Not quite right

This past week has been filled with things that just haven't been quite what we expected. You may all disregard the previous pictures of a condo that will belong to someone else. We just couldn't come to an agreement with the owner. He had a very specific idea of what he wanted out of the deal and to do that we would end up paying way more than what we verbally agreed on. By the time he wrote up a contract and we saw that he was trying to get us to pay for WAY more than what we verbally agreed on, we backed out. There was another condo in the same complex, but the carpet was horrible. We put an offer on that unit, but are asking for a carpet allowance. Right now, we are still negotiating with the owners. They live out of state and say that the carpet was just put in 3 years ago. They have been renting it and apparently the renters have completely destroyed it because the carpet is just horrible. We are a little frustrated because they are just taking so long with every step of the process. Hopfully we will hear if they accepted our counter offer on Monday. We are waiting on pins and needles.

I went over to one of my friends in the ward. She had set up a slip'n slide for the kids. It was tons of fun while we were there. Now, I am not used to keeping track of glasses. I left Meg's glasses on top of the car. Well, you all can basically fill in the rest of the story. After we got home I tried to find them and realized where I had left them. We retraced our route searching the roads for the glasses. We found them on Highway 89. They were completely smashed and broken and I could only find the frames...no lenses. It is just a sickening story. Well, thankfully we payed the extra $20 for the warrenty and we will be driving to Salt Lake to get a replacement pair. I am going to get used to keeping track of those things. Also thankfully, her insurance covered pair was ready the very day that I broke the other ones. Hopefully our next post is filled with things that went completely right this next week.

So much happening

Our little pirate. Poor little Meggie. She is so frustrated with her eye patch and it is only day one. In this picture she is saying Argh like a pirate. The pirate thing wore off after about 10 minutes. Now she is just annoyed that her good eye is covered. It is actually covered with a bandaid eye patch. These are her new glasses. She looks pretty cute in them. Once the eye patch thing is over I think she will be fine because she thinks the glasses are very cool. Daddy was able to get a new pair of glasses too since there was a 2 for 1 deal. She thinks it is so cool that her a daddy have cool glasses and that me and Adin are not cool enough because we don't have glasses.

If the stress over the glasses wasn't enough, we made an offer that was accepted on a condo in Provo. It is in the willowbrook complex. I LOVE it! We are going through the stress of closing right now, but I think once that is all over we'll finally be able to settle in.

We both LOVE the laminate flooring. It will be so much better for kids. I also plan to hit my brother Brian up for some help with cabinet doors for the niche in the wall for the TV.
This is Meg's room. You really can't tell, but it is huge. It will fit her furniture so much better than her current room.
This will be bubba's room. Obviously it will be repainted, but I do love the chair railing.

This is the master. It is good sized and has a full bath which we both love. It is a little smaller than what we are used to right now, but we both love it and are excited to own it and be able to do whatever we want with it.

Legally Blind

Meg will be attending Headstart preschool in the fall. I have been traveling down to Provo with her to do all the enrollment stuff. Last Wednesday was the "Headstart Screening". When she went to the eye screening, they took a picture of her eyes and then they could tell how they focused by looking at the glare that came of their eyes in the picture. They said that we needed to take her to the eye doctor because one of her eyes wasn't focusing right. We were both worried and stressed about it. We both really felt like maybe she had a lazy eye and that she would need to wear a patch for a few weeks and that would be it.
Yesterday was her eye appointment. The doctor had her cover one eye and tell him what pictures she saw. She said she couldn't see anything. When she covered the other eye she could see everything perfectly. Well after all the other tests were run, he told us that she is so farsighted in her right eye that she can neither see things far away or up close. He said that her left eye is more than perfect vision and that it is clear that she has just been using that eye to see everything that she has needed to. He said that she is legally blind in her right eye. We were speechless. We still can't believe it. It breaks our hearts to think of Meg having to deal with glasses at such a young age.
We tried on glasses forever trying to find ones that really looked cute. Nothing seemed quite good enough so we had them order in some other ones for her to try. Once those come in she will start wearing the glasses, but will have to wear an eye patch on her good eye (left) to make her bad eye start working. So he said for the first few days she really won't be able to see much at all, but then it should start improving. She will have to wear the patch anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months. After that it should just be the glasses, but she has to wear them any time she is awake. It is still such a shock to us. I guess her peripheral vision was really thrown off with all of this. The optometrist said that this is hereditary (even though we can't figure out where from) and that she has most likely had it since she was born. That kind of explains why she has been so clutzy and why we can't get her to catch a ball very good. We performed our own little test when we got home last night. Brian held a book up across the room and we had her take turns covering her eyes and telling us what she saw. She really couldn't see anything with that eye. It is just mind boggling that she has always been like this and we didn't know. We will post pictures when we get the glasses. We have tried to be 100% excited for her and acted like she was so lucky to get to wear glasses. Hopefully that will last and she will keep being excited about it.

