Life is made of great experiences, small treasures, and people that make an impact. This blog includes a little bit of everything from the birth of our little ones to our daily adventures. Happy that you stopped to read about the fine points in our life!
Always the hurdles before the holidays... Now Alayna is coughing up a storm. YUCK! Saturday she started with green crud in her eyes, Sunday it was a temp of 104.3 and a ear infection, and then Monday she didn't eat or drink anything. Today is a much better day though, and in the midst of it all she learned to go potty on the big girl chair. Wow! Not even two years old and she is so smart!
She must be wanting to show off for her little cousin Vivi, because we get to see her on Thursday. As long as we can get out of this snow storm, we'll be flying to Florida. We can't wait! Cade wrote Santa a note on Saturday letting him know that we wouldn't be in Iowa on Christmas morning, so he was sweet enough to visit our house early this year! The kids were spoiled by St. Nick!
Outside of his vibrant, funny little personality, Cade has had an ongoing cough now for nearly 8 weeks. (Poor guy!!) He’s been on one steroid and two antibiotics and finally last Thursday they did chest x-rays. Nothing was found on those x-rays and the medicine hasn’t been helping. But we haven't seen any other symptoms either, which is good. His behavior is good, his energy level is fairly high, and there are no fevers.
Since the pediatric docs that he sees here in the Quad Cities aren't sure what else it could be, they have now referred him to the Children's Hospital in Iowa City for further testing. The appointment has been made for Jan 6th and we'll be going to visit with the pediatric pulmonary and allergy docs there.
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/pediatrics/divisions/allergy.html
While this is hard to swallow (for me at least!!), we know that the referral has been made so that we can hopefully find some answers. They will be working to determine what has been causing this persistent cough and hopefully run a couple more tests. We will do our best to keep you all posted, but in the meantime help us pray for good news in January!!!
Caden was invited to go to a hockey game with a buddy of his and his family today ... oh, my goodness! When I gave permission to go, I didn't really think that it would affect me, but as I got him ready, gave him money to take with, and talked to him about using his manners, I realized that he is such a big boy!!
Below is a picture of Cade and Hunter at the game with their cow bells on their heads.
Thanks Jena, Nick, and Hunter for taking Cade! He had a great time!
Sunday morning Jarin and I were pretty lazy, but little miss sassy pants was ready to get up. She came skipping into our room at about 6:15 and when we wouldn't play in bed, she wanted down to find toys. A couple minutes later, Cade got up and started playing with Layna. She said she needed a kleenex and ran off to the bathroom. She wasn't coming back, so I sent Cade in after her...
Pretty soon, he's yelling, "mom come here!!"
I walked into the bathroom to find Alayna unwound the ENTIRE roll of toilet paper and has shoved it all in to the toilet! There was toilet paper coming out everywhere!!!
Oh, that stinker! I wish I would have had a camera!
The kids are loving the winter weather! Caden wants to be outside all the time and he thinks it's hilarious to be in a snowball fight!. Alayna on the other hand, she likes eating it! We are under a blizzard watch now, and spent last night playing in the 6" we already had. More to come soon!
So we go from mowing the grass one final time to cutting down our Christmas tree this weekend! Can you believe the beautiful, sunny mid-50-degree-weather we are having? The kids are loving it outside!
... Okay, so I understand, it looks like I dressed them for 30 degree weather, but hey, the breeze was chilly!
And finally, it's all decorated and looking very seasonal. Cade demanded the tree be right by the fireplace so that Santa could find it easily!
Unfortunately, we'll only be enjoying this for a couple weeks as we are lucky enough to be heading to Florida in about three weeks! Happy shopping while you prepare for the holidays!
