Sunday, October 05, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Raffle to Help Bring Addison Home to Her Family!
This is a special request...my friend Bethany and her family are in the process of adopting a little girl from Russia. Her name is Addison, and she has Down syndrome. They will be traveling to meet their daughter for the first time on Monday, and hopefully she will be able to come home with them soon after. Adoptions can be very expensive, so The Mom Crowd is having a HUGE raffle to raise funds to help with the enormous costs Bethany's family is faced with.
They have over $1,700 worth of prizes to give away. Each raffle ticket purchased is $5.00 and will enter you into a drawing for all of the great prizes. The last day to buy a ticket is Wednesday, September 24th at midnight EST and the winners will be announced on Friday, September 26th, 2008. For more details and to purchase raffle tickets go to http://www.themomcrowd.com/662.
You can follow Bethany and family's adoption journey at their blog http://www.dreamingonanangel.blogspot.com/
Thanks in advance! This is such a great family...I know they appreciate any help they can get!
They have over $1,700 worth of prizes to give away. Each raffle ticket purchased is $5.00 and will enter you into a drawing for all of the great prizes. The last day to buy a ticket is Wednesday, September 24th at midnight EST and the winners will be announced on Friday, September 26th, 2008. For more details and to purchase raffle tickets go to http://www.themomcrowd.com/662.
You can follow Bethany and family's adoption journey at their blog http://www.dreamingonanangel.blogspot.com/
Thanks in advance! This is such a great family...I know they appreciate any help they can get!
Monday, September 15, 2008
This has to be one of the greatest Bella funnies!
Picture this...4 year old soccer players getting their first experience with sunflower seeds! Lots of spitting, LOL! They thought they were so grown up!
On a side note, look how cute our banner turned out!
On a side note, look how cute our banner turned out!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Latest Montage...
Our Carlsbad vacation, Bella's first day of school and soccer, and some other random photos and video...Enjoy!
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Bella Funny
My little Bella was looking at old vacation pictures of me and DH tonight. Here's the conversation:
Bella: Daddy, where am I in these pictures?
DH: Well, you weren't made yet Bella.
Bella: Were they putting me together at the hospital?
She is just too cute! LOVE the mind of a four year old!
Bella: Daddy, where am I in these pictures?
DH: Well, you weren't made yet Bella.
Bella: Were they putting me together at the hospital?
She is just too cute! LOVE the mind of a four year old!
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Bella Started Soccer Today...
Hard to believe...but Bella is now old enough to play soccer! Even harder to believe...I am the team mom! Who'd have thought? 
Today was Bella'a first game with her team "The Tiny Tinks" (as in Tinkerbell...how cute is that?!). Of course the girls will never be missed on the field since we got the choice uniform color of fluorescent green! They all looked absolutely adorable though...so grown up! 
So here's what I have to say about today's game: four year olds + soccer = comedy, LOL! It's like everyone running in a huddle one way, then the ball goes out of bounds, and they proceed to run in a huddle the other way. There was also a lot of standing around with looks of "huh?" and "what am I supposed to do?". It was quite amusing!
On a side note, I made my first soccer bow and it turned out super cute! I am NOT a crafty type, but I had fun making the bow...probably because it was so easy. I am going to make them for rest of the girls this week.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
A Hodge Podge of Updates Part One..The Boys
JACK-
Remember when I said that the ENT informed us that the fluid that came out of Jack's ears had the consistency of Jello?! (Double EEEEW!) Well, it must've...because we are almost two months out and guess what?! Jack has gone from about five spoken words (90-100 signs) to over twenty and adding every day! What a difference ear tubes make! Can we say PROUD?! I am sooo proud of my baby. We had the dreaded (not really, but it sounds good, LOL!) 6 month EVALUATIONS last week, and Jack scored at the 20 month level in speech, 22 months in cognition, and....drum roll pleeeeeeease...28 months in social/emotional (He is 28 months old, so no delay there!). Anyhow, the cognition is only 20 something percent delayed, which falls in the normal range. This child works so hard...so so proud!
He has been brushing up on his social skills this summer with a couple of playdates...whatever fear I had about my child never making friends was clearly unfounded! Here's a few of my faves...notice all of the girls!
GRANT-
I can't believe my little guy is 8 months old! He has a contagious laugh, a curious grin, and the ability to keep mommy wrapped tightly around his little finger!!! This is obvious, given the fact that he has wiggled his way into my bed at night! How did I ever let that happen?! Sooo, next step is getting him out! Grant is a little pistol! He would rather just skip the crawling and go right to the standing and walking....although, he has been staying on all fours longer and longer these days! He may just crawl yet! He loves his sisters and cracks up at their mere presence. He has major love for mommy, and he lets everyone know by his piercing screams when I have left the room! Here are a couple of recent pics of my little munchkin!
Buddy Walk Time!
Hi all!
I can't believe it's that time again...the 2008 Buddy Walk will be on Sunday, November 2, 2008 at Angel Stadium. As always, our team, Jammin' for Jack, will be raising money for Down syndrome awareness while celebrating the life of our beautiful son. If you want to know what it means to have Down syndrome, please view the short video here OR go check out Jack's website at www.myangeljack.com. If you would like to join our team, donate money, or help with fundraising, you can go to http://buddywalk.kintera.org/dsaoc/clarkfam, or I will also be sending out donation forms in the mail if you prefer to donate that way. We want to thank you in advance for your generosity and support of such a worthy cause.
