The Jones Girls

Today our neighbors, Amy and Rob, came over for dinner.    I told them that today was the last day the Electric Parade would be at Disneyland.    We decided that we would go see it tonight. 

So, we left 3 hours early to make sure we got a good place to watch the parade.   Could you believe there was no room to sit!!  We lucked out and found a handicap area, since Amanda has club radian hand and she loses balance, she qualifies to be in the handicap area.   We got an upfront and great spot.  We had to wait over 2 hours for the parade.   I brought lots of dessert snacks and drinks for the girls.    Finally about 30 minutes before the parade which happens to be their bedtime, at 8:30pm they all crashed out.  I had brought their warm jackets and thick, warm blankets.  They were all bundled up with full bellies and crashed out.

They woke up right before the parade and loved watching it.  I am so glad Amy came with us.  We had such a wonderful time.

This afternoon at 3pm we went to Sanford Studios to do a retake for a group picture.   Miranda kept crossing her eyes during the photo session at the preschool so they let us do a retake in their studio today.

Well, Maryssa was very uncooperative and we couldn’t get one good shot in!  I was so frustrated.    Lots of work getting them ready and nothing to show for it….Ugh….

Today we went to my friend, Chrissy’s daughter, Samantha’s 6 birthday party.  Chrissy and I were pregnant at the same time and our due dates were on the same day.   She wound up going over a week overdue and I wound up giving birthday a few weeks early.  So that is why Savannah’s birthday is 4 weeks different than Samantha’s.  Also, did you notice how close their names are.  Cute, huh!!

Anyway, Samantha’s birthday party was at Chuck E. Cheese.   I took all of the girls and we had a blast!!    It was so nice to see everyone and Samantha is so adorable.  The girls got kites as a party favor – how neat!!

We rented a bounce house as a surprise for the girls for Easter.  Our friends, Eva, who was the night nanny for the triplets, and her daughter and grandson came over.  Also, our friend Cyn, who is a foster parent for 4 boys, came over.    My brother Ron came over too.

We had a fun Easter Egg Hunt and the kids played in the bouncy house.    We had a nice lunch of ham and the fixings.

I totally forgot to put the Easter baskets out.  They had fun bubble blowing stuff in them.  I will have to figure out a way to surprise them with the baskets…oops!!

I did make some yummy fudge Easter Eggs for everyone.   It was a fun and relaxing day.

I organized a fun day at Oeste Park for the La Habra Moms Club to celebrate Easter for our kiddos.   We all brought picnic lunches.   We had an Egg hunt and I brought some goodies for all of the kids and cupcakes for everyone.  The kids had a blast and also spend a lot of time on the playground.  

The weather was gorgeous today and it was so much fun for all of us!!

Up until now it has been an intimidating thought to attempt the difficult task for me to get the girls ready to go to church.    Morning services are just too hard to get to on a timely manner.

Our church, Morningstar Christian Chapel, which is a non denominational affiliate Calvary Christian church, offers Wednesday evening services at 7:00pm and Sunday services at 6:00pm.   

Today our church offered a 6:00pm Good Friday evening service.   So I got the girls ready and we all went to church tonight.  

Cliff and I took the triplets to their classroom and then we took Savannah to their classroom.    It was all of the girls very first time attending their classrooms at church.    They were all excited.  There was a fun playground, they had lots of toys, art projects and a lesson taught about Good Friday representing the day Jesus died.

Cliff and I attended the church service and the sermon ministered by Pastor Jack Abaleen was so inspiring!!  I teared up and felt the Spirit the whole time we were there.  The songs we sang were beautiful and I felt the love of Jesus our Lord in me and all around us.  It was His amazing Grace.

We are going to try to attend church weekly now.   The girls are old enough now to learn about the teachings of Jesus and Christianity.  I am so excited for them!!   It will also be good for Cliff and I to attend services and get involved in the ministry as well.

Today I took the girls for their follow up eye exams to see how Amanda and Miranda were progressing with their new glasses and to also get a full eye exam for Savannah, I want to get a 2nd opinion to make sure she really needs glasses.

Amanda is showing huge improvement with her glasses.     Dr. Fierson is hoping that the glasses will correct Amanda’s vision and then she won’t need them anymore.  I am crossing my fingers!! xxxxx

Miranda is also showing improvement but is still crossing her left eye.  We will need to patch her right eye (stronger eye) 2 hours a day while she is wearing her glasses.  This is to help her left eye get stronger.  We are doing this to get her optical muscle to get stronger to avoid surgery at all costs.    I have a feeling Miranda will be needing glasses for quite a while but the dr. is optimistic that the glasses are to correct her vision and cross eyedness too.

Dr. Fierson said Savannah’s eyesight has actually gotten better than last year.  He says she doesn’t need to wear the glasses and that they are too strong for her anyway.  He said most kids are farsighted and that it improves as they get older.  He feels the optometrist was negligent in prescribing glasses for Savannah and that it was a way for the optometrist to make money…grrrr…that really peeved me off.    All at the expense of my pocket book, my insurance company, and most importantly at the expense of my daughter’s eyesight!!

Maryssa doesn’t really need to wear her glasses so I am going to not have her wear them.  So now I am down to 2 girls in glasses and 2 girls not in glasses. 

We have a re-check for Miranda’s eyes next month on May 5th.  Amanda needs a re-check in 3 months.