To my wonderful husband

Thank you for sharing the past 5 years with me. I love you! Happy Anniversary.

Update on the sickness

Wanted to post a quick update on my babies. Tyler was a mess last night and I rocked him to sleep. His eye was almost swollen shut when he woke up. I chose not to use the meds the doctor gave me because that seemed to be when the swelling kicked in. After wiping his eye down with a warm wash cloth his eye started to look better. He was able to see out of it within about two hours. It has remained red and looks like he has a busted blood vessel in his eye. All three babies began to play some today which is always a good sign. Less snotty. Addison I'd say is about 85%, Brock 70% and Tyler 60%. It's amazing how antibiotics can work so fast!

Oaklen remains healthy and IS A 5TH GRADER! Go Oaklen!

My poor babies are sick!

So I left my camera in Dayton over the weekend. I'm waiting to get it in the mail. This photo was taken off my cell phone so please ignore the quality.

My babies are so so sick. I feel awful for them. Adam brought a bug home from work and it spread through the house fast. Oaklen however has remained well? What's his secret? Anywhoo Addison has an ear infection in the right ear along with more snot than her head can hold. Brock and Tyler both have double ear infections along with the snots. Tyler has an eye infection in both eyes as you can see in the picture above. It is not pink eye. It is the strangest eye infection I have ever seen. It's like his eyes are making just as many green boogers as his nose. They are swelling and matting shut. Am I making your stomach turn yet? Well let me go on.....Brock got himself so worked up today that he puked in my hand. Oh the reflexes us mothers get when we try to save the carpet and contaminate ourselves instead. While all this has gone on I myself have not been feeling up to par. I am feeling better today. I've found if Adam comes in 30 minutes before I wake up in the morning and make me take some meds when I wake up I feel better. Adam has slept all week but seems to be feeling better today.

19 Months

So so sweet my babies. Look at those bellies. Would you believe they were preemies now?

This cracks me up. She's got her arm around Brock while chatting on the phone. Sorry it's so bright. Camera must have had a flash malfunction.

All three are pro's at crawling up the stairs and Addison can walk up the stairs if her hand is held. Although we know they can back down a step or two we are not ready to let them attempt it all the way from the top.

What personalities they are getting! Addison is ornery as can be, Brock is stubborn as can be and Tyler is as laid back as can be. Big change from the Tyler I brought home from the hospital that was my fussy butt. He still likes to be held and snuggled though.

I asked Brock tonight if he was ready for bed and he signed back to me "play play play". Haha If I ask him for a kiss or hug he tells me "No". Normally after a few minutes he will come back and give them to me. He's still very dramatic in his temper tantrums.

Addison is climbing everything to sit on. The high she can get the better, but all she does when she gets there is sit for a few minutes then cry because she wants someone to get her down. She is doing this thing with her eyes where she rolls them at people then laughs. She also likes to bat her lids.

Tyler is really quiet lately. He is standing his ground more but he is quite content sitting on his bean bag with a book for up to 15 minutes at a time. I think it's funny because every time I look at him he has the book upside down. While at the pool Tyler kept copying me by signing "Play" and "Water".

All three love the song "When you are happy and you know it". I've sang this to them since about 5-6 months old, but now they can do it all too. When I say stomp your feet, clap your hands, jump, touch your nose, and just about any other silly thing I can come up with they do it. Such smart little ones.

So they will be 19 months tomorrow. It's so hard to believe!

Camping Trip

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Saturday night was an adult only night. We were up pretty late playing scrabble. The couple we were with(Randy and Rachel) had a pop up camper that they had borrowed so we sat in there away from the bugs. At about mid night we decided we should shut the windows. Rachel went to crawl into one side to shut them and we heard a very large boom. Then realized we were all sitting at a 90 degree angle. It took a minute for Randy to realize he needed to go stand on the other side to straighten us back out. We were laughing so hard and Randy says "Oh that's what those jacks were for". :) Yes we had tipped the whole pop up over on it's side and woke up everyone on the campground. I'm sure it was a very funny sight to see from the outside if you could get over the fact that you were woken up to a camper hitting pavement. I think we laughed for another 2 hours after that. Let's just say I woke up with very sore stomach muscles.

Saturday morning we headed out to pick Oaklen and Tyler up. We grabbed some lunch from Mcd and was impressed that Tyler ate a whole cheeseburger on his own. When we returned we headed to the pool to meet up with some of my friends (Bryson, Jessica, Nicci and all their kids)who were also staying at the campground. We had so much fun at the pool. Tyler was a real sport despite he missed his nap. He played in the baby pool fountain for about an hour and Jessica spoiled him with a capri-sun. Oaklen played in the big pool with Adam until Tyler and I went to watch them jump off the diving board. Tyler would say "Bu uh" every time Oaklen got up there. Oaklen had a great time back at the camp ground with Hunter. In fact they stayed so busy we did not hear a peep out of them. We took all the kids to the park in the evening then walked over to talk with some people Adam works with. It was a great evening. Tyler loved playing with Gavin's lawn mower and we are going to have to purchase him his own.

Addison and Brock had a good time with Mike and Toni. However Addison conned a new dress out of them. How did she do that? Let's just say Adam's new car no longer has that new car smell. They were on their way out to eat and Brea had to run to wal-mart to get Addison a new dress. Which is cute as can be. All in all the kids did just fine being separated and we all enjoyed ourselves.

Pictures

Who's finger is it? It almost looks like it might be Addison's................................................................................................................................................................................................................................but it is indeed his own. Whenever you ask Brock where his nose is he puts his finger in it.

The new thing is to wear hair bands anywhere but on your hair. On the four head, around the neck, even over the eyes.

Addison with four over her eyes.

Addie with 3

Addie with two and yes she is sitting on her kitchen....AGAIN

We had a blast camping over the weekend. I will add pictures soon.

Adam has gotten almost all dry wall up and has moved the attic entrance. We should be mudding by the weekend. I've been taking pictures but they are getting really hard to tell what you are looking at.

signing and sound effects

I've had a lot of people ask me if there is something wrong with my children since I am teaching them to sign. Absolutely not. There is nothing developmentally or physically wrong with them. We started signing because it's easier for babies to sign than it is for them to learn to speak. They sign earlier and are able to communicate with us. Even though they can not say monkey, bird, or kitty cat they can tell us if they see one by signing it. Studies also show that teaching babies to sign may increase their IQ so why not do it?