With much love and gratitude,
the Clark fam
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Fun Father's Day
First things first...Jack is continuing to recover just beautifully. He has slept through the night since Friday, and his last dose of pain meds was yesterday morning. He has been busy eating chicken fingers and quesadillas, along with the occasional scoop of ice cream! (Hey, he might as well get some of the perks of having his tonsils out...even if he doesn't need them!).
So Father's Day...we had already decided to stay put because of Jack's surgery, and Daddy decided that he wanted to wake up, surf (surprise surprise!), get out the waterslide, and barbeque some yummy tri-tip! We invited our friends Ashlee and Todd(and Macy, of course!) over for what turned out to be a gorgeous day! The kids went crazy on our new toy, and Jack was able to sport his new earplugs! You can tell by the pics that this surgery certainly hasn't kept my boy down! All in all, it was a perfect day! Daddy got lots of lovin', homemade cards, and the first three seasons of LOST on DVD...he was a happy daddy!
So Father's Day...we had already decided to stay put because of Jack's surgery, and Daddy decided that he wanted to wake up, surf (surprise surprise!), get out the waterslide, and barbeque some yummy tri-tip! We invited our friends Ashlee and Todd(and Macy, of course!) over for what turned out to be a gorgeous day! The kids went crazy on our new toy, and Jack was able to sport his new earplugs! You can tell by the pics that this surgery certainly hasn't kept my boy down! All in all, it was a perfect day! Daddy got lots of lovin', homemade cards, and the first three seasons of LOST on DVD...he was a happy daddy!
Friday, June 13, 2008
We are home...a good T & A story?
I have been nervous about this surgery. Lately, the only T & A stories I've heard have been recovery horror stories...this does not sit well with a mommy who already has a six-month old that keeps her up all night. The prospect of having another child up all night isn't appealing at all! However, Jack NEEDED this surgery so badly so that he can sleep better, feel better, attend better...you get my point. I went in this morning ready for whatever came my way. John and I left our house at 4:15am to get to our check-in time at 5:00am. Jack was groggy and stayed close to daddy while we waited to go in.
When Nana arrived, he started to wake up to get some loves and ended up roaming the halls and flirting with the nurses! What a little ladies man!
He was first in at 6:10, and we all went and waited in the lobby. No sooner had I fed the baby a jar of bananas, they called us in to see the little man! He was done in 20 minutes! Whaaaaaatttttt?! John and I walked back to recovery only to find that our little guy was already awake! The doc was there, and said that it was a success. He said that Jack had a ton of fluid in his ears and the consistency was like jello! Eeeewwwww! Needless to say, he should be hearing A LOT better now! And oh yes, we got a picture. Ever seen Tonsils and Adenoids? Well, you're about to...GROSS! These are Jack's...nice, huh?!
He grabbed onto daddy really quick and pretty much held a death grip...He took a few sips of apple juice right away, and then a few minutes later, the crying started. I knew it couldn't be this easy! We gave him some morphine, but it didn't calm him down. The nurse thought he probably wanted his annoying IV off, so she pulled it out, handed us our discharge papers and off we went! We were home by 8:00! The second we pulled up to the house, Jack got a big smile on his face, and he went inside to watch Elmo, eat pancakes (Yes, I said pancakes!), a banana and milk. He ran around the house all morning acting like he never had surgery. Craziness! He conked out around 1:00 and has been asleep ever since. Now I know it's only the first half of the first morning of recovery, and I don't want to get my hopes up, but I'm pretty optimistic. We'll keep you posted, but right now, I'm proud of my boy for how well he did!
When Nana arrived, he started to wake up to get some loves and ended up roaming the halls and flirting with the nurses! What a little ladies man!
He was first in at 6:10, and we all went and waited in the lobby. No sooner had I fed the baby a jar of bananas, they called us in to see the little man! He was done in 20 minutes! Whaaaaaatttttt?! John and I walked back to recovery only to find that our little guy was already awake! The doc was there, and said that it was a success. He said that Jack had a ton of fluid in his ears and the consistency was like jello! Eeeewwwww! Needless to say, he should be hearing A LOT better now! And oh yes, we got a picture. Ever seen Tonsils and Adenoids? Well, you're about to...GROSS! These are Jack's...nice, huh?!
He grabbed onto daddy really quick and pretty much held a death grip...He took a few sips of apple juice right away, and then a few minutes later, the crying started. I knew it couldn't be this easy! We gave him some morphine, but it didn't calm him down. The nurse thought he probably wanted his annoying IV off, so she pulled it out, handed us our discharge papers and off we went! We were home by 8:00! The second we pulled up to the house, Jack got a big smile on his face, and he went inside to watch Elmo, eat pancakes (Yes, I said pancakes!), a banana and milk. He ran around the house all morning acting like he never had surgery. Craziness! He conked out around 1:00 and has been asleep ever since. Now I know it's only the first half of the first morning of recovery, and I don't want to get my hopes up, but I'm pretty optimistic. We'll keep you posted, but right now, I'm proud of my boy for how well he did!
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