Make up

This picture does not do her justice and you can't really see the details but Hallie is wearing make up now.  We have a family rule of 12.  She was a bit nervous at first to do it so I did for her the first time and then she took over.  She is turning into quite a young lady.  Her eyelashes are so long that they had a hard time not sticking to each other when she would blink.  We will have to do some real pictures and get some good close ups.  Sure love ya Hal.

Weekend away...

Saturday we headed over to Kaydee's.  Amy's baby, Abrahm, was getting blessed on Sunday in Kimberly, so we thought we would make a weekend of it.  Quincey is on a volleyball league so we stopped by to watch her play for a bit.  Makes me excited for Jr. Hi volleyball to start.  She is getting to be quite a good player.  Savanna needed to find her new shoes for her therapy and wanted to do her birthday shopping since we were in town so we dropped kids off at the house and Savanna, Quincey, Kaydee and I went shopping.  Holy Smokes Savanna was a super crabby patty.  She couldn't find anything she liked.  And things are more expensive her size and so she didn't get very many things with her money.  Anyways, I am glad we survived that part and yes we found her some shoes.  I had a mini heart a stroke when we saw the price tag.  These better work.  Kaydee was a nice sister and bought us a pedicure while we waited for the girls.  It was nice and now my toes are ready for my girls vacation that is coming up.  We stayed the night at Kaydee's.  The kids discovered new baby bunnies.  They are pretty cute.   No, we are not getting one.  The baby blessing was good.  We got to hold that cute little baby.  My kids were goo goo ga ga over him.  Livee couldn't stop touching him and just smiling at him.  Even Jase was into it.  It is amazing how kids have a natural gentle touch with babies. 
It was a great weekend.  The kids always want to stay longer. 

Diagnosis for Savanna

Savanna's first physical therapy session was really great.  I wasn't sure what to expect.  I haven't ever had to deal with PT.  I was worried there was something serious wrong, yet at the same time didn't want to hear that it was just growing pains.  He used this first appointment to do some tests to see where her pelvis was sitting and get a plan of action.  Most of the tests were done on the left side and the right side and the angles compared.  Some of them were 25 degrees different.  6 or 7 are normal.  So her pelvis is tilted a bit forward and rotated to one side while her upper body is rotated the opposite way.  The hip pain comes from bones not lining up properly and doing some rubbing and some shifting of bone, muscle responsibility.  He then tested her feet and how she stands because her ankle has been bothering her too.  She is standing on the inside of her feet which is rolling her ankle in and then her knees are rolled in and then it twists her hip in.  It all made sense.  I remember when she was younger she would really walk on the inside of her shoes and I had a few thoughts of "Is this normal?" but never thought more of it.  The PT put a pair of supportive shoes on her and had her walk for a minute and retested her upper body allignment and we could already see an improvement.  So step one is getting a supportive shoe.  He gave us a list to pick from.  Now the crazy part about this is I thought Savanna had good shoes.  I let her pick out a "Fancy" pair in the fall.  $90 Nike sport shoe to use for sports.  He gave those shoes a total thumbs down.  I learned a lot about a supportive shoe.  So, after getting the shoes and wearing them for a bit, he wants to see her once a week for about a month and then re-evaluate.  It might not take too much to get her straightened back out.  I am super relieved it isn't anything permanent or something that requires any surgery.