Halloween

Pictures from Hubers

Life gets away from me

Some times life just flies by and I realize it's almost Thanksgiving and I haven't written anything in awhile. The girls are growing like weeds. Everyday I am more in love with the both of them.

R is now 18 months. Just had her check up recently and is average across the board for weight and height. She's talking up a storm but some things only we understand.

• Her BA is her blankie. And we hear BA a lot around her. She looks like Linus carrying around BA.


• There are the usual MaMa, DaDa, Bye, Hi.


• A new addition is No along with Ouch.


• C is Sisa


• She's starting to learn the grandparents and can say Nana and Papa. Granny and Grumpy are a little more difficult.


• Animals are Duck, Woof-Woof, Oink.


• She's also started saying, "I poop" even if she has only peed. Which is good either way.

Most days she's a pretty affectionate and happy little girl. Hugs and kisses abound. She can play by herself for awhile and loves C's doll house more than C ever did. Oh and Elmo. Girl loves, loves, loves ELBOW. She also loves doing anything and everything her big sister does. I expect that might continue to be a problem as she grows up.

She also can have her not so great toddler moments. Most stem from not getting her way and getting to do something her sister gets to do. And when she's unhappy, she's very unhappy and will let you know it. Thankfully she's happy more often than not.

C is my "Big GURL" as she likes to call herself. So smart and funny. We're working on letters and numbers. She'll rattle things off sometimes and I am not sure how she knows what she does. Definitely our creative girl who likes to write and draw all the time. Reminds me of me.

She'll dance and sing all around the house. Kicking her leg out and twirling around. She'd also prefer to be outside more than inside. Loves riding her bike and scooter and swinging. She could swing for hours.

We're still working on her not tackling her sister when she hugs her. Also working on R not pulling chunks of her hair out when she does that. Sisterly love.

Overall we are all well. Life continues to go on and the girls continue to grow even if I don't write.

Hallowee Party at School

Can't get anymore pictures to upload. Will try later.

What a week

This last week was a crazy mess. Miss R came home on Thursday with a temperature. There was an outbreak of hand, foot, mouth at school. She wasn't showing any other symptoms but the fever and had never had HFM before so we weren't sure if she had it or not.

Then Miss C broke her arm.

I had planned on being out of town with Dawn and Mom for a scrapbooking trip so SP kept the girls on Friday and took them to Nana and Papa's on Saturday so he could go to Kings Island. He started feeling bad on Saturday and by Monday he'd been diagnosed with Influenza A.

By this time Miss R's mouth had fully broken out with the sores indicating HFM. C was still in her splint and Paul was contagious. I had been lysoling and cloroxing the house trying to keep us all from getting sick. We were able to get the girls a prescription for Tamiflu along with SP.

Tuesday afternoon I started feeling achey and ended up in the Immediate Care Center. Tests for strep and flu were negative but I felt horrible. Thankfully my Mom and Nana and Papa were able to step up and help us with the girls. SP and I were in no shape to be taking care of them and I was so worried they'd get sick.

Now it's Friday and we are on the med. I missed two days of work but never had a fever. I ached all over, and was a sweaty mess. Paul spent multiple days in bed. R recovered rom HFM. C never got sick but did get her lovely new purple cast.

What a week.

Broke

Last week while playing at Granny and Grumpy's with her cousin Mia Miss C fell off the glider and hurt her arm. Grumpy thought almost immediately that it might be broken. We applied ice, called the doctor and made sure she could move everything. After a restless night of sleep it was clear that we needed to go get her checked so I loaded her into the car and too her to the K*sair facility by our house.

I am not going to lie, I was freaked out. I have never broken anything before. Never experienced that kind of pain. Never worn a cast. It's all foreign to me. And taking her knowing it was a strong possibility made me super anxious. That and she seemed so tiny and small.

They were great at the Emergency Department. It was a perfect experience for a little girl in pain and her anxious mother. They did everything right from the movies they let her watch to the doll, "Brokey" that they used to show her how her arm would be splinted.

We left that day in a bright pink split with a fractured radius and ulna. I was super proud of my little girl who was so brave.

This is sculpture of 3 baby bears and their momma bear. The sculpture is outside the children's facility and was donated by a work friend's family.


After a week in the pink splint we got the official purple cast on Mommy's birthday. When we got home we decorated it and signed our names on it. 3 weeks in the cast is what they are telling us. Cross your fingers.

Pumpkin pickin

Took the girls to the pumpkin patch to get some pumpkins for Halloween. They had a blast. It was the perfect day and I completely and thoroughly enjoyed spending the time with them and my family.