Baby Clothes

I am sitting here taking a break from folding all the babies' clothes. I feel like all I do is laundry. When you have a baby I think that the season changing is the hardest of all. You can't put all of one season's clothes away but you need to get the new ones out. Plus Morgan is borderline on the 3-6 month clothes, some fit but most do not, so I am folding ones to put away and some to send to two good friends that are getting ready to have babies. Then on the other hand I am finally putting some of Keagan's baby clothes to rest and getting the next set out for Carter. I have such amazing memories with some of those outfits. It makes me sad to put some of them away, whether they are in a box to a friend or to go to the resale shop or the few special items I am keeping. I am glad that its my friends that are having the babies, mine are growing up and I don't envy them at all. Maybe in a few years when another friend has a baby and mine are past the baby/toddler stage I might be a little envious but not right now. I am done with that part of life, thankfully. I have my three amazing little lives to nurture. I also realize that clothes are just things but when you have babies or just one baby(this is for most people, I always get to type babies) the clothes are such a good indicator that your baby or babies are growing up, to fast. People always say, " Enjoy them cause they grow up fast." . You need to have a baby to realize that this is true. I look at Carter and Morgan and already wonder how they could possibly be almost 5 months old. So I am going to pack up all these clothes that we can't use anymore and send them to my friends so that they can make more memories with them. Good luck to you, and may your baby be as cute as mine are. :-)

News on the kiddos

I took all three kids to the doctor for checkups and shots on Friday. Everyone is healthy. The weekend was tough since none of the kids really felt that great. Carter and Morgan both ran fevers all day Saturday even with Tylenol. So here are the results.

Well lets start with Keagan...

• Wight: 36 lbs



• Height: 40 inches



• The kid is a magnet for information. He has really gotten into playing on the computer, his leapster, he loves his tag reader and books, and right now he is into playing Ty the Tasmanian Tiger on the Xbox.



• He knows almost all of his letters, though if you ask for him to tell you sometimes he won't do it, but then he will randomly tell you, "Mommy looks its a ____."



• He can count to about 15 without mistakes.



• He has finally started paying attention to the babies now that they smile and laugh at him.



• He has pretty much stopped tormenting the cats.



• He starts swimming lessons on Saturday.



• Craig taught him how to cast his fishing pole, took him all of 1 day to get the hang of it. He is looking forward to going fishing and will tell you all of the fish he is going to catch when we are in Minnesota. (It took me weeks to completely master this.)



• He is going to start preschool in the fall, just not 100% sure where he will be going.

Now onto Carter...

• Weight: 14 lb 2 oz



• Length: 25 inches



• He is rolling from his tummy to his back but has yet to get himself completely over from his back to his tummy.



• He loves to smile at you.



• He laughs easily.



• He is so happy but is the first one to lose his cool.


• He is very ticklish.


• He won't take a pacifier but will suck on his fingers. He is not particular about which fingers just as long as there is something in his mouth.


• He is eating about 6 ounces of formula.



• He started eating cereal last week. I think that he is getting the hang of it. He has definitely mastered the opening of the mouth. Still pushes some of it out but he swallows more of than Morgan.



• He has started rubbing his eyes when he is tired.



• Loves to stare at things moving. Especially his fish on his swing as they go around.



• He is still in 3-6 month clothing but in size 3 diapers.


• I think that he is working on his two lower teeth. He has been drooling and cranky, this goes for Morgan too.

Last but certainly not least, Morgan...

• Weight: 15 obs 7 oz



• Length: 26 inches


• She has rolled over once from her tummy to her back. I didn't get to see it but I put her on her tummy and about 2 minutes later she was on her back. She HATES being on her tummy. She will roll up on her side when she is on her back but has not gone over.


• She just started moving more. She isn't the mover of the two.


• She finally found her voice. She loves to sing you a song.


• She will smile at you but you have to work for it sometimes. She is much more likely to smile at a man than a woman.


• She LOVES her daddy. Talk about smiles...all for him.


• She has to be in the right mood to laugh but once she starts she just keeps laughing.


• She is so laid back. She has to be really upset to cry. She had a rough March and I think that she probably cried more the weekend that she was in the hospital than she has ever cried since she was born. Didn't help that she had to have 3 IVs.


• She is eating between 6-8 ounces each bottle.


• She hasn't quite mastered the whole eating cereal yet. She is getting better but Carter eats it better so far.


• She has always sucked on a pacifier but has started sucking on the 2nd, and 3rd fingers of her right hand. Its about the only thing so far that the two of them have both done.


• She watches everything. She is going to be my little observant quiet girl.


• She is wearing some 3-6 month clothes but is going into 6-9 pretty quickly.


• She is wearing size 3 diapers.

I am sorry if anyone thinks that this is silly of me to write it all down but I like doing it. Leave me a comment if you want to let me know you were here.

And just so everyone knows...Carter and Morgan are NOT identical twins. Even if they looked alike which I don't think that they do. Boy and girl twins CANNOT be identical. They have different parts and that is a BIG difference.

Update about Morgan

Sorry its taken me so long to post this... I haven't been on the computer for almost a week. So here is the new about Morgan. I took her this past Tuesday for her VCUG( I think that is the order of the letters, if not I am sorry). She was a little trooper. I love this little girl like you wouldn't believe and she constantly amazes me. We are taken back into an xray room, I get her clothes off, and put her on the table. She is just looking around and taking everything in. They have to put a catheter in and then they flow the dye up the cath. and make sure that she isn't refluxing urine up into her kidneys. She doesn't even cry about anything, I know that I would probably cry if they stuck one of those things up me. So they watch it flow out and then the test was over. She doesn't completely empty her bladder but Dr. Pickerill said that they amount left was so minute that it shouldn't be a problem. She is free and clear now unless she gets another UTI. If that happens then she will have to have more testing.

