Merry Christmas!

Perry Family 2010

Our Christmas card for 2010!
Merry CHRISTmas!

Time to PRE-ORDER!!!

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bumGenius 4.0!!!!

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Isla turns ONE!!!

Holy Cow! I cannot believe our baby girl is one! It seems just like yesterday we were meeting her for the first time at the birthing center. My sweet baby girl is a whole year and she is walking, talking and has a whole little personality behind her little one year old self! She is our little fire cracker! :) Well, here are some pictures of her obviously enjoying the cake that I made her from scratch! Icing and all!

Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick....

That's right, all five of us were sick AGAIN! Now I am battling to get rid of a wicked sinus infection as a result. The funny thing is I never really had any congestion up until the point I started feeling a sinus infection come on. For now I think the actual infection is gone and I am dealing mostly with pain from massive swelling in my sinus passages. I have dealt with this my whole life so I am pretty used to it by now. It still isn't fun though. Ever since I was 14 and had to have polyps removed I remember actually wanting surgery to get my nose fixed. I have an awful deviated septum. It actually is in the shape of an S so it's crooked not just on one side but both, which in turn makes it extremely difficult to breath especially when I have allergies and suffer from all sorts of sinus/nasal/breathing issues. I actually had an ENT look at my nose once and he said it was the worst deviation he had ever seen. That's gotta make you feel good. To boot I have extremely small nostrils and that makes none of my issues any easier. So hopefully someday I can have surgery. I am pretty leery about that though. I think my view on having any kind of surgery changed when I got married and had kids. I know everything would be fine but there is always that small risk that's sitting there in the back of your mind.

Anyway, I feel like a huge complainer right now but today was especially difficult. The pain in my face reached and all time high and I can honestly say besides childbirth and my kidney infections I have NEVER experienced that much pain. It was pretty bad. I was crying with my head in Mike's lap contemplating going to the E.R. I was so afraid to go for fear of yet again exposing myself to a breeding ground of germs because E.R.'s are not known to be the most germ free of places. I called my sister for some suggestions (she is a massage therapist and knows some good pressure points) and what she suggested worked great! Mike helped me with the pressure points and I replaced the heated rice bag with an ice pack to help reduce the swelling. WOW! It worked! I am still having pain but it is knocked down considerably! I keep icing for 20 minutes on/off. I also took a Tylenol a few minutes ago to see if that will take the rest of the pain away so I can sleep. It must be pretty swollen up there in my sinus passages because that was some pretty awful pain! Sheesh! I couldn't function. And I am thankful the worst of the pain was when the kids were sleeping.

Haylie was so cute when she got up from her nap today though. She is so empathetic. She saw that I was in obvious pain and came up, sat right next to me and stroked my hair and asked if I was going to be OK. What a beautiful spirit she has.

Everyone else in the house seems to be doing great right now. I am really looking forward to this break in weather! Hopefully this will mean no more sickies for the Perry family! I am praying for that! I feel like we have been out of the sync of "normal" life for so long! :)

Finally!!!

Ok, so I am finally getting around to posting something new! Life is going by at such a fast pace! I cannot even believe we are into March already! Well, we all pretty much spent The whole first half of February sick. It was awful! First we had this cold/congestion that somehow morphed into a sinus infection for both Mike and I. The kids were ok after just a few days but had to deal greatly with parents that were absolutely miserable. Well not even a few days after that we got hit big time with the stomach flu. Each child got sick starting with Haylie, then Ethan and then Isla. Isla never threw up. She had the unpleasantness coming out the other end... At that point I thought I was in the clear and very thankful because who in enjoys having the stomach flu while being pregnant? Well, I am sorry to say but I was greatly mistaken. After cleaning up after 3 sick kids for and entire week I had the awesome privilege of getting it myself that weekend. It was not pretty! Mike seemed to avoid it all together and take care of me, and very well I might add.

Not much happened after that, just spending the rest of the month trying to recover and avoid getting sick at all costs.

In between those two awful sicknesses we did go and see Elmo live! We had a great time. This was Haylie and Ethan's first time seeing a big show like that. They had a blast and I was very surprised that it held their attention the entire time. They sat very well and thought the show was great! Here are just a few pictures of the fun time we had...

So

hopefully I can keep up on my posting here. All the birthdays are coming and I know I will have lots to post about here in the next few weeks, Especially because Isla is turning ONE!!! I can't even believe that she will be one! She is still my little baby! WOW! Time really does fly...and we are definitely having fun! :)

Tired....

I know I have not posted in about a week and I am due to post some new pics. I will ASAP. I am getting pretty tired as I am approaching my third trimester quickly! Hang in there, I will have something up soon! Love all of you!

~Corrie