Painting, Strawberries, and A Trip to Shriner's

The painting proceeded and Shekinah felt left out. She did not want to simply paint on a piece of paper and no one wanted her to paint on THEIR piece of furniture. I found a broken half of an old rocking chair and she busily spread pink paint over the surface. Those little hands can paint quickly when the goal is to simply spread paint with little regard to neatness.

Then we moved on to decoration the next day.

She has a certain knack....Picasso perhaps?

Hope isn't quite finished but it looks interesting...no stencils! I'm proud of her

because that took a bit of relaxing for my perfectionist.

Faith my free-spirit, she designed this the way she used to color in her coloring books.

My perfectionist tendencies required that I do the final coat and tape between the colors. 

The question is...do I have what it takes to do the desk? Those stickers...

Joe fixed the pool net for me...some holey fabric and fishing line.

We also had a trip to Shriner's today, I really wasn't sure about the timing 3:20 PM and then the hair-raising trip home during rush hour. God's hand was over us and we really didn't have terrible traffic, that is, it never completely came to a halt.

It occurred to me today that if our family had been complete in 1997 there would be A LOT of things I never would have experienced...including driving in Philly traffic this often, never would have met the wonderful Dr's and staff at Shriners. Sort of worrisome, the secretary greeted us by name as we got off the elevator...maybe she saw the day's schedule and she simply put names and faces together that way.

Anyway, the visit was simply a yearly checkup. Dr was happy to see us and we chatted, he was totally in agreement with me to take Joe off at the ankles and lower him to a more accessible height. Even called in the prosthetist , she agreed it was necessary, but didn't know what foot to use.

Before anyone gets all worked up, this was crazy talk...Dr thought it was great that he was growing, until he realized Joe was taller than he was.

Dr agreed that Shekinah was adorable and wonderful, she wrote her name neatly on his papers and he told us to come back in a year.

Unfortunately, that was only the hand Dr, we need to run back down there next Thurs to see the feet Dr and see if any adjustments need to be made on Joe's prosthesis.

So next week--Driver's evaluation, pick peas, Shriners, teach a CPR class and VBS at church.