Increasing our family

Yep you read right, we are increasing our family, LOL..........We have 2 more boys right now...........A friend of mine's little girl who was born 10 wks premature is back in the hospital really, really sick.........They say she has a cold but with the H1N1 it really makes you wonder.........So I have 2 of her boys......They are 4 and 22 mths........So that makes me have 6 kids at home right now......they are 9, 5, 4, 3, 22 mths and 6 mths......Oh boy they are keeping me on my toes.........Right now they are all chilling, Tanner and Tayler are laying on the floor with their blankies almost asleep and its almost 3 pm.........UGH.......Austin is asleep on the couch and Jace is asleep in the pack n play....I will take pics later and post them but my camera is in the suburban so I can't get to it right now because Kent isn't home and that means I have no keys........that butt head..............

6 mths 1 wk

(Jace turned completely around in his swing to kiss the fish on the back of the seat, YIKES)

(this is how Jace holds his bottle, just like a little monkey, lol)

Thats how old Jace is........According to the dr's developmental or adjusted age is 4 1/2 mths old..........So you tell this to him.........He is up on his hands and knees rocking back and forth (it won't be long before he is crawling) he has also cut his first tooth 2 days ago and is working on his second tooth.......however apparently this one is not bothering him as bad......he is also holding his own bottle now for the most part and its to funny how he does it..........he is seriously going to keep up with all the other kids......the only thing he isn't doing that a 6 mth old will is eat food.........His little tummy can not handle it and 2. he just can't handle the texture.......I will try again in a few weeks.........he didn't choke the last time but the gassiness that came along with it is not worth making my baby suffer.........so here are some pics that I have taken recently of him........ornery little stinker who is going to keep his momma on her toes.......

Austin

Austin got in trouble this afternoon, he is my comedian, smart butt child...........

So after his time out in his room............

He comes up to me and ask me to help button his pants........

He says "my friend is coming over" I said who is your friend (now mind you this is my 3 yr old and doesn't get out very much) he tells me Tracy.......I said ok (the only Tracy he knows of, lives in Colo and is not on her way here, though I think she might like a vacation right now) He goes on to say "Tracy's my friend".....I said she is, he says yep she has a boy, I said no she has 4 boys, he says yep and 1 girl..........Roflmbo...........Apparently momma's friend Tracy is coming to visit Austin because she has a little boy that needs a friend..........


Now for the smart allic child that I have..............

Yesterday he comes in the house........apparently someone stepped in the dog poo..........cause I asked him if he was poopy......He proceeds to turn around pull down his pants and underware..........And says "see"...........I got on to him for doing that but it was so hard not to laugh at him...............

Joshua and Alyssa's parent teacher conferences

Considering how she was just a few weeks ago at school........I was expecting the worst.........However I got the complete opposite......She has 1 A, 2 B's and 3 C's.........but the thing about these grades is she is getting absolutely no help from the special ed department, she is doing it all on her own, I am extremely proud of her.........She was excited knowing she can do it..........She is still having issues in math but if she would take the time to slow down she would do even better........I got her homework from her missing monday and tuesday and they didn't have school wednesday threw friday so she only had to miss 2 days.....but hey she has it almost done, all thats left is to clue the papers on her posterboard for her research project which is totally awesome..........


Joshua~He is doing very well.........He has mastered his math skills, he has mastered his phonological sounds only working on the short vowel sounds.......now his phonological awearness is lacking just a bit but he is doing awesome otherwise.........His teacher says that he will be reading in about 3 wks......I was shocked.......Ya know how much problems we had with Alyssa and now to have a child who is doing so well...........He is also doing first grade work.......They are working on sight words.........they do not get this until 1st grade.......We worked with Alyssa consistantly to get her on the sight words and needless to say she can see that Joshua has mastered the majority of them........WOOHOO........I knew he was smart.........but he hasn't showed his teacher his ornery side.........Just that he has very good selective hearing.........LOL

The flu

Has made its way into our home........YUCK!!!!  It is more than likely the swine flu but they won't test as they are having to many false negatives.........they just treat.........So all of us except Jace is on tamiflu............

Jace had an appt with the Nicu dr in the follow up clinic.........He still only weighs 13lbs 7oz..and is 25" long............They checked his developement and the only thing that he is not measuring on track for is his eating.......He chokes when I feed him something like cereal.......So his Neonatologist said try peas.......I want to laugh about that seriously.......that is to funny but this man has been a neonatalogist for 30+ years.........So I tend to think he knows what he is talking about.........So I tried Jace on baby food againist my better judgement, I didn't make it because a friend said that it could be that I am not getting the texture right for Jace........Guess what it worked.........Woohoo, he ate some sweet potatos and some pears last night and loved it......and didn't choke once......He is also getting up on his knees and trying to crawl...........Whoa nelly slow down...........you are not suppose to be doing this yet........His adjusted age is 4 and half months.........but you tell this kid he is suppose to not be doing stuff that a 6 mth old is...........Yea right...........

