Winter

Ok so winter is around the corner. I know it is only just fall, but I am a little nervous to live in snow with 2 kids. So, what do I do? I start preparing.

This hat was not that hard to make, but it was my first time trying it so it does have a few errors, but you can hardly tell. It was suppose to be for Eden, but it fit Kael's head, so I gave it to a little girl who plays with Kael and is super sweet. She loved it and it was so cute. She put it on and wouldn't take it off. Mind you it was a really hot day still. ;)

So, I am going to start crocheting again. Wish me luck. I want to make about 3 hats per kid. Now I just need to find some super cute yarn. I have patterns for boys brim hats, and ear flap hats, and I think they are going to turn out adorable. I'll keep you updated how they go.

As for other winter stuff, Kael has a snow suit already, and Eden has coats. I still need a winter coat for Kael, snow boots, gloves, and a full body snow suit for Eden. We have excellent sledding hills right outside, and I'm certain they will be well used this winter. If anyone knows where I can get this stuff for SUPER cheap, I'd be a happy Mom.

Thanks to Cate!

How do I even pick from so many amazing photos for my walls? I guess I'll take them all. There were more wonderful photos taken still that I didn't even post. Thank you Cate for the fun photos and memories of my kids. Check her out here: http://www.ciaobellaphotography.blogspot.com/

I'm in love with my kids. They are amazing. Now if I can just get them over being sick, I think life would be pretty perfect.

In LOVE with her!

In LOVE with him!

The cuteness of Kael

So tonight at dinner Kael was sitting at the table stuffing his face as normal. He then proceeded to fold his arms and say dobadabadobadoo. So, in his own little language, Kael prayed for the first time. He did it about 5 times and I have to say I'm a proud Mom. Months and months have passed where we have tried to get him to just fold his arms to pray, and tonight he did it on his own, and said his own little prayer. He now folds his arms for about 5 seconds every night to pray and a couple times he has kept them folded the whole time.

Also, just the other day I told Kael it was time to come inside after playing on the playground, and for the first time EVER the sweet boy came right behind me and WALKED into the house, and never once cried or threw a tantrum. He has now done this twice. This is a major improvement from the screaming and kicking trantrums to get him to come inside.

I'm so proud of this stinkin cute boy! He amazes me every day.

Eden at 6 months:

Half way to a year… I cannot believe my baby is 6 months. I was all gung ho to write the post about her on the day of, but life happens I guess. Is it possible that this girl can get any cuter, sweeter, and more loveable every single day?

Eden can officially sit up. This is just within the last week or so. She still wobbles though. She loves putting anything in her mouth especially toys, fingers (her thumb), her toes, Mom’s fingers, etc. She is also just scooting backwards now, and rolling over like crazy. She took a break for a while from rolling over, but now she never stays on her blanket for very long. She loves her walker and will spin the toy on it over and over. She smiles at Kael all the time and puts up with him sitting on her to hug her. They are pals already. He has even tried to kiss her cheek once, and I about died in the cuteness. She is still opinionated about smiling and who she likes, and you really have to win her over to get her to giggle, but when she does smile it is to die for because it is in her beautiful big eyes and lights up her whole face. She loves to coo and babble now. She even likes to swing just a little on the play ground, but the swings are still a little big for her.

She got her shots on Monday and they were nasty. I felt so bad for the girl. She handled it so well and smiled after, but then she got a fever of 102 and threw up in the middle of the night all over the front of me. Ya. Not fun. I felt so bad for her though that it wasn’t a big deal. She hadn’t reacted like this for her last 2 sets of shots, but she did get more this time including the flu shot.

As for stats, my doctors office doesn’t give me them, but just tells me so I have to go from memory! Argh…

Height: 25 inches
Weight: 15.3 lbs

I can’t remember anything else and they didn’t give me any percentages. Oh well. She is getting bigger and that is all that matters.

As for eating, I started Eden on rice cereal at about 5 months. It was about the time she started not sleeping so well at night. She is not a big fan of the food... She also has tried sweet potatos and apple sauce. Eden has not liked solid foods very much at all. At first she would gag a lot like she just didn't like the texture. So, I mixed the sweet potatos with the cereal and she seemed to like that for a couple days. Then, I tried apple sauce thinking she would love it, and she gagged the most on this. She does not like applesauce at all... This is so weird to me because even though it took Kael 2 months to get good at eating solids he LOVED all of the food he tried, with the exception of green beans. He always tried to eat his cereal, and loved it. I don't know what to do to get her to like solids better. She seems to like sweet potatos ok, so I guess I will stick with mixing the sweet potatos and the rice cereal for now. And no more applesauce. Yuck.

Have I mentioned yet that I LOVE her chunky thighs? I like to call them thunder thighs, and they are adorable! Her beautiful little thighs are a good place to end.

Just know Eden that Mom and Dad and Kael love you so very much! We are grateful you are in our family. You complete us and we love your sweet little personality!
Love you little lady bug!

We got pictures taken of both Kael and Eden and they will be posted soon.

#200

I can't believe I made it to 200 posts. I am really hoping to get this blog printed off one day, and now I can just imagine the amount it is going to cost with 200 posts... Maybe I should have started sooner?... Maybe I should ask Derek to print it out for my Christmas gift every Christmas? A lot of maybes...

It amazes me how quickly time goes by sometimes, and how it seems to stand still at others. I wonder how that works because in the end it really passes in the same amount of time. Off the subject.

