Which will probably end up not being small after I fill you in on everything that is going on ;)
As for Mike- please check out the post about him below. Great video footage of him doing pretty neat stuff at work. He is thoroughly enjoying his work these days. Having a blast doing lots of manly things every day! We finally found out when he's going to deploy- well, who knows, this date could change or be wrong- the latest is he won't deploy until next October. I am very excited about that! I was not looking forward to him being gone over the summer. He will probably be gone a lot before then anyway-- he's been traveling all the time lately. Next trip for him is after Thanksgiving- a couple of weeks.
Nicole is doing great- no news to report there! I'm doing great too- just busy busy busy!
A few weeks ago Aubrey came home with a letter from the school nurse saying we needed to get her eyes checked. No big deal! We got one for Nicole last year- turned out nothing was wrong with her vision. Well, it didn't turn out so well for Aub and we were referred to a pediatric ophthalmologist. Apparently, she hasn't been using her left eye....like at all. Vision is fine in the other eye, and will be fine in the left once she trains it to work properly. At some point, her brain told her to stop using that eye because it is slightly misaligned which probably caused her to see double. Anyway, for now we are patching her good eye for two hours a day and that is supposed to force the bad one to start working. It really doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but we can't just patch her and send her on her way. We have to make sure she's doing something visual to get the eye to work a little bit. Two hours is a big chunk of our day! But we are committed and she has been great with it so far. We found some pretty sweet patches that she just loves. Check out her picture of her with one on :) Also, when we go back the Dr will decide if she needs eye muscle surgery to correct the misalignment. She's borderline now, and the Dr wants to see if the patching helps the eye realign at all in the next few months. So crazy! We had absolutely NO idea. It's no friggin wonder she gave herself the nickname "Eyeball Snooks" over the summer- LOL!
Luke is absolutely fantastic! Him and his father are quite the little buddies and he can't get enough of his sisters. Aubrey actually gets him to laugh the most out of anyone- very cute! His umbilical hernia has almost closed up. His belly button is much much smaller than it was- it looks a lot better. He should be good to go by summer when it's time for him to go topless! We took him to his pediatric urologist appointment and as of right now they aren't in a rush to do surgery. They would like to wait until his lungs are more developed since he has to go under general anesthesia. We will go back there in April sometime to decide when it is going to happen. They referred to it as a "webbed" penis if you want to look it up- haha! Quite common and no big deal. He just started rolling onto his side-- all the way over on occasion-- and he is huge! Sixteen pounds at his 4 month check up!
The holidays are right around the corner-- looking forward to Mike getting some time off. Not doing much for Thanksgiving- staying home & pigging out! We are still trying to figure out when we are coming to Pittsburgh. Obviously, we are coming soon- just not sure when yet. Can't decide if we will be up for Christmas or New Year's Eve. The thought of traveling with everyone is making us sick really (lol!) so we haven't made up our minds yet. But like I said, we'll be up and we'd love to see everyone :)
So that's it! We miss and love you guys and are looking forward to seeing some of you soon!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Hi!
I've missed you guys!
I have been wanting to update forever--- BUT we've been busy here in VB! :)
Currently what's going on with everyone is:
Mike is in Mississippi in some sort of "soldier" training. He's been practicing war like scenarios so that when he deploys (in the Spring) he'll be ready if anything crazy happens. That's probably not exactly the way he would describe the training he's doing, but that's the way I am going to describe it to you! Ha! He left almost 3 weeks ago and has been going non-stop...has only had 1 day off and has been at it at least 12 hours a day- usually more. Good news for him is he's almost done- that's good news for us too! He will be home on Friday :) Oh, and when he gets back he gets to hang from a helicopter as it flies around-- exciting!
We have been slowly getting used to the girls being back in school. The early mornings are not fun, but the quiet days while they are there are wonderful! Nicole is doing great as usual, and Aubrey absolutely loves Kindergarten. Aubrey got in trouble on her birthday for making chicken noises- I guess the excitement of bringing in a treat for everyone got the best of her! She has since redeemed herself and came home with a special award the other day for sitting still & being quiet during their writing lesson. With all the chaos we've been through recently, we decided it would be best to skip a fall sport and just go with one extracurricular activity- dance- they love it.
