Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween!

Love~

Kaylee, Jake, and Anden

New Curtains

Check out the new look in our living room. A good friend of mine got some new curtains in her living room to match her new furniture. I've always liked her curtains, so now I can admire them in my own living room! Thanks Sara!

Happy 5 Month Birthday Anden!

What are you up to at 5 months Anden?

~ You are FINALLY sleeping through the night. Knock on wood, knock on wood, knock on wood! For the last week and a half, you've only woken up a time or two and you've been able to put yourself back to sleep.

~ You love love love food. So far you've tried squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans, peas, applesauce, prunes, bananas, and peaches. You usually eat cereal and a little fruit for breakfast, a veggie and fruit for lunch, and then a veggie and fruit again for supper. You're favorites are sweet potatoes and any kind of fruit.

~ You're still drinking about 6-7 oz. of formula every 3 hours.

~ You definitely know when it's time to eat and you let everyone around you know when it's time for you to eat. (That's really the only time you ever cry.) You can't even wait long enough for me to get from the kitchen to the living room before you're going after your bottle. The other day I was carrying you upright in one arm, and the bottle in the other arm. You leaned on top of your bottle and managed to get it in your mouth.

~ You're getting into a good routine. You normally wake up around 7:00 AM, eat, play, then nap for an hour in the morning, eat lunch, play, then nap for 2-3 hours in the afternoon, and then hang out in the evening, nap again for an hour, eat, take a bath, and head to bed around 9:00.

~ You are wearing 12 month clothes and size 3 diapers.

~ You are still CRAZY about Kaylee and Jake. You can't keep your eyes off of them.

~ You love sitting in your exersaucer (best baby item we ever bought, all three of our kids loved it!) You're able to spin yourself around and bang on the teeter-totter or chew on the bird.

~ You've rolled over (belly to back) a time or two in your bed, but you're still very content to just lay around and take it all in.

~ You talk to yourself all the time. You say, "Ahhh," and then you mimic yourself over and over again as if you're carrying on a conversation.

~ We feel so lucky and so blessed to get to love on you, hug on you, kiss on you, and squeeze you to pieces each and everyday.

Happy Fall Y'all

Here's a shot of my drive home down our road each day. I love fall.

Stayed tuned for an Anden-loaded update tomorrow as he will be FIVE MONTHS OLD!

Feeling oh so good!

So sorry for the delay in updating... I've been trying to get on Blogger ther last couple days to update, but for some reason I haven't been able to sign-in.

We've been going non-stop since Jake started feeling better on Saturday. Knock on wood, no more fevers, no more belly aches, he's back to eating well and feeling good. There's no stopping him! Here's some pictures from the Soccer Tourney this weekend. Saturday was a nasty day, cold and windy... Sunday turned out much better though.

Here's Kaylee (blue shirt, no hat) playing defense.

Here's Jake (yellow shirt with the blue hat).

And here he is warming the bench. Tough job on such a cool windy day.

The kids are out of school tomorrow for Fall Break... did they have such a thing when I was in school? I think not. Oh well, makes for a good excuse to let the kids have a friend over for the night tonight and then head to the zoo for their Boo at the Zoo Celebration tomorrow evening with some friends. The kids are so excited to get into their costumes. We're also looking forward to a Pumpkin Carving Party Saturday evening, and then rest up and get ready for the week on Sunday.

Here they are with their friend Riley and their wooly worm collection (all 19 of them!)

Still no answers

Jake continues to be the "Mystery Kid." After a full week of fevers and belly aches, I decided enough was enough, poor Jake needs to start feeling better. Dr. Bies is as baffled as we were as to why his symptoms have continued this long. So today, he ordered a CT Scan of his abdomen which ruled out appendicitis and an infection of the lymph nodes in abdomen as well as more blood work which ruled out Mono and once again showed that all his blood counts are normal. Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful everything is coming back normal... but I'd really like some answers! So we're back home again and just continuing to treat it as a virus. We've got a follow-up appointment with Dr. Bies on Monday, but I'm really hoping Jake's going to turn the corner this weekend and get better.

I also went ahead and called Dr. Hunter (our Naprapathy Specialist in Henderson, KY.) He's the one that recommended the pumpkin seed oil which has worked miracles on Jake's food allergies and also recommended raw carrots and celery sticks for me when I developed the HELPP Syndrome after having Kaylee. He recommended we have Jake drink as much Welch's Grape Juice (which I think is high in antioxidants) as possible and eat scrambled eggs (to increase his sulfur.) His suggestions seem so simple and each time I've had this doubtful voice in the back of my head saying , "Well carrots and celery aren't going to hurt me, so it's worth a try," or "Well pumpkin seed oil isn't going to hurt him, so it's worth a try," or this time, "Well, Grape Juice and scrambled eggs aren't going to hurt him, so it's worth a try." I really think it's just the simplicity of his concoctions that make me so doubtful. Honestly though, I really don't care at this point what will help him feel better.

Jake's sure hoping he starts feeling better soon. He and Kaylee have their soccer tourney this weekend and he didn't get to play last weekend because he was sick. So hopefully my next post will be full of pictures from my two little soccer stars.

Have a good weekend!

Jake's giving us gray hairs again

Where do I begin? Jake took a few years off mine and Jesse's lives this past weekend. Long story short, Jake ended up in the hospital Friday afternoon through Saturday morning. He had what we believe to have been a febrile seizure at Diane's house (our sitter) after spiking a fever. His pediatrician called him the "mystery patient" because just a few hours after spiking the fever, having the seizure, and getting him to the hospital for numerous tests (all of which came back normal), he was feeling fine. Since Sunday though, he's ran a fever and hasn't felt very well, so we're assuming its just a virus. I really thought he'd be able to go back to school today, however, he woke up again over night complaining of a stomach ache. He's not had any Tylenol/Motrin since 2:00 AM though and still no fever, so maybe there is a glimmer of hope that he's on the mend. I, on the other hand, woke up feeling terrible. I had Jesse take Anden to Diane's, Kaylee's at school, so it's just me and Jake here at home. I know Jake woke me up at one point this morning to make him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Other than that, I've slept all morning and when I woke up around 11:00, Jake was curled up next to me. I'm feeling much better, I think I've just worn myself down since the weekend and needed to rest some. I hope Jake sleeps for awhile and wakes up feeling as refreshed as I did. Well, scratch that, I just glanced over at him. He's starring at me with glassy eyes and now says he wants a bath because his belly hurts. Ugh, when will this end.

I'm back. Jake's had Motrin and a bath now. Feeling much better and is up to no good. Take a look at what I caught him doing.

When I asked him why he was pulling all the diapers out of the basket he said, "I'm finding Elmo diapers for Anden." Jake's favorite Sesame Street character is Elmo, so if he's around when it's diaper changing time, Anden's sure to be stylin' an Elmo diaper.

Well, I'm going to go now, need to pick up a little around the house and disinfect a few bathrooms, kitchen countertops, telephones, doornobs... the list goes on. Hope you are all staying healthy!

Thumbs

I grew these things on the side of my hands today and are they ever tastey!

They're much better than that yucky squash my mom keeps trying to feed me.

You'd think she'd get the point when I spit it back at her,

but then she makes a silly face at me

and shovels more in when I open my mouth to laugh at her.