Getting ready for Christmas!

Every year I tell myself that this is the year that I am going to go all out with all of the cute Christmas decorations and all of the holiday baking and everything else that goes along with the holidays. Every year I end up deciding that it is just too much work!!! I think this year I could do it but it is too hard with Kaci being so little still, there is always next year I guess!

Even though I am not able to do a picture perfect Christmas, we have still had fun setting up the tree (let me tell you Colton sure is a helper!) and making sugar cookies and listening to all the fun Christmas music on the radio. Here are some pictures.

Colton and I making sugar cookies

Setting up the tree

We had a lot of fun, Kaci slept through most of it, but that made it so much easier!

Twice the Fun!

So having two kids is double everything, double the work, double the mess, quadruple the dirty diapers, and double the times that you wake up during the night! Two kids also double the smiles, double the snuggle time, double the kisses and special moments and also double the love every one feels for each other. Totally worth it!

After the initial week out of the hospital (AKA hell week) things have started to settle down and feel normal. The adjustment from one to two hasn’t been nearly as bad as I thought it would be, mostly because I have a wonderful husband who helps out so much and isn’t afraid to get up with one of this kids at night if I need him to, or do house work, or what ever needs to be done at the moment. Also Colton has been really good about the change and really loves his sister! Kaci is the only one in our family who gets kisses on the lips from him, Weldon and I are usually only allowed to kiss his head! Silly boy. Here are some pictures of what we have been up to lately.

I love having a little girl that I can get dresses up and put little bows in her hair!

All of the cousins at thanksgiving. Colton, Wyatt, Jayla, and Kaci. It makes me laugh to think that there are four grandkids, and half of them are mine!

Colton loves his sister!

These next ones are of us playing in the leaves. It’s not snowing, the spots are actually the flash reflecting off of all the dust that we stirred up by raking and jumping in the leaves. Colton had a ball, oh yeah and you can see our dog Kit in some of the pictures too, she is a Cocker Spaniel that we got about two months ago. She is really cute. She and Colton are buds.

We have sure had fun this past month. I love this time of year and am excited for us to put up the tree and do more things to make fun family memories!

Baby Kaci is Here!!

Yay, my little girl finally got here on November 4th at 5:07 pm. her weight was 7 lbs 4 oz and she was 19 inches long. My due date was the 8th, but we decided to be induced a little early because I was walking around dilated to a five and nothing was happening. Being induced is nice too because it makes planning things like having someone watch Colton easier. Weldon’s parents watched him that day and he stayed the night with them too. He had a ball just hanging out with Monie and Papa and got to go shopping and got a new hat and shoes too. Weldon’s Mom said that when Kaci was born and we texted them a picture of her that Colton didn’t want to give her phone back so she printed the picture out and gave it to him on paper. They said that he kept looking at the picture and smiling and dancing around the living room with it. He was pretty excited.

Labor went good, they had me walk for two hours to see if we could get something started, and we did because I dilated to a seven on my own but the contractions were irregular so they decided to put me on petocin (sp?) to induce me and make the contractions regular. I got my epidural at the same time, not because I was feeling any discomfort (because other then being nine months pregnant and feeling like a beached whale) I didn’t hurt, but because I knew that at some point it would, because babies sure don’t take an easy way to get here!!! Any way, it all went pretty fast after that and when it came time to push I pushed with two contractions and out she popped! it was great especially considering with Colton I was in hard labor (pushing) for two and a half hours!

We named her Kaci Dale. Kaci because it is cute and it sounds good with Colton, and Dale because that is my dad’s middle name. She is so cute and sweet and Colton loves her! He is always trying to help out and he hates to hear her cry. If she starts to cry and we don’t respond as fast as he thinks we should he will come and grab us by the hand and take us over too her. It is pretty cute, he also thinks that she needs her pacifier in her mouth at all times, even if she is being quite or asleep. I really have to watch him because he will try to put it in her mouth for her. He is doing better though where he will just bring it to me instead. He is such a little helper. I love both of my super cute angel babies!! Weldon has been great too. I don’t think I could handle it with out him and I feel so bad for all of those single parents out there, that has got to be so hard!

Other then this there isn’t much new in our lives, but that is ok because we are busy enough right now, but loving every single exhausted minute of it!! Here are some pictures:

This next one is of Colton giving Kaci kisses for the first time.

Colton being a helper

Anyway we are pretty excited to have her here, plus she has hair, and poor Colton is almost two and he is still super bald. I was worried she would be too, but nope she has a fuzzy little head!

