RSV

Lyvi tested positive for RSV. These are all her meds she is on (pictured above). On Monday she woke up with a nasty cough and by the afternoon she was running a high fever, from there she just got worse. Lyvi is a busy body and not a cuddly baby at all, you know she is sick when all she wants to do is cuddle. She was so miserable. I finally got her into the doc on Thursday and yep she tested positive for RSV, she also had a bad ear infection and a touch of bronchitis. He put her on steroids and antibiotics. He said her sats are fine right now( 92%) and she is older, that is the good news. The bad news she is contagious for 10 more days and is now on 5 different prescription meds. We have to keep a close eye on her but she is doing so much better now. I am glad I got her in before she got worse and had to get admitted to the hospital. RSV can be so scary, she still has a nasty cough but hopefully the steroids will do the trick. Also, she lost those 2 pounds she put on and is back down to 14.1 pounds but she is eating better now so hopefully she will put it back on soon.

Valentine's Day Weekend

 These are the girls I got to spend Valentine's day with, it was AWESOME!
(yeah this was before we did hair)

 

Chantelle went to a sewing thing and Chelsea spent the whole day with us. Kami and Chelsea had so much fun playing together. They spent most of the day playing dress-up. I was worried they might get sick of each other but they did great.

We spent the morning with our traditional pink heart-shaped pancakes. Lyvi LOVES pancakes she eats at least two. Because it was a school day, Chelsea was coming over plus the fog we had a hectic morning.

After a nice visit with Chantelle we had a heart-shaped pizza for dinner, the goofy looking side is Kami's no cheese.

Valentine's Day was low key, we had plans to celebrate Saturday with it being a school night and all. We did have a good day though!

Friday Kami had her V-day party with her friends. Here is her cookie she made. I love the face!

Saturday I woke up feeling like crap. I hurt all over and had a massive headache, but I drugged up and we headed for the dog derby, big mistake. Turns out they started everything early and we completely missed the snowshoe races, the girls were bummed.They still enjoyed seeing all the dogs and the kid pull. Lyvi slept through the whole thing!

Here is a pic of one of the junior racers getting ready to head out. She is 11.

I spent the day on the couch and Ky tiled the fireplace.We completely missed our V-day date unless you count a movie on the couch while Ky rubbed my sore muscles! We were suppose to go dancing, I was really bummed!

After two days on the couch I am feeling better but still exhausted. I am glad we have a 3 day weekend, I am going to need it to recover! The girls are excited to go to the museum tomorrow and I am excited that we are going to finish the slate, yay! Even though V-day wasn't how we expected it turned out great, I was with my favorite people who could ask for more!

Normal?

Things just don't seem to slow down around here. I keep waiting for things to get back to "normal" but then I wonder if this is my "new normal", ugh I really hope not. Here are a few things we have been up to.

We finally got around to making some cake pops. They were so fun and yummy, can't wait to do more!

Kami passed off a bunch of her skills and earned her blue and black ribbons. They have been wanting to move her up to level one for awhile but the class I wanted was full...until recently. Now she goes the same time as Kaite and with her friend London. She is super excited!

I love to see this! The girls asked me if we could finish a movie we started the other night, but when I walked into the living room this is what I found. Everyone had their nose in a book and the TV was off! Every since we cancelled our dish I have found we don't miss it and the TV is hardly ever on, result: more books checked out from the library.

Also, me and Jen have been trying to get the costumes done for the Operetta, I think she thought I was kidding when I told her about my sewing skills! Nope, but I can cut stuff out! I can't wait until that project is done! They will looks so cute and Kaite is so excited.

The girls have been spending time with friends. Shae and Kenadee have both been over and Ash spent the Super Bowl with Kenadee at their party, those two are inseparable! Really they even go to the bathroom together at church! I love Kenadee though she is such a sweetheart! Ash was so worried about her the other day when they rolled their truck. I called the school to make sure she was okay (I think her teacher thought I was crazy or a helicopter mom), I found out later Ash cried when she heard about Kenadee. But we did go over that night and visit and make sure they were really okay, (they kept hugging each other), even though Shilo sent me a ton of messages reassuring us they were! Those girls are so silly and I am glad they have each other, and we are super glad they are all okay!

