We have sitting...

March 2010:

My little Buddy is the best waker upper in the family! He is always so happy and pleasant! We could all use a few lessons from him, I think! He is always up as soon as the sun shines in his window... which doesn't always make me super happy... but I'm working on it!

Anywho... one day he was taking his morning nap and woke up, and I heard him chatting away and went in to peek on him... this is what I found (so much for peekin')!

Such a happy handsome boy!! He just makes me melt when he looks at me like that!!! You?

On to the topic at hand here...We have been working on his strength and the whole sitting up by himself thing for a while now and so I thought we'd give it a try...

We're sitting...

We're getting excited and starting to lean...

Ohhhh! It was a good try, and a good lesson that doing it in the nice soft crib is better than doing this on the hard floor!! Good Job Buddy!!! You are almost there!

Tooth Fairy Away!!!

February 2010:

We were driving around running some errands and Beene said, "Mom, Dad... my tooth just came out!" She wasn't freaking out, but you could see it was coming soon, so Daddy turned around, (I was driving) and chatted with her and they laughed about how cool it was. She calmed down and daddy kept it safe until bed time!

My little girl and her FIRST lost tooth!! Jonathan and I are wondering where she got those genetics from... we both didn't start losing our teeth until 2nd Grade, and here she is in Kindergarten!!!

The tooth, it was nice and pearly white... the Tooth Fairy I am sure was proud of it!!

When I was little, I had a little pillow with a pocket in it for my lost teeth... at our house we have a baggie!!!

Here she is putting it under her pillow... the Tooth Fairy better come quick!!! She was sooo excited!!!

Well, the Tooth Fairy had a really hard time getting under her pillow to switch the tooth for cash... so she called in a helper, we'll call him the Molanator... and he was successful at the switch! It was hard for the Tooth Fairy because Beene sleeps next to the wall, and she had to climb on the bed without waking up 2 little girls in the meantime!!!

But, our first experience was a great one!!! I am sure it will happen again soon, she has a total of 6 loose teeth now!!!

Oh Buddy!!!

February 2010:

So, after 2 weeks or so of being clear of RSV, it strikes again!!! Poor guy! This time though, no hospital... but a nebulizer!! I have never had to use one of these before, which they were shocked about because Julles has asthma... but she uses inhalers! He loved the thing! I was expecting to have to hold him down and have him screaming because that is what I always hear in the ER when I am there in the winter time... instead we see this...

He kind of uses it like a Hookah... and he gets REALLY mad when you take it away!!! Luckily this one didn't stay around for too long, and the nebulizer is in the closet for future use! Dr. A said that now that he has had it once, he is more likely to get it again and again! So, we are prepared with more than enough medicine for when we are faced with it!

Onto other "oh buddy" items:

So, one night he and I were in our night time routine... I feed him baby food and cereal before he goes to bed so that he will sleep through the night better. Well, this particular night he was dining on peaches and oatmeal. He ate it up, and went to bed like an angel. Well, at about 5 a.m or so, he started stirring and grunting and crying a little. So, I went in to check on him, but only with the hall light on. I didn't want to wake, wake him up! He was grunting really bad and he was rubbing his face with his hands and looked like he was trying to rub him eyes out of his head. I got him out of bed to go and make him a bottle. We got out to the hall... and the lights and his face looked like he had been beaten!!

Exhibit A:

His poor little face got bigger and bigger adn his eyes were little slits. So, I was getting packed up for the ER when I decided I would call first. They told me that I could give him benedryl and see how he did... if his breathing got rough to bring him in. We drugged him and it went away slowly through the day. Dr. A said to just hold off on the peaches, since everywhere they touched his face left a burn/blister... for atleast a month or two. Yeah, a lot longer than that... SCARY!!!

The long-awaited...

February 2010:

Valentines Day!!

One of the girls favorite holidays...for reasons unkown! It has been this way since they learned their colors and now they look forward to it as soon as Christmas Day! They would love if I would take down Christmas decor and put our Valentines stuff up immediatly. I make them wait atleast until after New Years! But, over the years we have gathered some decorations... some years they are harder to come by than others. We also have some traditions that we do to make it fun for them.

This year, they got Valentines Day outfits, and got thier hair done all pretty and wanted to be photographed at once!! I abliged and thought that this one was absolutly perfect!!!

These two are Best Friends and most times are attatched at the hip! They fight just like any sisters do, but they are quick to say sorry and start right back where they were when they were happy!! Love them!



Our Jaxson "Buddy" is getting so big!! He sits up with the help of the couch cushion crack, and loves his feet! He is the happiest baby I have ever seen, and he smiles constantly!!! Here he is in deep thought and looking very handsome too!!! I really think I could eat him!!!

