Nut is a Walker and Loved By Wee Nut
I have had the hardest time loading this video tonight. I am not sure why, but it is giving me a hard time. I have both a YouTube upload and a Quick Time link. I am too tired to try to figure out why the YouTube one is being so squirrely and how I...Keep Reading Here »
The American Heart Association Rocks!
I saw this video this morning and I though I would share it. I love that it covers all ages! I am so grateful for the American Heart Association and all they doKeep Reading Here »
A Video of Wee Nut From Last Fall, Learning to Walk
I have been cleaning out my camera memory card and I found this video of Wee Nut from last fall, end of September I think. This is taken the day that he really learned to walk. I posted a video of his actual first steps in this First Steps post in August that was...Keep Reading Here »
Mended Little Hearts got a tour of the C’ville airport and the news was there to cover it! Very cool :)
Yesterday Mended Little Hearts of Charlottesville got a tour of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport. We got a tour of the behind the scenes activity. They took us behind the check in desk and we got to see where the luggage goes. Then they took us out back and the kids got to watch the airplanes...Keep Reading Here »
Owain’s First Steps
I know you all have been waiting for pictures of Ariel, so I was working on that today when I came across Owain’s first steps…actually they were just moments after his first steps, but the fact that I actually had the camera in my hand when he started walking is an amazing thing in...Keep Reading Here »
Honey Nut
Honey Nut is the Latest and Last Addition to the Family. She is our 5th Little Nut and our 1st and only Little Girl. She spends her days pretty much running after her brothers and pretending she can talk. She has no trouble being heard around here and loves her big brothers as much as they love her. Right now it is pretty much her job to just hang out and be cute.
Wee Nut
Owain is my 3 year old, my Little Heart Kid & my Hero. He is Double Inlet, Single Ventricle with Pulmonary Atresia and Malpositioned Great Arteries. He has had 3 out of 3 Open Heart surgeries needed to “fix” his heart. The Heart is an amazing thing and I never know what to expect. He also has asthma and we are doing our best to manage that. He finally had his last surgery on June 24th 2011.
Wee Nut and Honey Nut have become a pair of serious partners in crime. The two of them together can cause more trouble than the older three. They keep me on my toes!
Owain is our Miracle Baby. You can read his Congenital Heart Defect Story from the very beginning if you click on his picture.
E Nut
E Nut is 8 and wicked crazy! He is my fearless child and spent much of his life thinking if he could just jump high enough he could fly. If I let him, he would play Wii all day long, that is IF I let him. He has no trouble waking up before 6am and made me a morning person when I never thought I would be. He recently lost his first tooth and FINALLY feels like a Big Kid. E Nut and Wing Nut are the Big Kids around here and while they fight like enemies, they love like brothers.
Thank you for praying!
After his Fontan on June 24th he went home after 6 days! Now we are back in the hospital waiting for fluid to stop draining from around his right lung.
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Little Nut Nut
Little Nut Nut is my 5 year old boy genius and totally freaks me out with the things he can do. What type of child learns to read at 3 years old?!? He is his Big Brothers shadow and wants to do what ever they do. He doesn't have any trouble letting everyone around here know what he thinks, has no inner voice and talks non-stop all day long. If he thinks it, he says it. He says things like "I love life" and "I am made of Awesome" and always makes me smile, even when I don't want to.
Wing Nut
My Wing Nut, 10 years old, is my first born and is a Lego Fanatic. He talks in his sleep about "interesting number combinations" and insists that he is going to work for Lego when he grows up. From the moment he gets the current issue of Lego magazine in the mail, he anticipates the arrival of the next one. He has crazy mood swings, has recently been diagnosed with ADHD but I am not so sure that is correct. He is considered Failure to Thrive and I struggle everyday to get him to gain weight, he keeps getting taller, but not gaining any weight. I think if we can figure out why he his Failure to Thrive, his ADHD will go away.
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