Poor Sick baby!

Last Saturday Kamryn stared to have a terrible cough but other than that seemed okay, we were in Moab and figured she had a little cold and would get over it. But she just seemed to get worse and worse, to the point that we left late Sunday night. By the time we got home she had a fever, cough and was very congested. Monday morning we took her to her Doctor and found out she had RSV. At the Doctor's office she had a bit of retraction ( where it looks like they are sucking in on their ribs when they breath in),but not bad enough to warrant a trip to the hospital. Her doctor told me to monitor her for breathing problems , and take her to the ER if her condtion worsened. Each day she would have good times where she seemed on the mend, and times where I thought we should take her in. Wednesday a friend of mine, had me bring her to the clinic she worked at, and they suctioned her and checked her O2 levels which were good. So I took her home thinking she was oxygenating well and on the mend. Around 11:00pm Wednesday I fed her and then about 20 minuted later she started coughing so hard she stared vomiting and wouldn't stop. By this point she had only drank 12 oz the whole day. Then I noticed that she was retracting to the point I could see all her ribs on her left side. So Kurt and I decided we should take her up the Primary's to get checked. My mom drove up with me while Kurt stayed with the boys. When we got up there, her breathing was normal again and was Oxygenating well, but was still really congested, so they did 2 rounds of deep suctioning on her and ran a bunch of tests to make sure she didn't have another illness on top of the RSV. Luckily she didn't. We ended up getting released at 4:30 am. We now are going to have to take her to the suctioning clinic 1-2 times a day for the next couple of days. We are all exhausted, but doing well, hopefully she will be better soon.Finally asleep after a miserable night of being poked and prodded

Moab

Last weekend we took a quick trip down to Moab to see Arches National Park. I had never been there, it was so pretty and the weather on Saturday was perfect. We had a picnic at Balanced Rock, then hiked North and South Window. We started hiking Delicate Arch viewpoint, but Karter pooped out about 5 minutes into it, so only Keaton and Kurt finished it while the rest of us went back to the car. Then we went to Moab brewery for dinner and back to the hotel and let the boys swim, Kurt said the water was so cold, but the boys didn't care. Then we walked Main street and got ice cream. We were supposed to stay until Monday, but Kamryn stared to get sick Saturday, she was such a trooper while we hiked, but by Sunday she was just a wreak I told Kurt we needed to get home, so last minute we packed to car and headed home. (more on that in the next post) at North Window

Kurt and Keaton's view of Delicate Arch

Balanced Rock

Double Arch

Turret Arch

Jedi Karter turns 4

If you know me, you know I'm not a crafty person. I like things that are easy and low maintenance. But this year for Karter's birthday I decided I would give being creative and crafty a try, thank goodness for Etsy and people that are actually creative, and make things I can buy!I found some cute printables for the decorations and the cupcake toppers. I made his invitation using some scanned images. And searched the internet for some cute ideas.When the kids arrived they all got a lightsaber (made out of pool noodles and shiny duct tape) and either a Darth Vader or a clone trooper mask. Then all the kids went outside and dueled.After playing the kids came in for some "Han" sandwiches, "space puffs", "Chewbacca chips", "light sabers" (grape kabobs), Wookie cookies", and "Yoda soda" (Sprite & lime sherbet)

Then we opened presentsThen we had a Darth Vader pinata. Unfortunately it broke on Karter's 3rd hit, so none of the other kids got a whack at it, but luckily they didn't seem to mind.

We then sang "Happy Birthday" and had cupcakes
And lastly we played Lego Star Wars bingo. All the kids got a treat bag with a Star Wars cup, some Blox candy and Lego Star Wars Stickers. We had such a blast, and even though it was a lot of hard work, I may consider doing something like this again for one of the other kids...we'll see how long it takes me to clean up he house first!

Welcome to the crazy life!

People always say life gets really hard after the 3rd baby, boy is that true! There is barely time to post updates on this blog, in fact, at this moment I'm typing while feeding the baby!

So, lets see, what's happened since my last post? Kurt went back to work after his 5 weeks on paternity. Its been nearly 2 months, and I'm just feeling like I'm starting to get the hang of 3 kids; although I still haven't taken all 3 anywhere by myself yet...baby steps! I started back to work last week, pretty glad to be back. Its nice only working 1 or 2 days a week, but its hard having less days in the week to keep up with all the laundry, dishes and other messes.

Keaton lost his first baby teeth. That's right I said TEETH! On Sunday my mom noticed that one of his permanent teeth had just broken through, behind the baby tooth. The baby tooth wasn't even kind of loose. So Monday I called to dentist to ask about it. We ended up having to take him in that afternoon to have the two bottom front teeth pulled! Luckily he did awesome, not a whole lot phases that kid. He's pretty excited he got a visit from the tooth fairy and got $2!
In February Kurt and Keaton went out to California to visit Kurt's parents for the weekend. So Karter and I got to go have a mommy and Karter day, while my mom watched Kamryn. We went to incredible pizza and played mini bowling and went miniature golfing. It made my day, when he said that he wasn't even sad he didn't get to go to California because he got to have "such a special day"!Kamryn is now 3 months, its had to believe she's that old already, it seems like I just had her. At her 2 month check-up she weighed 9lbs 8oz and was 23 inches long. She's been sleeping through the night for nearly the last 2 months. She smiles all the time, and loves to blow spit bubbles and coo.

My Christmas Present

For Christmas this year I wanted to have the kids pictures taken by Skye Johansen. All the girls in the photo lab rant and rave over her work, and ever since I saw her blog a few years ago, I've been a huge fan. I just barely got the pictures from her. And I have to say I'm in love with them. I think they are one of the best Christmas presents I've gotten. So here they are...

2 weeks and chubby cheeks

I can't believe Kamryn is already 2 weeks old. She is already starting to grow out of a few of her newborn outfits. She has the sweetest chubby cheeks and is starting to get some rolls on her legs, she has even started trying to hold her head up. She is such a good baby, despite a few tummy problems, that seem to have resolved with a formula change, she rarely cries. The boys are SO in love with her, Karter rarely leaves her alone, he always wants to kiss and hug her, and she totally lets him, even though he is pretty much smothering her most of the time. But I guess a little too much love is better than jealousy.

Coming Home

We've been home for nearly a week, so I thought I would finally post some pictures of Kamryn in her "going home"outfit.