Patience is a Virtue

You have always heard that saying. I really think that my little Sophia has it. She is so calm. I was watching her put on Saphrin's shoe tonight and she was having trouble putting it on. She tried for a good 2 minutes before she finally got the shoe on. She did not whine or throw the shoe. She calmly kept plugging away at it. Her patience paid off. She is such a little gem!! I love her!! :)

More doctors

Two weeks ago Keelen went to the hospital to have an Upper GI, Chest X-Ray, EKG and an Echo. We got back the Upper GI and went to that specialist last Friday. They call on the Echo and EKG... they would like us to go see the heart specialist. Keelen has a small hole in is heart. The blood flow is flowing fine. We have nothing to be scared about they tell us. If it would have been a problem they would have kept us there. It is very scary as a mother to hear that your little baby has alot of stuff wrong with him. All I can do it pray that God would heal my precious little one. I will update when we have a date for the heart specialist.

6 Months- Estin and Keelen

Yesterday Estin and Keelen were 6 months old. I can't believe that 1/2 year ago my water broke and my precious little ones came into the world. They had schedule a C- Section on Decemeber 2 but I was praying on the day after Thanksgiving that I would have the babies then. Not that I would have ever thought that it would really happen. That really sounds like I have no faith in God. I do but I just didn't seem that important to me at the time. I would later find out how GOD worked everything out. The boys were in the NICU for 8 day- the day if everything would have went as planned I would be getting out of the hospital. God knew that they would have to be in the NICU. I just find the whole AMAZING!! So my amazing little boys:

Estin:

Estin loves his little toy that mommy got him

He didn't really like sitting in the chair

Estin is:

- About 17 lbs (I will know more next week)

- Can roll from his tummy to his back

- Sit on his own for 2 seconds

- Babbles, screams, and getting very excited

- We are still exclusively breastfeeding

- Passes stuff from hand to hand

- Loves to be read books

- Still spits up

- We are going to start cereal soon

- Holds his head up when on the floor for tummy time

Keelen

Keelen loves his rings too

He is really coming out of his shell

Keelen is:

- About 13 lbs

- Can roll from his tummy to his back and has tried to roll from his back to his tummy

- LOVES to move all over the place. He turns himself

- Follows you where ever you go

- He is on a new formula. It is still sort of working. He is spitting up alittle more

- We are going to wait a little longer on cereal because of his weight

I am SO thankful for my twin boys. They are such a blessing, BUT I would not wish them on anyone. They are very difficult and stressful. I learn this week with all the news about Jon and Kate from Jon and Kate plus 8 that marriages that have mulituples have 3x higher divorce rate. I personally know that it is true, SO please pray for us.

Sleep, Sleep the boys MUST Sleep

I love pictures of my kids sleeping. They look so peaceful

Keelen fell asleep on Griffin. Griffin actually me take a picture
Keelen sleeping on Griffin

Keelen just woke up

Estin is sleeping on Grandpa

They were all sleeping until I got the camera. Estin is still asleep :)

Sisterly love

Not that I let them fight. It is just so cute. I know that I won't think it is cute when they are older but know I do. They both laugh about it. They just roll around on the floor. Surprisingly Sophia usually starts it. She is alittle bit littler but she is a brute!!!

I got you now my little pretty!!!

big hug

Memorial Day party

Each year my Aunt Beanie has all of her family over on Sunday before Memorial Day for a party. We use to get together for my cousin's birthday but since they are over 21 they don't get a party anymore. I still like getting together with my extended family. We had a pretty good time. It was even easier now that I don't have to breastfeed Keelen. After the party we went to my parent's house. My mom had invited the kids and I to spend to night because Matt have to work the whole day on Monday and I would be home alone. It was very nice to be able to have some help. We had a great time.

Saphrin
Sophia

Keelen

Estin

I had gotten each of the kids new outfit for Memorial Day. I LOVE getting new outfits for the kids.

