My Lil' Cuties

Isaac - 6 months old

Malea - 3 years old

Isaac - 6 months

Isaac is 6 months! HOLY COW! I can't believe how fast it has gone by! He is just such a joy and so much fun. He definitely keeps us busy!

Here are Isaac's stats from his 6 month check-up:

Weight: 15 lbs (8th percentile)
Length: 26.5 in (47th percentile)
Head circumference: 17.3 cm (55th percentile)

Here's what Isaac has been up to the last couple of months:

Playing with his sister....they just love each other!

(Malea dressing up Isaac)

This is one of my all time favorite pictures!
I just laugh every time I look at this picture!
What a bunch of hams!

Isaac's First Valentine's Day!
I just love these two!

He loves playing in his little car bouncer!


Isaac broke out in a crazy rash last month poor baby!
(We think it might be an allergy to Amoxicillin)

Isaac started eating baby food!
He LOVES it! So far he has liked pretty much everything I have fed him, except green beans (understandably) and peaches (which I thought was a little weird since peaches are yummy, but then again his daddy doesn't like peaches either). He especially likes sweet potato!

Now that the weather has started to warm up,
we try to get outside more and he loves it (just like his sister)
He has also started sticking his tongue out a lot lately, its so stinkin' cute!

I already did a post about his, but Isaac has started army crawling! He's getting faster and further every day! He is also starting to get up on his hands and knees and try to do a regular crawl but he hasn't quite mastered it yet. He mostly just tries to lunge forward. He has also started doing this thing where he looks like he is doing a push-up, he gets up on his arms and pushes himself up on his toes....it is so funny!

We love you Isaac!

Mommy & Daddy are in Trouble!

Isaac started army crawling today! He has been rolling around for a while now but he started pulling himself around the floor today to get to what he wants. He's not full-on crawling around the room or anything but it won't be long! The days of being able to leave things on the floor and not having to baby-proof things super well are over!

I am not really surprised that Isaac is crawling because he has been the busiest baby from a very early age. He can be really hard to hold and so a lot of times I just end up putting him down on the floor with some toys because he is so exhausting! He is just so interested in everything around him.

Isaac is 6 months now but hasn't had his 6 month check-up yet so I will post again with his 6 month stats and a few fun little tidbits about Isaac!

Worst Mother in the World Award goes to....

ME! :(

So a VERY scary thing happened to us last week with Isaac. We were at the grocery store and Isaac was in his car seat in the cart (on the part where bigger kids sit and get buckled in, does that make sense?). Anywho, we had fed him a bottle and then got him out of his car seat to burp him. Then, much to my regret, I put him back in his car seat but didn't buckle him. The car seat was leaning back enough that it was holding him in and I didn't think it would be a problem. We were checking out and I was just distracted, which was not a good excuse, but I was just not paying close enough attention. I figured that we would be leaving soon so I would buckle him when we were done and had to get in the car. Well the car seat got bumped and Isaac fell out RIGHT on his head! It was the most sickening thing I have ever heard/seen watching him fall like that. I immediately ran over to him and picked him up and just started crying hysterically. This is probably the point where I should have been calm and collected but I most certainly was not. Thank goodness Keith was there and was calm because I was a mess. People kept coming up to me asking, "should I call an ambulance?" or "what should we do?" and I just kept saying "I DON'T KNOW! HE FELL ON HIS HEAD!!"

Well as soon as he hit the ground he started crying really hard. He cried for a few minutes and then started to calm down and wanted to fall asleep. Well I didn't know how serious it was so I just kept talking to him and trying to keep him awake. We took him to the ER at UVRMC and told them what happened. He got really pale all of a sudden, and the nurses took notice so they got him back pretty fast thank goodness. They told us we could let him fall asleep since he had such a traumatic experience. We got back to one of the rooms and the doctor came in and looked at him and said he should have a CT scan. He asked us if Isaac passed out or vomited after it happened, and we said no he just cried really hard. The doctor said this was a good sign. After that, they took us back to the CT scan. It was so sad watching him as they had to strap him down to get the test done! He just cried and cried. I got to stay with him thank goodness.

After the CT scan we went back to the original room to wait for the results. After a few minutes Isaac started to get his color back, he started smiling/cooing and playing. I started to feel so much better about it but was still very worried. I was thinking the worst of course, like does he have skull fracture? Is he going to have permanent damage? Is his brain swelling up? I don't know enough about the medical field to know what could happen in this kind of situation.

The doctor came back with the results and gave us a thumbs up. He said that everything looked fine but that we should watch him closely and check on him through the night. He said that we did the right thing by bringing him in though, just since he is so young. He said that he has seen hundreds of these cases at the ER (where kids fall out of shopping carts) and 99.9% of the time they are just fine. He also said that it even happened to his own child while he was in medical school! That made me feel a lot better.

That night Isaac woke up every 3-4 hours or so just as the Tylenol was wearing off, which is understandable. I had a hard time sleeping that night anyway, because I was worried about him and also just felt horrible about what had happened. It kept re-playing over and over in my head watching him fall like that. I think it will be burned in my brain forever! Pretty soon after he fell he developed a good sized goose egg on the left side of his forehead, and he still has it but it goes down a little more every day.

