Easter 2012

As usual we headed to Mama's beach house for the easter weekend, but it was a bit chilly. We played outside a lot, dyed easter eggs, took pics with the Easter Bunny, went to an egg hunt at Ocean Isle, celebrated my bday with my family, went to church in Myrtle Beach & took Emma to the beach to play in the sand.

We did a lot in the few days we were they & wished we could have stayed longer, but Chris had to come back home to work. We will stay longer when its warmer & we can actually enjoy being on the beach. It was really hard keeping the little girls out of the water.

 Avery of course wants to be in the middle of everything, 

so she is in her Bumbo seat watching the egg dying.

 Eating the box

 Let the dying begin

 Emma's finished products

 Emma & the Easter Bunny

 Avery's first Easter

 All 5 cousins but 2 are not cooperating

 Emma & big cousin Kaylee

 Love this one

My favorite

This is so Avery. 

Her hands behind her head & a big sweet smile

 This is the only pic I could take of Morgan & Emma together, 
playing in a hole uncle Bob dug. 

 Having a great time in the sand, even though it was quite chilly.

Spring time soccer

Yesterday was Emma's 1st Pee Wee (3-4 yr olds) soccer game/practice. They didn't really play a game just kicked the ball around & learned some rules of soccer which went pretty well. Now there was some tears shed by Emma, the coaches daughter & one other little girl but Emma recovered & enjoyed herself. 

We are hoping as the weeks go on she will get more & more used to it & can handle being on the field without tears or her Daddy helping out.

After Emma's "game" we went to watch cousin Morgan play. I was quite impressed with her team & couches, no tears + fun learning skill games.

 Notice the girl to Emma's left, look how tall she is. 

She is almost 5 but not old enough to move up the the next age group.

 One of the few times Emma was actually listening to couch Todd.

Emma scores!!

 At the brink of tears.

 All done playing soccer, what's next?

 Morgan dribbling

Sick & Tired of Sickness

So last week I took Emma to the dr after suffering from a bad cold & fever for 4 days & found out she has an ear infection & fluid on one lung. She is still on antibiotics & an inhaler. Then Avery started with a cough on Thursday which turned ugly over the weekend & she was diagnosed with RSV, but only a mild case. 

Avery is just pitiful. Her little cough sounds terrible & she is trying so hard to still be her sweet cheerful self but its taking a toll on her. She is normally a very active, chatty & loud baby but the past few days she has been very quiet, so I knew she didn't feel well. Then yesterday she started eating less & today even less. I am hoping it doesn't turn into something else & I have to take her back to the dr. The dr gave her an inhaler for her wheezing which helps some but she sure does hate it. Poor thing is very droopy today & only wants to be held but thankfully isn't running a fever. Lets hope she gets better real soon, mama is tired of sick babies.

Christmas 2011

I know its a bit late to be posting Christmas pics but I finally downloading from my camera & I had to share.

We had Christmas Eve with Chris's family at our house & Christmas Day with mine at my Mom's house, which seems to work really well.

We did our best to scale back on the number of toys/things we got the girls for Christmas but it still seems like we are wall to wall with new things. Emma main things she requested from Santa was dress up clothes, ice cream play dough & Barbie & of course he delivered + a few more things we wanted her to have. Avery only got 1 light up tambourine toy, fish aquarium for her crib & a mattress (not a very fun gift but totally necessary).  

 Christmas Eve before the festivities began

 Playing with Minnie Boutique toys from Grammy & Paw Paw

Avery & her big Puppy from Grammy & Paw Paw

Our family of four (pour Avery just couldn't hang anymore)

 Playing dress up

 Cheer

 Princess

 Playing with Avery's tambourine

Purple Princess

Play dough

Candy Land (her 1st board game)

Sister Barbies

 Christmas Day after church at Nana's 

Thanksgiving

Yes, I know this is a bit late seeing how Christmas is next weekend, but I still want to share. We are especially thankful this year at Thanksgiving to finally be a family of 4 & to all be home together. 

It was a great Thanksgiving. We had lunch with Chris' family & dinner with my family. It makes for a lot of eating but we really enjoy spending time with everyone. 

 Granny Ruth (Chris' grandmother) holding Avery for the 1st time.

 Riding her trike at Grammy & Paw Paw's

 Playing in Grammy & Paw Paw's backyard

 Gram (my grandmother) holding Avery (her 17th great grand) for the first time

Uncle Bob & Avery

Cousin Morgan feeding Avery

Avery's 1 week old check-up

This morning we took Avery to the Peds Clinic at the hospital for her 1 wk old check & she is doing great. She weighs 8 lbs, 7.4 oz which means she gained 7.1 oz since discharged on Friday. The dr did ask us how much we have been feeding her & we said 2-3 oz & she was a bit shocked. He said little ones this young really shouldn't be eating 3 oz yet & that we were over feeding her. Little does he know what we have dealt with having Emma, the heart baby/non eater so, if Avery said she was still hungry we would feed her more. So he told us to slow her down so her tummy & brain can learn when she is full instead of just sucking the bottle down. We will see how this works for Avery.

I also asked the dr to look at this knot on the back of Avery's head & he seems to think its just skin & tissue but to have our pedi at home to watch it. It really reminds me of the staf infection my niece, Morgan had when she was 2 wks old so that is why I wanted him to look at it.

He also said her jonduice looked a lot better & that she is free to fly home whenever we get permission.

Sick in Hawaii

I really can't think of anything worse right now that being away from home, in paradise with a 6 day old & sick. Tomorrow Avery goes for her 1 week old newborn check-up & after that we plan to find me a doctor. I have some kind of upper respiratory crud which I assume was caused by the combination of airplane germs, lack of sleep, jet lag & hospital germs. Lucky me.

I have been trying to keep my distance from Avery but its so hard. She is getting to know us & if she is awake she really wants to be held. I just try not to cough or breathe on her too much & put her down once she doses off. Hopefully I can get some meds tomorrow so will not spread this crud to her & be free to hold/cuddle her all I want.

Chris has been awesome & did all the feedings last night once we realized how sick I had become & has taken care of her & me most the day. He went out several times today to get me more drugs & some white hot chocolate, YUM. He always spoils me when I'm sick.