Viva Las Vegas

We decided to take a little family vacay to Vegas! It was so fun and the weather was great! The kids did so well on the drive, I was pleasantly surprised. :)

The view from behind me in the car....what a stinkin' cutie!

Malea did great, she pretty much just watched "Tangled" the whole way there! Thank heavens for portable DVD players!

Our hotel: Tahiti Village Resort & Spa

It was so nice, we loved it! It didn't have a casino (which was great) and it was really geared towards families. There were a lot of families there with kids on their spring breaks. We will definitely stay there again!

About 2 minutes after we got there and got the car unloaded, Malea had her swimming suit on and was ready to get to the pool!

I absolutely love this picture of Isaac! This kid is such a monkey...about 2 seconds after I took the picture he just about fell right off the chair on to his head on to the hard concrete! I grabbed his legs just in time!

The pool had a section with sand that went in to the water, Malea was in heaven! It was like a little mini beach. They had sand toys that you could make sand castles out of. It was so fun!

The first day we were there we went and visited a good friend of Keith's from high school. I wish I would have gotten pictures with them! It was so fun to catch up and meet their cute family.

The second day we went to see the Hoover Dam. What a cool sight to see!

What a smiley kid! He was such a good sport.

The Nevada/Arizona State Line

The third day I took the kids to a cool mall close to our hotel called Town Square. They had this really fun section for kids in the center of the mall that had big tree houses with slides, ropes, and ladders coming out of it. It also had a splash pad where water squirted up. It was so fun! I wish we had a mall like that in Utah!

That same day we spent a couple of hours on the strip. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time on the strip just because of how yucky it is, but we did go to the M&M World, Coca Cola Factory, and we went to see the fountain show at the Bellagio.

Overall it was a great trip!
We had fun but we were ready to get home and sleep in our own beds :)

Malea Update

Random little fun things Malea is saying/doing:

She is in a challenging but fun stage....it reminds me of like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde kind of thing. One minute she is saying the cutest, most grown up things and she is just so sweet and pleasant, and one minute it she throws a fit and its a major power struggle. She is in the "I wanna do it" stage. She is really helpful, especially with Isaac.

The other day Malea was sitting on a balloon with it between her legs and she said, "I'm sitting on a baby penguin egg!"

Lately she loves taking pictures with our camera. They are so random and funny and off center, but she thinks its so fun! Thank goodness for digital cameras :)

Malea looking at our pansies starting to sprout. She loves anything to do with nature. We will be driving and she will say things like "look at that beautiful tree mommy!"

Malea has had a problem with night terrors/bad dreams for a few months now. The night terrors are especially bad right now. She wakes up almost every single night between 11pm and 1am screaming and crying. She is so out of it and doesn't really even know I'm there, I feel so helpless :( I hope she grows out of it soon.

The other day we had plans to have a play date with a friend, and as we were getting her ready for bed she said, "I just have one more sleep and I can play with my friend!"

Malea loves the movie "Tangled" and watches it almost everyday! She can sing the song that makes her hair glow ("Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine, make the clock reverse...."). She will be sitting there watching the movie and will sing along, word for word. She also loves the "I've got a dream" song :)

Malea in her Tangled shirt :)

Malea also makes up words....one of her favorite is "chumped"....(used in a sentence: I "chumped" it)....the definition is still kind of iffy (lol)

Another cute thing Malea says lately is she will suggest something and then say "that's a good idea?" hee hee

My little girl is growing up too fast :( She is going to start pre-school in the fall, she can't wait!

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!