Time Change....

Well since Ive got an extra hour I figured I blog with it....LOL! This day has seemed to really drag on and has taken its toll on the kids. Cami was begging for bedtime at 6:30 and Caleb said how much longer till bedtime I say its not even 7:00 yet......awwwww he said.....that was a first, normally he is my night owl! But with it being so dark out so early it has really thrown us all off! Besides the time change being a bummer we did enjoy the beautiful bright sun shine of a day today! We got out and I took the kids pictures and I thought I would share those with you. Caleb did great and Jayden such a sweet heart she is and Cami well bless her heart she just hates to take pictures. Specially if we are outside she LOVES to be outside and if you are holding her back from exploring a new surrounding she goes absolutely nuts! I swear it was like a bipolar child...pitching a fit then 2 seconds later she was laughing....LOL! This is why I do not pay for someone to do our pictures its too frusterating and takes way too long and they worry about the tiniest amount of snot on her nose after she has just pitched a fit...teehee! She tries to be good but she only allows a certain amount of time for you and if you didnt catch her looking then too bad opportunity missed there is no redue she is D-O-N-E....little stink she is! But I did however manage to catch some fantastic shots inbetween the maddness as I always do and I tell ya Im just in love with these guys!
























On another note they so enjoyed Trick or Treating! They were running a hundred miles an hour without the candy that was just pure excitement. Cami was so funny with her Tritreats and Thank yous and if they didnt say your welcome she would look back at them and say it for them and they would get such a chuckle out of her. And if they didnt get to the door fast enough she would try to open the door.....so impatient! Funniest was if they gave her some good candy she would say Wow thanks much then run off! Caleb he was so quiet as usual but was tickled to be getting candy. Mental note to self always ask them if they need to go potty before you wiggle them into a one piece super man costume that took 8 minutes to get him stuffed into. It hit him by the first house, he was dancing around on their front porch about to wet his pants...LOL! Other than that we had a great night Jayden didnt care for it much guess it was too cold for my baby girl!






Well as we say from the south Happy Fall Yall ;)

Happy Halloweeney!

Well it was another hit of a camping trip although I have to say our coldest one yet for October. I about froze my tootsies off so it was lots of sitting around the campfire for me! Kids had a blast couldnt keep up with them, actually barely saw them most of the time. Weird being able to say that with Cami now although you do have to do random checks but pretty much she stays up with the crowd of our kiddos.

We had a double whammy of a birthday party, dress up with some trick or treating and some pumpkin carving. We didnt do as many pumpkins this year it was just too stinking cold that evening. But all in all it was a great trip to end out our year of camping.


Also got the EEG results back and there was no seizure activity seen. Great news there but I already knew that, it was just checked since she had a few pop up when sick but mainly it was to see how it read now that she is off all meds. It still showed the slowing brain waves. May just take some time or it may be PDD related, or genetics related...one can only guess! But she continues to do well so no meds needed. She returns for her 6 month check up with her neurologist in December. He thinks she is doing great. Said she may just deal with seizures when very ill like we saw but said we can do meds during that time to prevent oncoming seizures.



So that about sums it up this week. We've had to do a school project with Caleb or I should say "FOR" Caleb.....gosh do they honestly think they do these things on there own parents usually end up doing the most part of it. Its like school all over again! He had to do a Ocean Habitat Diorama in a shoe box, it turned out really cute thanks to my cricut machine. If you dont have one its a must makes projects so easy.




Cami's been out of school for a few days again with a nasty runny nose so I kept her home to keep her from getting more to it! But she should go back tomorrow. Shes so fun to be around right now as shes learning new words and I tell ya she watches you like a hawk specially her brother. Could this lead to more trouble??? She now has grown very impatient when it comes to eating and sits at the table and says I want Shick-un(chicken)(She really drags this word out) I want Shick-un I want Shick-un I want Shick-un till we set it down in front of her...its hilarious and annoying all in the same...but you cant help but laugh. Mainly because the way she says it. Her other one is a Dot Dog for hot dog trying hearing her say that fast 3-4 times in a row....she is a nut and is becoming the typical toddler! I love the changes.

