Wow, I haven't blogged in a LONG time, and I am so sorry about that!! Life just kind of snuck up on me and things got a bit crazy around here! There is never a dull moment when you have 4 kids. I'll try to to just a quick recap of the last few months here, hopefully it won't be too long!
MARCHNot much happened here since my last blog. The only big thing is we bought a brand new car! I am the proud new owner of a brand spanking new 2001 Chevy Traverse! I have been drooling over this car since last year when we first got pregnant with Aislinn. I'm so happy I was able to get the car that I wanted. I love it.
APRILThis was a pretty hectic month. For starters Josh went out of town on business for a week in Temple, Texas. I must say, it sucks being away from my husband for a week, but it's his only business trip every year. I can't really complain about that. Being former military and having also been married to someone in the military I'll gladly take 1 week, once a year. At Aislinns weight check the week Josh was gone the dr said she wanted to admit Aislinn to the hospital. I got pretty hysterical on her, there was no way I could do that. I wasn't about to leave my baby at the hospital by herself all day and night, and I couldn't keep all the kids with me. She agreed to wait til the following week when Josh got back.
Even tho Aislinn had some pretty decent weight gain between her appts, the following week her dr still insisted on admitting her to the hospital. The Kaiser hospital is about a 30-45 min drive from our house. Josh met up with me for lunch by the hospital and then we headed in. We had to do a minimum 72 hour stay, and instead of breastfeeding I had to pump and give it to her in a bottle. They weighed her every morning and kept track of how much she ate at every single feeding. They did a bunch of blood work and even a chest X-ray to check the size of her heart because they heard a slight murmur. She was put on a 4 hour schedule, so I would feed her the bottle of breastmilk, then the 5oz's of formula (mixed to 24 calorie) and then I would pump. Needless to say, by day 3 I was one tired momma. Josh stayed home with the kids, got the older 2 off to school every day, brought Riley to visit me for lunch every day, and cooked dinner even at home for the kids, he was truly amazing. After 72 hours they let us take her home. Final result....she's just small, and needs extra calories for whatever reason.
While we were at the hospital my brand new car was parked in their parking garage. Didn't move for 3 days. Some rude idiot (i am being polite here LOL) hit my car, dented the door and scrapped the paint off. I was SO mad. Luckily our insurance fixed it for us, but we had to pay a $500 deductible, which sucked, but was better then paying the whole thing. We filed a report with Kaiser and a hit and run report with the Fontana police department.
MAYHmmm, trying to remember what went on here. Both kids had projects for school. Jaidan had an animal project, she picked the common bottle nose dolphin. Dolphins are my favorite animal, so it was kind of neat to see her pick that animal without any influence from me. She had already picked her animal by time I found out about the project. Austin had to do a wax museum project about a person who influenced our history. He picked William Clark the explorer, from the Lewis and Clark expedition. We are related to William Clark on my dad's side of the family. I am 8th generation, so my kids are 9th generation. It was kinda crazy, Austin was printing out a picture of him and I looked over and realized...I have William Clarks nose! It's not a great nose (believe me lol) but it was kinda crazy to see that, especially with the huge generational gap.
Both Riley and Aislinn came down with pneumonia. That was not fun at all, I also had an upper respiratory infection at the same time. 2 weeks after Aislinn had pneumonia we had her 6 month well baby check. She gained a pound in just those 2 weeks! She was up to 10lbs 13.6ozs at her appt. Finally her dr has decided no more weight checks and said to just bring her back for her 9 month well baby check. Aislinn also started solids. I made some homemade sweet potatoes and she loved them. I'll post later about my baby food making adventures 8)
JUNEThe first weekend of June I had a PartyLite booth at the Beaumont Cherry Festival with my friend Jenifer. The kids and Josh came out that Saturday and I got the older 2 the unlimited wristbands for the carnival rides. It was a pretty good weekend, but VERY tiring with all the hours we had to be there.
The kids were in school until June 9th. Jaidan will be going on to 4th grade, and Austin is now officially a middle school student. We went to his elementary school graduation, and I was a good girl, I didn't cry! Tho I did come very close a few times lol. I can't believe my baby boy is in middle school, it feels like just yesterday he was going to school for the first time.
The week after school got out, we told the kids we were going to go see our friend Jill in Irvine. Little did they know when we got up at the butt crack of dawn on Monday morning that we were actually headed to Disneyland! We surprised the kids with 4 day hopper tickets to Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. We had a blast and had plenty of time to dedicate the last day to re-riding some of our favorite rides at both parks. It was also very tiring, but oh so worth it! I could really go on and on about Disney, maybe I will do a different post about it 8).
While we were at Disney a fire was raging outside of my hometown of Sierra Vista, AZ. Not sure how many of you have heard of it, it is the Monument Fire. It was very scary. I kept getting texts and calls from my mom and I was trying to follow it online. The friday after Disney my mom had to officially evacuate her home. Things got a bit crazy and a 2nd fire started on base and was heading into town, but they got that one contained. That Sunday, on Father's Day, the fire jumped the fire line and it went crazy. A very popular local restaurant was burned to the ground. At one point the fire jumped the highway. Before that it had been on the opposite side of the highway from my mom. The fire got within 1 block of my mom's house, but thanks to the wonderful firefighters they were able to stop the fire from jumping the road into her neighborhood. It was very heart wrenching to listen to the fire scanner and read online what was happening. Things died down after Sunday and have gotten much better in the last week, the last I heard the fire was 85% contained. So far I do have at least 1 friend who has lost their home.
Well there you have it, the last 3 months in a nutshell. I tried to keep it from getting too long. I hope to be blogging more now that summer is here and I should have a bit more time. I may not blog as much as before, but I will try very hard to stick around a bit more, I have missed blogging 8)
