The Dew Family: Boring Week!

This hasn't been too exciting of a week so far, and it's almost over now! Tomorrow is Friday, and we're all very excited about that!!! :) After the normal Monday dance class and Wednesday choir practice at church, I can't say we've had too much going on around here. I went yesterday afternoon/evening and had Mom cut the kids' hair (well, Meggan just got her bangs trimmed) and so we got that task taken care of finally - Jordan has been in need of a haircut for a while now and we just haven't been able to find a good time. I will post some pictures tomorrow or sometime over the weekend!

On another note: Since I've been back on the kick of getting Meggan to sleep in her bed, we pulled out the sleepovers threat again last night. I told her that only big girls get to have sleepovers and little girls who sleep in their mom and dad's room can't earn that privilege. She was so distraught already (this was after an hour or so of almost hysterics in her room) and so she ended up choosing to sleep on our floor all night (she never even budged once). Why can't she do that just on the other side of the wall??? Her room is right next to ours, only a wall in between.

She informed me first thing when I picked her up from school today that she was going to sleep in her bed all night by herself, and I think she can do ANYTHING she puts her mind to. Tonight she went right to her bed and fell asleep probably within 5 minutes after I walked out. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed for her that she can just stay in there all night ... she really wants to earn her sleepover privileges back! I'm just praying and hoping for strength and comfort for her to make it through the night and wake up feeling so PROUD of herself (and her mommy and daddy so proud too)!

I will update with the results tomorrow ...
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About 10 minutes later:

Okay. I just can't help it. I was going to just leave it at that and not post any pictures tonight, but I can't stop myself. I was getting ready to do some work real quick and saw my camera laying out, which prompted me to check out what Jason had taken pictures of tonight. I had to post these once I saw them.

The first picture is the outfit Meggan had on while she and Will were playing after school before we went and picked Jordan up from Nancy's. Yes, it was only 20 degrees here today - try to tell her that! The other picture is the one Jason had taken.

As you can see by the picture of her giving her little brother his breathing treatment, I guess she really is truly our biggest helper ... and I really mean that! She will do anything you ask her to (with a few extra pleadings and even a little bit of an attitude every once in a while) - and even things she isn't asked to do sometimes too. :) She's really so sweet to him and (usually) always looking out for him and wanting to help him.

And don't let me forget about Jordan ... he's something else too. He may not be old enough yet to "help" us, but he really is an amazing kid. He was put on Prednisone last week because he wasn't even moving enough air in his lungs to make a wheezing sound, and he was just going on with life as usual. How does a kid get so used to not breathing exactly right that he doesn't even cry and whine and cling when he's basically struggling to breathe? He's also walking around right now with fluid behind his ear drums (the ENT doc said that he basically walks around feeling like we adults feel when we're on an airplane and would probably have about a 30% hearing loss if we were to test his hearing right now with that fluid that's behind there) and he's all smiles (for the most part at least, as long as he's fed and gets sleep when he wants and needs it). He's scheduled to get tubes in his ears, but the first available time was February 27 and so we wait another 3 weeks for that day to come.

What miracles they truly are! And what would we ever do without them???