Wicked!

 

The big day finally arrived! We went to see Wicked. The girls got new dresses and were so excited that we were able to use it as a threat for bedtime the entire week leading up to it. (everyone does it- "if you don't stop talking and go to sleep we will not .... Fill in the blank). I love when I have leverage like that.

Anyway I have to admit we were a bit worried about Hannah since her attention span is limited compared to her sister, but they were both excellent. They did kick the chair in front of them a bit but other than that they sat back and enjoyed their popcorn and watched the show. And asked a million questions. Leah was real hung up on the love triangles. Hannah was more worried about the clock tower dragon. If you have never seen the show, go see it.

After it ended and we were back in the car, Leah continued her onslaught of wicked related questions. "why didn't fiyero love glenda? Why didn't bok love Nessa? Why did Nessa turn bok into a tin man?" 

Hannah finally said "you have seen it now! You should know everything!" I was quite amazed at how much of the storyline they did fully understand,but then we had been listening to the CD NONSTOP since for 5 months.

They are my girls. Already loving Broadway.

Diagnosis -asthma

 

 Back in January we had a little scare with Leah. She has been blessed with my lovely allergy issues, and one Friday night she started having trouble breathing. This has happened before, and being a nurse and an asthma sufferer myself I feel pretty calm about this sort of thing considering. By Saturday morning I was not happy, so I took her in after multiple breathing treatments, to the doctors office for some steroids. she was very pitiful. And they sent us to the er after 2 more breathing treatments.



We were taken back right away and the hospital gave her 2 doses of steroid and Over the course of 2-3 hours another 3 breathing treatments. The child went nuts. She went from droopy pitiful little Leah to standing on top of the bed, singing Wicked songs at the top of her lungs, goofy, completely jacked up on steroids and albuterol. It was hilarious, poor baby.



Unfortunately, even though she felt much bet term her breathing was still a bit labored and they admitted us for the night. I was quite pregnant at the time and not thrilled to sleep on that little couch with the O2 sat monitor going off every time Leah moved (yet no one ever came in?) all night long, but luckily we did get to home the next day. She really was a trooper. Hannah had a harder time since she had to leave her sister and mommy in the hospital and go home with daddy.



She was just happy about her frosted flakes. She was officially diagnosed with asthma which I had known was likely for about a year. At least now I have an inhaler for her. The next day I took her to yogurt mountain. And she was still crazy from the drugs. It made for some entertainment!

Noah is making his presence known- a belly video

Ignoring my ugly belly and hideous but extremely comfy pajama pants, I wanted to post this because one day I will forget what this looks like. I haven't taken any belly pics, thought I would take a video! Almost 24 weeks ...

Leah begins reading

The other 2 girls quickly lost interest in the reading lesson, but Leah was focused. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3MiAlHrCQQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Following the rules

Conversation between leah and Matt
L: daddy? why did Phiaro (from Wicked) not follow the rules?
Matt: I guess because he was a rebel and did not follow the rules; but u don't do that right? U follow the rules
L: wellllll..... sometimes I don't, sometimes I get cereal out of the cabinet by dragging a stool over and then you come in the kitchen and get all serious at me.
Matt: you do?
L: yup sometimes you don't know, like today while you were working
Hannah: ya her did
Matt: (palm slaps forehead )

Animal crackers in my soup- spiritual version

I made the girls repeat themselves for the camera because I liked the idea of Jesus swimming with monkeys in the soup :)

Even Leah had Jesus in her version of the Shirley temple song

"we will not fear"

Another performance by Leah. This is her favorite song from our church's CD "Glory to Glory".

It's very moving. Don't you feel it??