GI Specialist

Well we went to the GI doctor today. I don't know what to take from this guy. I came out of there thinking can I go back in and do it over again. He is not one of those doctors that you says you can ask him any question and he will sit down and explain it to you. He is very intelligent but not forth coming with it. UGH!!! He threw alot of information at me in about 5 minutes. I'm like I need time to process it. I guess I'm a mother I will need to have everything sink in at once. I will get it. So.... I think that doctor is thinking that Keelen may have allergies. If not then he just has reflux. He is going to a special formula. We got it today coming home from the appointment and he has had 2 feedings on it and is doing GREAT!! I don't want to get my hopes up but he has not spit up but a litte bit. Like a dribble down his skin. If he does have allergies OH MY!! Special diets all around. I guess we can do it. I LOVE my kids!!! Thank you for praying for him!!!

I got my hair cut

Saphrin went with her daddy today and got her hair cut. Matt had the day off today. He took Saphrin to go LOOK at a car that he wants(that he won't get) and after that he took her to get her hair cut. She is such a girly girl. She loves have girls stuff done.

Loving on her daddy
I think this is the cutest picture in the world :)

Mommy's helper

Matt and I thought this was really funny. I hope that you appreciate it too. She is so cute. She is very smart too. If you ask her to do something she will. She also LOVES to put her shoes on.

Hand Holding

I think that this is so cute. I really want to put this on my blog but have to edit it because I didn't know first of all if I could show breast on Blogger and second if anyone would be offend about see my breast. They hold hand alot when they are eating. I think that it is the cutest thing in the world. Keelen is more into it the Estin. Estin likes to play with my breast. It hurts!! I think the picture is cute. I hope that you like it :)

Shot day

Today we finally got the chance to go get shots. Sophia, Estin and Keelen needed them. They did pretty good. Sophia cried alot until she got into the hands of her father. She really loves him. Estin and Keelen were next. Sophia loved watching the twin getting there shots. She might end up being a nurse or even a doctor. They all did great. We have to go back July 20 for another set of shots for the twins. :)

I started...

Yesterday I started cloth diapering the twins. I have been waiting for a while because I had gotten so many diaper the I wanted to go through them. I still have some let because I will not cloth diaper excluscively. When we go to church or other place that I don't want to deal with them I will use the regular diapers. It will save us tons of money. I hope :)

Keelen- left Estin- right
Keelen

Estin

Keelen's diaper cover is way to big. I need to find a better one.

It will probably be my favorite outfit of the summer. I love DUCKS!!!

My little girls

I love dressing the girls in matching outfits. I think that it looks so cute. Griffin always has an opnion and he does not like it. I do it anyway. I kind of hate too. Sophia will be wear Saphrin's summer clothes from last year and I will have to buy Saphrin new clothes. I like that I will just buy her a couple dresses (she loves them) and some shorts because she has alot of shirts that fit.

Sophia caught in the act. She loves Estin and Keelen's paci
Sophia- she is getting so big. Whenever I point the camera at her she said "cheese" :)

Saphrin- she is watching TV

They are so cute. Saphrin told Sophia that they need to hold hands.

The crazy side :)

Family Day

Last Wednesday we went to a science place close to our house. We always have so much fun. Here are some pictures:

Saphrin
Sophia acting sick laying on her father

Matt, Sophia and Saphrin- We realized that Sophia had a tempature

Saphrin having so much fun!!

Saphrin really liked this

2nd but not far behind

Keelen rolled over Saturday. I walked away to do something and came back and he was like this. I was so excited that Keelen rolled over. He is little but becoming a big boy!!

Keelen sorry he is without clothed. I think that he pooped on them.
Estin on left Keelen on right

Keelen- is so sober

Estin- he is so alert and loves to smile

GERD

Keelen has GERD. Don't know what that means? It is basically reflux. I am happy that it is nothing else. He will now have to go to a Ped. GI specialist. They are making an appointment for him. At the end of the week we will know if anything came of the Echo and EKG. I don't think that will be anything wrong with him but you never know. Thank you for your prayers :)

Laundry Day

Today was laundry day. I typical laundry day is usually 2 days so I try to start on Monday. I use to do it on Saturday but I was going out alot on Saturday. Today I had 10 loads of laundry all in one day. It is alot of do in one day because of nursing the twins and everyone wanting everything. Just wanted to let you know what a mom of 5 goes through on laundry day.

