The Perry Family

Saturday, August 22, 2009

How could you NOT love these girls?!

Before we went to the zoo with the rest of the Perry family!

Monday, August 17, 2009

The verdict is...

Melia needs glasses!

Woo hoo... I am actually feeling really bad for her for some reason. Well, I hated glasses and looked like the biggest dork in the world. But it doesn't matter, here is the story!

It all started because she started doing a "stink eye" whenever she was looking at someone or watching a movie and she started doing it more often in the last like 4 months. Treven would mess around with her and sound like he was angry, but have a happy face or an angry face and she would do the "stink eye" and then based on what she saw she would react happy or sad.

So we decided, "Okay, we need to take her to the eye doctor." I finally called about 2 weeks ago to go in and see him. Today was the day. He first did the eye test, which included pictures not letters, and she would tell him what she saw. She got really frustrated about the 4th or 5th line down and just gave up. She just kept saying "Boat. Boat. Boat". Then he dropped some eye drops in to make her pupils nice and dilated. When we went back in, he had her watch a cartoon in a machine while he looked at her eyes and then he looked at her eyes with two other machines. Then he told us... She is EXTREMELY far-sighted. He said her eyes are trying so hard to focus on things around her that she just gives up and does the "stink eye". It makes sense even more though, because she gives up on coloring and just wants us to do it and we are trying to teach her what the letters look like and she gets frustrated and gives up.

So now it will be fixed with glasses. I will definitely be getting her contacts when she is old enough because that was the BEST thing ever for me in middle school. Her glasses will be in the office in 3 weeks at the longest. The doctor picked them out, not my favorite, but they are pink and they do look cute on her. He said they are the best for her age because they are durable. We will have to get new ones in a year because of her growth so I figure I can pick out cuter ones then.

Well there is the excitement at our house right now! Hopefully it will help her with things that she has been having problems with!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Crazy-Kenz is 1 year old!

Happy Birthday to McKenzie! It is crazy that a year ago today she was born, I just graduated, and moving on to start my student teaching. It seems like it was not that long ago. She brings joy and laughter to our family everyday even if she is very serious some times. She is walking now and loves to grab our hands and take us around the house. McKenzie loves to play with the toy kitchen pans, loves to put on necklaces, and LOVES to brush her hair! We couldn't imagine our family without her! Happy Birthday!

Saturday, July 18, 2009

We found it!

We have an apartment and we are moving in on Monday! We got a great deal on it: we get the rest of July RENT FREE, we got 1/2 the moving cost and deposit, we got $100 off rent each month. It has new paint which is like a beige color, not white which I am so happy for, new carpet, new wood floor, washer and dryer, and IKEA lighting! The wood floor is the dining room which the dining room is actually A ROOM! I love the windows. There is a patio and a fireplace and they are completely okay with us hanging our TV up on the wall.

There is a swimming pool, fitness center, computer room where Treven can study! Our building is right next to their "stream" on one side and the playground on the other. We do have an upstairs apartment but it is bigger.

Oh one more thing! The floor and the middle wall are the only sharing walls to other apartments. No rooms are attached to the other apartments so no hearing every little thing!

We are very excited and can't wait to get our own place to call home! Oh, and Melia loves it! :)

Coldplay Concert 7/10/2009

Loved the concert! It was amazing! My parents gave us tickets for our birthdays. It was the Viva La Vida show but they played a lot of songs from other albums. They also gave us a free live CD on the way out of the concert which was awesome. I took some pictures so you can see where we were at. There was one point during the concert when they were about 30 feet away from us! And they did a cover of Billy Jean by Michael Jackson which was awesome. You can look it up on youtube.