Of doctors, potties, and life!

Last week was quite the week!

Paige had a horrible cold (actually she still has it, and the rest of us are fighting it), and was extremely miserable. But in the midst of her cold; she has potty trained herself, is wearing “big girl panties” and just a pull-up at night. What a star!!!!!

Ella had a busy week as well. We saw the plastic surgeon on Monday. She is a really nice lady, which was a relief after my great dislike for the paediatrician that we have to see. She told me that Ella’s ear and facial palsy are related, and probably occurred during development. She couldn’t really tell me exactly what is going on though. Ella needs a CT scan to see exactly what is going on. The discouraging thing was that she doesn’t think that it is something that will resolve itself, and that Ella will require surgery when she is older. Also I have to tape her eye shut when she is sleeping so that she doesn’t do any damage to that eye. The only problem is that the tape is really irritating her skin. Any suggestions???? It has to be taped though; she can’t have a patch because the eye-lid itself has to be shut so that her eye doesn’t dry out. So the next step is to wait for a call from the hospital with her appointment. We saw the family doctor on Friday, and Ella weighed 6 lbs 15 oz!!!!! Little piggy is growing very nicely. Also this weekend for the first time Ella looked at me with real recognition, and grinned at me. I totally melted.

In the midst of colds, potty training, doctors appointments, and just plain life; Miss Morgan came home from school with head lice. Now this is a bullet that we have been dodging ever since she started school last year, as the school is full of it. From what I’ve heard, 40% of the school is infested. What a pain!!! Morgan was an absolute star through the whole thing!!!! She is also being such a big help to me with the little ones.

Other than that, I am feeling much better physically, almost back to normal I’d say. I’m just trying to figure out a new routine; and learning to deal with the fact that I can’t get as much done as I used to. Actually I’m doing pretty well with that, as long as everyone is clean, fed and have clean clothes to wear we’re doing well. The vacuuming can wait. I’m hoping maybe the collie will figure out how to use it, since she is the biggest contributor of hair!!!

Well I’m off. It is a beautiful sunny spring morning, and we are off to a slow relaxed start which is kind of nice. Daddy is out of town this week, so it is just us girls. I’ll try to take some pictures of the girls this week.

Xoxo to all.

Quiet Sunday

Just a quick note to say that Morgan and Paige absolutely loved Curious George, and they cannot wait to go to their next movie.
Today for the first time, they had a play date with Devin and Tasha on their own. I dropped them off this morning, and picked them up this afternoon. They had a great time, and Kev and I had some quiet time to ourselves with Miss Ella. We also got some groceries done; which was great. Not something we can do with all three kids at the moment, and I haven’t gone since Ella was born because my incision hasn’t healed enough yet to be hauling groceries around. Many thanks to M and M for taking the girls and giving us a little break. It was much appreciated.
New pictures are up on Flickr now, and I’ll post soon about Ella’s appointment with the pediatric plastic surgeon.
Back to school tomorrow; although I don’t know if Morgan will make it, she wasn’t feeling well towards the end of the day today (actually Paige wasn’t either), and they were both running low-grade fevers so who knows…….

Where is the time going?

I can hardly believe it, but little Miss Ella Bean was a month old on Thursday. I have no idea where the time is going, but it sure is flying by. I know that I said I would post photos to flickr, but I haven't had a second, this is the first time I've gone near the blog since my last post, and I have new ones now as well, and I really will try to get them up as soon as I can.This past week was March Break, so Morgan was home. We had a great week, but very busy with lots of visiting. The girls were all awesome. As I write this Morgan and Paige are with Daddy for their first movie. They went to see Curious George. I must admit I'm quite jealous; I was hoping to take them to their first big screen movie. They were so excited to go by themselves with Daddy though, and I am sure they are having an amazing time!!!!

Last Friday was Morgan and Maddison's dance recital. You can see it here:

Video Sharing at DropShots.com

Paige did a show of her own:


Video Sharing at DropShots.com
I'll post pictures later, someone has woken up and would like to be fed. Ella has her appointment with the pediatric plastic surgeon on Monday, so I'll let you know how that goes.

Pictures as promised

Here are pictures of the girls. I have lots more, and will post them to flickr, so you can check them out there. xxoo


Big Sister Paige!!!