Everytime we would take the girls to the store, they would see those huge mylar baloons and ask for them... we always say maybe another time. So, for Jonathan's present to them, he ordered... days in advance some fabulous presents, that were sure to make some very excited girls! We were supposed to pick them up Saturday night because the store wasn't open on Sunday...

But because Jonathan can't stand a surprise (too often), he went bright and early Saturday morning to get these babies...

Julles LOVES ladybugs, and thought she had died and gone to bug heaven!! She was gitty!!!

Beene is a butterfly fanatic and didn't let go of her's until it was time to pry it out of her hand to go to the bathroom!!

They had so much fun, they loved every minute of it! We had strawberries, and when everyone came for dinner, we had heart shaped meatloafs and it was tastey!!! Oh we had lots of fun times as a family too!!

Until next year... Happy Valentines!!

The big 1-9!!

February 2010:

February 3rd, our Jeremy had a Birthday!! Not just any... he turned 19!! He was at school in Ephraim over his big day, so we waited patiently until it was our turn to celebrate with him!! For our Sunday dinner we had everyone over... even his cousin's roommates from school. IT was a house full... but wonderful!

You can't forget the cupcakes... with all 19 candles on them!! Yeah, we were waiting for the smoke detectors to go off because of all the smoke that was coming off those babies!! But we ended up ok... good thing the birthday song isn't that long!!!

We had to do some decorating. The girls got squares of scrapbook paper and drew pictures of what they wished him for his birthday. They came up with some pretty "out there" things, but he asked us to save them for him... so they must have been keepers!

We also put signs up all over, and Jonathan made paper balloons, because we forgot until it was too late at night the night before to go and get the real thing... but it went well with our "paper decor"!

We love our Jeremy and were glad to spend some time with him before he had to go back down for school! He had a great celebration and is glad that he'll be home for his 20th!!

Feeling Sick...

February 2010:

Buddy was under the weather, not doing well at all!! He is such a happy baby, that he wasn't even really that fussy. However, we could tell that something was not right with our little guy!

He had been coughing and coughing and it was sounding really bad. His breathing was a little frightening and he kept arching his back. He had a fever for days and nothing would take it down.

So, we packed everyone up, and took him to the dr. Dr. Armstrong said the word I hoped my kids would never get... RSV! Not just a little RSV, but he needed to be admitted into the hospital to get some oxygen and be monitered and have some tests ran. Terrified, but knowing it is better that he is there sick then at home sick...we all went to the hospital to check him into the Ped's unit. First off, it was a full house! They had 4 infants there besides Buddy with RSV, some even newborns!! SCARY!! Because we had the girls with us, Jonathan took him back to get him situated, and I hung out with the girls until it was my turn to go back there. When it was my long awaited turn, I just wanted to hold him... but he had to be stuck with moniters and such, and the nurses made me wait! Even though he was so sick, he still had the nurses in smiles because he was smilin' away! They kept saying that they wouldn't have thought he was sick just by looking at him! We got him settled and then I ran home with Jonathan and the girls to get some things for the night and to get the girls settled and a little less freaked out because they didn't like leaving their brother at the hospital alone... EITHER DID I!!!

When I came back to his room, they had him laying on the hospital bed, watching Sprout! He loved it and was totally content. He was even sporting a hospital gown!!



He and I did some snuggeling, played peek-a-boo, had some crying, watched tv and did a little eating as well. We talked to Daddy on the phone, and sent video's of him to the girls. He finally fell asleep after some major drugging, and I put him and all his wires into the little hospital crib... not so little though, now that I think about it. It was hard to just sit and watch him, he was having such a hard time. The nurses were doing all that they could for him, but it was a restless night! I would have loved to have put him in my bed with me, but that was a no-no!!

I got up in the morning and went home to get the girls ready for school. Luckily he had done well enought throughout the night that he could go home. That was a happy thing to tell the girls when they got done with school! They were beaming!

He is a trooper, and I hope that this doesn't come back to haunt us later!

Grandpa fun!

January 2010:

My parents came up to see the house. The girls were excited as always and could not wait to see their Grandma and Grandpa!! We had to decorate for Valentines day as soon as we could find the decorations in our piles of boxes...because we have kids who are HOLIDAY NUTS!!! So, to make for some more Valentines fun, my parents came up for the day and just so happend to have brought some loot for the girlas, and a high chair for Buddy!!!

Here you see my dad, aka grandpa being a VERY good sport!!! They had lots of fun puting in clippies and trying to put his hair...what he has left anyway... into ponytails. We laughed and laughed because this picture is he and I 20 someodd years ago... I used to do this to him everyday!! What a great guy!!!

These girls LOVE thier Grandpa!! He spoils them and will let them do whatever they want to him!!!