Jayden holding a toy for the 1st time. 10-24-09

And little Miss Jayden is doing fabulous she will be 2 months old on Sunday!!!!! She smiles up a storm, loves to stare into your eyes and is cooing and is starting to find a little bit of a squeal. Sweet stuff angels!

Hope everyone has a Happy and safe Halloween!


Mommys Sweet Little ghost on her 1st Halloween!




Little Miss Riding Hood: Cami









Pumpkin Carvings:
Mine was the cat in the window it was so much easier than the sea horse I did last year!

Happy Fall....

Well there goes another season come and gone! Cant believe its Fall and the countdown to Christmas is on....65 days can you believe that!!!! Anyhow I think I'll put that thought on hold cause Lord knows I'm not ready for the crowds...teehee! I think I'm gonna just enjoy this beautiful fall temps and gorgeous leave changes right now, its been so amazing outside push aside all that rainy week last week and these early winter temps and I think I could enjoy it more, the weather is much like the kids... in a hurry to get to the next something!

Man I tell ya my baby girl is growing up so fast already, she is 7 weeks already thats right she'll be 2 months old next week..sniffsniff! Pure craziness is what it is around here barely enough time for myself let alone a 5 minute shower! We have celebrated Calebs 8th birthday, my 30th b-day and had their 2 week fall break, took a short camping trip and a quick trip to my familys down in Louisiana during that time. I was so glad I got to share Jayden with them while shes still so small, she did great on the trip down just woke to feed and then back into the carseat she went for another 3 hours...shes such a great baby ;)


Of course you know us and that means that our story is always eventful we can never go anywhere without something happening and unfortunately it wasnt a good thing. Cami ended up getting very sick while we where down in Louisiana and of all days it was on my birthday. I have to say it is by far the worst birthday of my life and I hope I never have to relive it ever again! She started out with a temp of 102.9 out of the blue the day after we arrived down there. She had a cough so we just put the 2 together. Well later in the day she was sitting with my hubby and she started to vomit and during the mist of that she just stopped and was hunched over almost gagging like but wasnt make a sound well lift her up and her eyes where rolled up...yes my sweet girl was having what we thought was a febrile seizure. So we called insurance they directed us to a quick care that took our insurance. They tested her for the flu and that was about it......I could go on and on about the horrible service these people give but I wont needless to say thats all they tested her for it came back negative so they just prescribed her an antibiotic and cough medicine for her cough and sent her home. When they returned it was about 7:30pm I was then holding her she was still running very high temps and while holding her she was facing away from me I noticed her head just going back and forth while looking up it was very slow I said what is she doing, you guessed it another stinking seizure...but this time she stopped breathing her mouth was turning blue by this time Im hysterical because she isnt responding to anything... it seemed to last an eternity but it was really only for a minute but still too long. When she came too she took a deep breath and was very lethargic and pale. I gathered my things and we headed to a pediatric ER they took her immediately they couldnt get an accurate temp reading but when we took it right after the seizure it was 103.6 by ear. They ran chest xrays and it came back clear, her throat was fine and her ears clear....so they gathered that she did indeed have the flu even though the test came back negative. He said just because a cow doesnt moo doesnt mean it isnt a cow same with the flu not all test come back positive. He said she had all the classic signs of it. So he prescribed Tamiflu and told us to still give her the antibiotic the earlier Dr prescribed. He said that the seziure described was not febrile that it was a clonic a fever induced seizure. Kids who have a seizure background are always more likely to have seizures when sick it lowers there threshold for them. He also told us to never give her over the counter cough medicine because its not good for kids with Epilpesy. He said that lots of them can bring on seizures. We've always been told this but I had earlier in the week given her Dimetapp not thinking about it. This also was her first time ever being sick since being off all meds, we literally never in a million years thought she would have another seizure didnt think twie about it I pushed that thought completely out after being seziure free for 2.5 years now. These by far where way scarier Ive never seen her stop breathing. He said those are sinotic(sp?) where you stop breathing! He gave us some Diastat also to keep on hand. I have some of that but it was at her school lot of good it did me there! So that thing stays with me at all times now. She never did have another seizure, they gave us special tylenol and motrin instructions to prevent her fever from coming back up again she literaly had to take it all day long every 3 hours alternated or given at the same time if it got high again. Thankfully we didnt see anymore. But honestly what a way to ring in 30....the worse day of my life(besides when she was orignally dx).... but it rained all day actually the whole time we where down there...NON STOP RAIN and with her being sick we went no where. I did so enjoy my visit with the family though but was so glad to be back home so we could be around our Dr.s.


