Some Vacation time with the Family!

I mentioned in the previous post that Grandma and Grandpa Baker were able to come and spend some time with us!  It was GREAT!  We had a great week and they were able to help in so many ways!  Kimber had her CF appt. and they stayed an extra day to watch Cody while I took her in.  

Kimber was a superstar!  She had to have 3 x-rays of her stomach and chest, and also it was time to have her annual labs taken. So she had to have her blood drawn AND get her flu shot, AND her throat swab.  All of which she HATES!  I don't know who was more nervous, her or me! At her last appt. she only had to do the throat swab and she locked her mouth shut!! The RT and I, had to hold her down and pry her mouth open while she kicked and screamed!  I did not want to have to go through that again!  It was AWFUL!  I was definitely dreading this appt too! 

Luckily, she was a little prepared for all of these....or at least she knew they were coming.  Ben was able to swing in for the first part of her appt. and he gave her the pep talk she needed.  He just told her to be brave!  He had to leave before the poking began...so it was just her and me.  She did GREAT!  She wanted to tell everyone she knew that she didn't even cry!  She held so still....and wanted me to hold her tight so she couldn't move.  She kept telling me to squeeze her tighter.  Her big brown eyes filled with tears, but she didn't make a peep.   She sat up and was SO PROUD that she did so well! She kept saying that she remembered what daddy told her.  She decided to just be brave!

 I just love this little gal!

Here are a couple last pictures of Grandma and Grandpa's visit.  The girls LOVED playing the Princess Match game with Grandma, and making the spiders you see hanging from the light.

We enjoyed flying some kites playing on the grass at the park.

Daddy and Cody spent awhile looking for 4-leaved clovers.

Ben has had this last week off and we did what we could to make the VERY best of it!  

My visiting teacher had season passes to the the Tram.  She gave us two for last Friday and we took the family on up.  It was really fun!  The girls loved having their picnic and hiking and especially riding the tramcar. 

Here we are on top of the mountain after our 15 minute tram ride!

You can't tell these two are sisters ;)

At the top of the tram!  There was a great view.

The girls watching the tram car come up the mtn.

Daddy and Cody ready for the tram ride down!

Here is the other tram car going up.  We passed them at the halfway point as we were going down.  

We've loved having Ben home for the week!