Daddy and Paige doing a puzzle.


The big sister t-shirts that Ashton made with the girls!!!! :)

Daddy with his three girls.

Now that's a lot of girls!!!!

A huge THANK YOU

to everyone who has sent cards, baby gifts, best wishes. You'll all be getting cards some day when I have a second to myself, but in the mean time I wanted to let you all know how much your love and best wishes mean to us.

Extra, extra special thanks to Grandma for watching the kids while we were in the hospital, Lynn for all your help throughout the last nine months, Auntie Catherine for that first week home, and Miranda for stocking my freezer!!!!!!

You are all awesome, and we love you!!!

xxoo

Ella Grace

At long last I would like to introduce the latest member of our family. Ella Grace was born on February 16, 2006 at 2:58 am. She was very tiny weighing in at only 5 lbs 5 oz, and was born via emergency c-section. She is healthy though and growing like a weed. We were at the family doctors this afternoon, and she weighed 5 lbs 11 oz, so is growing very nicely now that she is on the outside. It turns out that there was a hole in her placenta which is most likely why she was not growing well in utero. I wonder how long the hole was there because they saw blood in my very first ultrasound way back in August, and she was already measuring small by the end of September, so who knows.
Ella has some nerve damage in her face, and is missing an earlobe, so we are being followed by a pediatrician to monitor that. Our family doctor thinks that it will repair itself (the nerve damage), and thought he noticed some improvement already. She did pass her hearing screen in the hospital in both ears with flying colours though, so the inner workings of her ear are fine. The doctors just want to follow her closely because of all of those issues combined.
Morgan and Paige are so excited that their baby is finally here, and love her to bits. I have lots of pictures to post which I will try to do this weekend. Morgan and Ella share the exact same birth weight, and were both born on a Thursday. How cool is that?
Auntie Catherine came the day I got home from the hospital, and was with us for that first week home. She was an amazing help to me, and Morgan and Paige adore having her here. Thank You Auntie Catherine for all of your help to me, and for spoiling all of us so much. You made that first week so much easier for me. Also thank you to Catherine for making the new banner for the blog!!! You rock!
It will be interesting to see how the shift from two children to three goes. This past week was our first one on our own, so we are still finding our groove. Morgan and Paige are transitioning quite well, although both are having a hard time and are manifesting it in different ways. I'm sure I'll be writing all about it over the next few months.

Here she is hot off the press, maybe an hour old. I love how alert she is. As I said I have lots of pictures that I will try to post this weekend.

Hell hath no fury like........

a woman at the end of pregnancy.


I'd just like to apologize to everyone for my moodiness, and lack of communication over the last week or so. That goes to my husband and children especially.

I think pregnant woman should be allowed to hibernate like bears for the last few weeks of their pregnancies!!!!!!!

Anyways, love to all, and I should be back to normal in a couple of weeks. Don't worry, everyone will hear as soon as there is any news.

xxoo

More of Christmas 2005

Paigie Pie with her new microphone that came in her stocking.
Grandma and her three grandchildren.
Our pretty Christmas tree.
Maggie cat in the tree!



I'll post the rest of the pictures on Flickr, just click the pictures on the right to see them.

Gingerbread House

Well I figure it's time to start posting some pictures from Christmas, since there isn't all that much time before the baby comes, and we all know how good I am at procrastinating!! Here are the girls with the gingerbread house that they made on Christmas Eve with Auntie Liane.
 

Technical Difficulties

Okay guys, I am in need of computer help. I use Netscape as my browser, and it is displaying this new template perfectly, except that my counter at the bottom of the page isn't showing, even though the code is there. I went to see how the new template looks in Explorer, and all of my sidebar stuff is at the bottom, although my counter is showing.

Any advice would be great.

New Look

Well, it was time for a change. The pink was cute for awhile, especially when you consider the fact that this blog is about little girls, but it was starting to drive me crazy!!!!! So we're going for a bit of a more sophisticated look to appease the hormonally challenged mother of the little girls previously mentioned. Let me know what you think.

Time constraints

Okay, I know that I was supposed to write a post about Morgan's bowling party, but somehow I seem to have gotten sidetracked (I can't imagine how...). So here's what I've done instead, I uploaded a whole bunch of photo's to flickr. All you have to do is click on any of the photos in the flickr badge or on the title of this post, and it will take you straight to the page.

