Mineral oil

Started massaging mineral oil into Wyatt's hair at bath time tonight. I got the tip from my friend Jackie who's son Ben also has EHK. Ben looks amazing so here's to hoping for some amazing results! :)

The generosity of others

During Wyatt's 7.5 short months of life I have made new friends and connected with old friends.  And I have experienced generosity from people I know and people I don't know.    It's amazing the impact one little person can have on the world!

Anyway, today I wanted to share the incredible thing a friend of my dads, and a new friend of mine did for us.  She shipped us a buttload of calming cream samples.  There are 16 to a box and she sent me 8 boxes, plus a box of itch relief {haven't tried that one yet but I'm def. tucking it away to try in the future} and a pad of $1 off coupons that I can use on any Beiersdorf product.  How awesome is she?!

These are going to be the perfect size for when I need to touch up an area on Wyatt when I'm out and about for a minute and I don't want to carry a ginormous bottle of lotion around with me.

It's amazing that she thought of us and even more amazing that she sent these out to me.

Thanks Myrna!  You're the bomb.com! (:

Laughing

I went to the dentist yesterday and had 3 fillings done.  THREE.  No matter how good I brush and floss I always get cavities... it's a curse :/  Anyway, the fillings were on both sides of my mouth so I came home with almost my entire face numbed up.  As soon as I said hello to Wyatt he started cracking up and so the following video was made.

Thanks Beiersdorf!

Thanks to Beiersdorf {the makers of aquphor and eucerin} and their medical donation program, Christmas started early at our house this year!  I woke up to not one, but TWO boxes of lotion on my doorstep this morning.   :)

When I called and ordered Wyatt's aquaphor last week I mentioned to the lady I was talking to that Wyatt had begun to use their Calming Cream.  I asked if he could qualify to receive that through their program as well if we got a letter from his dr. as we did for the aquaphor.  She said yes and did I want to wait for her to send out the shipment so that she could include the calming cream?  I told her if she would please just ship out the aquaphor, that I would call again when I was able to get the new letter from Wyatt's dr. {who is amazing btw and had the letter emailed to me by the next day!}  Anyway, that nice lady went ahead and just sent me the lotion anyway!  Merry Christmas to us!

I am so grateful to Beiersdorf and their willingness to help those in unusual circumstances.  If it weren't for them we would have to spend a GRIP on lotions every week.  The approximate value of what they just sent is $300!  That aquaphor should last a little over a month and I'm not sure how long the lotion will last as I've just started using it, but they really are making a big difference in our lives.

Thanks Beiersdorf!

Families are forever

There's this song I learned in church when I was a child that I love to this day. 

It's called 'Families Can Be Together Forever'
It's been on my mind a lot lately.

Here are the lyrics

1. I have a fam’ly here on earth.
They are so good to me.
I want to share my life with them through all eternity.

[Chorus]
Fam’lies can be together forever
Through Heav’nly Father’s plan.
I always want to be with my own family,
And the Lord has shown me how I can.
The Lord has shown me how I can.

2. While I am in my early years,
I’ll prepare most carefully,
So I can marry in God’s temple for eternity.

I was born and raised in a family that were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  It's a christian religion and the members of the congregation are known as Latter-Day Saints, LDS for short, or more commonly known as 'Mormons'.

During my life I struggled with different things as everyone does.  There came a time where religion wasn't important to me.  I didn't want to go to church or do church things.  Why? I have no idea because my faith has never waivered.  I think I was just being an obnoxious teenager.

Anyway, when I was 19 I met this awesome guy that was also Mormon and we started dating.  I knew he was 'the one' from the moment I met him. 

We met in October, were engaged in February and married by the end of July.  Jared and I were sealed for time and all eternity in the San Diego Temple.  It's a gorgeous temple!

  6 years later we've been blessed with the cutest little booger on the planet.

I'm so thankful that I met Jared and that he was worthy to take me to the temple.  I love knowing that I'll be with them for the rest of forever as long as I live a worthy life.  I love knowing that we'll get to be with Michael again.  The thing I love the very most about my religion is that families are the core.  There is nothing in this world more important than family!