Luke is great! Mike's buddies at work like to refer to him as "bubble boy" because the kid always seems to have something going on with him. We really don't mind-- we are just thrilled he survived the salmonella incident! At the end of the month he will be seeing a pediatric urologist- yeah, he hasn't been circumcised yet. Um, nothing really major going on down there, just his penis attached to his scrotum is all :) I guess it isn't that big of a deal, they just need a little bit more skin to grow so his member isn't damaged during the procedure. He probably won't have the actual surgery until after the new year. We will find out more when we go to our appt. He also has an umbilical hernia-- his guts poke out of his belly button. It's just weird- his belly button is huge. They won't operate on that until he's 3 or so and they say it will close up before then anyway. It's pretty unattractive, but lately it hasn't been sticking out as far so maybe that's a good sign the hernia is closing up. Those are really his biggest issues to speak of. As far as his personality, he is such a sweet sweet baby. He is pretty laid back and is a wonderful sleeper which is awesome because Mom needs her sleep too!
As for me, you can probably tell by the rambling above what I've been up to! It has been quite a change for me getting back into baby mode. No more running around all the time, no gym yet....just lots of time at home with the baby. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love it...it has just taken some getting used to ;)
Obviously, it has been awhile since I have updated. I added a ton of pictures below, but didn't write anything with them so I'll give the rundown here:
In May we celebrated Mother's Day by going strawberry picking-- we've done that for a few years in a row now- so fun! Nicole was awarded Citizen of the Month for trustworthiness and she also turned seven :) At the end of the month we said goodbye to Bayside Presbyterian Preschool (for now) and celebrated Aubrey's graduation. Sad day leaving the preschool, but am looking forward to when Luke can be a student there.
In June we had our big dance recital. I was hugely pregnant and decided to assist with Aubrey's group- wow- that was rough! But I survived and the girls did a great job & looked beautiful on stage. At this point we hadn't spend much time at the beach and unfortunately on our first big day there Nicole got stung by a jellyfish. We had no idea what to do and ended up making the sting that much worse by cleaning it with cold fresh water. That's like the worst thing you can do. Wups! The sting progressively got worse over the next few days so ultimately we ended up in the ER for some steroids & meds to make it not itch so bad. It's so strange- she still gets itchy from time to time. They say that can happen for up to a year-- crazy!
In July we welcomed Luke to the family. My blood pressure was high so they had to induce me- not an easy delivery, that's for sure! We were glad he came slightly early though because we were set to move on my due date. The weekend of our move we got to go to Family Day at Mike's new command. I stayed behind (with Luke) and missed all the excitement on the boats. Apparently, Eileen had quite a ride on the fast one! Hahaha- check out the picture of her holding on for dear life!
August didn't start off too fun. Actually, it was the end of July that we ended up in the hospital with Luke. Ughhh. What a nightmare! To clarify what happened-- he had salmonella poisoning. For you and I, it really isn't that bad- case of the poops, bad guts for a week and then we are fine. For him, he had no immune system to fight it off so the bacteria made their way into his blood stream- NOT good at all. Anyway, I will never forget when the dr came in and told me "I hate to be the bearer of bad news" (and the convo continued to go downhill from there)......my heart just sank. That was by far the worst day of my life. I just kept thinking- how could you take him from us when we've waited for him for so long? With lots of support, prayers, and an excellent medical team our little guy pulled through. Thank GOD! All of the doctors were fabulous and took such good care of Luke. If it hadn't been for them he wouldn't be with us today. After a couple of weeks of treatment he has fully recovered and by the looks of him, you'd never guess he had been so sick-- he weighs 14lbs!!!
I also posted random pictures from all of our summer fun we managed to squeeze in between our life changing events that occurred! LOL! We had swimming lessons, we went to the beach, spent quite a bit of time at our pool, and went to our favorite theme park a couple of times- Busch Gardens.
In September we started school- yay! We also celebrated Aubrey turning five and when Grandma was here for Aubrey's birthday party we went to the oceanfront for the Neptune Festival.
October is just getting started & Grandma Cyndy is visiting! Looking forward to some fun times with her for the next couple of weeks :)
Please check out all the posts under September & October to the right ------> Lots and lots of pictures!
Miss & love you all!
I have been wanting to update forever--- BUT we've been busy here in VB! :)
Currently what's going on with everyone is:
Mike is in Mississippi in some sort of "soldier" training. He's been practicing war like scenarios so that when he deploys (in the Spring) he'll be ready if anything crazy happens. That's probably not exactly the way he would describe the training he's doing, but that's the way I am going to describe it to you! Ha! He left almost 3 weeks ago and has been going non-stop...has only had 1 day off and has been at it at least 12 hours a day- usually more. Good news for him is he's almost done- that's good news for us too! He will be home on Friday :) Oh, and when he gets back he gets to hang from a helicopter as it flies around-- exciting!
