Bostyn really enjoyed playing with Josh and Luke but also another little girl who is a month younger than her. I think that would make them 3rd cousins or 2nd cousins once removed? I can't remember. Once they warmed up to each other, they enjoyed running in the grass, on the chairs, and with the ipad. Here is a layout of the two of them together.
After this lovely day, it all went downhill. So the day after the party, Bostyn wakes up with a fever. She ends up having the stomach flu. She spent all Monday morning throwing up. It got better as the week went one but a low grade fever remained with kept her home from school all week.
As for the NEW52, Week 35, I received Bostyn's Memory Keeper box in the mail from Paper Coterie. It wasn't the best printing as there was a green glow where her skin meets her pink backpack. There was also a little sticky residue on the front. However, it was free because I used a coupon and only paid for shipping. So I didn't complain and remained just grateful that I only paid $15 instead of $55. Thanks to Ali Edwards' blog for showing me this great Memory Keeper box for all of Bostyn's preschool art and treasures. I really owe Ali a lot of credit as I based my entire box on her box (go to her blog to see photos of her beautiful boxes). I loved the large first day of school photo on the front with her name and school year on a solid spine for easy identification when on the bookshelf. I think Paper Coterie has a great product on their hands but I do think they can make the process a little easier with cropping of photos, etc. I love the size of the box and will continue to order them for year.
So now we are onto Week 36. The stomach flu has passed but now she caught another cold. Not sure how as she stayed home all week. This kept her home again for a few days. Luckily her doctor gave her antibiotics and she is getting much better. That leads me to my next NEW experience. At her doctor's appointment, he heard a premature heartbeat and something about possible sinus arrhythmia??!!! Just for good measure, her pediatrician recommended I take her to Kapiolani Children's Hospital for an EKG. He did reassure me that this was nothing to lose sleep over. We didn't need to go right away, later in the week or next week was fine. However, you cannot just get this information and sit on it for a few days. So the next day, I took Bostyn in for her first EKG since she was home from school anyways. This is how she looked all wired up. She held still and remained brave for the few minutes that the procedure took. Nurse Nana was really good with her.
The very next day, her doctor called me and said everything looked fine. He will just continue to monitor it. We love our pediatrician. He is very pro-active and is quick to refer his patients to specialists, when need.
After all of this, it was finally time for me to see my own doctor. I had caught Bostyn's cold and needed time to take care of myself. I got some drugs and recovering quite nicely.
Here are some NEW layouts for the week. Again, challenge pages to help jumpstart my creativity.
This was for Design House Digital's 4Play. You take 4 kits of their choice and make a layout with it. They usually mark down the kits really good either FREE or for $1 to help entice you. Luckily, for this one, I already owned 2 of those kits.
This next layout was based off of a McDonald's magazine ad for DHD's inspiration challenge. I really loved this one from the start. There were so many things to be inspired by. It was a great way to show off my hens and their first egg.
My cousin gave me her daughter's old Tinkerbell costume so I finally took it out for Bostyn to play with. Bostyn loved it and put it on immediately and went outside to search for fairies in the garden. It inspired the following 2 layouts. This is for Oscraps Copycat template challenge.
And this is for DHD's Swatch challenge. Don't forget to get your free Breezy papers by Karla that goes perfectly with this swatch.
This is for Oscraps' Creative Techniques challenge. It was very difficult for me as it was to be an art journal style, but that is not my thing so this is what I came up with instead.
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