2 months old

I don't know about you guys but our family does not do mornings well! This morning we had Tyler's 2 month check up at 9:50 you would think that we could get out of the house just fine by then, OH NO! We where doing well for time when we lost power at 9:30, the kids thought it was kind cool to live the way our Amish friends live for a few hours until we couldn't get out of our garage! I knew we had to pull the cord in the garage to get the door open , but little do I know that the cord is still wrapped around the top on the opener from when I was try to shoo out a hummingbird a few years ago, still not to frazzled I tell the kids to get buckled up and I will get on the van to get the cord untangled. I manage to get the cord untangled and have I now have the whole cord in my hand not attached to anything! Great!!! Everyone out of the car! I am now getting frazzled call Derick and ask him to come home so I can get to the doctor (late of course) and he can fix the door while I am gone! While waiting for Derick to come Tyler manages to poop his pants and the girls decide they are hungry and need to eat NOW!!! I now an thinking maybe 3 kids is more then enough for me!

At the doctor Tyler weighed in at 13lb and 9 oz. and 24 and 1/4 long. He remains in the 90% for both height and weight. Tyler is staring to coo at us and he smiles a ton, but when he wants to eat or sleep watch out he will let you know!!!

Rileigh and Annika continue you to enjoy Tyler (sometimes to much) Annika is always in his face and Rileigh is always trying to move him. At least they don't want to send him back!

Toothless Tony

As you can see Rileigh has now lost her front two teeth, Thank goodness we don't have to get pictures done for a while! Rileigh has had a good time grossing me out with turning her tooth backwards and showing me how loose they get and so on. I am convinced she does it so I bribe her to just pull the tooth out because I can't stand looking at it any more!

Not to much new here. I managed to get strep throat last week and thankfully no one else got it from me! Annika was sick last week for about an hour, (I have no idea what that is about.) Rileigh and Annika have now learned the art of faking sickness ( I wonder where they got that from!!) If they decide that they don't like what we are having for dinner they will start to hold there tummies and say they don't feel good, and unfortunately in the past week it's hard to know if they are serious or not with everything going around!! I always know they are just fine when as soon as I clear the table they ask for a snack!! Drives me nuts!

Tyler is a new boy!! The soy seems to be doing the trick! He no longer trashes around after his bottles, instead he will just look at us and give us a huge smile!!! He is so much better then just a week ago! Praise the Lord!

Big Boy

Today we went for Tyler's 1 month check up, he is now up to 12lbs and 4 oz! The nurse informed me that he was above average for his height and weight for even a 2 month old! I knew we had an overachiever! He also gave me a prescription for his reflux if the soy doesn't seem to do the trick! Hopefully we don't have to but him on the medicine but if that's what it takes for him to feel better I will not think twice about it!

First Trip to Indiana

Today I took the kids to Indiana along with my Dad and Mary to go meet the Millers! Rileigh and Annika have been "packing" for 2 days to go, I was just praying that neither of the girls would mention to them that there dad made a Mii on the Wii of Mr. Miller, I am not sure what they would think of that. The whole way there Annika kept asking if we were almost there yet but all together they did well on the way down. We got there about 2:30 and showed them around the girls wanted to go see the horses and it so happened that one of their horses had just had a baby last month so Rileigh got a kick out of that ( Annika was a little scared of them) On the way home we stopped at the Dutch Essenhouse for dinner and that is when Annika started to act up of course (no nap so what did I expect) Thankfully Grandpa and Grandma where there to wipe up so sad sad tears! I don't know about you guys but the more tiered my kids get the faster and louder they get! I think Grandpa and Grandma where happy to get out of the van! We keep telling my dad you don't need hearing aids you will be driven nuts if you could hear the full magnitude of these kids voices!! Tyler did amazingly well on the trip and altogether I we had a good time! I think I am getting ready to go down and start working in two weeks I think I will be ready for a little time away!