Accomplishments:
Lots of jabber
BIG smiles
Eating her WHOLE fist
Rolling over!
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
On the verge of healthiness...
Just when I think we are all healthy, someone has a snot issue. BUT for the most part I think we are back to normal. Ava is back to sleeping better (although it could be better ;) ) and Kale's cough seems to have subsided. Maybe I better not put that in writing for fear tomorrow morning he will wake up with a cough.
We ventured North this past weekend to visit the grandparents. It was Jake's 2nd birthday and Clare's Highschool Graduation. Both were good. Kale had a major pep talk about how to act at birthday parties. The kid remembered from a YEAR ago that he helped Jake open his presents. Well, this year, since Jake is fully capable Kale was forced by his mother (although Jake kept saying "open it Kale") to sit back and watch. He did for the most part and watched with nervous laughter as Jake discovered what was in those mysterious packages. BUT There was no holding him back when Jake opened up a box FULL of little diggers and trucks! Kale was so excited about it. We gave jake a lawn mower and the boys mowed and mowed many laps around the "loop" at Nana and Papa's house. Loud but it occupied!
Papa had Kale in training this time...picking up rock. He had fun for awhile but then he got smart and told Papa "that one is yours" and didn't get off the four wheeler. Oh the memories.
Ava has been smiling and jabbering up a storm.
She is growing like a weed and even rolled over for the first time today! Her big bro was her biggest cheerleader and he thinks "tomorrow she will probably learn to walk." Sadly, it will seem like time went that quickly when she does learn to walk so lets not rush things!
Kale continues to be a little sponge and is so curious about everything! I really do love it but on about the 182nd question about how a cylinder works in a tractor (which i have no idea) I have to regroup every ounce of patience I have. He loves to read and is thrilled he can "read" the word GO in his Llama Llama Mad at Mama book (It is enlarged print and bolded red..lol) I love the enthusiasm and hope his zest for life follows him for many many MANY years!
We ventured North this past weekend to visit the grandparents. It was Jake's 2nd birthday and Clare's Highschool Graduation. Both were good. Kale had a major pep talk about how to act at birthday parties. The kid remembered from a YEAR ago that he helped Jake open his presents. Well, this year, since Jake is fully capable Kale was forced by his mother (although Jake kept saying "open it Kale") to sit back and watch. He did for the most part and watched with nervous laughter as Jake discovered what was in those mysterious packages. BUT There was no holding him back when Jake opened up a box FULL of little diggers and trucks! Kale was so excited about it. We gave jake a lawn mower and the boys mowed and mowed many laps around the "loop" at Nana and Papa's house. Loud but it occupied!
Papa had Kale in training this time...picking up rock. He had fun for awhile but then he got smart and told Papa "that one is yours" and didn't get off the four wheeler. Oh the memories.
Ava has been smiling and jabbering up a storm.
She is growing like a weed and even rolled over for the first time today! Her big bro was her biggest cheerleader and he thinks "tomorrow she will probably learn to walk." Sadly, it will seem like time went that quickly when she does learn to walk so lets not rush things!
Kale continues to be a little sponge and is so curious about everything! I really do love it but on about the 182nd question about how a cylinder works in a tractor (which i have no idea) I have to regroup every ounce of patience I have. He loves to read and is thrilled he can "read" the word GO in his Llama Llama Mad at Mama book (It is enlarged print and bolded red..lol) I love the enthusiasm and hope his zest for life follows him for many many MANY years!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Perfect Timing...
Maternity leave is over. I can't believe how fast it flew. Seriously, seems like they just were sending me home from the hospital with our new little babe.
So I was preparing to go back to school and wouldn't you know it... Ava started coughing. We brought her into the doctor to find out the poor little thing has that darn RSV. Just in time for me to go back to work, nice. So we now are trying to relieve symptoms with a nebulizer, which seems to be helping. She has been a trooper about it, doesn't complain too much until we hear her start to snort through the monitor at night when her poor little nose gets so clogged she can't breath through it to suck on her plug.
Here she is getting a breathing treatment...poor thing..
And of course, Kale had to try it too-- he thought he looked like an elephant!
Joe and Kale went to the circus over the weekend. I sent the camera with Joe and told him to take pictures. I got a few pictures of the bears and acrobats but NONE of Kale... men! ;) Oh well. He had a great time. It was 3 hours long and still Kale would have stayed for more (I think Dad had enough at about 2 hours). Kale's favorite thing was bears riding motorcycles.
Before they left we had a big pep talk about clowns (huge phobia). I went into depth about how clowns are people wearing funny clothes. They put on huge shoes, huge pants and paint their faces to look funny. He seemed to feel better about them and in fact, he now says he's going to be a clown when he gets bigger. Good thing we had the chat because Joe immediately sent me a text when they got there that clowns were everywhere. He would not talk to any of them (or make eye contact for that matter) but no panic attacks so we will call it a success!
Shannon and Jake came for a few days. I think Shannon has decided that she might like her job just a TINY bit better than she did before she came down and that 3 kids are definitely not in her future. She needed a beer when I got home! :)
We also have discovered that Kale and Jake are crazy. They feed off of each other and get so wound up someone always winds up crying or in time out. Here are the little monsters.
That devilish laughter written all over Kales face in this picture pretty much sums up the visit!
So I was preparing to go back to school and wouldn't you know it... Ava started coughing. We brought her into the doctor to find out the poor little thing has that darn RSV. Just in time for me to go back to work, nice. So we now are trying to relieve symptoms with a nebulizer, which seems to be helping. She has been a trooper about it, doesn't complain too much until we hear her start to snort through the monitor at night when her poor little nose gets so clogged she can't breath through it to suck on her plug.
Here she is getting a breathing treatment...poor thing..
And of course, Kale had to try it too-- he thought he looked like an elephant!
Joe and Kale went to the circus over the weekend. I sent the camera with Joe and told him to take pictures. I got a few pictures of the bears and acrobats but NONE of Kale... men! ;) Oh well. He had a great time. It was 3 hours long and still Kale would have stayed for more (I think Dad had enough at about 2 hours). Kale's favorite thing was bears riding motorcycles.
Before they left we had a big pep talk about clowns (huge phobia). I went into depth about how clowns are people wearing funny clothes. They put on huge shoes, huge pants and paint their faces to look funny. He seemed to feel better about them and in fact, he now says he's going to be a clown when he gets bigger. Good thing we had the chat because Joe immediately sent me a text when they got there that clowns were everywhere. He would not talk to any of them (or make eye contact for that matter) but no panic attacks so we will call it a success!
Shannon and Jake came for a few days. I think Shannon has decided that she might like her job just a TINY bit better than she did before she came down and that 3 kids are definitely not in her future. She needed a beer when I got home! :)
We also have discovered that Kale and Jake are crazy. They feed off of each other and get so wound up someone always winds up crying or in time out. Here are the little monsters.
That devilish laughter written all over Kales face in this picture pretty much sums up the visit!
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