well, here's my problem. i had an sbcglobal email when we lived in FW which i used to start my blog account. with our move to the country and no DSL service, i was going to lose my sbcglobal account for a few months. i thought since i had an iphone and love google and they work so well together, i'll go with a gmail account so it will work nicely together. then, i realized that the gmail and sbcglobal accounts don't get along. help! i can't link my blog to my gmail account. it just won't let me. i've even had the compulsive addict herself look into it and she can't figure it out. ugh.

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just wanted to see if this thing still works. ha. it's been exactly 4 months now and WOW how things change. let me think back...
early december--Baby K turned 6 months and I think she was 16 lbs...95th-100th percentile, eating baby food well and started on some formula, trying hard to crawl
christmas--yes it was a white one and it was awesome! if i had lots of free time on my hands i would insert some white christmas eve pictures, but i don't. i'm doing good to get this typed out. anyway, the best pictures of our christmas eve from 2009 are in the memories we made as a family that night. there was tons of wonderful snow on the ground for snowball fights. the four of us and K in the stroller (highly bundled up) played snowball fights and made tons of snow angels for a very long time. A just loved the snow. i will never forget her running and plopping herself right into a pile of snow completely fearless. B is more timid than, but he still had a blast. for the first time he didn't freak out about getting all wet from the snow. when our frozen noses, numb fingers and toes couldn't take it anymore we made our way inside. it was so fun to actually lay our gloves and mittens by the fire to dry while we had popcorn and watched the polar express. i felt like i lived up north, at least not in Texas on Christmas Eve. Writing this 4 months late, i know that we played in the snow like it wasn't going to snow again for a few more years. little did we know it would be the second most snowiest winter for north texas.

end of january was A's 3rd birthday. she wanted a princess party. i found her a special pink princess dress that was perfect for the occasion. all of the family was able to make it (we missed uncle michael, aunt stacie and uncle mike and aunt christy) and party with us. the princess enjoyed an italian lunch and the homemade pink princess crown cake made by me. i love making their cakes, but i know it does stress me out a little. :)

oh, how can i forget....BEFORE her party, WE MOVED INTO OUR HOUSE! it was MLK weekend and we moved right in. now i am remembering just how crazy it was for 3 weeks straight. we moved in, the next weekend was my father-in-laws surprise 60th birthday party at the farm, then it was A's birthday party. so the house it wonderful. i LOVE it. i was worried how it would all come together and it turned out beautiful. again, i would post a picture but...


i think there was a month called february, but it was so busy....i know we had 4 birthday parties in 2 weeks and lots of fun with the new neighbors. i have to say i love my house, but i really love all of my new neighbors. they are the most kind and giving people and i am blessed to have them as my neighbors. on our move in day we had 3 of them come over and help carry boxes, haul loads and set up furniture! each month we have a much needed girls night and guys night and a couples night...some couples stay home and babysit while the others get to go out and not pay a sitter! it's so fun. we are truly thankful that we made the decision to move out, waaaay out and get away from the city life each day.

and here i am in march. baby K is now 9 months. she is so darn cute. she was 23.12 lbs and really long (i can't find the sheet and i don't remember the number). i just know she was 95th percentile in weight, length and head circumference. she is crawling really well these days and pulling up on anything she can. she has started to cruise a bit once she pulls up! there is still a gumless smile...so cute, just two teeth on the bottom. i am fearing the day when they all decide to come out and party at once. over spring break, my dairy is no more. we were down to nursing morning and night and i quit pumping at work around 7 months (feb). one night she was unusually cranky and seemed very unhappy at bedtime which is NOT likely of her at all. i knew something was wrong. thinking there wasn't enough milk for her, i made her a 6 ouncer and it was gone in less than 10 minutes. so i kissed it good bye. i'm ok with it too. i am thrilled we made it so long with working full time and pumping. high five baby K!

and speaking of spring break....at the beginning of my spring break this year i took all 3 kids by myself to houston. yes, there was prayer before and during the car ride there. we had lots of fun. we spent some great time with Uncle Michael, Aunt Stacie (very pregnant) and cousin A. we hit up chuck e. cheese and the HLS&R carnival. it was a good time by all, but 3 nights away from home is just enough before my kids start to lose it, especially their mother. when we came back home we had doctor's appointments and lots of outside time with some sunshine, at least for one afternoon. then my great friend and her daughter came down from OK. we did some wonderful shopping and relaxing. btw, christy had the baby....6 weeks early, but Baby Emma is here! so darn cute.

