Nielson's Grove with friends

While Ethan and Haylee are at school, Avery and I PLAY! We went with some friends to Nielson's Grove Park a couple weeks ago. Avery had so much fun with Molly, Sawyer, Sloane, and Beau!

The Making of Patch

I took Avery to Build A Bear, so she would have a special buddy to take to the hospital with her. She picked the bear she wanted in the first 30 seconds of being there. She just fell in love with this cute bear. One of the sales ladies came over to help us and Avery didn't want her to take the unstuffed bear away. She cried when the lady stuffed it. We chose a voice box that says, "I love you, I love you". After the lady was done Avery snatched it back and hugged it over and over. She didn't want me to put anything on it. We named her Patch, because she has a little heart patched on her chest. After we paid the lady gave us some red bows for her ears, and Avery got so upset with lady when she put the bows on. Avery ripped the bows off and threw them on the floor. (have I mentioned she has attitude) Avery loves her bear and was happy to have it at the hospital with her!!!

Surgery Day!

Our day started at 4:30 am. We had to be to the hosp and registered by 6 am. Avery had a great time in the waiting room.

They did a quick weight and vital sign check and then we put on the awesome hospital jammies!

Avery got a new bear to take to the hospital and she didn't let go of it the entire time! It got to see more then we did.

The Before
"The Double-toe"

Avery seemed to really enjoy the liquid sedative. Her body seemed so heavy and she kept smiling. She was so funny.

This is how I coped after they took her into surgery! I headed immediately down to the cafeteria at 7:30 am for a large Diet Coke! The doughnut was just my second choice!

The surgery was over just after an hour. The surgeon said it went well. In fact, he said it was one of the most boring surgeries he has done! Ok he didn't say that exactly but pretty close:) after 2 hours we got to go see her.

She was crying when we got there but I rocked her for a minute and she snuggled right up and went back to sleep.

She was so bothered by all the stuff they put on her feet. Who could blame her?

After she awoke she was starving! She was still loopy but sugar water is so YUMMY!

She had a hard time waking up. She just wanted them to take everything off her and let her sleep.

When we got home Ethan and Haylee had a Get Well Present for her!

Her first purse that sings! She loved it. Avery's good friends brought her a "new piggy" to replace the one she lost:(

You can't really see how cute this piggy is! It dances to the chicken dance. Avery wasn't sure at first but she warmed up to it and likes to dance with it and kiss it's snout! Thanks Barretts!

I have to brag about how great my neighbors and friends are! So many of you helped me out so much today. Thanks for the sweet gifts, dinners, support, and love! I am so grateful to all of you who helped make my day just a little bit easier!

P.S. Thanks to Aunt Ally who spent the night and got no sleep and took care of Ethan and Haylee! We love you!

The piggy going to market...is going alone:(

bye bye piggy from Summer Mac on Vimeo.

well, after tomorrow. Avery is getting her 6th toe removed tomorrow. I am really starting to stress over the whole thing. It will be so sad when she doesn't have her sweet toe anymore. Avery has always been my quarky child and her 6th toe was the fun part of her quarkyness! Please keep us in your prayers. I will post more after her surgery tomorrow!

Taking after Aunt Veda

Yep even the Shippen men like their bling!

Playing catch-up.......Date with Grandma!

Ok so I have slacked off in the blogging area (that's not the only area) this summer, and since this blog is our "family history", "journal", and "scrapbook" you get to read about things that happened a while ago, at least until I catch-up to the present....so here we go!

Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Skip have season passes to the Capital Theater. One of the plays for this season was High School Musical! Grandma Kathy invited Haylee to go with her. Grandpa Skip was so sad he was missing it, but he felt happy knowing Haylee "owed him one". When he told Haylee that he was so nice to let her have his ticket she said, "No Grandpa, I took Grandma's ticket and Grandma took yours!" They are so clever:) Haylee had a BLAST! She didn't stop talking about it for a week. Grandma also spoiled her. She bought her a I heart Troy t-shirt. She would wear it everyday, if I would wash it every night. She also came home and told me she had a little tummy ache. I asked her why and she said Grandma took me to get Winger's wings, then we had a milky way, and skittles, and the list went on and on. She had such a great time Thanks Grandma We LOVE you SO MUCH!

~Mom I am respecting your wishes this time by not putting a pict of you on my blog but you might not get so lucky in the next post!~

A Streak of BAD Luck...

If you haven't heard already we are supposed to be heading towards California tomorrow morning, bright and early (well probably dark and early;) ) So why is it that nothing can go right? Everything that could go wrong...has, and when I think it can't get any worse...it does! Well, I woke up around 4:30am and to my surprise the worst problem so far....Avery is running a fever! OK, SERIOUSLY! So, I have been up for about 2 hours and am sitting here trying to get Avery into her pediatrician. Well, I just got ahold of their answering service and their whole office is closed today! I can go see a different Dr. at a different office that we have never been to before, but they don't have any of her past medical history, and I need her to be better by tonight. I know I just need to FREAK OUT for a minute and then I can pull myself together and get ready to go. I just hope it's nothing serious and we can get it worked out fast...with an antibiotic, I hate when they say ,"it's just a virus, it will work itself out!" it usually takes to long to work itself out. So here goes my day of Dr. appts, housecleaning, laundry, packing, shopping, weeding...and probably a thousand other things that need to be done. After everything the last 2 weeks we need a vacation....and I think "the universe" is making us earn it! WISH ME LUCK...I will need it!