It has been one of the longest months of my life. I knew becoming a medical student's wife that this was going to be tough. So, to mentally prepare I prepared for the worst. I mean come on that should only make life seem better if you are ready for the worst right?

Somehow that didn't quite happen.

Derek started medical school. My children get sick. I get tired. Derek gets tired. Derek studies all day long. Derek is gone all day long. Life seems long. Sleepless nights. Are we to 4th year yet? NO! Hmmm. Children still sick. Take kids to doctor. Still tired. More sleepless nights. Children finally getting over being sick. Take kids to doctor. Still tired. Derek still studies all the time. Derek is still gone all day long. Hmmm.

Somehow that first month seemed so long yet it is over so quickly. Oh and I'm still tired.

Kael was the first to get sick and it still hasn't completely gone away. Eden then got sick and hers turned into croop. That is yucky stuff let me tell you. This was the first time I have taken my kids to the doctor for being sick, that is how worried I was. Then, the kids have slowly been getting better. I took Kael to his 2 yr. check up. He needed shots. Not a big deal. He actually did pretty well. Then, a couple days later he has a reaction to one of the shots. There was a huge red rash the size of a half dollar, a hard lump, and it was warm. I wasn't too worried, and just wanted to know if I should put heat or cool on it. I called the doctor and of course they wanted to see him, and of course it turned out to not be a big deal.

Let's just say I'm done with the doctor for a while. Oh wait. Eden has her 6 month check in 2 weeks and they want to see Kael again in December. (Enter sarcasm here)

Kael's weight is low and they want to recheck that. Personally it is probably because he was sick for a month before he went in. They also want to check his speech. He is delayed there. I have known he is delayed and I'm not really worried.

I'm not trying to complain, well maybe a little, this is my blog, but I do know that I have been very blessed in this last month as well.

Blessings:

I have an amazing family who love me. Derek has been so supportive even with all the studying he is doing. Kael and Eden try to be happy when they are sick and are so sweet. My parents answer my frantic calls at midnight wondering if my child will live till morning. And my other random calls the last month of asking why this is so hard!? I have the best job working from home where my brother lets me take time off any time I need. All of my family who let me call anytime to just talk about surviving. Awesome neighbors who have been so supportive and willing to keep an eye on my kids or just watch Eden at a moments notice. I'm so glad we live where we do. We were so blessed to end up where we are. Heavenly Father knew this is where we need to be and I am so grateful for it.

To everyone who has helped me survive this last month THANK YOU!

Now to a gazillion more months like this and for being stronger for making it through this one.

Oh and a picture of Kael being cute.

PS: Stay tuned for Kael's 2 year photos and Eden's 6 month photos. They are going to be so cute! They should be posted in about 2 weeks.

Locked In. Panick. Long Day.

So in July I believe I wrote a post about locking myself and Kael out of the house for about 30 minutes and had to have campus security come and let us in, and the whole while Eden was screaming inside. Yes. I locked myself out of my house.

Today, I am writing about getting locked IN. I decided yesterday around 4ish that my carpets were in desperate need of being vacumed. So, I went to grab the vacuum out of the front closet and when I opened the door it was trapped with fallen tubs. We no longer have a garage, so all of our storage tubs are shoved in all of our closets. The tubs were all out of disarray and I just couldn't stand for that when I couldn't get to my vacuum, so a huge project came under way.

I began taking out all the tubs and rearranging, and was rather pleased with myself. I only had a few more things to arrange when Kael decided he needed to come close himself in the closet like he does quite often. There is no light switch in the closet and Kael likes to hide in the dark. I finished my organizing and went to open the door and to my astonishment it wouldn't turn at all! There isn't a lock on this door, so I couldn't understand why it wouldn't open.

First thought ok maybe I'm just stupid and can't open a door.

Second thought, I'M STUCK, I'M STUCK I'M REALLY STUCK! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'M TRAPPED IN A CLOSET WITH KAEL!!! Ya. That was me panicking.

Third thought. Derek is at school and won't be home for at least an hour... Eden is in her crib suppose to wake up starving about hmmm NOW, and at least Kael is having a good time, and my phone is a foot away on my computer desk... Why isn't that in my pocket?....

Fourth thought. I need to get out of here.

Fifth thought. Stomp up and down and maybe the people in the apartment below will be mad and come up to see what's up. Dumb idea, but I'm going to try it.

Stomp Stomp Stomp...

Sixth thought. I'm panicking. Yes. Scream for help! Maybe someone will come in the stairwell and hear me.

HELP HELP HELP. (Yes, I can admit it I screamed like a baby for a second.)

Seventh thought. It's really dark, feels like walls are actually closing in for the first time in my life.

Eighth thought. I need a miracle.

Tried opening the door again. Nope. Didn't open.

Nineth thought. Miracles don't usually open doors. I need to be smart and stop being stupid. Look around and see what's in here.

At this point, found a tool box. Started feeling in dark for a screw driver. Found one. Found attachment to screw driver. Found screws in door. Slowly took door knob off of door. Door opened.

Tenth thought. Miracles do happen. Thank you Heavenly Father for this little miracle.

So, glad there was a tool box in there, and I wasn't stuck in a closet with a sick Kael for more than 15 minutes.

Kael had so much fun and really loved trying to help me get the door knob off. So, much in fact that he ran to Eden's room and locked the door. Yes. 5 minutes after Kael and I were locked in a closet Kael locked himself in Eden's room. Glad I had that screw driver again...

On a side note, Kael and Eden have both been sick and it has been a couple long nights and days. Today doesn't seem to be starting off that great either. Another miracle would be nice... :)