And the winner is....

...Audrey Sue!! Woohoo! Yep, out of all the hundreds of entries, you beat the odds and won :) Hahaha! So just send me an email with your address and I'll send off you super fun prizes :)

Funniest picture!

It had been a few days since I'd taken the photos off my camera, so I sat down to do it this morning, and came across this picture which Gabe must have taken when he gave Avery her bath the other night. It made me laugh out loud so I thought I'd share :)

My favourite part is how the look on her face and her crazy hair are completely mismatched!!

Ha ha ha ha!!

Sick sick sick!!

The good news is that Avery is pretty much better now. Finally! She went back to preschool today, and was very happy, although she was EXHAUSTED when she got home! Brogan and I have it now though, Brogan got it on Wednesday, and I got it on Saturday, although it doesn't seem to be affecting my stomach too much, which is a wonderful thing! A little bit of nausea, but that's it, mostly I just have it in my head and ears and nose...you know, that lovely sinus pressure headache that never goes away and the blocked nose that will not un-block no matter how much you blow....ah, lovely.
Oh well. This too shall pass :) haha
Avery was supposed to have an appointment with her ophthalmologist (I can only spell it with the help of spell check :D) last week, but because she was so sick I had to reschedule it. That's okay though, because I'm sure it would have been another appointment of "Well, it still hasn't plateaued, so lets just keep on patching 2 to 3 hours every day, and I'll see you back in 3 months." Not that that gets old or anything... I really like her ophthalmologist, but Roanoke really needs to get themselves another pediatric eye doctor (I'm not going to type that word any more today!!!) because the waiting time at his office is always ridiculous. I always try to get the earliest appointment time possible, and I still have to wait. Last time Avery's appointment was at 9:30am, which is still quite early in the morning, but they were already running about 45 minutes late! So we sat in the waiting room for 45 minutes, and then it was another 20 minute wait in the exam room. Sort of ridiculous. But the only time we've taken her for a second opinion for her eyes, we had to drive all the way to Charlottesville which is two hours from here.

Okay now people, I've only had one person enter my giveaway!! What's the deal?? Do I need to add some chocolate to the pot or something?? I'll do it! I'll throw in a bar of hershey's milk chocolate, as well as the gorgeous hand-made doll and the card, and all you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post. Go on, do it! It'll be completely worth it!

Pssst... If you're like me and cannot even bear the smell of hershey's milk chocolate, let alone the taste, let me know and I'll replace it with a much tastier chocolate :) REAL chocolate!!
Anyway. That's it. Please enter my giveaway! I don't even mind if you live on the other side of the world or anything ;)

My first GIVEAWAY!

So I've never done one of these before, and it looks like fun, so here it is - my very own super duper cool GIVEAWAY! Woohoo! Aren't you excited?!
The prizes! My mother has kindly agreed to donate two beautiful items from her etsy shop. She makes gorgeous dolls and cards, and is donating one of each, so here they are:
This is one of her "rag dolls", although I think they're rather too beautiful to be called rag dolls! Click here to see more pictures of and information on this gorgeous doll.



































The second item is this lovely card which measures about 5x7, and says "Happy Birthday" inside. (Sorry about the quality of the scan - it was inside its little plastic sleeve when I scanned it, so it was a little shiny...)

















So here's how it works! Avery will draw the winning name from a hat (or maybe a bowl...!) before she goes to bed on 03/22, so you have until then to enter! You can get your name put in up to eight times if you do all of the following things :)

1. For 1 entry: Leave a comment on this post! (you can leave more than one!)
   
2. For 2 more entries: Tell me what this is a picture of, and when it was taken, if you can! (Clue - you'll find the whole picture somewhere in the blog archives.. .!)
3. For a whopping 5 entries: Link to ForYouByV's etsy shop on your own blog, either in a post or in your sidebar :) Here is a nice little link for you:
   
   
   
   I think this is going to be fun! Feel free to enter as many times as you want, even if you've never commented on my blog before :)

Silver lining!

Brogan appears to be coming down with the same stomach virus that Avery has. Boo! But, strange as it may seem, I'm actually feeling relieved in some ways, because it means that Avery's sickness is definitely a virus and not some shunt problem, which I'm always worried about in some part of my brain whenever she gets sick! So while I'm not looking forward to the next few days of two sick little ones, at least I know what it is and don't have to worry. I am looking forward to being able to sleep in my own bed again, instead of on the sofa next to Avery, and I also am looking forward to sleeping for more than an hour at a time... *sigh* I've had a headache all afternoon, which I think is from sleep deprivation. The other good thing though is that Brogan didn't start feeling bad until yesterday afternoon, which means that the whole time Gabe was working his 16hr shifts this week, I was only having to look after one sick child, and now that both of them are sick, both Gabe and I are home to look after them. Small blessings make the biggest difference.