June 2 Update...

Obviously its been awhile since my last update. Im gonna have to just do a general overview and lots of pictures of course. lol

Obviously Sydney had her knee surgery done on April 16th. She had a meniscus clean up and her patella tracking realigned. They did a patella plication (stictches in the ligament) and then did a right lateral release where they cut the tendons loose that were too tight.

Overall I will say she has done really well. She was on crutches for 4+ weeks and just got released from her thigh to ankle brace in the last week of May. She has been doing physical therapy for the past 6 weeks and will continue for atleast 4 more. YUCK! Syd was pretty sick from the anesthesia but after that wore off she handled the pain really good. Dr. Garth wasnt convinced that he was able to get her out of pain but he is hopeful that it atleast helped. He said she does run the risk of a repeat injury of her meniscus so lets hope she can avoid that.

Mothers day we went to Vernon for our annual trip. We went to Mothers first fir breakfast then to church at Kingville and by the cemetary for decoration to see the flowers and then off to Aunt Nellies. This is Bayley and Ella. Ella was so sweet to Bay and played with her. lol I always loved getting to talk to everyone and the food is to die for!

Syd joined in on the young adult classes girls night out! She went with Jaz and the group to eat, shop and then the movies! She had a great time!

This is just a random picture of Bayley at her Eye Mommas house! lol I am so glad that Bayley has bonded so good with Cindi. They are a mess together and as you can tell Cindi always manages to help Bayley get messy and sweaty on the trampoline! lol

Syd Lace & Breanne all went back to another painting class. They tried a different studio this time and liked it. Sydney was a lil disappointed in her painting...only because she couldnt do the writing herself because she was still on crutches and couldnt get to where she needed to be in order to do the writing good...she said she is going to redo it sometime soon. lol

AHHH.... Syd's fabulous Soccer team FINALLY won a game! It was after Syds surgery obviously but she was there on the bench rooting them on!!!She loves these girls!

BEFORE THE WIN.,...AFTER!!!! Dont they look more accomplished!

THe soccer banquet this year was at our church. It ended up really nice. Most of the kids cleaned up really good... lol

Chandler LOVES her crazy socks a lil too much!

Sydney & her breezy!

Sydney & Courtney got CO-MVP Defensive player awards! They really did a great job and without them we would have gotten 10 pointed WAYYYY sooner each game! Lol

Sydney & Courtney the dynamic duo!!!

The triangle of best friends!!

OK this is out of order but the Saturday before Mothers day we went to Brian's Aunt Marys house for Gails family reunion. There was someone there did karaoke and sang the WHOLE TIME! lol We ended up sitting outside however the three lil cousins ended up loving it!!!

Dont ask me why Bayley is spanking Becca! lol who knows!!! oo and also we did not plan to dress all three girls identical..can you tell Gail bought them all matching outfits. they were all cuties!

Bayley & Aunt Mary

Becca & Bay dancing

They were too funny.

Two weeks ago we went and met Cindi and Chance and ate Mexican together! Bayley gave Cindi this big ole toothy grin while we were there! Bay was too excited to help SisSis with her texting! lol Chance & BayBay

Sisters!

This year our graduates were Alex and Chris...well and Jared from the looks of things! Lol

Bay really loved diggin in the cake with her Daddy.

Sydney & her Joey!!! lol She LOVES Joey!

Ok I would be a bad parent if I didnt also point out that Sydney did GREAT in school this year. She ended up wtih A's and B's. She had to work hard this year and the AP class was definitely a challenge! She is a great student and we are so proud of her!

....now be looking forward to two more posts soon....Bayley Lauren Maddox birthday post & Sydney's beach trip!!!

Lads to Leaders 2009

Lads to Leaders was GREAT! We had a wonderful time! Bayley traveled like a pro and made it super good all weekend. Poor ole Syd ended up sick again with her throat killing her. She did really good on Song. Debate had a funny moment. Sydney & Meleah both did great ...then syd had a blonde moment where she lost her train of thought and unfortunately it was when she was trying to make some point about Hitler and she said ummm Hitler like 3-4 times. She eventually got back on track but it will be a hard one for her to live down! lol She had a good attitude about it and we had a good laugh. lol Syd won 2nd place in scrapbook & 3rd place in web site. We got to shop twice & found several good deals. Bayley only had one meltdown all weekend so I consider it a huge success. By Sunday poor Syd felt terrible and after we hunted Easter eggs with Becca & Corra I took Syd to the doctor & she has a bacterial throat infection and has blisters in the back of her throat & a fever of 101. She got a shot and a Rx and seems to be feeling better.

