Reality check...

This morning Addison was carrying around 2 of her dolls and complaining about how hard it was. I said now try carrying a 3rd one like I had to do with you guys. Her eyes got wide and she ran away. Perhaps they are getting to the age where they can begin to understand how difficult it was that first year:)

The tooth fairy forgets....again

The tooth fairy at our house has a habit of forgetting to come. I've told all sorts of stories to cover for her. She doesn't work on Sundays, she's sick, she had too many teeth to deal with. This morning Morgan woke up sad because once again no tooth fairy. So tonight when she went to bed she found this:

We love winter!

We have been really enjoying this winter. We wish the snow would stick around longer than it has been this winter, but are happy to have more snow than last winter. Every day we come home from school and as if we can play outside in the snow. Here are some pictures of our adventure last weekend sledding down the hill at the middle school. Living in bluff country makes for some good sledding hills!

An Addison update

We have been on a steady regiment of Naproxen and Zantac 2x daily and methotrexate every Friday to treat Addison's Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis for a while now. On Friday we were supposed to go see the MD about possibly getting off meds. Well the snow stopped us from making the trip, but because we had labs drawn before we went the Dr was able to take a look at the results and make some decisions. Her sed rate and IGG are slightly elevated but no where near where they were when she looked like she did in the first picture below. No more rash, swelling, fevers or joint pain that we dealt with for over a year! We are now down to taking Methotrexate 1x a week!! It feels so good to be closer to normal.