Here's a couple of pictures, you can see that the left side of his forehead
is sticking up more than the right, that's his goose egg :(

The whole time we were going through it, Keith kept saying "I don't know how to explain it, but I just know he's going to be okay" and that was very comforting. He stayed calm the whole time, which was a relief because I was hysterical, and Malea was crying because I was crying and Isaac was crying because, well he landed on his head! My mom and step-dad met us at the hospital and helped with Malea which was really nice. I think it helped her to calm down.

I am so glad Isaac is okay! I've decided that from now on he will always be buckled and he will be down in the basket of the cart instead of up by the handle!

New Sister-in-Law

Congratulations to the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Dan Martindale! My brother Dan and his bride Kelsie were married yesterday at the Springville Art Museum. It was a great day and I'm so happy for them! I'm so excited for a new sister-in-law!

Sickies

We have dealt with so many sick bugs this year, it is not even funny! I've decided I'm not going to have a baby in the fall again if I can help it, since that is right when cold and flu season starts. Since Thanksgiving, we have had stomach flu, Keith and I got food poisoning, and we had a couple of different head colds that went through most of the family. Despite my efforts to wash hands and use Purell, we have still gotten sick a lot. I am longing for spring and summer!

Isaac has been dealing with a yucky cold and broke out in a crazy rash. He was on Amoxicillin for a mild ear infection, so we're still not sure if it was an allergic reaction or just the result of some weird virus. The rash hasn't seemed to bother him too much (thank goodness) but it has been pretty dramatic looking. The doctor said that from here on out we will just have to be careful what kind of antibiotics he gets in the future.

This is probably when the rash was at its worst (above)

Dealing with a lot of sicknesses has really made me grateful for good health. I really take for granted good health until its taken away for a time. It has mostly just been inconvenient in terms of not getting good sleep and dealing with runny noses, doctors appointments, etc. But I realize it could be a lot worse.

I've decided I'm probably going to keep my kids in more for the next month or so. It is just so hard with a busy 3 year old! Pretty much if Malea gets sick with something, Isaac ends up with it too. We will still go out and do the normal things we have to do, but I'm probably not going to take Malea to nursery, storytime, play group, or anywhere else where there are groups of other kids. I just need a break from sick bugs for a while.

Princess Malea is 3!!!

My sweet little Malea turned 3!!! I can't believe she is so grown up! We had such a fun weekend full of lots of fun festivities.

On Saturday (her actual birthday) we had a Princess Party with some of her friends. It was SO fun! It was a little chaotic at times, but I think everyone had fun. All the kids dressed up like princesses/princes. We had pizza and then all the kids decorated a little foam crown with jewels and with sparkly letters to spell their names. It was really fun! Then we had cake & ice cream and presents. She got so many fun things, including a really fun slide/basketball hoop toy that was a combined gift from us and her grandparents. My aunt made this AMAZING cake, everyone loved it! She is so talented.

Now this is the part where I get sentimental and you can stop reading if you want :)

The day before her birthday, I came across a movie on TV called "Motherhood" (it has Uma Therman in it, I had never heard of it before that day but I guess it came out in 2009). Well the movie was just okay, but there was a part in it that really struck me. Uma Therman's character was preparing for her daughter's 6th birthday party. She looked out the window to see her daughter playing outside, and stopped to watch her. She put her hand to her chest and said, "today is her last day of being 5." Well I don't know what it was, but I burst in to tears! That sounds so silly, but it really hit me that Malea was turning 3 and this day was the last day of her being 2. She was never going to be 2 again. It just really made me think about how fast kids grow up, and despite how frustrating or difficult it can be sometimes, we should just cherish every minute of it!

Malea is just such a joy. There are so many things I love about her. She is very energetic, has a great sense of humor, and loves to have fun. She can be a little drama queen sometimes, but that's just Malea. I wouldn't want her to be any different. She is SO smart. I am just amazed at the things that come out of her mouth sometimes. She loves to do arts and crafts, which I just love. I will be sad when she doesn't want to do crafts with me anymore. She loves to get out of the house and do things. She is very motherly and is so sweet to her little brother Isaac. She is always watching out for him. The other day at church she was in nursery and heard a baby cry out in the hall. She said, "that's my little brother! I need to go help him!" and she ran out of the doors and almost in to the other ward's sacrament meeting before the leader caught up with her! She just loves him so much.

I just can't believe how fast these 3 years have gone by! It seems like I just had her yesterday and now she is a big 3 year old. That sounds so cliche, but its true. I'm so excited to watch her grow up and so proud of the girl she is becoming, but I can't help but get a little sad when I think of how fast she is growing up. There are times when I am busy with something or pre-occupied and Malea will say "play with me mommy!" I am trying really hard to remember that cleaning the house can wait, and its more important to spend time with my sweet little girl.

I LOVE YOU MALEA!!!