15 September 2008
First Goal!
Just a quick little note to say Madi scored the first goal of the season for her team! Her team is the Wildcats and they are a U10-Girls team. The Wildcats were down 3-0 when Madi finally scored. Two of her teammates contributed a goal apiece which finally tied the game 3-3. Definitely better than a loss :-)
20 February 2005
Vacation
Well, we're back from our very mini-vacation. Madison kept her ear all covered up with a cotton ball which was covered in vaseline (to keep it waterproof) and a band-aid (to keep it from falling out and keep the vaseline from getting all in her hair). She's hearing out of her ear normally now. Wednesday we'll find out exactly what her hearing is like at the audiologist.
While on vacation Madison got her picture taken with Kilaka the sea lion. Kilaka is a famous movie star ;) - she was in the movie Andre. I'll get that picture scanned the next time I make it down to Mom and Dad's house. We met Kilaka at the Oceanarium in Gulfport, Mississippi. That was a fun-filled time watching parrots, sea lions and dolphins perform. It was quite different than seeing the shows at Sea World or something - it was a lot more up close and personal. The dolphins played with you - if you threw a ball into their pool they'd throw it right back at ya! After the shows we got to go see a lot of other sea life in a huge tank. There was sea turtles, a couple of kinds of sharks, huge fish whose names we don't have a clue, sting rays, etc. They even got to see a diver in the tank feeding the fish. That was pretty neat. There was even a touch pool with all sorts of marine life we could touch gently.
We also spent the afternoon at the beach. Madison and I put our toes in the water but it was quite chilly. Madison really liked it but we only let her have her feet in the water for a few minutes. After we walked all the way out the pier, we let the kiddos play in the sand until we needed to leave. Madison drew in the sand with sticks most of the time.
Other than our time at the beach and Oceanarium, we spent a good deal of time in indoor pools and jacuzzi's in our rooms. The kids would have spent the night in the pools if we'd have let them! So in order for Paul and I to get any rest at all, we had to bribe them back into the room with promises of being able to play in the huge jacuzzis! That was almost better than the pools in their eyes since the water wasn't over their heads :)
The last thing the kiddos did before coming home was go to the circus. This is the event that cut our mini-vacation short *grrr* but the kids LOVED it, so I guess it was worth it ;) Paul took all three of the kids by himself!!
Well, there's no school tomorrow so Madison has one more day to recouperate before heading back and getting back into the school routine again. I pray no more sickness or anything overtakes her before school lets out!
While on vacation Madison got her picture taken with Kilaka the sea lion. Kilaka is a famous movie star ;) - she was in the movie Andre. I'll get that picture scanned the next time I make it down to Mom and Dad's house. We met Kilaka at the Oceanarium in Gulfport, Mississippi. That was a fun-filled time watching parrots, sea lions and dolphins perform. It was quite different than seeing the shows at Sea World or something - it was a lot more up close and personal. The dolphins played with you - if you threw a ball into their pool they'd throw it right back at ya! After the shows we got to go see a lot of other sea life in a huge tank. There was sea turtles, a couple of kinds of sharks, huge fish whose names we don't have a clue, sting rays, etc. They even got to see a diver in the tank feeding the fish. That was pretty neat. There was even a touch pool with all sorts of marine life we could touch gently.
We also spent the afternoon at the beach. Madison and I put our toes in the water but it was quite chilly. Madison really liked it but we only let her have her feet in the water for a few minutes. After we walked all the way out the pier, we let the kiddos play in the sand until we needed to leave. Madison drew in the sand with sticks most of the time.
Other than our time at the beach and Oceanarium, we spent a good deal of time in indoor pools and jacuzzi's in our rooms. The kids would have spent the night in the pools if we'd have let them! So in order for Paul and I to get any rest at all, we had to bribe them back into the room with promises of being able to play in the huge jacuzzis! That was almost better than the pools in their eyes since the water wasn't over their heads :)
The last thing the kiddos did before coming home was go to the circus. This is the event that cut our mini-vacation short *grrr* but the kids LOVED it, so I guess it was worth it ;) Paul took all three of the kids by himself!!
Well, there's no school tomorrow so Madison has one more day to recouperate before heading back and getting back into the school routine again. I pray no more sickness or anything overtakes her before school lets out!
17 February 2005
Out of school
Madison has missed so much school here recently. First it was because she broke out with the chicken pox, then she developed an ear infection directly following the pox which the docs and I wanted to keep her out to ensure the infection wasn't a precursor to something else brewing as can happen when you contract a childhood disease such as chicken pox. That was two solid weeks. Well she went back to school on Valentine's day, which she really enjoyed. But in the middle of the night she started having bad ear pains. She was so exhausted the next morning and just couldn't get a move on that I kept her out. I'm really glad I did. She developed a fever a little later and some really bad pain. We're keeping her out the rest of this week and will send her back when we get back from our mini-family vacation. So she has been in school all of 1 day in three weeks. She misses school a lot!
You can read more about her maladies under Herbs and Healing by clicking on my profile.
You can read more about her maladies under Herbs and Healing by clicking on my profile.
13 February 2005
First Entry
Just a little blog about the stuff Madison is up to as told via her mom. Mom has great aspirations for this blog but there is no telling when she'll get around to making it all she wants it to be :)
