I love a parade...

AND SO DOES ROO!

Tonight was the Annual Spokane Armed Forces Torchlight Parade/Lilac Festival parade.

I took Madaya downtown to enjoy it as we do each year and this year we had a blast. Our friends were here from Federal way and that was a nice and long needed visit so we wrapped it all in one. Madaya adores their little girl, corey, so she had fun playing around.

When the parade started roo was full of smiles, and waves and a hole bunch of funniness. She was dancing and screaming and loved to see all the pretty floats.

I cant wait till she knows why we have the parade and what it means.
For now its all fun.

The weather was perfect, the people were great all in all a wonderful parade this year!

The only thing that would be better is if daddy was there ( he was at work ) Maybe next year?!

Putting on her glow bracelets...

Peeking out the stroller window...

Loving on momma ...

Enjoying a special treat..

Watchign the parade ...

Hiding from the camera....

Yeah... well, shes a roo bug.

You asked... Ill show

A fellow WLS friend recently had asked why I dont share a lil more as to how my body is transforming on my blog. Theres many reasons but mainly this blog isnt all about me. LOL However I do like to share my journey and it helps so others can see ....So here you go.

I havent had the guts to wear these outfits " out " yet just because I am still soooo self contious of it all. I think I will get better as the rollies go away? Or maybe its time I get some spanx?!

It's amazing to me when I see pics like this cause in my " every day " clothes AKA pajamas lol, I dont see or feel that I have lost anything.

I now weight - according to home scale 179?! Making a loss since surgery of 40+ lbs.
(see ticker on side of blog)

I know my jeans (16) are LOOSE. I was a size 18/20 ( and was snug ) on bottom and 1-2x on top now I dont own 1 top that fits as well as it use too. These tops are XL 14-16 and you can see how they fall. You be the judge. These pics were taken 6 weeks out which was last friday.

I wont have a visit with the surgeons office until july so no idea what my measurements are or anything like that. I did just go back and edit my measurements though, from my 2 week post op - youll have to check those out!

This just in :

My bossy sister in law says I need to have a Pre-Op side by side so you can * really * see the difference.. Here you go boss ;)

Imagine..

Imagine what you would see if you gave a toddler a heaping pile of finger paints and shaving cream...
Imagine what would be inspired by it...
Imagine what would be the outcome of it all...
Imagine our giggles as it all happened.

Painting with finger paints is one of madaya's all time fav activities. Add shaving cream and I think we have a new fav! We had alot of fun though, and its all kid friendly. Who doesnt love that!?

In the beginging... all was clean

The concept

The look that said it was all over ( notice the clean kid )

and...

Its all down hill from here...

Yeah, this should be called the look of trouble!

But man was she proud!

We have sprouted

ok, we havent sprouted but our garden has!

Yesterday ( 5 days past planting ) morning we checked on our garden which we planted the other day are lovingly trying to grow inside and much to our suprise we have sprouts!!!

It looks like our cucumbers have sprouted first and at only 4 days after planting we were all a little shocked to see them already as germination should be 6-10 days!

Here are some snap's of Garden day 5 - Plant day 1 / Sprouted!

Cucumber Plants

Tomato Plant

Today we checked our garden and much like yesterday were delighted to see so much growth. It now looks like everything has begun to sprout. The plants from yesterday are now a good 3""tall and the others have all poked through the soil. Looks like our growing is well under way.

Weve watched them throughout the day its funny to see how much they can change in just a few hours.

Here are todays snap's of Garden day 6 - Plant day 2 / All have sprouted!

The same cucumber plants from yesterday!



Tomato and pepper plants

The close up of the big guys aka cucumbers

Mothers Day

Mothers day already?
In case you didnt know I am a mother all day every day... which naturally means I kind of look forward to the day they actually celebrate me. I beleive mother's day should be EVERY Sunday especially if they could all be like today.
We had plans to go paint some small dishes for me at color me mine, but with saturday's night not being so good we decided other wise. To sum saturday night up no one slept. Madaya came to our bed around midnight and was restless. I couldnt and didnt fall asleep till Mike got home, and Mike didn't get home until 6am this morning ( sunday ) from work.
Mike, Madaya and I finally fell asleep for a few hours and woke up around 10. We decided we would just go look at garden stuff and yard things ( were working on getting that all done up ). So we headed to town and just did that.
We went to home depot where I had a panic attack from all the friggin people so we left there, decided just to go to the grocery store then home.