We've talked with her Neurologist and he too says they sounded like Clonics and said its very common to get seziures when you are sick with her history. Gave us the option to put her back on a med we however declined my baby girl has come leaps and bounds since being off the meds so I dont want to stir things up again. They however have given us the option of clonzepam when she is sick only. She also goes for another EEG this Thursday mainly for a follow up of being on no medicine to see how her brainwaves are. I'll try to update on how those results come out as soon as I get them. As of right now she still has not been back to school because shes still holding onto a rumbling cough.....grrr tis the season!

Anyhow we are gearing for our last camping trip of the year. The whole family is going, its a double birthday party, halloween party, pumpkin carvings and the good ol campfire on a chilled night! We cant wait, Jayden did awesome on her 1st camping trip a few weeks back so hopefully things go just as smoothly this weekend ;)




Caleb is doing great, loving school as usal, he adores his teacher and mommys proud to say that he made straight A's on his 1st report card this year...Way to go Caleb!! In school they are working on telling time in all kinds of ways 5 afters, 5 tills quarter tills and afters, military times those sorts of things. They also are working on their first home school project. Hes gotta make a habitat and he choose an ocean theme...of course, he loves sea creatures. So this ought to be fun...who ever said its "their" project when the parents have to be so envoled in making it, its like school all over again.



Jayden news like said she is just growing up way to fast, shes smiling and cooing and has amazing eye contact, she still sleeps most of the day and tends to be on an every 3 hour eating schedule all day and night. Although at night here lately she will nurse every hour for about 3 hours and will then sleep a 4-5 hour stretch. Of course she is going through a very spoiled stage and will wake as soon as I lay her down and the little stink thinks its time to eat again. This happend last night and went on till the wee hours in the morning, I was exhausted then Cami gets up raring to go. This all equals a walking zombie mom....LOL! But everyday I manage to find strength somewhere to pull through all these hardships.



Last bit of Cami news and this will be a bit different. Normally I type in all her new words, well this go round I will just say............What word can she not say! This girl is a little chatter box and can pretty much repeat anyword said. She doesnt comprehend much of it that we say but she knows fully what she is saying. That girl can give you an ear full and talks in full blown sentences she just leaves out the I's, and's and The's its cute listening to her go on and on ;0 Oh and she talks in 3rd person its hilarious....Cami wants juice, Cami go outside, Cami do it! But ask her what her name is and she couldnt tell ya....LOL, she'll just say Name. I just love these guys they make life so interesting.....So until next time Happy Fall, Happy Halloween and Im sorry but I might even have to go ahead and say Happy Thanksgiving because with my limited time I get around here it might be a while before I can get back on! I hope this finds everyone doing well ;)
Heres some pics of our past few weeks....Enjoy!
A few of Calebs Camping Party!


Some fav black and whites:




Jayden's 1 month fav's:






1st camping trip as a family of 5:







A little Humor: She fell asleep standing up while he read her a bedtime story! Hes grinning ear to ear because he had just lost another tooth that night ;)




Louisiana visit: This was all I got mainly just some with my neice Natlaie holding her she kept saying My Baby Jayden...sweet stuff. Then one of my younger sister holding her! It was just an eventful visit so weve got to get more pics next time!













This years Pumpkin Patch Adventure: They had a kids 200ft zip line Caleb would only do it once, they had a huge tree that had swings galore on it, a mining thing you could do down by the river to hunt for gems, a hay maze, hiking trails and hayrides and much much more!

It's a Girl!

We welcomed a beautiful healthy baby girl on September 1, 2009 at 8:51pm. Jayden Paige arrived 17 days early weighing in at 8 lbs 11 oz and was 20 inches long!

