Races and blue eyes...

What a week! It started on Saturday with the Kid's Crim Classic. It's a day of races sponsored by the Crim Foundation. The Crim is a huge road race held in August and it really puts Flint on the map, so it's a full weekend of activities, months of "training groups", etc. So, to get the kids excited, they do this "kid's classic" each May. Emma's done this in the past (about 2 years ago)...she was all geared up to run run run....then got "stage fright" and ended up walking the 20 feet to the finish line. LOL Bradlee, on the other hand, was MUCH better this year!!! He was even on the local news!!! ABC 12 has a sports show on their weekend evening news shows called, "Highlight Zone Jr"...they feature little kids' sporting events...the "athletes of the future"! This weekend, it was the Kid's Crim Classic!! Here's the link to go to:

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/video?id=7444243

You have to watch the "commercial" first, then go forward to about the 4:30 mark (the start of the Kid's Crim Classic coverage)...Bradlee's in his stroller around 5:06 and then his "race" is at 5:35...he's #98!!! Look at him go!!! Tony put him down at the starting line, and my dad (Boppa) was waiting for him at the finish line (I had the stroller, Emma and the camera!)...Tony said he put Bradlee down, and pointed to my dad and said, "Bradlee, do you see Boppa?" "Yes!" <<"On your mark, get set, go!>> "Okay, Bradlee!! Run to Boppa!" And he took off!! Emma LOVED watching him and said, "Wow, Mama! He did GOOD!" Here's Bradlee with his medal and Boppa at the end of the race!

Emma's race was a little bit later. She had asked Boppa to run with her in her race, so my dad, the funny guy he is, showed up in his warm-up suit! LOL They took off to the starting line when the race was announced, and then ran a quarter of a mile to the finish line! She did SO awesome! The news didn't cover the older kids, but let me tell you, Emma ran the WHOLE way with Boppa (and he didn't even need oxygen at the finish line!)!! Tony and I are SO proud of our kids!!! Here's Emma with her medal from her race!!

Emma's eyes are still healing beautifully. On Sunday, my mom and I were talking with her and we've noticed that her right eye is awesome...only a little bloodshot-looking. Here's her right eye!

Her left eye, however, was healing well, but when she turns her eye, there is a little blister-like "thing" on her eye. So Monday morning I called Dr. Chris and they wanted to see her. I took her in and they checked her vision and muscle balance and both are AWESOME still!! Dr. Chris looked at the "blister" and said that it was the eye rejecting one of the sutures he put in. It didn't like the foreign substance in there, so it built a protective covering over it. Pretty cool, in a way, but still not good for the healing. So he put her on a steroid ointment for us to apply. That's easier said than done...Here's what the left eye looked like on Monday...

Bradlee, of course, not to be outdone by his sister, requested I take a picture of his eyes, too! :)

Tony and I are SO happy with the results of Emma's surgery...Dr. Chris is our hero! :)