Who's Who?

Last night I took some time to get Brecken's baby book organized. This has been looming over my head for months, and I wanted to get all of the sticky notes out of my purse where I had written the dates of when she rolled over, said "dada" details of her first birthday and the gifts she recieved when she came home from the hospital. I'm so thankful I thought to even write those things down, even though they were on a sticky note. It made it so much easier to remember and put it to paper. I made a list of the photos I need to find and started digging for a few of those I knew I had on hand already. In my search of photos, I came across a few that my mom had given me of myself as a little girl...I knew Brecken had a resemblance to me on occasion, but I thought this was too funny! Take a look at me at Brecken's age, and then the photo of her on her birthday! I guess she is my daughter!

Ironically enough, as I look at this photo, I am standing next to a chair at my grandmothers house, that I now have in my living room..

Pumpkin Patch Party

This past weekend Brecken's birthday celebration continued with her birthday party at the pumpkin patch! Right before Brecken was born, we took Parker to a fun pumpkin patch, and immediately thought what a fun idea for a birthday party. We decided this would be the year. Our family came together to help us celebrate her. We all picked out the perfect pumpkins, enjoyed cupcakes, rode on trains, climbed on hay bales, slid down slides, played in a pile of corn kernels,

and wore ourselves out! It was an awesome day. The birthday celebration is officially over...My baby isn't a baby anymore...she's now a little girl...but still my baby:)

My Baby's Two

It's hard to believe two years ago today, Brecken was born! The time has gone by so fast. We had her two year old well baby check up yesterday and everything looks great! She's still only 23 pounds but the Dr. isn't concerned at all. She may be little but she has a big attitude and is so fun. We sang happy birthday to her this morning, and let her open her gift from us. She LOVED it, and so far is having a great day. We plan to take her out for dinner tonight, and then we'll celebrate on Saturday with family at the pumpkin patch!

Brecken opening her birthday gift

Brecken and Parker playing with her new doll house!

Tell My Mom Hi

Parker is too funny in my opinion. Over the last few weeks a co-worker of mine stops by my office to tell me that Parker wanted him to tell me hi! How cute is that?! Cash’s dad drops him off much later than I drop off Parker, and when they arrive, she’s been known to beeline it to him and say “hey Cash’s dad…will you see my mom at work today?” He often replies with a yes, and then she says “will you tell my mom hi?” She’s even gone as far as yelling from across the room, Hey, Cash’s Dad….almost every day she does this now. I love how her mind has processed this and figured out that she can deliver messages to me at work. Just today, Cash’s dad told me that now almost ALL the kids are now asking for him to tell their mom or dad hi…..their parents don’t work here…but we’re not gonna tell them that:)

Look At Me

Brecken is our little girl who I think may cause us some serious trouble someday. She seems to have an orneryness to her. She loves to say “hey mama” and I turn to look at her and she flashes a huge grin on her face and that’s it! This leads me to believe that this is how she thinks she is going to get by in life…with her huge smile, it all makes it better! She is too funny, and I love that about her. She always seems to be happy and laughing and pretty easy going. In the last few weeks she’s discovered that she can roll her tongue and loves doing this! Parker has discovered she cannot. She’s the only one in the family that can’t. Isn’t it funny how genetics work.

Tunnel Vision

I thought I would do a post today about tunnel vision. I had a follow up appointment today that went fine. At this point we are done with the drama of new news and are back to maintaining the central vision that I have left. We have determined that I am “legally blind” and have received our letter stating such. It’s weird to think of myself as legally blind, because not much has changed regarding my vision from 8 months ago, it’s just that we’ve done the tests and that’s what it says. The thing about RP is that it is SO gradual that you don’t even notice when it’s gone…which is essentially what happened to me. For years I knew this was a possibility, but it never occurred to me that this day would be here now. To me, my vision seems that it has been this way for years…I don’t remember at all what it is like to see anything on the side of my head..this is my normal and it’s interesting to think that I once saw things differently. I went online to see if I could find a visual of what it looks like to see from my perspective, and this is what I found.

Kinda scary huh...To look at it this way, I even think to myself WOW...I obviously over compensate I think so that I get the whole picture...but do I really?? I don't know. For those that are around me often will know that something isn't right...I'll ask, "where is Brecken" only to hear that she's right at my feet, or next to me..I always feel silly that I even asked, but it is what it is! Hopefully everyone will have a better understanding of what RP does and why it is that I can see what is right in front of me well, and why I have been declared "legally blind".