We had another fun and busy weekend. On Friday Lidie and I got to stay home and relax. We played, made cookies then decorated them, painted and watched TV. While we watched one of her favorite shows, Bubble Guppies, one of the characters on the show was a pirate and had a wooden leg. She said, "hey! That pirate has a prosthetic! One leg is a prosthetic and one isn't!" She thought it was so cool that a character on her show had a prosthetic. I love that prosthetics are a normal part of life for her. She'll grow up with an empathy, and acceptance. Friday night we enjoyed the evening sky, a rainbow and watched The Three Stooges, which the girls love! They laugh so much.
On Saturday I went to my book club. It was a great escape, chance to enjoy good food, good conversation and great friends. While I was gone Josh and the girls went for a walk around the lake. He said that the girls took turn riding in a jogging stroller and walking. Its about two and a half miles around the lake so Amaya got quite a workout. Both girls did. After resting at home for awhile they decided to go down to the school and ride bikes and scooters. I'm not sure where the girls were getting their energy from! At bedtime on Saturday Amaya asked if we could skip locking her bar in at night, she actually asked to skip to Friday night as well. I'd love to give her a break, but had to say no. She still needs it to stretch the muscles at night. When she wears it she doesn't get to relax or rest very well. Dr. Nelson said it wasn't a big deal if she missed a night here and there, but she had already missed a night this week.
Today we went to Cooking 101 in Corona. We had a cooking class to celebrate our friend Diana's birthday. It was a great way to learn how to make something new, enjoy a good meal and hang out with friends. In the afternoon we met my brother and his family for a late lunch as an early birthday dinner for my husband. We ate delicious vegetarian food and got to spend time with sweet Nixon, my nephew.
Last week I made a connection with another PFFD mom. She had found our blog awhile ago and has been reading along. She emailed me and lives pretty close to us so we hope to meet her and her daughter soon. Thanks again for writing Brandi! I wonder how many other PFFD families out there are reading our journey. I hope we offer them some help, guidance, empathy, advice, comfort, support, information and hope. I'm grateful for all the connections we've made through this blog. Thank you for reading, following along and reaching out to us.
Friday evening we had a rainbow near our house. It was so beautiful!
Amaya climbed up on the ladder to enjoy the view. She gave me a scare going up there. She did great, and Josh was spotting her. Nevertheless its a great picture.
Amaya and her class made skeletons at school during P.E. She decided to make hers with a short femur. As we talked about it she said that it had a short leg like her, but then I reminded her that she doesn't have a short leg anymore. Isn't that amazing?!
As Amaya stepped out of the shower Saturday night she hit her fixator on the toilet. She hit the bar that arcs across her shin, but her middle pins started bleeding. She hit it pretty hard and started crying. Then her middle pins started bleeding. This is what her middle pins looked like after she hit them. She was afraid that she hit them hard enough to loosen the pins. When she fell and hit her top pins Dr. Nelson had told us that you'd have to hit it pretty hard to do that. Thankfully they stopped bleeding pretty quickly and didn't bother her during the night.
Me and Lidie making our cake.
Amaya mixing her cake mix.
Amaya enjoying her meal. We made stuffed french toast and an Australian chocolate cake.
Lidie and Seraphine after sneaking some extra chocolate off of their cake.
Lidie loved cooking! She asked to come back again.
Dad and Amaya making an Australian cake.
The girls with Seraphine.
Amaya used an old Polaroid camera to take a black and white photo of her aunt, uncle and cousin. Unfortunately because of the heat the film was ruined.
Thankfully we had our iPhones. What a sweet family photo of my brother Juan, sister-in-law Hilary and nephew Nixon.
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