Just hanging out

Sometimes...just sometimes...I think my kids are backwards. Mia playing with toy trucks here....and later you will see Vincent and......Getting ready to crawl...just bouncing back n forth.
A truck like Daddy's work one

and Vincent....and my bright pink high heels!

Dress up I guess

At the carnival with the Weitzel's...chug chug choo choo

Vroom vroom Kenadee and Vincent are racing

Ah....I think he might be putting the Marcello moves on.....

Fishing....

Cooper, Kenadee and Vincent's fishing prizes

The baby-ball carrier while they all go on rides

Cheese.....

A slide ride with Nikki

Attempt at family pics at the Carnival

Nikki and Mia

Boat n time is here...Mia's first time on the Weitzel boat.

The life jacket...is too tight...she can't move...fat girl in a little suit!

Vincent and Kenadee enjoying the boat

Mommy and Mia

Feeling the wind in their hair.

Family

Working outside with Papa

Caden and Mia

Unkie Jay, Aunt Emily, Caden and Mia

So cute....

Aunt Hannah and Mia

Cheese...

Papa and Mia

Nice Day!

What a beautiful day. We decided to take advantage of it and play outside. Mia sat in her pool for a very brief moment...basically until we put the cold cold water in! Vincent playing with the water
Filling up Mia's pool

Crawling up the tunnels

While we were at Nana and Papa's house visiting. Vincent decided to help Nana cut onion...his eyes ouchie.....

Get it out mommy....

Time with Greats!

Great Grandpa and Mia...so comfy in his arm....Great Grandma and Mia playing around
Great Grandpa playing outside...
Eyes for Great Grandma

Something was funny........

Peek-a-boo

I was getting ready the other day...and placed Mia on my floor playing with some toys...the next thing I look over and she has scooted herself back underneath my bed.and the further she goes....
where are you going Mia?

and then she is gone...no trace of Mia...

and the NEWS....

The good news.....Chris comes home late Thursday night and we can not wait. It has been a long 3 weeks without him and we or I am dreading this upcoming deployment. The whole time he was gone Mia has been fighting an ear infection. After numerous medications...Suprax ( strong antibiotic) did not help we tried a mixture of Augmentin and Clindamycin ( I think) she hated the taste of them..and then on top of that would throw up a lot of feedings...so back to the doctor after 4 days of that. Ears bright red, bulging and pus...oh yeah! So the sleepless nights continue. Dr. Paradis ordered Rocephin shots...a shot in each leg for 3 days. OUCH!!! They said it is like glue going in the muscle. YIKES...I feel for my little girl. I just want her better though. We finally got the approval for the ENT office/Tube placement today...I can't wait. The main hold up now is she has to be wheezing free for 2+ weeks. We up'd her pulmicort dosage to get her better...hopefully to wean down soon.
As for the Vincent we put him back on some asthma medication and he is back to running around and around and around. He has so much darn energy. He has been constantly making me laugh. Just the other day he was saying "watch mommy, watch" so I look at him and he keeps repeating himself until I say I'm watching a couple of times. Well later I was saying it but not looking...(he was doing the same thing over and over and over) that he then proceeded to say "watch mommy watch...watch TAMI watch....Watch TAMI WATCH!" what the heck...great he knows my name. He got to play with water outside at school the other day and now its water every day outside...he wants to potty train so hopefully this will now work...being outside we don't have to worry as much. He loves wearing his underwear, he actually says no diaper...underwear. And so far has only wet a little bit in them...after wearing them for approx 6 ish hours. Guess I just need to do it.

It's Official

It's Official....Chris and I create the most allergy/asthma prone kids....why is that????? We had another doctor visit yesterday, the kids just didn't seem to be improving, actually they were the opposite. First lets talk Vincent. He was on a trial off his Advair inhaler....FAILED! I'm not sure if you would have failed if he hadn't had a cold with this trial. The doctor said it would be okay to do the two at the same time...I should have gone with my gut instinct and just waited till the cold was over...but oops! So here's the story. He has been coughing more and more and more... a barky cough with occasionally productive cough...but it use to just be a few coughs and done. Well yesterday and the day before he would start coughing and not be able to stop...resulting in a small amount of emesis with it. Oh yeah! It started happening more...and his hands were getting dusky...so give in! Yesterday he blessed me with a coughing attack on the way to the store...and yep you guessed it, vomit in the carseat....YES just want a sleep deprived mom wanted. Oh yeah...sleep deprived lets talk about that for a few. Chris is gone at guards...so I get to have fun with sick kids. Tuesday night Vin was sick...hurt belly...hurt belly. I think it was from the coughing...but not sure. All night long...hurt belly....hurt back...hurt hurt hurt...I think we were up hourly till midnight and then every 2 after that. We can't forget Mia...in between his sleep periods Mia needed her attention...that left me with a whooping 3 hours of sleep. Little cranky was I when we had to run to the store for groceries...okay enough venting. Back to Vincent. So he is now on Flovent a step down inhaler for asthma, and we are hoping to get over this soon and not need steroid to help him over the hump.
Now on too Miss Mia.....as you most know she had fluid in her ear last week, not infected but could possibly become infected with the sinus cold she had. Her previous ear infection I learned because she stopped sleeping at night and needed to be nursed back to sleep. She had had mixed sleep being at my parents house and then back to our house, so I gave it a little longer. She however in the meantime at my parents started having a rattlely chest...I said it was upper congestion from the sinus drainage (probably was) she would clear after she coughed. On Tuesday she started to wheeze as well. So since again...she needs to be seen. Her ears are now red...oh yeah...infections are what we love, and wheezing...I guess maybe worse than I had thought. She is now on Suprax (antibiotic), steriods, singulair (prevention med for asthma/allergy) albuterol nebulizer treatments as needed and we added pulmicort nebulizer treatments now to help prevent this from occuring again. Dr. stressed we need her tubes...just waiting on the the insurance approval. Doc gave us the wonderful news that Mia looks to be following in Vincent's footsteps....what the.......... How can our kids have so much asthma/allergy problems when we don't have a strong family trait of this.... so I have decided to have our house tested for molds, radon....and anything else anyone tells me.

March of Dimes Prematurity Walk

Leela, Me, Vincent, Nikki, Cooper and Kenadee waiting to start the walk for babies
Mommy and Vincent

Vinfent getting his tattoo by the clown.

Checking out the clown.

The tattoo.

Our train ride....it lasted FOREVER!

Vincent in the Fire Truck

The newest members of the Fire Department!