My contractions had started while sitting in the Dr.s office while waiting on my weekly stress test on Aug. 31st. I was checked and was said to be a 4 cent. and was thought to be in labor. The Dr just sent me home to see what happened I continued to contract every 4-15 minutes all night and through till mid day on the 1st. I called and they requested I come in to the Dr's office again to be checked again where I had progressed to 5-6 cent so they sent me over to the hospital to be monitored. Within that hour I had progressed to a full 6 so they kept me and said we where going to have a Birthday, I couldnt believe it. They broke my water at 6:15pm and I actually stuck with the ol natural route it was an amazing experience but let me just say I am done....LOL! Little Miss Jayden made her apperance very quickly at 8:51pm. It went so fast the Dr barely made it in time to catch her....momma meant business! Let me just say that once they announced it was a girl the tears just flowed and I had forgotten about all that pain. Here I sat with another beautiful baby girl. Caleb unfortunately was very sick that day with a hi temp so the kids couldnt come back so they got to see her through the nursery window and then had to wait till we got home to meet and hold her. It was love at first sight for Caleb he couldnt get over how tiny she was. He said awwww look at her tiny ears, and her tiny fingers and toes...shes so cute momma....I love her!
This was the first time for them to hold her pics:



Cami was a little more standoffish. We asked her if she wanted to hold her and she said no baby! But we got her on up there and she held her but wouldnt move her head to look at her she would just cut her eyes down at her ;)She is slowly getting use to her, she doesnt like Caleb getting near her she'll say my baby and push him backwards knocking him down. When I feed her she gets very jealous it becomes a screaming match and big tears flow for my attention. Im trying different things out Ive pulled out a rocking chair so she can sit and rock beside me as I feed her sister it works sometime.

It will just take some time but man I tell ya its stressful I feel like Im missing out on the bonding time even though Im breastfeeding I just dont have the time to sit and hold her, breaks my heart. But now that they are back in school it will give me more mommy and Jayden time ;) I'll figure it out but considering such a big change they have both done well to it all.
When we left the hospital last Thursday she weighed 8 lbs 4 oz and yesterday at her 1 week check-up she weighed the same. She looked great oh and her ultrasound they did on her in the hospital after birth on her kidneys came back fine, no problems. She is good to go till she is 2 months old.


Caleb also had his 8 year check-up yesterday. He did amazing, he finally reached the 50 lb mark and was 49 3/4 inches tall his Dr said your almost a square....LOL! He got 1 shot and blood drawn and didnt shed one tear. He was so big! Man I tell ya where is the time going for these guys?
Cami's bladder problems have much improved they never found anything wrong with her. They figure she just figured out how to control her urges but was making it worse by not going. Who knows....only she! Im just glad its getting better.
Well that about sums it up Im sure Im forgetting something but Im just too exhausted to think or type anymore....LOL! Its nap time for me....Thanks to everyone for all your help.


This was hilarious, the kids shared a bed while my mom was here helping out and we went in and here they lay calebs head was all the way back and Cami laying on him, it was the sweetest!

We stuck Jayden in the bed with him and Cami one morning to wake them, she hopped right up, Caleb just layed there sleeping ;)




My mom with the kids!

Summertime....

School time, Kid time, me time, relax time lets just say there really isnt enough time for it all ;)
Its been so hectic around here!

Caleb is loving school, he loves his teacher, he loves his homework he just loves it all! When that boys alarm clock goes off in the morning he hops out of that bed and is dressed and ready to go. Its so great now that he can dress hisself, fix his own hair, make his own breakfast and is ready to go when I get up...Great stuff!


Cami well she did good for the 1st few days and then kicked in moody judy Cami who didnt want to go to school anymore. No cool mama she would say and pitch fits when we got there Im talking flat out in the floor screaming. Then there where days she was hanging on to my legs screaming. Of course once I was out of there she would calm down about 5 mintues later and would have a great day!