Happy Birthday Meg

It has been too long since I have posted. I have much to update, but for now I will just post about Meg's Birthday. My beautiful baby is four years old. I can't believe it. It has passed in the blink of an eye. If I had the choice to rewind and get to start all over again with her I would. It has been a dream come true to be her mom.

Meg really associates birthdays with birthday parties. There aren't a lot of girls her age in our ward and definitely none in the neighborhood. We decided to have a Marchant birthday party for Meg. It was so fun for all of us to get together. It had been way too long since we all got together. Meg was so excited for everyone to come that she could hardly stand it.

Here are all of the attendees.

Kory and Charisse

Brian and Michelle

Andy and Natalie

Adin, Meg, Kallie and Brian

I made a pinata for the party. I wanted it to be super strong so that all of the adults could take turns hitting it too. For about a week before the party, I would put two layers of paste/paper on the pinata everyday. I was really worried it wouldn't be strong enough, but it was. I had to post this picture because this is seconds before Brian both broke the bat and pulled a muscle in his arm. Little Brian was in charge of the pinata string. He was so cute. He looked so mischieveous over there.

Of course, Meg wanted a princess cake.
On her actual birthday, Grandma and Grandpa Droubay stopped by to see Meg open her presents and have some cake. This is the cake that I wanted Meg to have. I had it planned forever.

Meg got a princess bike which she absolutely loves and cruises around the cul de sac on it. She thinks that she can ride as fast as a car.

She had a little trouble at first because on her tricycle you could push the wheels backwards. On her bike if she pushes them backward it works like brakes.


This is the doll house that I made for Meg. Brian didn't think there was any way that I would pull it off when I told him about it. I was glad when he was impressed. Meg found it the day before her birthday. I had hid it in a closet in the laundry room where she thinks ghosts live. Apparently she was filling brave one day because she came walking out with some of the new barbies and asked if they were for her. I didn't want to ruin the surprise so I told her it was a present for Lucy (it was the first thing I could think of). She was so mad at me the rest of the day that I would get such a nice present for Lucy and not for her. When she opened it she screamed because she was so excited.




Happy Fourth Birthday to our sweet, imaginative, beautiful girl. We love you!!

FIXED! Meg's Mommy Questions

What does Mommy always say to you?

I love you

What makes Mommy happy?

If I be a nice girl

What makes Mommy sad?

When I hit

How does Mommy make you laugh?

Tickling me
What was Mommy like when she was little?

You were pretendin to be a puppy when you were a real daughter

How old is Mommy?

I don’t know
How tall is Mommy?

Eleven fingers (she measured)

What does Mommy like to do?

Play with me
What is something that Mommy doesn’t like to do?
Exercise

What does Mommy do for a job?

Exercise

What is Mommy's favorites food?

Bowl of Spaghetti

What do Mommy and Meg do together?

Tag
How do you know Mommy loves you?

You love to hold me

Meg tags Kallie, Lucy and Kenzie

Trying to keep busy

This week has been fairly uneventful. Meg has had one of those weeks where nothing usual was good enough. She didn't want to color, do puzzles, watch movies or even ride bikes. She wanted to be entertained. She really needs a little friend that has the energy that she has. On Monday she begged and begged for me to make her a mermaid costume. I spent the morning creating a mermaid costume. I made it so that she could either put her legs in the fin or have them out so that she could walk. After it was finished, she wanted me to sew up the leg hole so that she was squished into the costume. She spent the next couple days scooting around the house as a mermaid.

I don't know why but I never posted about our pet catapillar. We found it when we went on our hike to the waterfall. It was this super fuzzy, black and orange catapillar that ate TONS and TONS of dandelions and pooed a lot. Brian and Meg had it as their little project. It built a cacoon and came out on Wednesday. This is a picture of how he looked. At midnight, Brian looked up on the internet about if we needed to do anything next. He found out that we were supposed to realease it very soon after it came out. So about 12:30 am, we woke Meg up and went outside to let our butterfly go.

This is just a picture of a suncatcher craft that Meg and I made. She was really pressuring me to be creative and come up with some new things to do. She loved making this.

Adin got really sick about a week ago. He threw up all over the car and had super high fevers. For about 4 days, he was weak and misreable. He just layed on the floor in the front room and then would have me take him up for naps (he would literally point to the upstairs). It was heartbreaking. He wouldn't eat anything and would barely drink. We had to keep Motrin in him steady or his fever would skyrocket. Finally on Thursday he started acting more normal and Friday he was back to full speed. He did need to catch up for not eating and in ONE day he completely cleaned out the fridge and cupboards. Thankfully and by some miracle, noone else got the bug. This picture is of his slightly better day. He picked out all these clothes and insisted I put them on. He was very adament about the socks and would refuse a matching pair. Whatever made him happy he was going to get.

That's just a few tidbits of our week. I hope all was well for all of you. Everyone update your blogs, I love to see new things!