I'll try to post Christmas photos before the baby comes...... speaking of which I had my 34 week appointment last week (I can't believe how quickly the time is flying), and all is well. Baby is head down and looking good apparently. I go back on the 24th and every week after that until baby makes his/her appearance. It's really hard to imagine that in six weeks or less there will be another little person in our lives. I'll keep everyone posted.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Happy New Year to all our family and friends. Much love, and best wishes for the coming year.
xxoo
The Doodlebugz

Technical difficulties

I've been trying to upload photos from Morgan's bowling party, but BLOGGER seems to be on crack tonight, and it just isn't working. My hormonal self is getting very frustrated, so I will try again tomorrow when I've had some rest.

The party went very well, although I was very unimpressed with the bowling alley this year. I booked the party well over a month ago, and they neglected to tell me that they no longer had a party room upstairs. Consequently we were squished downstairs right beside another party that was booked at the same time as us. Our party was booked for 1pm, and they didn't even get the kids bowling until well after 1:30pm which had me quite cross, but that is mostly due to my pregnant state, and lack of sleep. The kids had a ball (I hope), and didn't mind at all. I know our guys had a great time. Hopefully I'll be able to upload some pics tomorrow.

At home Birthday Dinner

Here is Miss Morgan with her cake after she blew out her candles.
Opening presents: these books were from Auntie Catherine. Thank You!!!!

Miss Paige's nose was quite out of joint over the whole birthday thing, so we found her something to open. It was a prize from Devin's birthday party that we hadn't opened yet. Godmother Miranda saves the day!!!!


All in all it was a very good evening. We ate pizza with Grandma and Jared, and ate cake and ice cream. The kids had a great time!!!!

Happy Birthday!!!!

Happy Birthday Dear Morgan!!!!!! It's hard to believe that you are five years old today, it seems like just yesterday that you were born!!!!
We had a great and very busy day, I will post pictures tomorrow when I am less tired!!!!
Love to all. xxoo

28 week appointment

Just a quick update on the pregnancy. I had my 28 week appointment this afternoon. Paige came with me, and really liked hearing the baby's heart beat, which was 152. Everything looks good except that my hernia that I had repaired in order to have Paige (it caused distress when I was carrying Morgan) looks as though it may be poking through a bit. Fingers and toes that it doesn't get any worse. Other than that, everything is perfect!

Sparks Enrollment

Thursday night was Morgan's enrollment at Sparks. When a new Spark is enrolled, they are presented to the leaders by a second year Spark. This meant that it was Maddison that presented Morgan, which was very cool!!!!

The gruesome twosome!!!! For two kids who fight like cats and dogs, they sure love each other!!!!
Morgan and Maddison coming through the rainbow, after Morgan said her promise and officially became a Spark.

Gotta love the germs that come home from school!

Poor little Miss Paigie Pie has been down with her first bout of the stomach flu. She woke up with it during the wee hours of Thursday morning. Friday she was much much better although still not eating. This morning she woke up overly cranky, and things went downhill from there. Poor little muffin, hopefully she feels better tomorrow, and can start eating again. She is loving jello though, and it seems to be staying down. She has been living on gingerale, and crackers!!!!!
A huge ThankYou to Lynn for all of your help on Thursday taking Morgan to school, and for baking the cookies for Sparks, you're a great friend!

Visit with the Aunties

Kevin got home from his week of training in Elmira on Friday night. The girls were so excited to see him. I felt really bad though because I figured that he wouldn't be home until late, so we went to Miranda's for dinner. As I was leaving her house around 7pm or so my cell rang, and this kind of sad voice said "where are you, I've been home for an hour!". Of course by the time I got home, the girls were fast asleep!!! The Aunties, and cousin Elizabeth came for a lovely visit on Saturday. Thank you for the pizza lunch!! The girls had such a good time entertaining Elizabeth, and are still talking about it. I unfortunately didn't take any pictures though. Auntie Christine did though, so once she emails them to me, I will post them. My foolish cold is back again, so I am trying to rest, and drink lots of fluids, I am getting quite cross about the whole thing.