Sydney Meghan Update

Taboo with the best of Ttown

Bama Baseball with HER BudSyd & EmSyd & StephSnow Day 2009Syd's Fans at the Central Tuscaloosa Game!Her BudSyd & DesiSyd's ChristieSyd & LaceEmmie!My three girls!

Best Friends at Bama Baseball The Triangle

This is what happpens when Syd & Bre get Bored Spring Break

Bre's first Soccer Game with Syd

Moody Tournament

OK here is an attempt at an update on Sydney. The highlights would be 2 trips to Ttown, spending spring break hanging out with her best friend Breanne, lots of Soccer & her upcoming knee surgery. I will start with definitely what I consider to be the biggest news. Sydney will be having knee surgery on Thursday April 16th at Children's Hospital. She hurt her knee a year ago in a soccer game...being the horrible parent that I am I kinda blew it off and just thought that she had stretched it and with rest it would get better. Long story short, rest didnt help, physical therapy didnt help, steroid shot didnt help, so we went to see Dr. Garth and he told us that her meniscus is completely covered with scar tissue & arthritis. He said she most likely tore her meniscus last year and it has just progressively gotten worse. Syd also is having a lot of pain from her patella tracking being off. Her knee cap constantly falls to the right and is off track. When they do the surgery Thursady they will #1. clean up and repair the meniscus #2 if fixing the meniscus doesnt allow the patella tracking to reset itself then he will first put stitches in the top of the tendon to attempt to tighten it #3 if that does not fix the tracking issue he will take a tendon out of her thigh and recreate the patella tracking. OUCH! If she only has to have the 1st part of the surgery the recovery should be pretty basic 4-6 week not too bad if the 2nd option comes into play that makes it 6-8 week recovery and if they have to do option #3 the recovery will be a whopping 4-6 MONTH recovery with 3+ weeks on crutches and tons of physical therapy. We are definitely praying we avoid option #3 and I think the chances are pretty good. The surgery is planned to be outpatient but if they have to do the patella tracking surgery she will most likely have to stay for pain control & she would also have multiple drains instead of just 1 and Dr. Garth just said that was a lil too much for a teenager to come home with. So I will definitely try to update this thing after Thursday and please keep her in your prayers!

Syd went to Ttown for Lacys 20th Birthday! She had a blast! Going to Lacys is definitely Sydney's getaway! lol They played taboo with the girls + Bud of course and also she went to 2 different Bama Baseball games! She had never been to a college game and she loved it!

Syd also played a soccer game in Ttown and Lacy, Emily, Bud, Desiree & Greg all came and were her fan club. They made signs for her! It was so cute. We went out eat and Christie got to come when she got off work! It was great! They are all so sweet to her and she loves them all!
Steph came and spent a weekend with us and it snowed on Sunday. Syd & Steph definitely got out there and acted 5 and enjoyed it for the few minutes they had before we went to church. lol O to be a teenager again!

Syd had an awesome spring break! Her and Breanne were together all week long! lol We ended up going to Ttown on Monday night and shopping then we went back Tuesday morning to shop Az Wells 50% off sale (WOOHOOO) and then we went to lunch with Lacy & Christie & ate on the strip & then we get to a Bama Baseball game that night. Bayley made it pretty good on our Ttown day & Sydney & Bre definitely had a blast! They spent the rest of spring break messing around PG and attempting to stay out of trouble. lol They of course went to Walmart at 12:01 on 3/21 and bought Twilight! lol

Syd had a soccer tournament April 3-4 at Moody and it was a LONG weekend. UGH. They had the late game on friday night so we didnt leave Moody until 10:45 and we had to be back there at 7am...IT STUNK! They lost all 3 games but we still had fun! Me, Syd, Bre, Chandler & Susan (bre's mom) all shopped inbetween the morning and night game and that was fun! The PG Boys team ended up winning the entire tournament! It was super exciting!

Bayley Lauren Update

Guess who got a potty for Easter?????? Guess who Poop'd and Tee'd on her first try...she was as shocked as we were!

Bay riding one of Becca/Corra's cars at Becca's Birthday party! Pam made Bayley her very own lil Snowman!

Pam, Bay & the scariest snowman Ive ever seen!

Our Girls.

Bayley did NOT like the snow unless she was being held! It totally freaked her out that her feet sank in it!

Spring Break 2009

Lacy getting some Bay time!

Bay loved sitting in the chairs at Lacys work! lol She looked like a teenager!