We went to the store got the stuff for dinner then headed home. Once home we worked outside for a while and just went with the flow.
We had my mom ( Grammy ) come over and we made her dinner and gave her her gifts.
It was a wonderful afternoon, and evening and then we all went to bed early. What more could a momma ask for? I am so blessed to have a loving husband and a daughter whom every day brings me more and more reasons to be so in love with her and she keeps me laughing.

Heres some snapshots of our day.

Happy Mothers day

to all the wonderful mothers, grandmothers, and god mothers I know!

The Grammy and the necklace we gave her
( the chain this year - the pendant 2 years ago )

The momma and her lil roo - Just snuggling!

yeah... she made me mud pie :)

She loves to play int he dirt...

even more now that she has " dirty toys"

Kia Mia Button Boo....

Bzzzzzz...

Daya watching all the bzzzzzz....

Digging up trouble?!

Funny face time!

The fruits of our labor today....
a completed flower bed

Timber!

We got some action today... from the window that is.

We had a ginormous tree in our back left corner of our yard.
HAD being the key word. Today the arborist came and chopped it down. The tree measured about 130 feet tall and 8 feet round. It was kind of cool to watch.

I didnt have the good camera charged but heres some snapshots!
We are so happy things are improving around here. Sprinklers are also being installed this week and then our grass will be planted :0)

ready to come down

top falling
Top down

bottom ready

TIMBER

cutting up the massive bottom part

Get seeds started.... Check.

One more thing on our spring to do list has now been checked off.
Mike, Madaya and I got our garden seeds that needed to be started inside all planted today. Daya loved playing in the dirt and it was a great way to kill time on this oh so stormy day :).
We planted :
Roma and Big Boy tomatoes
Jalepeno and Bell peppers
Pickling and Burpless cucumbers
Basil
and chives...
We also have many seeds to plant outside in the weeks to come for our garden

The cheesey grin... even when gardening ( like her attire?)

Our finished pots
playing in the dirt

picking the perfect seeds

pat pat pat

filling the cups

Here kitty kitty!

Today Grammy, Auntie Ann and Mommy took roo bug to see the " kitties". We went to Cattales Zoo and training school.
The majority of the cats were sleeping today but we did get to see some awake and playing....
Madaya liked them except she was kinda scared of the big lions ( this happened last time we went too! ). She did fine though untill her lil allergies kicked in ( thanks to a wind/dust storm ).
We had a picnic lunch at the zoo then walked around seeing them all. It was a short sunny visit interupted by crumby weather - its ok though we had fun :).

Heres some of our sights today ( I cant get close cause you have to stand behind 2 fences ).

Smiling from a far.... playing after our cat walk!

Mr. Tiger checking people out

mommys favorite... Zeus. Hes so handsome!

Look at the cool pattern! He looked so soft!

Yeah... well If I had hair like that, I would stay in bed too!

Until our next adventure....

Finally the DX weve been waiting on..

ASTHMA!!!



Madaya was taken to the Dr again! ( GOD KNOWS IM TIRED OF IT! ) because shes been having her hard time breathing spells that come along with her coughing fits and just in general not feeling well. As always ( its been happening since she was tiny ) she was showing signs of allergies then it all goes down her throught and chest. Poor thing.
This time the dr. ACTUALLY got to see it first hand ( until now they have always missed it ) and said that the cure is this.... albuterol which will be delivered via nebulizer. Once we get it under control with these strict 2-4 hour treatment routine then it will be daily and we will consider a med for when shes outside to help with the allergies - of which the skin test still says she doesnt have yet when we are outside shes a mess?!



Anyways they gave her a treatment of it today in the office - you shoulda seen it she was so cute and now loves doing it. We have her unit for home and and the plan is treatments every couple of hours today and tomarrow then every 4 hours for 4 more days then dr. follow up... then daily maintenence and rescue dose.

Dr. says we best get used to carrying it in the car with us. Oh joy...



Im just glad we can bring roo some releif poor thing.



You know for someone like me not liking to take kiddo to Dr. all the time it sure feels like weve been living there. Ugh Ugh Ugh!
Heres to happier healthier days ahead!