oh and i should mention WHY i don't have pictures to post. back in early december my camera was stolen. we had the serial number checked, but nothing showed up at pawn shops. i was devastated because just a few nights prior to it getting stolen was B&A's Christmas program at their school. I had video of A singing and dancing and just taking over with the microphone during her class performance. And B was dressed up like a present for his song. those videos are long gone. i had an older camera that i started using in place of, but it won't connect to the computer to download the pictures. which leads to another prob--our computer died, but it was resurrected thanks to Dell and me spending 3 hours on the phone with them. it works a little better, but it is on the replacement list.

there's the last 4 months. i left out lots of details, but its enought to help me remember what i need to write down in a baby book.

till next time...

yesterday i took A to her follow up appointment with an allergy doctor after our ER visit. the allergist said the hospital ER did NOT treat her properly. he said they should have given her an epipen immediately rather than waiting on her symptoms to clear. he handed me a sheet on anaphlyaxis and said this is what she did. as i read in my mind i was putting a check mark next to each item on the page. she did all of those things. the more i read, the more scared i became. it leads up to the fact that the next step would have been anaphylactic shock!! i thought that was just something scary that people did in movies or people talked about. oh no, it was all to much a reality to know that my baby girl could have started the shock symptoms! she was so close. the one small dose of benadryl is what may have kept her from going into shock. i am so thankful that the Lord lead me to the benadryl just minutes after her lips started to swell. the doctor explained that the ER just treated her symptoms and not the reaction. he told me if it happens again we need to get her to Cook Children's as quickly as possible. he told me that epipen dose will last 15-20 minutes that is why it is so important to rush her to the ER. if we were ever in this situation we are supposed to do the epipen then a dose of benadryl to help give us a little more time to get to the ER. he did order a blood test to test for food allergies. We will get those results on Dec. 28th. The moral of the story, until we are certain please do NOT let A have any shellfish or fish unless you are prepared with an epipen and know the route to the nearest ER.

i took these on saturday 11/14. they started the brick and stone and should have it all finished up. here's one of the oustide and the bottom pic is my ventahood/cooktop area in the kitchen. more pictures to come soon.

TREAT...i still haven't blogged about our Halloween. here's a quick recap of the very eventful weekend. Friday night we went out with friends for my hubs birthday. we ate downtown and then went to Legends Fest in Sundance Square. he was excited to see Shenandoah and eddy raven was the headliner. you know you're at a "legends fest" when the headliner is done by 10:30 pm... LOL. eddy raven was great. so great that after the show, we were walking out and went down the sidewalk that was behind the stage. we asked him to take a picture with the birthday boy. what a fun night!

TREAT...we were able to trick or treat in our new hood with all our new neighborhoods. I'm so excited to live around these folks. they have a ton of fun. it was 3 flatbeds with hay pulling the kids the 2 mile loop around the neighborhood. Chris and i didn't get the memo that all the parents dress up as well...look out for next year. all 3 of our kiddos had a ball. we started at 6:30 and finished up about 9:30 then went to the after party at our new neighbor's house, Chris and Jen. Ha!
TRICK...it was a great night until Brady peed in his spiderman costume. poor guy was busy playing trains and the bathrooms were all taken up. he said "mom i told them to hurry up and i was waiting, but then i just went." when you gotta go, you gotta go!

TREAT...Sunday night was going to be the birthday boy dinner from Chris's parents. he wanted to have fish and shrimp this year. sherry made the kids a plate and i told her to give them some fish and shrimp since they have had it before.
TRICK...we sat down about 7 pm to enjoy the fried goodness and Anna said "ouch! my lip mommy." i thought it was a bone, but she seems OK. a few sec later, she said it again and i noticed it starting to swell. within a matter of seconds her lip had doubled in size. she started saying she was sick. i gave her benadryl right away due to the size of the fat upper lip. she was quickly getting worse and not better so we hopped in the car and headed to the weatherford ER. she continued to get worse on the car ride over...not fun for mommy or anna. turns our she is highly allergic to fish/shellfish. i'm not sure yet since she hasn't had a formal allergy test done yet. her throat was starting to swell, but the benadryl was able to slow it down. A had to have an IV with her meds to help speed up the healing process. the nurse started her once in her arm and lost the vein and had to do it again in her hand. it broke our hearts! she cried and screamed, but we held it together for her. so far she has been fine. we now have our epipen in case it happens again.