Bows, Basketball, and Birthdays

Yesterday I got my Lil' Booger Bows in the mail! Summer wore one yesterday, she looked so adorable. I took a few pictures but her eye was bothering her, so it's squinted in every single one. That's the biggest problem we're having with her eye at the moment. Because of the way the tear was, and the way it was stitched, her pupil is bigger than normal and let's a lot of light in, so sunlight and bright lights bother her quite a bit.

I guess now would be a good time for an eye update, since I don't think I told you guys what the doctor said at her last appointment. (If you're new around here and don't know what happened, you can read about it HERE.) On Monday, I'll be scheduling a time for her to have her stitches removed. That will probably be in 4 weeks or so. At that time, they're also going to do an in-depth exam to make sure everything is healed and there is no further trauma that they missed. After that, more eye drops. UGH. You all know how that went before. Not looking forward to it at all. Then, a few months later, once it is healed completely, we will get her glasses to wear and also begin putting a patch over her good eye for an hour or so a day, to strengthen the injured eye. We'll have to do that for quite awhile, but in the end it will be worth it because her "bad" eye will end up with decent vision.

Yesterday evening, we went to my brother's basketball game. It was a great game. They played so well, but ended up losing by 2 points I believe. My brother found out after the game that he was chosen by his coach for the All-Tournament Team, which is an honorary team that consists of the best player from each team during this particular tournament. I am so proud of him!

Yesterday was my brother's best friend/mom's best friend's son Jordan's 18th birthday. He's on the basketball team too, so after the game we all went to their house for dinner and cake and ice cream. We had a really nice time and didn't end up leaving until almost midnight. Summer and Camryn had a lot of fun entertaining everyone so they didn't seem to get sleepy until it was time to leave.

Anyway, about those bows... this morning they were all over the counter and I didn't know where to put them, so I decided to make a hair bow holder. I got out some ribbon, a wooden dowel, and a glue gun, and made this:




It turned out pretty well if I do say so myself :-)

Xavier is here and currently "playing" with Summer and Camryn.

Joe is asleep on the bed, he and Wes played Gears of War 2 all night. I'm drinking coffee and watching HGTV. I don't know what we're doing the rest of the day. I need to go to the store and get a few things for the diaper cake I'm working on, so my goal for the day is to get that finished. Have a great Saturday!