ssssssSIX

Last week, My Sweetest Boy turned SIX years old!!!

In honor of this special occasion, we had a

ssssssSpecial ssssssSixth Birthday REPTILE party.

Bryce with his favorite stuffed albino crocodile, Claude, and his croc cupcake cake.

Making a wish (think it has to do with a cure? my wish does!)

We had a reptile lady come over with about 15 different reptiles to awe the kiddos. Bryce got wrapped up in a Woma Python to his utter delight.

the kids loved this....

Monitor Lizard

American Alligator

The kids even got to pet the alligator. Bryce was up first.

My youngest thought this was so cool!

This was only a small section of this snake....

It took ALL the kids to hold up this albino burmese python.

It was a great party (even better since bgs were AWESOME!)

Valentine Eats

Breakfast:

Dinner:

failed sensor

give me a "D"

Devastating diagnosis

Insulin dependent for life

Always on alert

Blood sugar roller coasters

Eat everything but count the carbs

Test throughout the day

Every day, every hour, every minute

Sugar is medicine

couple great giveaways

Gotta tell you about a couple great giveaways in the DOC....

Leighann at D-Mom Blog is giving away some Extend Bars...head on over and check out what she has to say about them and get yourself signed up!

Hallie at The Princess and the Pump is giving away a Skidaddle Bag for all those D supplies, don't miss out.

CHAP/Elements Glass

We have this AMAZING organization here called CHAP (Children's Healing Art Program) They provide art therapy to children in a couple of the local hospitals as well as programs for kids with disabilities and chronic illnesses. They have this awesome studio downtown filled with tons of art supplies where the kids can create with no limits. Paint literally covers every surface of this place! It is open to the public but as "VIPs", we get in free ;-)

This month, CHAP held an Art Club activity at a glass blowing studio (Elements Glass). The kids got to make their own glass ornaments. What an amazing experience.

Bryce standing back from the super hot 2000 degree oven that held the melted glass

rolling colored glass pieces onto his melted glass blob

melting the color on in the fire

coming out of the kiln

doing more rolling/shaping

Bryce then blew into a hose to form the glass into a ball...

Bryce's finished glass ornament

Sweet Tomatoes