Well wish I could say all the drama ended there. But folks I tell ya in our family what is normal anymore? Hectic is the story of our lives! Started out 2 weeks ago on a Wednesday night with a high temp she had of 103 out of the middle of nowhere with no other side effects. Then came the no wanting to eat or drink. So off to the Dr we went they found nothing but a red throat but they went ahead and checked for strep just in case it was negative. So he said just to push the fluids and give tylenols for the temps. So needless to say she missed 2 days of school that week. Come the following Monday we started seeing another odd behavior she would cry and scream and was holding herself like she had to potty. Little did we know she hadnt been all day after I asked school. She finally went at 4:00 that afternoon but screamed when she went. So we took her to the Dr on Tuesday by this appt time she still hadnt been come midday and was refusing all drinks but was still eating. They couldnt get a urine sample well because she doesnt know how to do that on the potty yet. But they opted out of cathetar in fear it would make things worse. And of course the labs where closed anyways, so they just bagged her and sent me home with a cup hoping she would go so I could save it and take it in the next day. Well lets just say it never happend until the next morning. Stubborn girl I tell ya!


Anyhow I sent her back to school to see how she would do and of course she was still refusing the drinks so after I picked her up I called the Drs office back and they told us to go the the ER. SO we checked in at 1:20 they had to a cathetar on her because she wouldnt go which was absoultely horrible for my baby girl. It broke my heart! They also tested her blood both test came back perfect no signs of any infections! But they continued to watch her scrammble around in the floor screaming and holding herself and was confused as to what was going on. They wanted to observe her overnight and run a x-ray, and an ultrasound but after a long 5 hour wait and was getting nowhere we checked ourselves out. SLOW people I tell ya. Anyhow we took her to a follow-up with her Ped again the next day because the issues continued. He thought maybe she had vulvitis and told us just to give her 2 warm baking soda baths twice daily and call back Monday to see if the problems continued. Seemed like things where getting better but she was still holding herslef alot. She went to school on Monday and she was excited finally to be back...but it was short lived come Tuesday morning. She started screaming and saying ow ow mommy and peed all the way through a dry diaper, her clothes and soaked the floor. So off to the Dr again. This time he is thinking Bladder Spasms as the urine from this visit came back normal as well(yes another cathetar...horrible stuff)! So he has prescribed a med to help relax the bladder muscles to see if this will help. If it does not he will be referring her to a Urologist first thing next week. He has wathced her and says she is definetly in some pain but bad thing she cant tell us what she feels!
So now we wait! I kept her home today again but hopefully she will be back into school tomorrow. This med she has to take 3xs daily blurred vision is the main side effect but she hasnt ran into anything today so far....LOL!


But enough of the bad news let me share some good stuff that she has been doing. One being her speech, man has this girl is talking up a storm new words daily seems like. The other day in one of her soaking baths I was just walking from her room to Calebs picking up the bathroom is in between their rooms and she said mama I poo I poo and I ran int here thinking oh gosh dont poop in the tub but much to my surprsie she was saying shampoo and pointing to it "Look mama Ipoo".....LOL! Another on this same say is I did it! Look mama I did it, its so cute to hear and she gets so excited when she has acheived something and says I did it and claps for herself.



Now the Biggys: Let me start off saying how proud I am of my big girl because she has been working so hard on this tasks all summer and has taken many beat up bruised legs. What is it, well its peddling her bike! She has finally figured it out with much practice and different kinds of vehicles like a small peddle car and a bike peddle game. She has put in so much practice that she actually finally figured it out. She still has some problems specially since its easier to peddle backwards and this bike has brakes so she will come at a skreeching hault almost throwing her off, but she will get it.



The other thing she has learned 2 days ago was all thanks to her daddys persuasion to get her to figure this machine out. This past Christmas she got a Barbie car you know the ride ins that she can control or it had a remote that we could control it for her while she rode around. Well the antenna on that thing broke long ago so we would have to follow her around on that thing while controling the remote. Well finally her daddy said he was going to teach her how to push the gas peddle to make this thing go and to much surprise after 10-20 minutes she had it figured out. We have tried this and tried this but something finally just clicked for her. And she looks so precious out there driving that thing on the road and yes she even stears it the right way. Never had a more proud mama.
Lots of credit to Caleb too because he has worked with her lots to, he would say watch me Cami. Hes even taught her to swing really high on the swing. its so great seeing these two together ;)



Now off to mommy world! Lets just say Let the countdown begin! Im 35 weeks and the baby just keeps getting bigger and bigger. As of last weeks ultrasound the baby was weighing in at 6 pounds 3 ounces.....my hubby says gosh at this rate we are gonna have a 10 pounder....gee thanks! Caleb was 8lbs 5oz, Cami was 9 even so its looking like a pretty steady rate of increased weights! Ive been going twice a week. Every monday I have NST's(stress tests) which is where they just hook you up to a monitor for 20 minutes watching the heart beat and movements.


