October 10, 2006

Chloe and Leah with painted faces.


Our lunch at the Crystal Palace in Magic Kingdom with Pooh and his friends.











We are back at home in Denver after a whirlwind week in Florida. There is really nothing we would change about our trip--everything was perfect.

On Friday, our last full day there, we managed to spend almost eight hours at Disney World. We started with Epcot and took the monorail over to Magic Kingdom where we rode some of the same rides as on Monday and took in a 3-D show, Philharmagic. Chris was able to ride a few rides on his own while I shopped with the girls. We ended up mailing a box home because each day we would get a gift for both girls in our villa, plus we acquired a few things as well, and ended up with a huge amount of "stuff."

The flights back were uneventful, aside from a bumpy start out of Orlando. I am not a big fan of flying (I love looking out the window, but hate that I am not in control at all) but both girls like it. Leah still likes the escalators at the airports. When we were walking in the Detroit airport to our gate Leah was busy singing, "Give us any chance we'll take it, Give us any rule we'll break it..." from Laverne and Shirley. Chloe was busy with "who let the doggies out?"

We arrived in Denver around 9:30 on Saturday night and spent Sunday unpacking and regrouping. Our house looks like a tornado has hit it even with my cleaning. I spent Monday going through winter clothes and packing summer things away. Reeve's baptism is this Saturday night as is Chloe's 3rd birthday party. It is also Wartburg's Homecoming this weekend so we will hopefully get to the parade. This is my last week of maternity leave, so next week it is back to the real world. Even though I am not looking forward to some aspects of that, I will be grateful for each and every day we have to be a normal family- even if that means rushing around and not getting everything done that I would like.

Our next Iowa City appointment is on October 26. It seems we get done with one and can then begin worrying about the next one. So, please keep on praying for her AFP to be normal--and very low- yet again. We will meet with surgery to schedule her port to be removed as long as her numbers continue to look good. Leah's cough is also still hanging on. We give her cough medicine, use the vaporizer, but she still has a drippy nose, too. Please pray that she can get rid of this bug as well.

I will continue to post pictures of our Florida trip, so prepare yourselves. It was a week of happy memories for us.