A weekend with no medical issues...

I realize that its been a week since I posted anything but I was busy and tired. Sorry. I am happy to announce that Morgan made it through a weekend without having to go to the ER or have some other random horrible thing happen to her (aka: red, itchy bumps covering her entire body). I took her to the doc on Monday and they think that she had a delayed allergic reaction to the sulfa meds that she was on for her urinary tract infection. She was put on a steroid when she went to the ER the next weekend and it suppressed the allergic reaction until it was out of her body. By Wednesday she was pretty much back to normal. She finally slept through the night again on Saturday night. Yeah for mommy. I had to cancel her final test for the whole UTI thing because of her red rash. They have to use that dye and so many people are allergic to it that if she had had an allergic reaction to it then we wouldn't have been able to tell. So now we go on Tuesday. We are keeping our fingers crossed that they find nothing wrong and it was just a random UTI that she had. We had a great Easter. The kids looked so adorable in their easter outfits. Keagan got to find a ton of eggs at Grammy and Popper's house, the babies just slept. haha.
Only two more months until we go on vacation. Lets hope that it goes fast.

4 years and 4 months

I have a four year old. Where in the world did the last four years go? My little man is so independent. He hates being called a baby, especially now that we have 2 in the house. He is really starting to enjoy the babies now that they will smile and laugh at him. I wish that he would lose some of his attitude, some days I just don't want to deal with it. We had a great day yesterday. I made him the dinner he wanted, roast with mashed potatoes and gravy and corn. He got to open his presents from us since his party wasn't until today. He loved them all.

The babies were also four months old yesterday. They are smiling so much now, laughing a lot more. We are still working on the rolling over part. They are both sleeping through the night, unless we don't feel good. We had started some cereal but with everything going on with Morgan that kinda got pushed to the side. I am so blessed to have two great babies. It has gotten a little easier now that they are sleeping through the night. I don't have to worry so much about them being on the same eating schedule, although I still try and feed them at the same time as much as possible. People are always amazed by how having two babies doesn't seem to freak me out. You just deal with it and go on. Its just a way of life for us. We have had a rough month or so with them but I can only imagine how much harder it could be. Morgan's issues are not over yet, poor girl just can't seem to catch a break. So here is the latest in the Morgan' saga. Last night after her bath I noticed that she had a little rash on her tummy and a couple other areas. This morning she woke up with the rash ALL over her body. I know that it is bothering her, she was up almost every 15-30 minutes last night. Benadyrl doesn't really help that much. She was supposed to go in for her last test for the urinary tract but that isn't going to happen now cause there would be no way to know if she is having an allergic reaction to the dye. We just can't get her better. Makes my heart hurt, and for the most part these are minor things. How do parents whom have really sick children watch their children suffer?

I made a cake...

I decided a couple of weeks ago that I was going to make Keagan's birthday cake. I mean how hard could it be to make a cake shaped like a poke ball(for those of you not familar with Pokemon, a poke ball is what a pokemon lives in). So I attempted to make one last week and it didn't really turn out but I figured out what I needed to do for this weekend. So last night I started baking. My first cake wouldn't come out of the pan even though I had greased the heck out of it, it was basically in two pieces. So on to cake two, I used a different pan and greased teh heck out of it and it still didn't come out like it was supposed too. But it would work. Then the next part the same thing happened. I was starting to get a migrane by this point. Needless to say, I wasn't exactly looking forward to icing it this morning but with my wonderful husbands help it turned out ok. It looked like a poke ball and my son loved it. It had a lot of flaws that were mostly covered up by the icing but by the time came to cut it it did have a crack in it were the cake had fallen. Oh well, it was a learning experience that I have dicided I don't want to repeat. Bright side...the cake tasted good!

Another visit to the ER

My poor daughter...she is not feeling well at all. More on that in a moment. Carter seems to do pretty good during the day then evening hits and he regresses back a little. I think that he is slowly getting rid of the bug that he has.
So last night Morgan started to sound really bad. She ate about half of her bottle and she is just wheezing and struggling to breath just a little. Craig and I have this discussion...
Me( I am looking at Craig with a somewhat panicked look)"She is sounding really bad."
Craig "What do you want to take her back to the emergency room?"
Me "Not really but I don't really want to put her to bed either, she is wheezing really bad."
Craig "Well what do you want me to do?"
Me "Would you just make her better for me!!!"
Craig (Snaps his finger)
Me "I am going to call your mom and see if I can run her over there so that they can listen to her lungs."
So I call Jill and she tells me that she is going to call the paramedic that is at Wea Fire station. She calls me back and tells me that she was told that I should call 911 and that they will come take a look at her. Well I didn't want to do this so I ran her over to Jill and Steve's and they listened to her lungs and told me that I need to take her to the ER. So off we go again. Craig stayed home with the boys and I took her. After 3 1/2 hours in the ER, I am told that the dr thinks that she has RSV even though her test came back negative. They gave her two breathing treatments that helped just a little. Poor little girl just can't catch a break. Now she is on another antibiotic and predinzone. She was still pretty wheezy today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. A mommy can only hope.