The March Gang

Last Friday Kirsten and Connor(her best friend) were playing outside.  When suddenly Connor came running in the house and said “come fast, Kirsten got hurt”.  Well, when you hear these things you never know if you should run as fast as you can or just get there eventually.  Riley & I went ahead and went outside.  Kirsten is walking towards us without her glasses and is holding her finger.   After we finally got the story.  Kirsten was standing to close to Connor while he was golfing.  He swung back while she was scratching her temple and smacked her so hard that her glasses went flying off.  The ear piece was sticking straight out.  She couldn’t move her finger and her eyebrow had a big knot.  I decided to take her to the E.R., becasue she has such a high tolerance to pain, I thought her finger might be broken.  Thank God that it was just bruised.   The Docotr did say it was a good thing her finger was at her temple or she probably would have split her head open.  She however, was not to upset about her glasses because she had been wanting new ones.  So here we go again to spend more money.  All five of us wear glasses and I wear contacts.  We have all had to get new glasses this year, so you can imgaine the cost of that.    Here is some pictures of Kirsten’s new look.

Old glasses:

 

New glasses:

Lately Simeon has been acting like he couldn’t see very well.  It has been a year since his last check-up so we decided that we would go ahead and take him back to the Dr.  My baby’s poor eyes have gotten worse once again.  For those of you who are not familiar with us I will give a little background.  Simeon was a child who was behind on everything compared to kids his age.  I know that you are not suppose to measure your children to others, but lets face it we all do.  I thought maybe it was because the other children his age were girls and they say boys are slower.  He didn’t walk until after his 1st birthday.  At 18 months old I noticed that he had to hold a book up to his nose, and he would stand right by the video to watch it.  We took him to the eye Dr. not really believing that it could be his eyes.  The Dr. was amazed, he had never had a child as young as Simeon with eyes as bad as him.  If you are familiar with near sightedness Simeon was an -10.  The Dr. was going to take him to a -8 at first, he said if he took him to 100% it could make him sick.  I got him home that night and we decided to try my glasses on him which are  -7.  I put them on him and he reached out for me and said “Mommy?”.  I about lost it at that.  The Dr. said that given his eyesight he was surprised that Simeon was even walking and getting around.  He said that if a child’s eyesight is that poor that they tend to stay in just one area.  I felt very thankful that Simeon was not developmentally delayed, he just couldn’t see.  We have his eyes checked every year and they keep getting worse.  Now at 4 he is at an -14.  They still don’t want to bring him up to 100%, so he glasses are -12. 

Simeon decided this time he wanted a different style of glasses .  Peyton has chunky glasses and so do I, so he wanted glasses like us.  He picked these out with a little help from me.  This was his choice though.  I personally think he looks adorable.

Simeon’s old look.

Simeon’s new look!!!!

Trying to beat the heat, the young marrieds group decided to go to a “hillbilly” water slide in Piedmont.  We pulled up to this country water slide and didn’t know what we got ourselves into, but hey for $5.00 what can you complain about.  After our first ride down, we decided it was well worth the money.  The owner let us have it for 2 hours.  The last time down I decided to make Simeon go by himself(he is not the bravest little boy), I put him on his own pad and sent him off.  He was screaming the whole way.  When we got to the end I grab him so he wouldn’t go under.  He turned around to me and said “don’t ever do that again”.  Since then he has said that he wants to go back, and he will go down the little one by himself.  I was so sore the next day that I decided I’m not as young as I used to be.  The kids loved it, and are begging to go back.

 

The last Sunday of every month our S.M.A.K. church has a special theme for the kids.  This month was a Halle-luau.  The kids were asked to wear tropical colors and flip flops.  Peyton and Kirsten asked maw-maw March to make them grass skirts.  Simeon wore his hawaiianshirt and insisted that his monkey backpack had to go to church(we never know what goes through the mind of this child).  The kids all received leis and had a great time playing games and eating fruit.   We have an awesome children’s minister Bro. Ethen & Sis. Lori McGonigal, they are always coming up with amazing ideas.  The kids love them, and are always looking forward to seeing what the special theme will be next.

 

I forgot to mention on my Wednesday post that it was Kirsten’s birthday.  We actually had a party for her at the same time she graduated Kindergarten in May thinking we were going to be gone already.  The little peanut is 7yrs and two days old today.  Her MeMe Slusher, Tara’s Mom, brought her a “birthday cake” before church Wednesday night.  It was exactly what Kirsten wanted, a big watermelon.  Simeon thought we all were losing it when we called it her cake.  He was very adamant that we realized it was in fact a “WATERMELON”.