And on thursdays I have BPP ultrasounds to look at movements, weight, size, fluids and organs. Im considered High risk because of my gestational diabetes which is under lots better control! But baby looks great, happy as can be in there...loves to swing from the rib cage feels like...LOL! So not much longer before we know what this sweet pea is going to be a Carson David or a Jayden Paige! I'll keep ya posted ;)

Sleep???

Thats my question this evening? Will we be fortunate enough to receive a fulls night sleep before the new baby comes. My answer probably not! Cameran has been having this problem since the seizures started at 6 months of age. Last year we seemed to hit a good spell where she would sleep through the nights but that has since dissappeared! Last year we tried Ambien and it backfired causing the oppostie effect. Well last week they prescribed Lunesta so last night was the first try and lets just say that med will be thrown out! It too caused the opposite. She normally will fall asleep pretty quick 5-10 minutes and she is out around 10ish. Once asleep she will sleep soundly till 3a.m. then comes to our bed where she will toss and turn and cry out for hours not able to get comfortable. Then maybe around 6ish she will find that comfort zone and be out sound again till about 8:00 where she then starts flopping around again. Now last night we tried out the Lunesta before we gave it to her she was very tired and ready for bed. We give it to her and she becomes a bouncy ball almost immediately. Talking up a storm and raring to go. We tried to lay in her bed like our norm and she was not having it she just cried and cried looking around her room she seemed very aggetated. So I gave up and brought her to our bed, where this behavior continued. She stopped fussing then became a giggle box leaning over me and saying hi momma then over to her daddys side Hi daddy giggle giggle. Her motor mouth was running non stop unable to sit still. My hubby gave up on her after 30 minutes of it once he was out she was kept this up for maybe another 30-45 min. Then she was out. But once asleep the weirdness continued she flopped way more than her norm and was laughing but was asleep then she would sit up and lean over in your face say hi momma or dada and giggle then she was back resting again. It was the craziest thing ever. This went on all night long never a break she kicked and giggled. Jason said he got kicked in the eye and laughed at. I tried to keep my back to her so I wouldnt get kicked in the tummy.
So why I ask does she react this way to these meds. I mean even the Melatonin what your body already produces gives her problems. Such strange stuff if you ask me! At any point we are done with the meds and hope and pray that one day she will just start sleeping....Im praying its very soon. Ive got a little over 7 weeks before the baby comes.
Oh speaking of I ended up in Labor and Delievery last Thursday with contractions that just wouldnt stop. The baby was happy as a lark in there moving around tons. Actually dont know what hurt worse it moving or the contractions....LOL! I was there for 3 hours before they finally started to slow down. Turned out I was dehydrated even with all the water I already drink. But with much more added things have been perfect again. No more contractions. I went home that same night around midnight no dialtion and the preterm labor test came back negative so now we just sit and wait! Seeing those sweet little babys up there made it seem so real! I just cant wait to meet this new lil sweet pea ;)

Kids start back to school on Wednesday and I think Im more ready than they are....LOL! Its been a looooong summer break and they are so on each others nerves. Caleb will be in 3rd grade we find out who his teacher is tomorrow evening. And Cami has a wonderful new Pre-K teacher this year. Hope I didnt scare her too much with what to expect from our girl! I cant wait to see what this year holds for them both...Endless possibilities ;)

Long update with pics!

Wow its almost over for the kids they start back to school in just 2.5 weeks! Time is just flying by in a hurry thats for sure. We went on vacation a little over a week ago and I feel like Im still trying to pull everything back together. We took a long camping trip to Salt Lick which is not far from home about hour and a half. The kids loved it we where sat right on the lake with a beautiful view. It was peaceful and nerve racking. Of course being near the water you are always on edge with the kids. Cami proved that as soon as we got there. She lost her footing and slipped on the rocks and fell in Jason turned in time to only see the top of her head the rest under water. Accckkkkkk give me a heart attack so the kids had to wear life jackets any time near the bank just to be safe! Thankfully we stayed safe the rest of the trip.
This was our campsite sat right on the water! It was great!