We have been slowly getting used to the girls being back in school. The early mornings are not fun, but the quiet days while they are there are wonderful! Nicole is doing great as usual, and Aubrey absolutely loves Kindergarten. Aubrey got in trouble on her birthday for making chicken noises- I guess the excitement of bringing in a treat for everyone got the best of her! She has since redeemed herself and came home with a special award the other day for sitting still & being quiet during their writing lesson. With all the chaos we've been through recently, we decided it would be best to skip a fall sport and just go with one extracurricular activity- dance- they love it.
Luke is great! Mike's buddies at work like to refer to him as "bubble boy" because the kid always seems to have something going on with him. We really don't mind-- we are just thrilled he survived the salmonella incident! At the end of the month he will be seeing a pediatric urologist- yeah, he hasn't been circumcised yet. Um, nothing really major going on down there, just his penis attached to his scrotum is all :) I guess it isn't that big of a deal, they just need a little bit more skin to grow so his member isn't damaged during the procedure. He probably won't have the actual surgery until after the new year. We will find out more when we go to our appt. He also has an umbilical hernia-- his guts poke out of his belly button. It's just weird- his belly button is huge. They won't operate on that until he's 3 or so and they say it will close up before then anyway. It's pretty unattractive, but lately it hasn't been sticking out as far so maybe that's a good sign the hernia is closing up. Those are really his biggest issues to speak of. As far as his personality, he is such a sweet sweet baby. He is pretty laid back and is a wonderful sleeper which is awesome because Mom needs her sleep too!
As for me, you can probably tell by the rambling above what I've been up to! It has been quite a change for me getting back into baby mode. No more running around all the time, no gym yet....just lots of time at home with the baby. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love it...it has just taken some getting used to ;)
Obviously, it has been awhile since I have updated. I added a ton of pictures below, but didn't write anything with them so I'll give the rundown here:
In May we celebrated Mother's Day by going strawberry picking-- we've done that for a few years in a row now- so fun! Nicole was awarded Citizen of the Month for trustworthiness and she also turned seven :) At the end of the month we said goodbye to Bayside Presbyterian Preschool (for now) and celebrated Aubrey's graduation. Sad day leaving the preschool, but am looking forward to when Luke can be a student there.
In June we had our big dance recital. I was hugely pregnant and decided to assist with Aubrey's group- wow- that was rough! But I survived and the girls did a great job & looked beautiful on stage. At this point we hadn't spend much time at the beach and unfortunately on our first big day there Nicole got stung by a jellyfish. We had no idea what to do and ended up making the sting that much worse by cleaning it with cold fresh water. That's like the worst thing you can do. Wups! The sting progressively got worse over the next few days so ultimately we ended up in the ER for some steroids & meds to make it not itch so bad. It's so strange- she still gets itchy from time to time. They say that can happen for up to a year-- crazy!
In July we welcomed Luke to the family. My blood pressure was high so they had to induce me- not an easy delivery, that's for sure! We were glad he came slightly early though because we were set to move on my due date. The weekend of our move we got to go to Family Day at Mike's new command. I stayed behind (with Luke) and missed all the excitement on the boats. Apparently, Eileen had quite a ride on the fast one! Hahaha- check out the picture of her holding on for dear life!
August didn't start off too fun. Actually, it was the end of July that we ended up in the hospital with Luke. Ughhh. What a nightmare! To clarify what happened-- he had salmonella poisoning. For you and I, it really isn't that bad- case of the poops, bad guts for a week and then we are fine. For him, he had no immune system to fight it off so the bacteria made their way into his blood stream- NOT good at all. Anyway, I will never forget when the dr came in and told me "I hate to be the bearer of bad news" (and the convo continued to go downhill from there)......my heart just sank. That was by far the worst day of my life. I just kept thinking- how could you take him from us when we've waited for him for so long? With lots of support, prayers, and an excellent medical team our little guy pulled through. Thank GOD! All of the doctors were fabulous and took such good care of Luke. If it hadn't been for them he wouldn't be with us today. After a couple of weeks of treatment he has fully recovered and by the looks of him, you'd never guess he had been so sick-- he weighs 14lbs!!!
I also posted random pictures from all of our summer fun we managed to squeeze in between our life changing events that occurred! LOL! We had swimming lessons, we went to the beach, spent quite a bit of time at our pool, and went to our favorite theme park a couple of times- Busch Gardens.
In September we started school- yay! We also celebrated Aubrey turning five and when Grandma was here for Aubrey's birthday party we went to the oceanfront for the Neptune Festival.
October is just getting started & Grandma Cyndy is visiting! Looking forward to some fun times with her for the next couple of weeks :)
Please check out all the posts under September & October to the right ------> Lots and lots of pictures!
Miss & love you all!
Friday, October 1, 2010
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