Weekend Adventures

These pictures are from Tuesday evening. We were all playing in the backyard, the girls and I in the pool. Before I got it I took a bazallion pictures of the girls and this has got to be the funniest sequence ever...

"Watch this, I'm going to make a huge splash!"
"YYYAAWWW!"

"Ker-Slash!"

"Holy shit!"

"Not happy, Mom"

Hilarious, right?!?

Nathan is so freakishly handy it's amazing. When it started getting hot this summer Nathan bought some cheap-o clip on fans and re-wired them so we could plug them in the cigarette lighters in the cars and keep Jane cooler (rear-facing car seats are brutal in the summer as the AC doesn't blow on her). A month or so ago he re-wired them so they could plug into the car cigarette lighter or into the light outlets in our pop-up trailer and keep the kiddos cool for naps/bed.

Yesterday he re-wired them again for the stroller on the way to the zoo. He wired them to 2 six volt batteries each and thus, fans in the stroller! It was amazing. The girls were so comfortable Jane's back was barely even sweaty when I picked her up at noon to drink her bottle! That's amazing considering it was 105 +. And, because the girls were comfortable, I wasn't being a lunatic worrying about them and was able to relax and have a great time too! Can't tell you how much I love my handyman.

We had a great time, Katherine was a nut in the aquarium running all over the place - she LOVED all the fish. Jane seemed to like them too.

They had tiger pups, only 3 months old. Katherine was cracking up as they'd tackle each other and flip all over the place.

We had a great weekend, couldn't have gone any better.

Our Little Lady is Eight Months Old

Lady Jane is just over 8 months.
She's currently sick, poor thing. She had her first ear infection diagnosed 4 days ago. Today she's been throwing up and still having fevers in the 102-103 range so Nathan took her back to the doc's. They say her ear is clear, but she now has a virus. She's been put on pedilite for the next 12 hours to let her tender belly recover a bit but other than that it's a waiting game for it to run its course.

We've been told to take her to the emergency room if she throws up more than 4 times in one hour or poops more than 6 times in one hour as she'll be too dehydrated and probably need an IV. She's only thrown up twice today so I don't think that'll be necessary.

Jane's contemplating crawling, but hasn't committed to the idea yet. She seems to be in no rush and that's okay with us. She'll crawl when she's ready. Standing is a long ways off - can you see the look of pure panic on her face in this picture? She was like "What are you doing Mom, don't leave me here!"
We've discovered Jane is allergic to Apples and Plums. Apples, as a side note, are on the list of foods least likely to cause an allergy. Nice. Below is what happens when she eats either, she gets little red raccoon eyes. Her little butt gets irritated when those foods are on the way out as well. The doctor said not to feed her either for a year and then try again. A lot of times babies will grow out of food allergies.

Here is a side by side of Jane and Katherine at 8 months for comparison's sake. Jane is on the left and Katherine is on the right - obviously.

Pic's of the Week

Aunt K

My sister was on her way back to Denver after an almost 3 week road trip. She swung down into Flagstaff to see us, causing her to drive 12 hours the next day to make it back home in time to work the next day, so we swung up!

It worked out amazingly well. We weren't so sure we were going to see her for more than a few hours. We got into town and went to eat lunch. While eating my Aunt Adele called to say they were almost to their house (we weren't expecting them to be there until 6pm as they were driving back from CA that day). We were so excited as we hadn't seen them in forever. We went to their house and after an hour or so of visiting put the girls down for their naps. While they were sleeping Kelly got in, also driving in from CA, so when they got up Aunt K was there!It was wonderful. It was cool, rainy and so great to see everyone. Katherine was in love with Aunt Adele and her new laptop. She has some program that takes pic's of you if you sit in front of it and then you can alter them. Katherine had a ball, being the ham that she is.Aunt K is always a big hit. She'd brought Katherine some home made marshmallows she'd found along her journey. Also a big hit - had to work hard to get Katherine to let me try a bite!

The next day we all spent an hour or so together and then Jane went down for a nap about the time Kelly had to hit the road. We soaked up the wonderful weather until Jane got up and then after feeding her we hit the road too and headed home.

It was very short but we had wonderful time and really appreciate Kelly coming to see us.