Bath, Fall, Blood, Chipped Tooth....

Yes you read that right....a chipped tooth. Madeline and Macy were taking a bath and daddy sent Macy to me wrapped in a towel to get her clothes on. She stepped on the front of the towel and fell FACE FIRST onto the tile floor. As you can imagine, the screams came, then the blood, and then I noticed the piece of chipped tooth lying on her bottom lip...UGH! I was afraid is was much worse with as much blood as there was but it was just a busted lip and a chipped front tooth. We doctored it, gave her the Nemo cold pack, and loved on her a lot and she amazingly felt better. She has a nasty looking lip and a crooked little smile (the tooth). I just hope it doesn't look too bad as she grows or the dentist may get a lot of the Mueller's money for a chipped BABY tooth. So that was our excitement for today until we found Mr. Frog in the backyard. I think he entertained the girls for at least an hour. The poor guy. Macy was trying to feed him rocks. She's really into them all of sudden, rocks that is. Madeline went and found some roly poly's to feed to it. We finally had to just leave him be for the night. We have had a very lazy, but nice weekend. We need more of these. Although there are a million things that need to be done around the house we decided to just enjoy the weather and get outside. The girls even went swimming next door. It's going to be a summer in the pool for sure. Oh and I did cut Macy's hair short to make it all one length. The poor child hardly had any hair but with it being shorter it makes it look thicker and I hope it will start growing in better. You may be able to tell in some of the pictures. Some of you have asked too about my friends Chad and Kelly and their baby Brayden. He is still in critical condition. The open heart surgery went very well with only one minor complication that was fixed quickly. He was recovering great. This past Sunday they were able to close his chest and they were able to take him off the ventilator Wed. morning. However, Wed. late afternoon he began to bleed out of his mouth and it took them almost 3 hours to get it to stop. He lost a lot of blood and had to receive a lot in return. They aren't sure what caused the bleeding but my the power of hundreds of people praying God heard those prayers and stopped the bleeding. The doctors were stunned and were even calling what happened a miracle. They were almost to the point where they were going to come and talk to my friends about stopping treatment. Praise God. Please continue to keep them all in your prayers. Here are a few pictures from this weekend and a video. Enjoy.... Macy's lip right after we got her all cleaned up. Another shot. Poor girl. It's even bigger now. Our friend, Mr. Frog.

You will notice that Macy has on the Elmo pajamas that used to be Madeline's. I have to hide them from her because if she sees them that is all she wants to wear. She found them today so other than her bathing suit that is all she has worn.

Disciple Now and Prayer

As some of you know this past weekend was spent with the youth at our church doing Disciple Now. Those of you that don't know what that is, it's a weekend where the youth spend time in a "host family" home for the entire weekend. They have a discussion leader that leads all the discussions each evening, they have recreational activities at the church, a photo scavengar hunt, we collected canned foods for the church food pantry, and they had a special speaker that lead the worship and teachings for the entire weekend. They were a couple Todd and Angela from Park View Baptist in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was a very rewarding weekend for me. It's always fun spending a full weekend praising God and listening to his Word, I look forward to doing it again next year.
Now for the prayer part of the title. I have a friend of mine and his wife (Chad and Kelly) in Oklahoma City that had a baby boy April 8th. He was born with Hypoplastic Left Ventricle and had his first Open heart surgery yesterday morning. I haven't heard what the results or outcome of this surgery was yet but I do know that the next 48 hours are VERY CRITICAL. Please lift this family up in prayer. They are facing a very difficult time ahead of them and need prayer more than ever. Chad is a youth minister at a church in North Oklahoma City. They are a Godly couple who are relying on God more than ever right now. Please Pray for them.
As for our family. We are doing well. Macy decided (or should I say her skin) that it wanted to break out in SEVERE eczema. This poor child and her skin. So we are lathering her in her antibiotic cream and keeping her away from any perfumed lotions, soaps, etc. I have been feeling ok. My back is still bothering me some and I have PT two more days this week. YEAH! I don't mention much about Brad on here because he really is kinda boring (in a good way). He pretty much goes to work (which we are thankful for) and comes home to play and relax. Every morning when I go in to get Macy up, she says, "Where Daddy go? He go work. Bye, bye daddy!" In that order before I can get a word out. She loves her daddy
That's all I have for now...Have a good rest of the week...

What has happened since...

It's been a while since I have last updated and a lot has gone on so let me get you all caught up. First, Madeline had a great birthday WEEK!! It began on Monday the 24th (her actual birthday) with cookies, candles, and presents from us. On Tuesday we took cupcakes and juice to school for her to have a party with all her classmates. Thursday, Papa and Nana Caldwell came down and stayed at the Great Wolfe Lodge until Saturday. We had a blast playing at the indoor water park. The girls LOVED it. I think my dad had more fun than anyone going down the slides and playing. Made him feel young again, I guess. On Friday afternoon, Gramme Mueller came and spent the weekend with us. She too had a great time on the slides. I just wish I had a few pictures of her going down the slides. Lucky for you Diane, I don't. Saturday was the BIG BIRTHDAY PARTY at Let's Jump. She had 21 friends come and celebrate with her. She had a blast and has already said she can't wait until next year. Sunday we went to the American Girl doll store in Dallas for her to spend the gift certificates that she got for her birthday. She got a new doll named Kit. All in all, it was a great week of fun for her. I just hope she doesn't get used to having a week long birthday. HA! Oh and we have a new addition to our family, Dory 2, the fish.
Many have asked how I have been feeling? So, so! I went back to the doctor on April 3rd. She ran several blood tests, an x-ray of my neck and shoulder, and gave me a toradol shot. All the blood tests came back BEAUTIFUL/PERFECT (according to my Dr.), the x-ray shows a little more bone spurring, and she has sent me to Physical Therapy for 3 weeks/3 times a week with a weekly injection of Toradol. I began that on Tuesday. It is going well. A little painful at times which we are trying to work through having no pain. If after these 3 weeks I'm not noticing a significant difference in my neck and back then she is going to order for me to have another MRI done. The last one I had was in June 2005. Let's hope that we can get to the bottom of this pain and that we can figure out a way to relieve the pain.
The girls are still doing great. We have had no illness (knock on wood). We are enjoying the nicer, warmer days. We are ready for summer and the pool to open. I have decided that Macy has no fears when it comes to water and she is a little fish. She is going to have so much fun in the pool this summer, however, I will have to keep a good eye on her because she has no fears about the water. We are now in preparation for Macy's 2nd birthday. I can't believe she is already almost 2. Time sure does fly. I got Madeline enrolled in kindergarten last week. She is ready to go THIS week. She can hardly stand till the fall gets here and she gets to go to BIG school.
That's really about all that has been going on with us. We hope that all of you are doing well. I will leave you with a few pictures that have been taken over the past few weeks. Enjoy!

Macy the fish at the Great Wolf Lodge.

Here are SOME of the slides that we ALL enjoyed (minus Nana).

Just a cute picture of Macy. I think she looks "bigger" in this picture.

Madeline before her birthday party.

Madeline and her "boyfriend" Trey.

Most of the kids enjoying cake and ice cream.

Big FIVE year old blowing out the candles.
I hope you enjoyed these and I hope to update a little more often. Love you all!