Loving it!

I really need to start writing on here more! I really want to do this, so when the kids are older they can come here and read about what life was like when they were little! Well life is BUSY, so I dont get the chance to write as often as I would like! I am on Spring Break this week and looking forward to not having to worry about school. Now I just have to worry about getting the kitchen finished! It is coming along...which is very exciting! It is a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. Home is so much more enjoyable when it is a place you love and worked hard to get it that way! The weather has been amazing! It is amazing the affect the weather can have on your mood! Yesterday was beautiful! We went to check the cows as a family and it was so peaceful! Just driving in the country with the windows down! I love it! The kids are doing good. Jameson is his usually crazy self. That boy...I tell you is going to give me a heart attack before the age of 25! He is just ALL BOY! times 100! We got him little rain boots like Jonathans... they are super cute! So we took him outside the other evening when we were grilling out and he went nuts!!!!!! Running all over the place stomping and splashing in the puddles! He was in heaven I think! We are most def gonna have to get a fence because he has no desire to stay close to us at all. He wants to go and explore and he dosent care if we are there are not! We are going to have to keep a very close eye on that one...! I feel bad because he spends most of the time we are at home during the day looking out the windows! He rotates from one to the other...yelling daddy daddy! or doggy or kitty if he sees one! He wants to be outside so bad! And this summer he will have plenty of time out there! He will be able to hang out with Jon and we plan on getting a little pool so we can be outside alot! I cant wait! Miss Alivia is growing like a weed! I cant believe it! She has gone through another growth spurt and it makes me sad because she isnt a "baby" anymore! She is rolling all over the place! Always wanting to be on her belly.... And she is drooling and chewing like crazy so we think a tooth is coming soon... Jameson got his first tooth the day he turned 6 months.... That will be April 6th for Alivia... so we will see, but I am thinking it is coming! Lately she has been staring at her big brother alot! She seems to be amazed by him! It is adorable! She just looks at him and smiles....like she thinks he is the coolest thing ever... which to her, I am sure he is! What an entertainment he is for sure! Last night we didnt get much sleep! Jameson woke up at about 3 am... wide awake for some reason.... So he just played in our bed for a couple of hours which was fun! NOT! haha... by the time he went back to sleep Alivia was awake! I was like my goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today the kids and I were lazy! We just hung out in our pjs all day! It was nice! When Jon got home we went into Davenport to do some running around.... I hope the weather is nice tomorrow...I want to take the babes to the park! Nightnight!

Yay for March!!!!!!!

This week has been busy! I had school on Tuesday and Thursday, the kids had shots and dr. apts on Wednesday, and we have almost successfully installed our kitchen floor! Well Jon has anyways! It makes it hard because the kitchen is not exactly usuable, so we have been basically living upstairs.... So we out out an old comforter on the bed and have a picnic! haha.... We had Happy Joes taco pizza in bed the other night and it was sooo much fun! Jameson had a blast! And made a huge mess! but it was worth it! I love our new floor! I have been waiting for it for 2 years!! Now we just have to decide on colors for the cabinets, walls, backsplash etc. which is driving me bonkers because I cant make a decision, as usual. We also really need new appliances.... Ours are really really old! Like since Jonathan was a kid old! But that is not going to happen anytime soon with everything else we have been doing around our house. Alivia's room is completely done and it is SO adorable! I love it! Next we are painting the bedroom and then we have the bathroom to do still and some paint touch ups here and there and hopefully some carpet in the living room which is much needed for the kiddos. AND our flatscreen TV in the living room just broke :( Which we are very upset about because we just got it a little over a year ago, but of course we only had a 1 year warranty on it... So that really stinks. We need a money tree to appear in the back yard! I WISH! The kids are doing good! Alivia started rolling over both ways-front to back and back to front. She is getting to be such a big girl :( I cant believe it. 5 months!! Where have they gone!?? And Jameson has been a crab. He is cutting all four of his "fang teeth" at the same time :( Poor Bubba... I know that must be very painful! He is turning into quit the talker. His favorite words are... of course DADDY! DOGGGY...KITTY...BALL! He wakes up every morning and walks around to all of the windows yelling DADDY! DOGGY! DADDY! DOGGY! haha... It melts my heart! He LOVES his daddy! They are best friends! He will get his coat and take it to the door when Jon is getting ready to go outside and work! I love them! I love my family! Buh bye!