Lyvi has been so active. She won't hold still when I change her, the phase of trying to roll away with her diaper off! She is all over the house and already into everything she can get her hands on! And she eats everything in sight! She has started waving and saying "bye bye dada" it is so cute. Also, she is standing and pulling herself up on stuff. She is growing up so fast! Also, she has figured out how to clamp her mouth shut so I can't give her her medicine, but if I do get it in she spits it back at me! Oh her personality already! We are really enjoying her!

The rest of my week is totally crazy! I just wish the girls would stop growing up so fast.....

One of those days

It has been one of those days. You know the kind when you haven't slept well for the past two nights, even though you spent yesterday running around town and trying to find costume stuff (including a trip to winco) while trying to make it to the orthodontist on time! When you are on the phone with the doctors office telling them that Lyvi's dosage is just right and she pukes everywhere even out her nose, nope going to need to up her dosage. You have to go to the store twice (once during nap time) because you forgot to get everything the first time! You have to deal with the library and their ridiculous fees ($5 for a book one day late) because they "only check the drop box in the morning". And almost getting stuck in your driveway because you didn't realize it was blowing and were going to slow and had it in 2wd. But the best part is the older two aren't even home yet!!!!
Thank goodness for crock-pot at least dinner is done!

Kaite's Gymnastics Meet

A couple of weeks ago Kaite had her first gymnastics competition. This was the real thing with six other gyms coming in from around the area, there were so many kids! They split the meet up into two days and then into 5 different divisions. Kaite had 76 other girls competing in her time slot, it was a long meet but fun. She was so nervous but did great for her first one. She was miffed at me for forgetting to put glitter on her face....

Showing me her judges salute.

Since I videoed everything these are the snapshots of the video and are a little blurry.

She was up on bars first, she completed all her skills and didn't fall off once (a lot of other girls fell).

Then she was up on beam, she keeps her lines very clean and always has her toes pointed. She didn't fall off here either and most of the girls were, but you could tell she was super nervous.

Then floor, these pics didn't turn out as well, but this is her walk-over, toes still pointed. She completed her floor routine with her hair bow bouncing around and eventually falling out but she didn't let it distract her, stupid bow she doesn't have enough hair to keep it in but wanted to look like the other girls.

Since there were too many people and judges in the way I didn't get a clear shot of her vault. It really amazes me how much power she has for an eight year old. Her vaults were amazing and she scored an 8.5 on them, the average was in the 7's. I can't remember the rest of her scores, but nothing below a 7 on the other apparatuses.

Goofing around waiting for scores to come in.

She received her trophy and got three white ribbons and a red (for her vaults), way to go Kaite! I was watching her scores and she scored pretty high even higher than the older girls (they had them broke down by age too).

Posing with some teammates, ignore the place numbers they were just shooting a pic.

She loves her trophy and I am so proud of her. Next year when she jumps up to the real team she gets the long sleeve leo and the matching warm-up suit with her name on it. I thought these leos were so cute though! She did awesome and I am really impressed with how she is progressing, and check out her muscles on her arms!

 

After the meet we went to Costa Vida for some of their awesome nachos, Kaite LOVED them! Me and Ky found out it was nice to be out with just the older two, it was a big change.

8 Months

Lyvi is 8 months old today, I really can't believe it! She is getting just so cute! I love this picture of her above, she has the cutest face. Lyvi is up to 15.8 pounds, this is such an improvement. Lyvi has always been on the smaller side. She was in the 10th percentile at her six month visit, but when I took her in for another visit she had dropped down to the 2nd percentile and lost a pound. She is a huge eater she has progressed very quickly. Lyvi loves real food and is at the point that she is eating everything from the table, woohoo no more baby food. Thursday she had chicken pot pie, pears, and stuffing mix with us. Her dexterity has really improved and she can pick up food off her tray or out of my fingers with her thumb and pointer finger. She loves to eat what we are eating, she loves banana muffins and green beans (real ones not baby food from a jar). So she has a very healthy appetite, but she has had problems keeping it down. I took her in two weeks ago, I was just so sick of all the vomiting. He said she had reflux which is something we already knew but hoped she would grow out of. He put her on some zantac and reglan and the first three days we didn't have any vomiting it was so nice! Since then we have had to increase her dosages but it seems to be working since she has put on almost two pounds! She is starting to look so chunky I love it.