Our Busy Lives

 

So I would title this post as “catch up”, but it seems that I already have several posts by that title. I guess that just goes to show what and awesome and dedicated blogger I am! Well we moved, and I am so glad to get out of the city, plus it will be nice to live closer to family especially when the baby comes. I really love our house, it is old so it comes with all of the funny quirks and personality traits that are missing in so many of the newer houses. Best of all it has a yard, that will one day have more than just weeds in it, and we will be able to get a dog! Colton loves it here too, mostly because there is more room and he gets to go outside everyday. It was really hard on the poor boy living in an apartment. Weldon got a job as an EMT on the ambulance and is so far really liking it. I get to stay home and hang out with Colton all day and love being able to do that. I must say I am terrified for when the next one gets here because just watching Colton keeps me busy, no idea how I will manage two! It is so crazy, only seven weeks away!!  Also right before we moved I broke my camera by dropping a can of El Pato sauce on it, it was tragic, I really wanted to cry! I got a new camera a few weeks ago and it is great. Here are some pictures that I have taken with it while we were camping.

Weldon is trying to get Colton to blow all of the fluffy stuff of of the dandelion stem.

Sitting by the campfire.

Colton had fun feeding the baby goats.

 

I think he looks like a little football player!

About ready for a nap!

Just playing in the dirt!!!

Any way that is all for now, I’ll try and do a little better about posting and staying up to date!

It's a Girl!!

Yay! we found out a while ago that we are expecting a little girl. We are so excited. It will be very different to have a little girl around the house, the hard thing is that all we were thinking about were little boy names! Ahh the challenges of life I guess : )

Scorpion Sting

So Friday was one of the worst/scariest days ever. Everything was fine until about 4:30 in the afternoon when Colton started fussing and grabbing at his leg, Weldon and I looked but didn’t see anything so we just thought that his clothes were bothering him and stripped him down to his diaper. After a while he was still fussing so we gave him some Tylenol because he is getting one of his bottom molars in and we thought that might be the problem. As time went on he got more and more agitated and at about 5:30 Weldon noticed that his hands were shaking, I thought it was just because he was so mad, so we ignored it for a little while and just did everything we could to make him happy but nothing was working. By 7:00 he was just screaming and was inconsolable and his hands and legs were shaking pretty bad so we decided to take him to an urgent care up the road. As we were getting him dressed we noticed that he had a mark on his leg where he was grabbing earlier that looked like some sort of a sting. When we went to the urgent care we told the doctor that he had been crying non-stop since 4:30 and that we thought maybe he had been stung by a scorpion because Colton never cries like that, he hardly ever cries at all. The doctor checked his ears and said they looked fine, then checked his throat and said it looked a little red (duh, he had been crying for hours) so he decided to give us antibiotics for his throat and numbing drops just in case his ears were hurting him. Weldon and I were pretty mad because we knew that wasn’t the problem, so we left and took him straight to the ER where as soon as we said scorpion sting they got us right back. He was examined by several doctors and he defiantly was exhibiting signs of a scorpion sting like shaking, eyes jerking back and forth, and being unable to calm down. They put an IV in him and it took four people to hold him down because he was thrashing around and jerking so bad. The nurse wasn’t able to get his vein the first time so she had to stick him twice. By this time it was about 11:00 and Colton had been screaming for six and a half hours and having some one jab him didn’t make it better. They then gave him some pain medicine/sedative, but because of the poison in his little body he still was unable to relax and hold still, but at least it helped with the crying. At this point they decided to transfer us to the Children’s hospital because that was the only hospital that has the anti-venom. I rode with Colton in the ambulance and Weldon drove the car all the way across town where we all arrived at about midnight. Once there they gave him some more pain killer/sedative and we consulted with a toxicologist who said that yes it had to have been a scorpion and that if we wanted to we could give him the anti-venom which would work in about 30 min, or we could stay there for about 24 hours while they kept giving him pain killers and sedatives and wait for it to wear off. The only catch was that the anti-venom hasn’t been approved by the FDA yet, but the toxicologist reassured us that it has been administered hundreds of times and so far seems to be fine with no side effects. We opted to try the anti venom. It was amazing, within 30 min, like they said Colton was completely fine. No more crying or jerking or pain. At this point the sedatives were able to kick in and he was finally able to fall asleep. Weldon and I still had to wait about an hour just so they could make sure that he was ok, then after we woke him briefly to make sure that he could eat and drink just fine we let him go back to sleep and got our discharge papers. By the time we got home it was 4:00 in the morning and we were exhausted. We were really lucky though because with the exception of the urgent care doctor, who was more concerned with making it home for dinner then he was for his patients, we had really great nurses and doctors. After we got home we all got in bed (we had Colton in our bed to keep an eye on him) and went to sleep. The next morning at about 7:30 Weldon got up to use the bathroom and noticed that our roof was leaking from the apartment above us so we had to call the landlord and weren't even able to sleep in, Colton slept until about 9:00 though so that was good. About the time that Colton woke up, Weldon was in the kitchen and looked on the floor next to the wall and saw a huge scorpion. He caught it and I took some pictures of it. We really hope that it was the one that got Colton and that he was alone. He got his just reward though, Weldon took him out side and put rubbing alcohol on him and set him on fire to watch him sting himself to death. The fire didn’t burn so good, but the scorpion drowned in the alcohol anyway. It was a bark scorpion and supposedly they are the most poisonous kind around here so we are really lucky that Colton only got as sick as he did because it could have been much worse. He is totally fine now, in fact the next morning you wouldn’t have known that he had even been stung, except for the bruises on his hand from the IV. We got bug spray and sprayed the house and went to Walgreens and got a black light that we use to check the house as soon as it gets dark because we do not want to go through that again! Any way so that was how we spent most of Friday, here are some pictures of the scorpion and Colton’s little bruised hand (sorry they’re not very clear, he didn’t want to hold still) Weldon also got a picture of Colton in the hospital after they gave him the anti-venom on his phone so I will see if I can figure out how to put it on the computer.