We took the pontoon boat out for many fishing trips. Man it was great and we where catching the fish like crazy. Jason would go out early about 7am and stay gone till he knew we would be up which was usually about 9:30-10:00! Yes we love to sleep in! So Im glad he got lots of down time with just him and the fish. Said he would catch one everytime he would cast out. Good Times!
One of many fish that the kids caught!


I caught the winner of the day! We still dont know what it was but it was about a foot long. I was just realing in and that thing came right up to it before I pulled my hook up out of the water and took it. I couldnt believe it!


The temps where a little too warm for me it stayed in the upper 90's we tried to hit the beach area but believe it or not the water was colder than ice water. No lie Caleb got in and his hands turned blue it was freezin! We would try to walk out some looking for warm spots(ack) but there where very few we couldnt stand it. Funny thing all the parents where up on the banks while the kiddys swam.
These ducks just came right up to our site and hung out for a couple hours! Caleb said look mama Im swimming with the ducks!



We stayed in for about 10 minutes when Jason said was that your toes? I said where he said in my hands I said no Mine are planted firmly in the sand he said well that was a big fish well lets just say it didnt take me long to hi tail it out of there....LOL! Im not a big fan as it is of not being able to see my feet. On my way out a girl behind him so Oh God what was that the other said I dont know and I dont want to know it was alive and she was moving...LOL must of been the same one Jason encountered!
I think this was the smallest we caught...LOL!

Funny story: One day while we where out Jason was really having a hard time realing a Big something in and Caleb kept saying daddy caught a big fish once pulled up out of the water it was a tree branch that looked like antlers and Caleb says awwww Daddy caught a reindeer.....LOL! Kids do say the silliest things!


This was the only catsifh we caught and it was a night right off our bank!


Cami normally loves the water but maybe because of her beginning scare she wasnt having it at all! She screamed loudly so I carried her in and every time I would get a little deeper she would scream its WET! Yes hunny its water.....LOL but I think she meant its cold she was shivering up a storm. So daddy took her up to the playground since he couldnt handle the water either because of the temp. Caleb hung out in it a while so I sat and sunned!
The beach area and park at the campgorund! Views from the water!

One of the many beautiful sunsets!



That about summed it up for the week just lots of rest, fishing, boating and enjoying the company with each other!

Cami doing her dance in her floatie that she called her Boat!

She would just sit there by the water watching her brother swim with her boat on!

Sweet lil gal she is!
We left out from there and moved to a campground closer to us its about 25 miles from the house. We stayed there for 4 days. Jason promised me a pool and they have a great one. So we spent most of our time in the pool. The kids did so enjoy it better. We taught Caleb how to swim, we had him jumping off the sides and on the last day jumping off the diving board so proud of my lil guy! Cami stayed in the life jacket and arm floaties for extra support but our girl is like a lil ballarina in the water she loves to twirl. She so enjoyed the pool water she was a lil scared to begin with but soon got over it! By the 2nd day she was jumping off the side of the pool with no nose holding and even gave the diving board an attempt but of course didnt succeed she had no idea what to do she just wanted to bounce on the board....LOL! So lots of learning fun! Come to the end of our trip we where pooped out and ready to come home. But not before a skunk joined us and stunk up our camp site and got in our trash! What a trip.
Caleb hanging out in the hammock at our 2nd campground stay!



Cami hung out on her bike! If only we can get her to peddle those peddles and save those little legs from so many bruises!



Now onto Dr.s appts. Cami has been released from her belly Dr. things have seemed to come to some normalcy there but of course once released she got backed up again but with some Murilax she was good as new. So really its only as a as needed basis appts. She also had her Neuro appt where things went really really well. All i can say is that he was so impressed with my girl. He came in and she was talking up a storm which hes never heard out of her. He thought she was a little miracle and said out of all their Infantile Spasms patients she was the only one with such a good outcome. Said they didnt have one to be where she was at and to be doing so well. So way to beat those odds Cami! He examined her, checked the reflexes and tone levels. Said her reflexes in her legs and tone still seem to be a tiny low but no biggy. He was thrilled to hear she came off the Depakote successfully. He has set her up to have a EEG sometime in September to see how her brain waves read without it. Said it may have been the cause of the slow brain waves seen a few months back. He has also requested genetics just to see if there is anything that can be heriditary. Im iffy on that one still so we shall see, the appt is set for next week!

