Brownes in ME

Monday, April 20, 2009

She is now a Soaring Eagle

These are some pictures from April 11th, which was Calia's last day of gymnastics for the winter session, she has been promoted from Second Flight to Soaring Eagles (the 4-5 year old group). She's so excited and we are very proud of her. This is something she's worked very hard for. Next stop, Summer Olympics 2024...

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Look...the snow is gone!

A view from our 6th row seats at Dirty Dancing...thank you Kevin!!

Calia can write her name

Erasing the first attempts

Here it is...she likes to make the "A"

Taa Daa

More Nolan...and Mommy's birthday, too.

Happy Birthday, Mommy

Nolan

Who me?

Hello

Miz

Friday, March 27, 2009

1st Birthday Party at Maine Academy of Gymnastics

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Calia's first Ballet...Cinderella

On Saturday, Kevin's sister Shelly and her family arrived to help celberate Nolan's big day. We decided to take Calia and Abby to see Cinderella at Maine State Ballet. Being the princesses that they are, they had to wear full Cinderella outfits...

Happy Birthday Nolan

The following pictures were on his actual birthday...

Future basketball star??

Pre-bath

Post bath

He's scared to death of the singing bunny

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Winter walk around MacWorth Island

Dressed and ready to go

The Big Mini Man

Beautiful

Happy boy

Riding home

Monday, March 16, 2009

The scar

Today, while playing outside at preschool, Calia and her best friend, Eve, were running. Leave it to Calia to hit a patch or ice and skid head first into a picnic table. First, school called Kevin (who was working in Boothbay) and told him "Calia hit her head and has a cut and needs stitches" Kevin called me (working at the hospital) to tell me. So, I call school to find out more "cut above eye, looks deep, may need stitches" I call down stairs to the ED, tell them I'm picking up my daughter and will be bringing her in.

When I arrive at Little Hands, I find Calia's classmates sitting at table for lunch looking tramatized and there is Calia on the changing table with 2 adults over her, crying as the adults are holding pressure on her head. The minute she saw me, she stopped crying. I asked if she was ok and she said yes. I looked at the cut, 1.5 cm and fairly deep and decided to bring her in for dermabond. We bandaged her up and off I went, back to MMC.

We were quickly seen (perks of working at the hospital). They cleaned the laceration and applied 3 layers of dermabond. Calia didn't flinch, cry or complain. Amazing. The ED doc stated he wished all his patient's, regardless of age, were this well behaved. Needless to say, I was/am a very proud mommy.

I decided it was easier to keep Calia at the hospital, because I didn't feel like driving her back to school and I wanted to keep an eye on her after her head trauma. We ate lunch, then I had to go do an admission, so Calia hung out, alone, in the call room watching Max and Ruby, for almost 1 1/2 hours. Amazing. She was rewarded with ice cream. Stinks that she'll have a little scar above her left eyebrow, but wow, what an amazing little girl I am blessed to be the mommy of.