This is the scorpion in the bottom of a wide mouth mason jar, look how big he is! ( you can tell that it is a bark scorpion because it holds its tail curled and to the side rather then out behind it or over its back. Another piece of trivia… bark scorpions are the only scorpions that climb)

This is our very dead, semi burnt scorpion next to a matchstick so you can get a better idea of the size, you can even see the stinger. Poor Colton, that had to have hurt!

Like I said it is pretty blurry and you can’t see how dark his bruise really is, but you can kind of see each place that the needle stuck him.

This is a picture of Colton in the hospital after they gave him the anti-venom when we woke up up to make sure he could eat and drink, he is pretty drugged up though. They had to make sure his hand with the IV on it was wrapped really good and then put a sock over it to keep him from pulling it off, it didn’t stop him from trying to bite it off though! That is a blood pressure cuff on his leg.  About two seconds after this he went right back to sleep.

Any way this is a warning to any one else with babies who live in scorpion territory, Watch out! get a black light or spray for bugs or do both because I cannot tell you how scary it is to see your baby like that! Also… modern medicine is a miracle!!

Huge surprise!!!!

So Weldon and I found out over spring break that we are pregnant again. Yay! We weren’t expecting it, so it took a few days for us to get used to the idea, but last Wednesday we went in to the doctor and got our first ultrasound pictures. It is so crazy to me that even though we are just twelve weeks along there is totally a little person in there!! It helped make it more real for us and got us even more excited, a few more weeks and we get to find out if it is a boy or a girl. Any guesses?

More Catch up

Colton is learning more every day, things like how to put on Daddy’s stethoscope, and ‘talk’ on the phone!

And work on the computer.

Ok, really silly picture of my boy! I went into our bedroom to find that Colton had emptied out one of the drawers under our bed and had gotten in it, when I got the camera this is the face he gave me, then I got him out of the drawer, which he wasn’t too happy about and now he isn’t allowed unsupervised in our room because I don’t want him choking on anything.

Catching up

I know I have not posted in forever, sorry about that but with school and a busy little boy I haven’t had the time!! A lot has happened so I will just give the highlights.

A while ago Andrew and Jackie came to visit and we all went to the zoo. Weldon and I got to ride a camel. It was really weird, way different then a horse! Weldon had ridden one before in Indonesia, but it was a first for me! (Colton was too little to ride)

A Cute picture of the boys!

Colton in the sink at Auntie Cinda’s during spring break.

Colton learning how to walk and standing in our little fort. He is so funny when he walks because he thinks he needs his arm straight up in the air, he makes me laugh and you can tell he is just so proud of himself!

Birthday Boy!!

For Colton's 1st birthday we got him a little walking toy. At first he wasn't so sure about it and we didn't think that he really liked it, but then after he figured it out he decided it was really cool and wanted to play with it all day, the only problem was that when he would run into the wall he would yell because he was stuck, but if we tried to help him he would yell at us because he wanted to do it all by himself, so after a while the toy got put in his room with the door closed, mean I know to take a way his birthday present for a while, but he was getting pretty frusterated with it, the next day he learned how to kind of turn it, so it was a bit better. It is funny to watch him walk with it and watch those little legs moving as fast as they can to keep up with his body.

For his birthday I was going to make chocolate cupcakes because they make for good messy face pictures, but Weldon doesn't really like chocolate so I decided to make cheesecake because Colton wouldn't know the difference and because he can make a mess out of anything. Colton got to help me make the cheese cake and afterwards we gave him the spatula to lick, but he didn't like it for some reason, it made me worry he wouldn't like his cheesecake, but he did just fine. At first he just sat there and poked it but then he got the hang of it and I think even got some in his mouth. He touched the back of his neck and left a blueberry handprint that I thought was pretty cute. Any way it was a good day and we had lots of fun!

Fun Pictures

Here are some pictures we have taken recently of Colton and us. He is so fun. There are some pictures of him where he has pulled up on Weldon and I, then the last two are of him in the tub and helping Weldon get his bath ready.