Hamilton Happenings

Today during sacrament meeting  the kids did their normal coloring, playing with toys, eating fruit snacks, and waving to people behind us.  Mckenzie requested pretzels but she's not happy being handed one or two, she must hold the whole bag.  And when she started flinging the bag around making a mess we had to take it away---cue the tears.  Justin took her out of the meeting for a time-out and sent me these pictures.  We give you the time-out progression.... I find these pictures so funny.  She's really a sweet girl most of the time.  But occasionally she can be quite the drama queen.  We love you Mckenzie! 

 Two days ago it was 71 degrees and we walked to the duck pond.  Ever since my mom visited last month Mckenzie has learned to grab a ziplock bag, hold it up, and say "bread please" whenever she wants to feed the ducks. She wants a piece of bread, in the bag, for the ducks.  (Yes mother, you taught her that.)  We've had to switch bread for bran muffins because Kenzie ends up eating half of the bread herself.  Today it snowed.  What a change in weather!  That's Idaho Spring for ya! A few days ago we decorated eggs with the kids.  It was a success with no big messes.  Score!  The kids loved it.  Mckenzie apparently really enjoyed dying the eggs because she saw me peeling eggs at dinner time today and asked to hold one.  I gave in and let her hold a hard boiled egg.  She was bursting with joy and kept holding it up saying "egg, egg!"  I was in the middle of making an enormous amount of potato salad and wanted to keep her happy and entertained so I could fini

It's been a little over 3 weeks since Mckenzie's surgery.  Over this last weekend we have seen some really good improvement.  For example, she usually doesn't poop every hour anymore, maybe more an average of every two hours.  Although Justin changed two poopy diapers during sacrament meeting today.  Thank you Justin!  She's still had a big improvement from just a week ago when I'd change 5 poopy diapers before 9am.  And her diaper rash is much better.  We haven't had to give her around the clock pain medicine for probably a week now.  The new struggle has been her dilations. Her dilations consist of Justin holding her down, spreading her legs open, and me sticking a metal rod about two inches into her rectum, twice a day.  Sounds fun right?  Well of course she hates it and knows when it's coming and screams her head off every time.  It just makes me feel so sad seeing how much she freaks out when she knows it's time for her dilations.  The reason for d