I asked Navy where her pink shoes were.
She told me, “I am positive they are in the car!”
I questioned her, and she said, “Mom, I am telling you 100 percent, they are in there!”
So half way to school, I asked if she had them on.
She was as puzzled as can be when she told me that they weren’t in the car.
So I told her she better find something in the car to put on her feet.
It was between Scout’s flips or his soccer cleats.
The flips were “boy shoes” and totally out of the question.
But since our girl neighbor gave Scout her cleats (that are boy cleats because they couldn’t find girl ones at the store they were in), she opted for those.
Fine by me.
And upon hearing the story, fine by her teacher too.
These two have a really special something between them.
Especially since she has become his literal second mother with all of my back and forth to the hospital as of late.
And this isn’t just a one way street.
As much as she is obsessed with him….he feels the same way towards her.
Because she is his, “best, best friend in the whole wide world!”
For nine long days, my three oldest have been begging to see Pippi. They have seen her on the webcam, and they have seen pictures…but nothing is like the real thing. So our nurse Lisa said she could take Pippi to the door where the kids could stand and see her. So after church, the kids came over to the NICU, and they got to see Pippi for the first time.
Here they are peeking through the window.
Then Lisa brought Pip to the door.
And it opened to the sweetest reaction you have ever seen from three siblings waiting patiently for their sweet little sister to come home to them!
The reaction is on video, and Scout could have melted your heart.
Navy was in love from the get go.
And Dash was just completely mesmerized.
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Lisa told me the next day that she went home and told her whole family about the reactions of my kids.
She told everyone it was almost the sweetest thing she has ever seen.
And it was.
How sweet are the Perkowskis?
Talk about nice neighbors!
When I went in to kiss my kids after they fell asleep, I found this interesting scene.
Two sleeping babes.
One tucked in.
And one in the prayer position.
Both sound asleep.
Scout has been a bit lackadaisical on the soccer field lately. So on our way to his game today, Micah and I gave him a pep talk. Micah started out with “If you are aggressive at your age, you will dominate on the field.” He didn’t really buy it, and since he wanted to go to a fair with B later that day, Micah told him that every time he touched the soccer ball during the game, he would earn a dollar for the fair. Scout wasn’t enamored and said, “So I will get like two dollars?” Micah said, “If you aren’t aggressive….maybe. But it is up to you. You could walk away from today’s game with 30 or 40 dollars!” Scout seemed to pep up a bit. And then I talked to him about being scared while giving his talk in the recent primary program. I told him that he was nervous. But once he gave it and dominated, it felt great! After a few more minutes of driving, Scout asked, “Well, what if I make a goal?”
Now Micah and I knew this was totally out of the question. He hadn’t been aggressive in weeks. And he played defense which put him pretty far from the goal.
So I answered him with, “Scout, if you make a goal, you get to have all of the money that is in Dad’s wallet.”
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When the game started, you have never seen a boy with more determination. He came out like an animal and touched the ball about 40 times in the first few minutes. It was SO fun to watch. But not nearly as fun as when he scored a GOAL!
As soon as he did, he turned around and did a little personal celebration.
It was SO cute, and I was SO proud!
When the quarter whistle blew, Scout immediately ran over and asked, “Dad….how much do you have in your wallet?”
He kind of hung his head when he answered, “245 bucks.”
Scout couldn’t believe his ears.
Nor could any nearby parents.
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On our way home, Scout said, “Dad, I bet you are so sad you have to give me all your money!”
Micah told him, “You know what….it was worth every penny if you now know you can be great if you just try hard.”
The payout happened later at home when the transaction could happen in a safe place.
I was so proud of my boy.
I was also so proud of my husband who didn’t short change him after he made his goal.
And when I told Scout to take out $20 for the fair and hand over the rest for his savings account, he gladly obliged.
None of my kids have really liked toys.
Until Dash.
He has recently found a love of trains.
It really is “Thomas Train” he loves, but he sort of likes all things trains.
In fact, every time he walks into my mom’s room it goes a little something like this:
“Thomas!”
“Thomas Train!”
“Peeease!”
“Pease Nonnie….Thomas Train!”
And guess what…?
Quite often I walk into Nonnie’s room to see a sweet little boy cuddled up to his Non, doing none other than watching a little Thomas the Tank Engine.
What a sucker that Nonnie is!
One week ago today, our lives changed forever.
And in only the most awesome way.
This little girl — whose head is smaller than my finger has made serious strides this week after a blood exchange transfusion, a platelet transfusion, a feeding tube placed, tons of pricks, at least one new IV a day, a PIC line that didn’t take, and a few downs - but mostly ups.
On average, one week doesn’t seem like a very long time.
But with so much happening this week, it seemed like a few months all rolled up into 7 days.
Seven of the sweetest and happiest days of my life!
Here we are at one of our pumping/nursing attempt/gavage feedings.
She is always so sleepy.
And then she woke up — because like clockwork, she needed a diaper change after her feed, because something really got her bowels moving.
Daddy calls her the “master of disaster”.
But we all know that title easily goes to two of our other kids.
But this little thing is trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Or Denisons in this case.
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Happy One Week Pippi.
My Pippi is 6 days old.
Amongst all of her cords and leeds, she is doing really well.
But this morning she had low platelets again which concerned the doctors.
They originally searched for platelets the day she was born, but there was no exact match in any of the local blood banks. So CHOC reached out to neighboring counties, and nothing. They were monitoring her as they were looking for platelets, but by day three her count looked decent. Unfortunately, today they decided to give her a platelet transfusion because her numbers were going down again. Luckily, we had the huge blessing of an exact match coming through a local blood bank.
Her transfusion went smoothly, and now it is just the two of us cuddling.
And me singing to her while she gets fed through her nose.
I am always trying to hog Pippi during her small little moments out from the desert lights, so Micah hasn’t held her until today.
And when he did, I think it was love at first hold.
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