Faith and Friends

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If I were to ask people who know Faith what one of her favorite activities is, I am pretty sure they would all say the same thing: socializing. Faith absolutely loves people. She has been a social butterfly ever since she was little.  She has always enjoyed going to therapy because she loves meeting new people, even those in the waiting room. Doctor appointments are also great because she gets to meet new nurses. She pretty much makes friends wherever she goes!  Faith and friends blowing out birthday candles when she turned 7  During her first years in school, she easily made friends with her classmates. Sadly, though, as the kids got older and since she was limited in her mobility, these friendships faded. When we pulled her out of school altogether in order to homeschool her, the hardest part was not having any friends.  Thankfully, we lived in a building that had a community room. Faith and I would often hang out there for a change of scenery. She would sit and wa...
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A Bit of Our Own March Madness!

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It seems we have been having a bit of our own March madness with so much happening. Last week, Faith and I were both struggling with colds and sore throats which caused me to miss work and her to miss school. I was hoping she would be up to trying wheelchair soccer this past weekend over at her school, but she just wasn't up to it.

As for myself, I wasn't sure if I would be up going to a Christian concert in Dickinson, but I went anyway. Me and my friend Sandy had front row seats and I even got autographs from the artists themselves - Big Daddy Weave, MIKESCHAIR and Kerrie Roberts! I also saw another friend at the concert who recently moved to Killdeer - it was so cool to see her there!

While I went road-tripping to Dickinson, Faith spent the whole evening with her dad. I didn't get home until 1:00 a.m. and by 10:30 a.m. the next day, Faith really wanted her mom. I was sleeping in the bedroom with the door closed and all the sudden I heard Faith knocking on my door saying, "Mommy are you in there?" "Mommy wake up!" 

She had been lying on the floor in the office and scooted down the hallway to the bedroom. She was so cute that I really didn't mind that she woke me up!

The next day we ran some errands and then met Grandma and Grandpa and Todd and Barbara at Bonanza for dinner. We had originally decided to eat at China Star, but Faith really wanted some mashed potatoes and gravy. It was fun seeing them and we hope they make it to Bismarck again soon! 

A visit from Grandpa and Grandma!!

On Monday, after such a crazy weekend, I was not looking forward to going to work and Faith really didn't want to go to school. We both managed though, and then after work I met Rob and Faith at the clinic for an appointment with her pediatrician.

Faith currently weighs 48 pounds and is about 50 inches tall. We got some really good advice from him on how to go about getting Faith to eat more solids, especially during lunch at school. They were both very excited to see each other. Between the two of them, me and Rob could hardly get a word in edgewise!

Yesterday we had to round up our car at the mechanic's because it hadn't been starting. Thankfully, it was nothing major. 

Faith is currently in the middle of a week at school where they have different themes for dressing each day. Monday was dress up day and although she didn't want to, she wore her pretty pink outfit with the bow on the shirt. Yesterday was black and white day and today was wacky today. Tomorrow is celebrity hair day (not sure what Rob's going to do about that one) and Friday is Faith's most favorite day of all - Pajama Day!
 
A tired girl on Wacky Wednesday!

Right now, Faith is very quiet sitting here next to me as I type this up. After a busy couple of days, she is exhausted. Once again, though, we are looking forward to a fun-filled weekend with the JOY Breakfast and wheelchair soccer!

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