Sickness be gone

It feels like the sickness in this house will not leave. First it was Lucas with his flu bug, we are still getting over that. He just needs to loose the cough. Then Noah ran a fever for 6 days and started in on the coughing and runny nose. I got Noah to the doctor yesterday and he has a mild ear infection in the right ear and he is on breathing treatments with a nebulizer every 4 hours. This is to help with his wheezing from all the congestion he has that has moved into his chest. Poor baby, but I have to say he has been a trooper. He is feeling a lot better today since the medicines are beginning to work. The wheezing is not as noticable today. His ear is still bothering him a bit, I can tell when he is drinking his bottle. And I think the poor boy is teething again. I don't see any signs of any yet, but he is chewing on his thumbs all the time.
Lucas has been a little jealous for the last week with Noah getting most of the attention. So today I took him out and we got his birthday invitations and wrote them out for all of his friends. He wrote the names on the cards to hand out which was very cute. He had all the right letters, just not writing them from left to right yet. Just put them where they will fit. Funny how far they come in just a year. He is writing all of his letters now and knows upper and most lower case by sight. I can't believe it is going to be 4 years in a few weeks. Cherish every day you have with your kids is all I can say, it goes by way to quick.

Tree Decorating

After a day of Thanksgiving feasts Lucas came up with the idea of getting the tree out and getting it decorated. It was great fun having Lucas and Nolan decorate the tree. Most of the ornaments are at the bottom, but they had such fun decorating. Hopefully the weather will be nicer this weekend and we will get our outdoor lights up too.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We did despite everyone being sick. But I think we are all almost done with that. Looking forward to a great month of fun and festivities and Noah's first Christmas. I am excited for his first experience with tearing apart the wrapping paper. Nothing better than ripping apart paper and then playing in the box.

9 months

So... I have been a bad blogger again. I don't know where this month has gone. Noah is 9 months old now and Lucas is going to be 4 next month. Noah had his 9 month checkup yesterday and he is 19 lbs which puts him in the 21st percentile. Lucas at this time was almost 25lbs.He is doing fine, we just have to really keep him lathered with vasoline for the winter months with his exzema.

He is cruising along now, walking while holding onto the furniture and push toys. Won't be long before he is letting go and walking on his own. He also discovered the stairs this week. He is really getting around and checking everything out that he can.

Nolan is spending the evening with us tonight and they are playing the Wii. I thought it was quite funny to find them both sitting in this storage tub.

And for the Arkansas family, Noah finally fits in the Razorback shirt. Jake dresses him in this at least once a week. He will need a new one shortly though, he has almost outgrown this one.

Everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

Happy Halloween

Another Halloween has come and gone. Lucas was Scooby Doo and Noah was a frog. The frog costume has now been worn by Nolan, Lucas and Noah each at their first Halloween.

Noah and Sean's first Halloween. Getting babies at this age to sit still for a picture is next to impossible.

That evening we went out to Jeff and Kim's to trick or treat. Here we have Scooby Doo, Nolan the pirate, frog, Grace as Hermione from Harry Potter, and Ruth as Hannah Montana. Elvis slid into the pic too, don't know where he came from.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!!! We did.

Pumpkin patch

Sunday we went to the pumpkin patch with Jeff, Kim, Grace, Ruth and Nolan. Fun times until the boys got cranky, tired, and hungry. They all got their pumpkins to be carved and had a good time just running around playing. After the pumpkin patch we all went to lunch and had a very interesting time. I spilled a half a carton of Noah's puffs all over the floor that the waitress had to vacuum up, endless soda spills,not getting all of our food, etc. It's always a good time when the kids outnumber the adults.
Nolan, Ruth, Grace, Lucas and Noah

On Monday I met Sam, Susan, Tracy, Scotty, Jennifer and Brett at the pumpkin patch again for pictures with all the babies. Sean, Shelby and Noah are now 8 months old. This year has really flown by when I look at everything the babies are doing now. Sean's newest trick is giving five. Now Lucas wants Noah to lean how to do it. He is working with him.

Noah, Sean, Hailey, Shelby

Susan, Tracy and I all had our babies within 5 days of each other by the same doctor. Talk about planning. I don't think we could do that again if we tried.

Sean (Feb 7th) Shelby (Feb 10th) Noah (Feb 12th)

Happy Birthday to Nolan

NOLAN IS 5!!!

Sunday we went to my nephew Nolan's 5th birthday at Bounce U. We all had a great time, even Noah joined in on the fun in one of the bounce houses.

Jake and I on the big slide with Lucas.
I don't know who had more fun on this slide, the kids or the adults.



Nolan and his birthday party friends.



Noah really enjoyed this part of the day since he got to partake in the cake, which he loved!!

Noah is working on two new teeth on the bottom. I just saw them a few minutes ago when I was changing his diaper.Poor thing, he has been quite cranky for about a week now and biting on his fingers but I never saw anything. Now it is confirmed that more are coming in. At this rate, he will have all of his teeth by one. Total after these two new ones will be 8. Four on top, four on bottom.

Fun Times

Here is the finished haunted house that Lucas, Jake and I made. This is the first haunted house that we have done, we usually make a ginger bread house at christmas. Guess we have a new tradition for Halloween now. Lucas loves decorating them. He asked for a week when we were going decorate the house, but we were waiting for all of us to be together. That sometimes takes a while.

Noah's first ride in his swing. He absolutely loved it as you can probably see from the smile on his face. He laughed almost the whole time.