Cameran though I tell ya since coming off the Depakote is like a new kid. Her speech has GREATLY improved. New words all the time and lots of sentences and course there is lots of stuff we have no idea what she is saying but its the cutest. Her new words this week are How for House, Bug, Nack(snack), yuck, stinky stinky, coke, dilk(milk), why, book, baby, hat(is what she calls her head), nose, eyes, Mou for mouth, pink, red, blue, yellow, brown, green(she doesnt reconize any of these colors except yellow on occasion), socks, shoes, feet, cup, up, Elmo, slide, wet, wawa for water, hot, move, whoa, coat, bath, block, boat, please, bird, bite, rock rock for rocking chair, night night is for bed, peek a boo is what she says when she wants her clothes on, cat and says meow. These are all from coming off the Depakote just 2 weeks ago! I know there is more but this is all I can think of right off. Now her mumbo jumbo sentences go something like this : "I want go babab latada go go go bye" If you can figure out the in between just let me know but we get lots of this but its so great to hear.
Now down fall from coming off the med we have seen her sleep get worse again, waking lots during the night. Fussing and staying in a light sleep from like 3:00am and on. Also her moods have gotten worse she has become extremely irritable very fussy thorugh out the day maybe due to lack of sleep at night. And our little fearless is no more. She is even more now scared of dogs and their barking, she runs and screams, shes now scared of the dark and flys. And loud noises just flip her out she goes nuts and runs for security! Not sure what thats all about maybe she is just more aware now that there are no meds to fog her brain....I just dont know!
So lots still going on that we have to figure out and overcome but it too will come with time. She is still throwing major fits, still shows problems in the safety awarness department. She is starting to show signs of understanding things requested a little better. Its more of a routine type deal. And we are still no where near potty training being a sucess she still has no clue on what to do. She will tell us peepee so we take her and she does nothing. She will not sit longer than 5 seconds.

But all in all such huge improvements, I can only imagine how much further she takes off once school starts back!

On to my appt. Well I've made it to 30 weeks seems like it took ages and now time is flying by. I had another ultrasound where things had much improved. Earlier the baby was showing Hydrophenosis which is swelling in the kidneys but we stayed positive and things have since improved. The right side is not considered hydrop right now but the left is still showing a small amount but not enough to be concerned. I was thrilled of this news. THe baby appeared to look healthy and was a busy little thing. But was tucked away good. It would not show its face, profile nothing but a little foot and lots of hair on its little head. Sweet stuff!


After the ultrasound I saw the Dr where we discussed many things one being the horrible pains I've been having in my hips, legs and groin its unbearable gets hard to move or walk she says some women during pregnancy produce to much progestrone causing pains such as these lucky me :) Also we discussed my gestational diabetes which just seems to be crazy this go round. My fastings being the worst and even with Glyburide its not going down so they have set me up with a high risk pregnancy Dr and they will be starting me on Insulin this week. Accckkkk I hate needles so I have no idea how thats gonna work! The baby is already weighing in at 3 pounds 3 ounces and I have 9 weeks to go. They say its at 68 percentile in weight. So I have yet another ultrasound set for the end of this month to check weight again also to see if baby is still breech. But still plenty of time to move ;)


We hope everyone had a safe and Happy 4th of July! We spent the evening with my best friend and her family and it was a great evening! Some Yummy grillin, swimming and to end the evening they had some amazing fireworks but Cami was scared out of her mind poor lil gal she just couldnt handle it!
(Cami clinging on to me for dear life, there was no budging that girl)



But the other kids really enjoyed the show until we got rained out! Wouldnt ya know it we havent had rain in a week and it wasnt to show up till midnight and it had to show up early but we could always use a good rain:) It was great fun!
Caleb and his lil girlfriend Alyssa! Arent they the sweetest!

The fireworks blast off as the rain starts pouring down!



So there you have it our busy summer! I'll update again in a few weeks after all these upcoming appts pass. Happy summer everyone!