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Today was a tough one. Our baby girl "Li Li" came home yesterday from her weekend visit sick - again. As soon as we got her out of the transporter's car we knew she wasn't right. Then she screamed and CLUNG to me the rest of the day. Today she seemed better but still not quite herself. I called her ped's office first thing this morning and took her in for a visit and potentially good-bye. She has an ear infection that caused conjunctivitis in one of her eyes and the most horrid diapers EVER!! Our Poor baby!!!!

I hope everyone is blessed to have as wonderful a pediatrician for their kids as we do!! You can see the tears in her eyes. She adores our baby girl. She and her entire family have been and continue to pray for us and our baby. She has been a huge help and is just a blessing to our family!! Every child should have a doctor who loves them as much as ours does!

So school today was very relaxed. Something we are getting better about. I read their Bible lesson to them while they ate lunch. Then they headed out in the sunshine to finish their part of it and also did their handwriting and reading (MaryKyle a book about the Declaration of Independence, John Mark a phonics reader). They did math with Daddy while I took the baby to the Dr. (John Mark learned about borrowing so he could subtract 'big numbers' today) So they did get quite a bit done, just on their own time...which works well on days like today especially!! They were adorable out on a blanket in the backyard sprawled out side by side working and giggling! So School was a highlight of today actually!

We were told today that we must bring "Li Li" and her things packed to court Wednesday. If the family members are awarded custody (as is DFCS' plan) then she will leave from there to go live with them. UGGHHHH!!!

So what did we do...??? Cried.
And then we went to eat Mexican (Daddy and Mommy's comfort food) & then I went shopping! Funny I'm sure, for those of you that know me, since I hate to shop. I guess as is typical for most females, it can be therapeutic for me as well...who knew?! So after picking up her meds I ended up on an unplanned shopping spree. Don't panic, we'd planned to do it, just didn't plan to do it today. But I just figure I don't want to be away from everyone tomorrow so I might as well go on and get some stuff....and once I started looking, well I had so much fun at Target I just moved on to another store!! I even broke down and bought 'character shirts' Crazy huh? But I don't think I've ever purchased for my kids an item of clothing with a character on it. But Aaliyah loves Abby Cadabby and Curious George...so why not, right?!! PJ's and some winter stuff for next year and a couple spring/summer
spring and summer and some socks