The Jones Girls

I arranged to have the kiddos and moms of the La Habra Moms club to enjoy a tour of the restaurant, kitchen and make their own tacos.

The manager John, was very accomodating!!    He explained the history of the restaurant.  It was originally a house and part of the restaurant was actually party of the house and he pointed certain characteristics to prove it.    I was so impressed when we toured their kitchen!!   Hands down, their kitchen is the CLEANEST kitchen I have ever seen at any restaurant, and I will tell you, this past year we have done at least 6 restaurant tours of their kitchens.    You could eat off of their kitchen floor!!    

The kids made their tacos in the kitchen and then we were all guided to our party room on the patio.  It looked so festive!!  Their were balloons tied with cute yellow duckies all over the place!!   The kids were give cute sippy cups with their choice of beverage.   The moms ordered off of the menu.  I had a coupon which was great!!   

The kids got ice cream for dessert.   The final suprise was each kid got to pick out a prize from the restaurant’s special toy chest!!

We all had a wonderful time.

I can clearly remember 6 years ago today, giving birth to my miracle baby – my first born daughter.    I remember her little cry, and I cried along with her.     I was in awe when I first saw her.   

I can’t believe 6 whole years have gone by!!  Savannah keeps getting more beautiful and more smart every day.    She continues to amaze me as she learns to read, be more involved in the world around her, and develop in to a wonderful little girl.

Happy Birthday to my darling first born daughter Savannah.  I love you so much!! xoxoxoxo

Today was Savannah’s birthday party. The theme was My Littlest Pet shop gone Wild in a Carnival!! 

 Her closest friends from Kindergarten. a lot of her friends from the moms club, some friends from her old preschool, and her long time neighbor friend were there along with all of the mommies.

All of the kids got to paint bobble head ceramics, make personalized name bracelets or necklaces, paint and decorate their nails.    The big hit was a bouncy house and a huge popcorn machine and snow cone machine!!   

We had loads of pizza and snacks to eat.   I have to say I made the most beautiful “My Littlest Pet Shop” birthday cake and matching cupcakes.  

Balloons were everywhere.   I would say the moms had just as much fun as the kids did!!   The weather was beautiful and it was truly a very special day. 

Savannah got many wonderful presents.  She loved all of them!!

Savannah has needed a new bed for a while now.  I have been selling my old baby stuff and saving money to get her a new bed for her birthday.  I went on Craigslist.com and found a really great full sized captain’s bed with roll out twin sized trundle underneath and 3 drawers under the trundle too!!    The company I bought it from is called Livin’ Large.

I ordered it on Tuesday and it arrived today and was put together.    I also got a beautiful new couch set.  We have been needing a new couch set for a few years now.    The other one was in such bad shape.    I got a really good deal and LOVE our new leather reclining sofa, love seat and recliner.     It is so comfortable and it looks so nice.

How in the world did that happen?    They have to wear them all fo the time!, except when they are playing outdoors.  A few weeks ago I took the triplets to their annual eye exam at Dr. Fierson’s, a pediatric opthamologist.

Miranda has been crossing her left eye inwards.    He said she has a lazy eye and it causes the cross eyed because it is weak.  He prescribed eyeglasses for her.  She is also farsighted more than little kids are at this age.  Miranda’s left lens of her glasses will be specially made to help straighten her eye out.  If it doesn’t then we begin to patch the strong eye to make the weak eye work hearder.  Worse case if that doesn’t fix it, she will need surgery on the eye muscle.  I am hoping to avoid that at all costs.

Amanda also has a lazy eye that I was never able to detect!!  He said she is also farsighted more than little kids are at this age.   He prescribed eyeglasses for her. 

Maryssa’s eyes are the least problematic but her farsightedness has worsened since a year ago.   He prescribed eyeglasses for her. 

I took Savannah to her eye appointment last week.  The optometrist said Savannah needs glasses too!!    She is farsighted.  She needs to wear her glasses all of the time.  So that day I ordered all 4 girls glasses.   That was some endeavor I tell you!!

Today I picked up all of their glasses.   I immediately put their initials inside the glasses so I know whose is whose.    They all wanted to wear the same pretty frames and to be honest, I don’t blame them, they are really nice frames.

It is quite an adjust for them, and even more for me to remember to make sure that they wear them consistently.     I have forgotten a few days to put glasses on them.    I have to make it a habit.

Daddy’s Cliff’s glasses look very similar to the girls’ glasses and my glasses are sort of similar so it looks like a riot to see all 6 of us wearing the same glasses!!

I got a call a couple of weeks ago from the school Nurse who did Savannah’s annual physical, hearing and vision test.  She said that Savannah’s left ear doesn’t detect hearing pitch of 3000-4000 hz.  She said she noticed this last year when Savannah was in preschool.  The nurse never mentioned this to me last year!

I mentioned Savannah was sick and could the nurse do a receck in a couple of weeks – which was today.  Still the same hearing loss in that ear.  She doesn’t have an otoscope to check if she has fluid in her ears.

I told the school nurse that Savannah had seen an audiologist at Providence Hearing Center at Children’s Hospital in Orange a couple of years ago to rule out hearing loss due to her speech issues.  Savannah was undergoing tests and evaluations for speech therapy.    Anyway, they detected fluid  in her ear and told us to come back in a month.  Savannah had been sick so it didn’t surprise me that she had fluid in her ear. We came back in a month, they tested her and said her hearing was fine. 

So the nurse has referred Savannah to the school district’s audiologist to check her hearing.   The nurse did mention that a hearing loss at 3000-4000 is really not a big deal and doesn’t affect the “speech banana” that could affect her speech to due a hearing loss.   She said if Savannah turns out to have a hearing loss at that level, that they really is nothing to do because it is so extremely minuscule that it is virtually not a problem for Savannah.

So I will get an appt. set up for Savannah’s hearing test with Centrelia, the school district’s audiologist.

This morning Amanda and Savannah woke up with green, weepy. swollen and goopy eyes.    I had to wash their eyes with a warm, soft wash cloth.  Amanda was tugging at her ear.  Uh oh…are we dealing with an ear infection AND pink eye? 

I took the girls to the dr. today.   Yep, they have conjunctivitis in their eyes and the doctor prescribed antibiotic eye drops and antibiotics for Amanda’s ear infection.

The dr. noticed Savannah had a little scar tissue in her ears and asked if Savannah had a lot of ear infections when she was a baby – nope, not that I can recall.   I recall RSV followed with asthma related lung issues.

It is looking like all of the girls are starting to catch this respitory virus – aack!