Lovely Sunday ;)

Yesterday was a good day aside from the whole tooth fiasco..... Aunt Charley came to visit and then we went shopping with our cute baby girls. I needed it... Charley is my favorite shopping partner because she is just as bad as me about buying clothes for our babies.....! Plus she is fun to hang out with and a good listener ;) I love her! We had a very relaxing evening and the babies were so good! They must have known we were buying lots of stuff for them;) When I got home it was late and Jameson and Jon were sleeping. That made me a little sad because I missed them both and wanted to see them! We had plans to go to church this morning, but didnt end up making it... we slept in and didnt have time to get everyone ready :( I was so excited to go too. I have been wanting to try this church for a while... Its called "new hope" in Moline. I really want our family to start going to church together! We went out for breakfast instead! Aunt Charley and Makenna came and met us there and ate too! After that we came home and it was nearing nap time. Alivia went right to sleep, but Jameson was being a stink. So I eventually gave up when Aunt Charley, Aunt Gina, and Makenna came to visit. Jameson is SOOO funny with Makenna... He tries to play with her like he plays with his dad. He wants to wrestle with her and she just runs away! It is funny. Then he gives her lots of hugs and kisses ;) He loves her;) I think she thinks he is annoying though! haha~! I think they just need to spend more time together... So they will be pals! After they left Jameson and I played until Miss Alivia woke up. Then we hung out in her roon, while I put her curtains up. They are super cute! Jameson climbed up the chair and into Alivia's crib! I was like YIKES! He kept trying to give her hugs...AKA smothering her.... so I took him out!... I turned my back and of course, 2 seconds later he was in there again! Before I could grab him, he basically did a nose dive out of the crib and face planted into the floor! I was like OMG he broke his neck!!!!!! That is what it looked like... but he was fine... That boy is going to give me a heart attack soon.. ! He needs to slow it down, but I know that is not going to happen anytime soon so I just need to get used to it! Tonight was tubby night, so I gave both of them their baths and they both went to sleep early! Very sleepy babies! I am still so sad about Jameson's tooth... ! I feel like I am in mourning! haha... I just need to get used to it... Everytime I think about it I get a sick feeling in my stomach! bah! I just wish I could go back in time and make that not happen!

Jameson knocked out his front tooth!

Today is a sad day :( Jameson was climbing up on the kitchen chair and he slipped at his his mouth on the side of the chair and knocked out his front tooth..... He cried and it bled really bad, but after a few minutes he was fine like nothing even happened. Me on he other hand... I am devestated :( I feel like it could have been prevented if I was watching him better. He is just all boy and a million miles a minute. I feel so awful. I am sad because he is not going to have a front tooth until his permanent one grows in.... I just feel like he is going to look funny :( My poor baby... We called the dentist and they said it does more harm than good to try and put it back in.... So he is just going to be missing a front tooth for the next 5 or so years or whenever their adult teeth grow in... Ugh... I just really really wish this wouldnt have happened. I just keep telling myself that at least it is not something more serious. At least he is still a healthy little boy. I know I am totally overreacting, but I cant help it. I just feel so bad.

Sick Day 7 :(

It has been a week today since Alivia first got sick :( This is no fun at all. Alivia is mostly better she still has a bad cough, but she is a ton better than she was. & fever free, which is wonderful ;) Jameson on the other hand is not doing so well still. This will day #4 with a fever :( If it continues tomorrow we are going to take him back to the doctor because that scares me. He still has a bad cough, fever, will not eat, very cranky and tired, but can't sleep well because of the steroids. They make him edgy and restless. He was up til after midnight last night. He was in the bed with me because Jonathan fell asleep in the chair in Alivia's room. It was funny;) Jameson was being so silly, you could tell he was just so overly tired it was making him loopy. He kept trying to say DOG, but he dosent quite have the G sound, so he was saying DOOOO, over and over and over. It was hilarious. And then he said kitty and JJ!! It was so excited and adorable and cute. This morning he said SNOW too! He is growing up way to fast. It is bittersweet. So is Alivia. She laughed for the first time today ;) Priceless. And she was doing this spitting thing. Spitting and blowing bubbles and making cute noises. She melts my heart ;) Today I stayed home from school to take care of them. Alivia had a really good day. Jameson just wanted to be held all day. He was a big crab! This afternoon I gave Alivia a bath and went to get her clothes on and when I went back in the bathroom Jameson had taken all of the folded towels and thrown them in the bath water! I was like you little turd! It was a fun mess to clean up. There was like 10 towels submerged in water, which makes them very heavy! I had to wring each one of them out and out them in the washer! So that was the excitement of the day! Jameson also does this new thing where he always wants to walk in between my legs! I will be walking and he comes up behind me and goes right through! It is funny..... He makes everyday so bright even when he is a big crab. i just wish i could make him feel better, I hate feeling helpless! Hopefully tomorrow he is feeling better! And I hope we get some sleep tonight! Alivia is used to being up in the middle of the night from being sick and Jameson has been up off and on for the past few nights.