Alana won 1st Runner Up in her grade of her school pageant! She looked BEAUTIFUL! Bay made it pretty good through the pageant but as you can tell it was HOT in there! (Sydney had to miss the pageant because of a stomach virus YUK! )Wow it has been over a month since my last post so there is no way I will be able to tell everything that has happened and I have been working on a big post for awhile now and I just dont think its ever gonna happen so Ive decided to break it up into smaller segments. Here is a Bayley update. I am working on the Sydney update & a Lads to Leaders update so stay tuned!

Bay has had several doctors appointments over the past two months. The poor baby has had 5 ear infections & walking pneumonia in the past 2 months. She really struggled for awhile there. She is talking a lot more...lots of 1 words and a few 2 word phrases that she says regularly. She has mastered most routine words including Papi (for her Paci) which we have been working on for almost a year. lol You never know what she will come up with next. She is saying Go Baby & No Baby a lot!!! She must cheer on the kids at daycare or get onto them either one! lol Her hair has grown a ton! We can get it in a ponytail but not for long cause lil Keith pulls it down. I have started calling her lil Keith because she is a TOTAL daddys girl and would like nothing better than to trail along behind him 24/7. Not to mention it is like looking at Brian in tiny version only a female! lol Bay has completely come out of her shell at daycare. Her daily report cards are getting very interesting! lol She gets time out about 3 days a week for climbing on a table or throwing toys. Wednesday her report card said that Mrs. Sharyn asked Bayley did she want her to call her daddy ....and Bayley just smiled really big and kept on doing whatever she was doing! lol She is a MESS! They say that she cries or screams when she doesnt get a toy or something she wonts so when she starts screaming the other kids just give her whatever she wants so she will shut up...can you say DIVA! She loves to sing and cracks us with with her songs. She can do the motions to "Roll the Gospel Chariot along" and will sing a word or to! It is so sweet. She sings A LOT! She is so funny about what she eats these days. Pineapple is definitely a favorite. She is very opinionated. She LOVES suckers! O and she also has decided to call her drink a GINK which is a start so we will take it! lol She likes her pizza left as a whole slice & not in pieces, dont u dare cut up a hamburger lil girl wants it whole. She definitely knows what she likes. I cant believe little bit is 22 months old!!!!! She definitely is a total PRINCESS and in fact that is how I got her to not scream when I brush her hair is by telling her that she is turning into PRINCESS BAYLEY! She gets the sweetest smile on her face when she can show her Daddy how pretty she looks. She is a MESS!!!

Valentines Day & Proud of my PGHS Soccer Player

First our Valentines Day, The girls had a good heart day...or as Sydney referred to it "Singles Awareness Day" lol. Brian got Bay the cutest lil dog and she also got M&Ms and a cute chicken cup. Sydney got Season 3 of John & Kate Plus 8 and Brian got her some Nerds & Laffy Taffy. Bayley also got a Twix bar from one of her daycare teachers and after some time and determination she finally figured out how to eat it and LOVED it! lol I had to post this picture because I told Brian to smile and this is the smile the goofball gave me. UGH. I must say Brian did great on Valentines day! He got me this superdedooper new grill! We needed one really bad and I was thrilled to get it especially considering I never even had to ask to get it! WOO HOO! Way to go Brian!

Sydney played her first soccer game of the season last night. They played John Carroll. They made it to the second half and then lost 10 - 0. I was quite impressed with the effort they put into the game. There are only 6 members of the 16 girl team that have ever played high school soccer before tonight. And 3 of the 6 girls who have played before have knee injuries. Sydney made it "ok" last night during the game. She said the pain was pretty bad but she made it the whole game. So I was very proud of her.

This is Syd about to kick a something or another...I still havent figure out what to call these side kicky things.This was the 2nd half. I am glad I got a quick picture because it only lasted about a minute before they 10 pointed them.Bayley was super impressed with Sissys soccer team!After the game I was standing around waiting on Sydney. John Carroll’s head Coach (Coach Neumann) was walking by. A PGHS parent jokingly said to Coach Neumann “why do you have to always beat us 10 - 0, couldn’t you just let us score one time?” Coach Neumann told us that “PGHS girls team are our role models.” He went on to explain that he noticed last year that our girls never give up and that he told his girls after our second game with them last year, where they 10 pointed us yet again, that they could learn a lot from our girls! He said our girls never give up and they play as a team. He said that he was impressed tonight when, at the half, our girls were down 9-0 however when they went back on the field they played like the score was 0-0 giving it their all. Coach Neumann said that he told his girls that our team were real winners and had been taught to play as a team and never give up. I think you could say we were the proudest parents out there. Yes our girls get 10 pointed every time we play John Carroll but their team spirit and love for the game definitely made an impression on someone! GO PGHS GIRLS SOCCER!

And finally...my Mom sent this to me this week. I think it is offical, Big Brother is enjoying retirement with Daddy!