She is also talking up a storm. She waves and says hi. She says "more", "baba" for bottle, "dada", and finally "mama". She also signs drink and food. She is just so stinkin cute and loves her family. Her separation anxiety has gotten really bad, she cries when I leave the room. She still loves to be in her walker and is getting into stuff. She grabbed my vase and threw it on the floor one day, it didn't break. She will also watch us over her shoulder and when we aren't looking she goes for my plant, she likes to eat it. We have had to fashion a blockade so she can't get to it. Now that she isn't vomiting when she leans over she loves to be on the floor now and is starting to think about crawling, I give her a couple of weeks. She is the best sleeper, she takes a 3 1/2 to 4 hour nap during the day and sleeps 11-13 hours at night! I think she is getting her top teeth although she acts like she is getting molars the way she chews on everything. I can't believe she is already eight months old, she is growing up fast. We love her so much!!!

Check out her cute teeth below.

Update

Okay since Christmas we have been extremely busy catching up on everything that got pushed back cause of the holidays, but we have had tons of fun too. 

While the girls were home we busted out the sled and Lyvi got her first ride on a snowmobile. She seemed to like it, but she was more interested in Sam then actually sledding.

Kami loved every minute of it and bugs us daily about getting it out again.

This is a scary sight! Already trying to drive like the speed demon she is (Kaite)!

Throwing snow, silly girl.

After a couple of times out they learned a few new tricks. Now they are using my ski goggles to ride, I know these aren't pics with the goggles haven't gotten any of those yet.

Ky took the girls out for a night time ride last week and him and Kami saw the porcupine walking around (more on him later) it has been all she can talk about and she will never forget it. She was the only one who liked the night time riding, Kaite got too cold and Ash wouldn't even go.

Kami modeling one of her new Christmas outfits.

The girls like to sled down the little hill Ky made them with the snow blower, they had all three of them on the sled in this pic.

My new kitchen faucet Ky installed. The other one just started leaking all of a sudden and lots too so this is a belated Christmas present(?).

Gorgeous sunrise.

Ash was student of the day and wanted to take a pic of Sam to school, look how big he has gotten!

We rang in the New Year watching the ball drop. We were watching it live EST on the computer and our connection got slow or something and it went from 16 seconds to "Happy New Year", Kaite was devastated! This was her first year staying up to watch the ball drop and she was so excited, thank goodness for you tube! 

Ash has been having fun with her camera. She took pics and video of the ball dropping.

She has also been taking pics and videos of her and her friends.

Kenadee

And one of the best new years presents....Lily came for a visit. The girls got to spend the day together. They ate lunch at Stacey's (one of the best teachers ever) and went sledding/snowmobiling all afternoon. I had a nice visit with Lori (it was so good to see her) and we are hoping they can move back after her husband graduates next August!

It has been super crazy but we have been having some fun, and really making sure that happens. Ky started back at school three weeks ago (11weeks to go). He was able to get on fast grad and will definitely graduate in December with both degrees. So far this semester seems much better than previous ones, he still has 18 credits but the classes are better. The next two semesters are only 12 and 13 credit semesters, but he has to take 14 to get his scholarships. We set it up so he is able to work full time (hopefully with the city) and finish up school. Also, I have started tax stuff (always a headache) and I am helping with Kaite's operetta, but this time I stuck with costumes. I would have loved to have choreographed another dance but with Ky in school and the baby there is no way I have time to do that. Kaite had her first gymnastics meet last weekend which will be one of my next posts and Lyvi is 8 months on Saturday. Always something to do....


*****I forgot to add how things really do come in threes. I have always known this and it is completely true, I saw it time and time again at the hospital codes always come in threes, and you never have just one crashing patient it is always three. Anyways, before Christmas it was my vacuum, then the faucet, and finally my fuel pump in my Tahoe (on New Year's eve). So we should be good right? Except that when the furnace was being serviced a couple of weeks ago we found out it was recalled due to the heat exchange spontaneously getting holes in it my response was "well that's not what you want". So on Monday we got a new furnace, but since we are on a weatherization program they did it for free!!! Can't beat that. The new one has more btu's and is half the size, the other one was huge with a cast iron bottom. This new one is also super quiet, the old one sounded like our house was going to take flight!! So does that count towards the threes?? I really hope not.