The laundry is up stairs in the bathroom. I throw it downstair so that I can sort it. The totes at full of clothes that need to be price for a yard sale.
More clothes

I don't want to take dirty clothes up stair so I have a laundry basket down stairs. A Longaberger Basket is doing it in style :)

Sophia

Sophia went to the doctor on Wednesday night. She had an ear infection. I knew that she had something, so the doctor wanted to see her back in a couple days to make sure that everything was doing ok. Well we went in and she had gotten worse. It has now gone into her chest. He has said that now that she gets infection and she get an airway spasm too... that is defined as asthma. I was like oh great. I can't believe it. I guess that I did know that it was coming but I was hoping not. I guess now we know forsure. We will just deal with it. She is our million dollar baby!! :) We love her!!

Hospital

Today was the day. Keelen went in to the hospital were he was born and got his test done. He first got his chest x-ray. I wasn't too worried about that one. It was easy. I was worried about what was to come... the Upper GI. He hadn't eatten in 4 hours and he had to drink a nasty liquid. I was very worried because sometimes he don't even want to drink the bottle that I give him. He was more than willing to drink it. I think because He was VERY hungry. They had to twist his body to get the liquid to go do quickly. I was really amazing. Then we had to go into a different room and wait for 15 minutes to get an x-ray to see how far the liquid had come. It took about 30 minutes to get the colon. I was really happy that it wasn't that long. They did rule out some of the things that might be wrong. We will get the results on Monday or Tuesday. We went to get the Echo next. That was pretty easy too. He actually fell asleep during it. It was kind of cute. I would have fallen asleep too. I have been up since 4:30 am. The last test was an EKG. I had to hold him down so they could get the right measurements. We came home and doing well. I just hope that he sleeps tonight. I need it :)

We had some visitors today

We had some visitors today in our back yard. I saw the fire truck come down our side road and then I looked in the back and there was smoke rolling across the back of our lot. Come to find out there was a car on fire. It was really weird because I was out mowing the lawn not 20 minutes before that. I don't think that the people were home but there neighbors were. That was our adventure for the day :)

Firemen hosing down the car
Fire truck in our back yard

Firmen getting ready in our back yard

A wonderful Weekend

Matt had Friday and Saturday off. It was so nice. Friday was a very non productive day. We went out for supper for one of my MIL's friend Mary anne. It was really like to get out. After supper we went to a new store that just opened. I love shopping. Saturday was a more productive day. We cleaned our room in preporation for the selling of our house. I'm hoping with in the next couple weeks we can finish it up. We are doing very good. Over all it was a very good weekend :)

Another visit

On Friday Keelen wasn't acting right so I took him to the doctor. He has a tempature of 101 and wasn't eating very well. I don't mess around with him because of the weight issues that he has. I took him in thinking that they would just send me home say that he just has the flu but nope... He has an upper resp infection. He is also weezing. He is on an antibotic and breathing treatments. I thinking we just took him in the the doctor 2 days ago. How can he get sick this fast. I guess that I am just going to have sick kids right now :)

Ped visit

Last Wednesday my grandma came over to watch the kids while I took the boys to the ped (I don't know how to spell the whole thing so that is how I will spell it :) The ped looked Keelen over very good. I think she was in there for almost 25 min. She would ask some questions and then go back looking at him. I really liked the doctor. She now wants us to go to the hospital where I birthed him and get some test done, so on Friday he will go have a Upper GI, EGK, Echo, and a Chest X-Ray. We have to be there at 8:30 in the morning and Keelen can eat 4 hours before his test. I am sure this will be interesting. I am praying all goes well. I'm a little nervous and happy all at the same time.

Estin rolled over!! :)

Friday Estin rolled over (tummy to back) for the first time. He was trying hard to do it all morning. He was really shocked the first time that he did it he cried it scared. He is already prefecting it. He is continually do it. Great Job Estin!!

Saturday- the after effect

Estin starting to roll over

First picture of him after he did it :)

Keelen

Keelen went to the doctor on Wednesday. He is up to 11lbs 8 oz. and 23 1/8 inches long. He gained about 10 oz in two weeks. The doctor said to keep doing what I have been doing but he is going to send me to a ped doctor just so she can look at him to see if anything else might be wrong. He goods this next Tuesday. I'm going to take both the boys in so they see both of them and their respective sizes.

She did it again.

While I was at Keelen doctor's appointment she decided to show off to her Daddy. Isn't she cute!!