Owie day :(

Today was a terrible, no good, very bad day for my monkey! First thing this morning he was climbing around and fell off the little night stand dresser thing and hit his back on the corner of these step things. It left a big scratch across his back. Ouch! Then I was doing dishes and he climbed up on the kitchen table chair and it tipped over. He hit his nose and mouth on the counter and then again on the cabinets. That was a BAD ONE! He was screaming bloody murder and there was blood everywhere! He had a bloody nose, lip, gum, and tongue. It was awful. I was holding him and their was blood all over my shirt... I felt so bad for him. I though he needed to go to the hospital, but once the bleeding stopped, we saw it was only a cut on the inside of his lip. THEN.... he was trying to get something out of a drawer and he was shoveing his arm down in it and then he fell and his arm was caught and bending all wrong. I though he broke it :( AND THEN.... I was getting his bath ready and he reached in and lost his balance and fell in head first with all of his clothes on and hit his head really hard! TALK ABOUT A BAD DAY! I am sure he is sore :( So we have been keeping him tylenol'd all day. Poor monkey. It makes me feel like a bad mommy, but I dont know how I can prevent these things from happening.. He is just 1,000 miles a minute, never stopping, and never looking down! ALL BOY!!!!!!!!!!!! for sure. Alivia Mary-Kate is feeling much much better today.. FINALLY! She was so good this morning! She watched cartoons and we played on her bedroom floor and worked on rolling over! She is very close! They both took naps at the same time today which was great. I relaxed and when Jon got home I went to target and walmart to get diapers and what not. It was snowing like crazy, so it was not fun at all. You can tell Alivia is feeling better b/c she has been eating like a horse. If only we could get Jameson to eat... He will not. He still dosent feel good at all. All he wants is to be held :( I am hoping they both sleep through the night tonight! I could really use some sleep! Especially with school tomorrow! Although I am hoping it keeps snowing so it will be a snow day!!!!!!!!

Sick Madness!!

Well the past few days have been very hard and stressful on me, but I am sure much worse for my sick lil ones :( It all started last Tuesday... I dropped them off at daycare and when I went to pick them up they told me that Alivia had a terrible cough.... We cam home and she took a very long nap and when she woke up her temp was 102.5 *yikes*... I gave her tylenol and it went down, but she still had an awful cough. Wednesday the cough and low grade fever continued. I did not take her to the doctor b/c I figured they would just tell me it was a cold and there was nothing they could do, like they normally do. By Wednesday night we knew it was more than just a cold, so I took her to the doctor on Thurday morning. We had- had the same Dr. at Medical Associates since Jameson was born... Dr. David... she was the Dr. on call at the hospital the day he was born and we liked her so much we stuck with her after. She was a amazing. Very caring and always took the time to explain things to us. She moved away right after Alivia was born and it really made us sad. We switched to Dr. Neeru and she has been nothing but awful. Always rushing us and not very friendly. I took Alivia there on Thursday. Like always Dr. Neeru seemed to be in a hurry. She was certain Alivia had a virus that was making her have a cough and fever. There was one going around that makes the eyes all goopy and causes a cough, fever, runny nose etc. ... so she prescribes us eye drops and sent us on our way. I kept asking her, "are you sure?, she sounds really congested" and she listened again and said yes, but that she wanted to see us back on Monday. Meanwhile in my head I knew there was something more wrong than just some virus. She handed me a paper on RSV, and I was thinking if she is going to hand me a paper about it, shouldnt she do the test, if that is in the back of her mind?! So we went home and I knew this wasnt right. Alivia could barely breath... she was so congested and was throwing up b/c she was coughing so hard. By this time Jameson started in with the coughing and fever too. We took them both to go see Dr. Peterson (jon knew him from grand mound) the next morning. This would have been Friday. We were in the waiting room and Alivia was coughing so hard she was throwing up and turning bright red, so they took us back right away. They could not believe that we got sent home the day before and that she did not do an RSV test. Dr. Peterson knew right away that is what it was. We had to go to the hospital to get a test just to be sure, and it was positive. Jon and I were so angry that we got sent home the day before. Not even 24 hours later our little girl tested positive for rsv. Babies die from this, so we were very upset with our old doctor. If we would have listened to her, something bad could have happened. It makes you wonder how many other patients she sent home with RSV. Dr. Peterson prescribed both Jameson and Alivia steriods and breathing treatments and gave Alivia an antibiotic also. Thank goodness for him! So the past couple of days have been hectic. Doing breathing treatments, giving them their medicinces, and just trying to give them the attention they need since they dont feel good. Alivia has been doing really good. She is so happy even though she does not feel good. Although she is barely sleeping at night since that is when the coughing is at it's worst. Jameson is very crabby and needs alot of attention. He wants to be held alot and is very tired, but cannot sleep well because of the steriods. I am very stressed out right now. It is alot to take care of 2 very sick babies, plus keep the house half way clean, and keep up on my homework. Jonathan has been wonderful helping me out. I am thankful to have him.