Happy Birthday and Goodbye

Bailey liked to play tease ball!! 

Well things have been a little shaken up around here lately.  I don't have a lot of time and I just wanted to check in and leave a little post of what is going down here at the Lane's.  As most of you know we recently had to say goodbye to our Bailey dog.  It is so funny how the little things that used to annoy you, I find myself missing.  He used to lay right in the middle of the the doorway.  You had to step over him and it was the same in the hallway.  Bailey was a big dog so he took up a lot of space and there was always a big chance that you were going to step on him.  He never seemed to mind when I would accidentally step on him.  He never minded it when my boy would crawl all over him either.  I am not sure that much bothered our dear Bailey except maybe the vacuum.  He would always move into the room I was going to vacuum next.  I know he thought I was chasing him.  He was quiet also, something you suddenly realized is a true blessing when you have a child that has sensory issues.  If he wanted something he had two ways of telling us.  One was to just simply put his head on our leg  and look up with those sweet eyes of his.  The second way always cracked my up.  He would sit in front of the TV if we were watching it.  Just his way of saying look at me.  How could we not when he was being so cute.  Yes we will miss him more than we realized.  I swear it is always the little things that we remember and love.

Now that I have caught you up on things, today is my baby girls 12th birthday.  I can't believe it myself.  It seems like it was just yesterday that she was playing with her dolls and doing art at the kitchen table and creating food experiments in the kitchen.  She is always into something and she isn't happy just sitting at home watching TV, she needs to be moving constantly.  She is 12 now and she is into different things, but at the same time she is still that little girl that is saying look mom, and I look only to find her making up some silly dance move.  I love these carefree moments in time that she so happily shares with us.  She is my sunshine and she makes me happy.  I will post more on the birthday stuff later.  She unfortunately has to wait to have her big party due to soccer all weekend but we are going to celebrate and celebrate big!!