So anyways I mentioned to the dr that Jace had croup a couple of weeks ago and that 2 of my kids had the flu now.......He says nope, he had the flu and it just effected him like the croup.......which makes a whole lot of sense to me...........Anyways the next week which was last week, Kent got diagnosed with pneumonia.........OH JOY, this man has never had pneumonia but he has it know........and right after that Joshua starts complaining of a headache..........I didn't think anything of it, just thought he might be over stimulated from school/had a hard day.........and let it go cause he never said anything else after we got home.........Then on thursday he began to cough, nothing significant but enough that I just watched him closer.........And then on friday evening he tells me he has a sore throat.........OK.......thats just peachy, he just had his tonsils out........so I blew it off........Saturday he gets up, gets fully dressed including socks and shoes and puts on his pleather coat which is not exactly a light coat...........I asked him what he was doing, he says momma I'm freezing.............checked him for a temp and he didn't have one......so left him be........5 am the next morning he came into my bed around 5 am and he says momma I have headache and my throat hurts and he is crying.......I set up to give him some lovings and he is burning up..........Yep the fever hit............I treated him all day long for the fever and then Alyssa woke up the next day with the sore throat and headache, so I kept her home from school.........Jace had an appt for his 6 mth check up and shots.........I talked to the dr about them and because Joshua is running a fever they start the tamiflu and by the time I get home Alyssa is running a fever.........So another call to the dr and a trip to the pharmacy the following afternoon and by the time I get there Austin is sick with the fever, so now all 3 have it...........All of us are on tamiflu..........

When it rains it pours

Kent is finally getting over the pneumonia........Still has a lingering cough but at least it doesn't sound so wet now........We actually caught it as it started so we were lucky in that aspect..........So why can't the luck be passed on to our children..........The beginning of last week, I would say around tuesday, Joshua starts complaining of a headache......didn't think nothing about it but the next day he did the same thing.........I noted it but again nothing else was apparent......Same thing followed so I figured it was having something to do with school.......Nope the next day which was friday he did the same thing.......So about 4 days now of no fever just a headache, however he feels really really warm but the thermomoter shows no fever.........So I shrug it off as my hands must be cold....The next morning which was saturday, he laid around all day......He did get dressed.....He even put on his coat........He told me he was freezing........ok, it was chilly yesterday barely in the 50s.....but now he is complaining of a sore throat.........he wakes up this morning around 5 am comes crawling into my bed crying...........He says momma my head hurts......I went to give him a hug when I noticed he is burning up........I took his temp and its a 101...........So now he is running a fever, no energy when the fever is spiked, sore throat, and a headache........What now........Seriously what now.........the only thing that comes to mind is the flu..........This is not good........Jace has an appt tomorrow with the dr so I will call first thing in the morning and see if I can't get Joshua in to..................Life as a mom never slows down does it???  And when you have a semi-large family does every one get well and stay well??? 

Jace is teething, he almost has the tooth on the bottom in.....Amazing that he was born 6 wks early and he turns 6 mths old on tuesday which would make him 4 1/2 mths adjusted age and this kid is already trying to cut his teeth.......He scoots everywhere........Sissy and I are trying to help him with sitting up as he loves to do it......He is also trying to hold his bottle........He is doing a pretty good job at it to, LOL........I think he is going to be like Joshua.....Joshua was walking by 10 mths......He always had to keep up with his sissy.......He worshiped the ground she walked on and still does to a certain extent......Well Jace has his personality other than being as laid back as Joshua was...........I think Jace has decided he has all his brothers and sister to keep up with that he needs to get busy........Now if I can just get some weight on this kid...........He weighed the last time we were at the dr's office when he had croup 12 lbs 7 oz........he was just over 5 mths old then........here it is a couple of wks later I am willing to be he is only about 13 lbs.....he may surprise me.....He is wearing 0-3 mths pants and even some of them fall off of him........His shirts and oneies however are 3-6 mths because he needs the length.......He is littler then Alyssa was and I thought Alyssa was tiny.....

Ok now I am waiting on the other 2 to get sick.....I can seriously see it happening.......

Jace

Finally I get Jace smiling on camera......We were outside the other day while the horses were grazing in the yard.....He loved watching them and talking to everyone who would set there and listen to him.....He loves growling at everyone and everything.....