Fix it Friday

I've started to follow/join a photography blog that helps people develop their photography and editing skills. Every Friday they put up a picture and some tips and everyone edits the same picture and posts links to their edits on their blogs. This is this weeks Fix it Friday for me!

sample image:

my edits:

Santa has a bed time

Apparently, Santa does not stay up as long as the mall stays open. Who knew? Got Tenley and Scarlett all dressed up in their Santa outfits from Grandma Kirsten, but at eight o'clock when we finally got to the Tucson Mall...Santa was no where to be found. Sad day.

However, the night was not a total loss. I managed to get three stocking stuffers, three gifts, matching Christmas Eve PJ's for the girls, and a Christmas Mickey and Minnie cookie plate all for under thirty eight bucks including tax. Can't beat that! Thank you, recession sales! Plus I got a really cute picture of Jon and Tenley that I will post later.

Handy Helpers

We've had a lot of help unpacking!

 

sleeping in

Im failing miserably at my 365 project. Its quickly becoming my 41 project.
Here's one that I just finished that I took when I first got my very own not borrowed big girl camera.

Baby in a bucket

She is such a sport. She was so mesmorized by the ribbons. I wish I had a picture of Tenley for this day,  but I was a slacker mom.

 how cute is that back chub spilling out? ^

Bad mommy blogger, bad!

So much for my resolution to blog often, eh?

Thanks to inspiration from my new found Australian blog friend Georgia Brizuela, and her blog Gregarious Peach (which I highly recommend- its gorgeous, a quick read, endearing, and fun), I am going to start a 365 Project with my kids. Everyday I will have  a photo and caption of each of them. I might even throw in a few of Jonathon or me, who knows. Kind of my before-the-new-year  New Years Resolution. So precocious! Did I use that word correctly? It sounded so tempting to say so I just went with it.

I've had this blog entry in my draft box for awhile, waiting til I figure out photoshop so that I can post edited pictures. But photoshop has proven to be more of an animal than I originally anticipated, so I'll just get going on this for now and post SOOC. That's right, I'm learning foto jargon. It means straight out of the camera. I'm just fancy like that ;-)

Since I wanted to start this awhile ago, I'm going to go ahead and post a good handful today.

Also, we've had ALOT of happenings with Tenley's developmental stuff, and I need to update on that. It's on my to do list. Which means I may update you sometime before the end of the Mayan calender. Maybe.

Anyhow. Photos. 

I need to host these on flickr or somewhere to put them on the blog. I hate how small blogger resizes the file. Cute little details get lost :(

Again...on my to do list...

Sweet Scarlett

sweet thing, she loves teddies. 

poor bear, she waves him like a flag.

messy eater. mmm...blueberries

 aaaand she's done

precious little one.

curious mind. 

Miss Tenley

Sleep Disorder

We had a very encouraging visit with Dr Rice, Tucson's only developmental pediatrician, yesterday morning. We thought we were going to have to go see a developmental pediatrician in Phoenix or somewhere out of town as Dr Rice is booked months to a year out. But as a favor to us for being post a post ECMO patient still in contact with the hospital, a UMC doc *to remain anonymous* called in a favor. I am exceedingly grateful to that Doctor. They will never know how much.

We talked for about twenty minutes with Dr Rice and for twenty minutes she played with Tenley. After hearing about Tenley's sleep for the past year she decided any other problems were irrelevant to a diagnosis at this point. She was diagnosed with a sleep disorder, whether its causal or secondary to everything else, we don't know. Grossly irregular sleep and or sleep deprivation can cause all of her other symptoms, so we can't assess her developmental status til she has been well slept for a month.

She prescribed her Trazadone, an antidepressant which is commonly used off label as a sleep aid. She said I can start with as low a dose as a quarter of a 50mg tablet, up to one and a half 50mg tablets. Well, since Tenley is like an elephant and takes a whole lot of tranquilizing...she got three quarters of a tablet tonight. It is supposed to make her too sleepy to fight me in about ten minutes. Quarter of a tablet at 6:55 pm... another quarter at 7:38pm....another quarter at 8:16pm...8:37pm she starts down the hall toward me for more protestation, but stops to rest on the laundry pile and goes to sleep. She would not give up! Even now she keeps half waking up and crying for a minute at a time.

Dr Rice said once she has had a solid sleep schedule down for six months we can start to wean her off of it and see how it goes. I'm crossing my fingers that when that day comes she'll be able to come off of it!

So...that's where we are right now. We will put the "autism" word on the back burner. Which is kind of a relief. I'm an information junkie and I was learning way too much about Autism and becoming discouraged, so I'm happy to pretend its not a possibility right now.

This blog update brought to you, with the time given me, courtesy of....Trazadone :)