What a difference a year makes -

So exactly a year ago today Burke and I were sitting in the waiting room at PCMC while Mckall underwent open heart surgery. Wow, what a difference a year makes! When they closed up her heart they must have added just an extra pinch of energy because she has been non stop ever since. The piece of Tephlon that was sewn in her heart was about the size of a dime. Which that seems huge since she was only 10 lbs at the time of surgery. We are truly lucky that she is such a fighter and as her pediatrician says "pound for pound he is her toughest patient". Sadly he means physically though and mean. To this day she still detests anyone in scrubs or with a stethoscope around their neck. After all she has gone through I am totally OK with that!

Sad news for us...

Well on Wednesday Dude had to put down Tahoe, her gorgeous golden retriever. As the girls spend so much time with her it was a hard day for them and us as well. While we were at work Dude, the girls and her boys had a little service. It consisted of flowers for Tahoe, a ball for her to play with, and some farewell words. Danika's words were as follows "Tahoe we will miss you, you were the smartest dog we ever had." I think she pretty much summed it up for all of us.

Floating around with Dad

Well this was a pretty good Father's Day for us, but as you know everyday at our house is father's day (just kidding). The girls woke up their Dad with a few gifts to get him in new gear for our day ahead. This was the first day we had taken out the boat since we have had no Spring and a late start to summer here. We spent the entire day on the lake, floating on the tube, having a picnic, making sand castles, and yes despite the very cold water even wake boarding. Then it was back to the house for a BBQ (one of princess #1's favorite activities). All in all it was a good, not relaxing, but good day. Hope the rest of you Dad's out there had just as good of a day!

Take Two

So for those of you who may or may not know, Danika made her music video debut at the age of four. It was a radio station contest asking kids to send in a video of them selves and a song. If you need a good laugh the link is below along with the podcast of what the radio station had to saw about her. I believe there comment was rocking mama. Here is the U Tube link in case you missed it or need a smile. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utiSP5oxY-U.

So now she has done it again, the Disney channel is asking kids send in a video and of course this is right up her alley. So she made her second music video to a song from High School Musical. If her video is selected they will play it in between the movie. Well the video didn't make it on to Disney's Web page but she didn't care, so here it is for you all to enjoy.

Podcast fro 97.1
http://www.971zht.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=morningzooshow.xml

Explosion of Words

Lately Mckall has had more and more words to add to her vocabulary. The most recent example is when I asked Burke "Guess what?" she replied with "What!" She has also figured out Dooo for Dude, Pep, Soup, More and most importantly Shoes. Well I guess that will be one thing the entire house will have in common, our obsession with shoes. (I am sure Burke will try to deny it but it is true).