Julie’s Wedding

This weekend we had Julie’s Wedding, Julie is Jackie’s Sister. Lehna was asked to be the flower girl in her wedding. I was a little nervous when they first asked her to be in the wedding b/c I didn’t know how she would act. Well I should have given my daughter more credit because she did an AWSOME job!

I have pictures this update so get EXCITED!

They took Lehna on Friday b/c the rehearsal was going to be during the day. When I picked up Lehna she was in SUCH a good mood. Jackie said that Lehna was an ANGEL all day. At first I thought maybe I had the wrong child… but she answered to the name Lehna and called me mommy… so I guess it was the right kid. They said she was so good as they did their different errands and during practice. So I was excited. By the time I got Lehna home though she came back to the two-year-old I know and love. She threw a huge fit over juice and cookies… So I’m glad she saved all of her “two year old moments” for me rather then was a pain in the butt for other people all day.

On Saturday we gave both girls a bath and put Lehna in a white dress and put up her hair. I put her hair up in pigtail b/c I thought that would be the cutest and by the time her hair dried her hair was in perfect ringlets. So she looked REALLY cute. Here are some pictures of them getting ready. She was so excited about her new shoes. They are they type of shoes that make clicking noises when you walk on hard surfaces and she couldn’t get enough of them. She was dancing all over the place in her “pretty shoes” as she called them.

Lehna's dress by the way was made entirely made by Jackie. She made the dress instead of ordering one b/c it was cheaper. Jackie did a great job. Seh is going to make Lehna different color bows so I can put them on Lehna to wear to church. The dress was beautiful Jackie you did an excellent job. She made in in a very SHORT amount of time.

Lehna ready to go down the aisle

Zach getting ready for his performance

Once we were ready to go… I went to sit down and waiting for Lehna to come down the aisle. The other tow year old didn’t want to go down the aisle by him so Lehna went down with Jackie and Zach and that was good. Lehna held her flowers and walked down the aisle. She didn’t really smile but at least she didn’t throw a fit or run the other way. So I was pleased.

SHOWTIME!

After the wedding, which Julie looked amazing, her dress was really beautiful. They went and had some cheese and punch b/c we couldn’t get into the reception all until another 45 minutes. So we kind of waited around to do pictures. Lehna did the pictures and she did a good job she was only in two of them so it was pretty easy once they got started. I am putting all the pictures I stole from the photographer.

Jackie and Julie (I apologize for the facial expressions I was trying to do this FAST)

Lehna, Julie, & Dan

Too precious not to share

Lehna waiting for pictures

The DeAromond, Rhine, Knotts Family

After the pictures we went to the reception. Lehna was pretty excited b/c we kept telling her she was going to be able to dance once we got to the reception. And she was starving so we gave her some of the chocolates on the table (the favors) to help tide her over until it was time for the party to start. Marcus came over to our table and invited us to sit with him and Jackie’s father so that was nice. We were at table one so we didn’t have to wait to eat which I was glad b/c Lehna had had WAY too much chocolate. When we were eating the starting playing the music and Lehna couldn’t hold still she was all over the dance floor. I think the sugar in the chocolate was starting to kick in b/c she was all of a sudden very HYPER!

Lehna and Marcus making the "second entrance" since I didn't get my camera to work the first time

We got Lehna to calm down by having her color and with the promise of cake (yeah I know more sugar) and she sat as I watched over her colorings and asked LOTS of questions. The distraction seemed to work, but not for long soon she was out on the dance floor once again. I took her up for a song then Jackie and Julie took her out on the floor.

Jackie and Lehna Dancing

Julie and Lehna Dancing

Soon after cake was served it was time to go. Maya had had it. She was falling asleep with the loud music and REALLY wanted a bottle like right now. So I quickly whipped up a bottled and plugged it in the mouth and we were off to home.

Maya and Tait

The wedding was really wonderful. It was a bit on the hot side but that was okay b/c we weren’t out in the heat for very long. I did feel sorry for the boys though b/c they had tuxes on and they looked really hot. But after the wedding and pictures were over they were stripped down to just the shirt and pants and then seemed much more comfortable.

So congratulations Julie and Dan we wish you both great happiness and thank you for including Lehna.

Lehna acting goofy

How do you keep a Two Year awake?

Well this is a question I didn’t think that I would EVER have to ask but if from experience I do know how to keep a two year old awake.

As I wrote in my last update that Lehna was supposed to have an EEG test and she had to is sleep deprived. For those that don’t remember please read my last update to get UPDATED!

So on Wednesday night we put Lehna to bed a bit earlier and we let Lehna her sleep until Midnight. That was a mistake… just so you know. When it was time to wake her up she was NOT ready to get up and she cried and said how tired she was it was very heart breaking. So I tried to get her to do ANYTHING I suggested playing outside, going for a walk, ANYTHING, playing games… and then I suggested to go SHOPPING… she was like “yeah I want to go shopping” and so we were OFF to the store. I kept her awake in the car by singing and rolling down the window… then when we got there I made the baby walk. I didn’t want her to fall asleep in the cart and I figured that the walking would do us both good. So Lehna and I started our LONG walk around Wal-Mart.

I started off in the pharmacy department and that’s where they were stocking the shelves and I just kind of smiled as I went up and down the aisles. They didn’t really ask me anything but I have a feeling they were talking about me when I walked out of ear shot. Well we went to the pet department and there were fishes for Lehna to look at and she liked that.

We walked up every aisle at Super Wal-Mart when we went to the toy department I lingered in each aisle a lot longer b/c she REALLY liked playing with the different toys and I thought… heck it’s keeping her awake. I let her pick out some play dough and she found this stuffed big bird that she goes “I found my big bird” and she proceeded to carry that around. The more I looked at that big bird the more I noticed the big bird didn’t look like it was for sale… the biggest clue was the missing price tag, but it’s Wal-Mart so who knows… but she just loved carrying it around. So after about 2 hours I told that it was time to go b/c we had make it all the way around. I got her Dora movie and play dough… I also managed to get a toilet paper holder for our bathroom… it’s amazing the things you just don’t notice when you’re at Wal-Mart.

When we walked to the front of the store I explained to the cashier why we were out so late so she didn’t think that I was an awful parent. But you know in the 3 hours were there at Wal-Mart not ONE PERSON, sales associate, asked us if we needed any help finding anything… strange hua… that’s customer service for you. Well we went in the arcade for about an hour after walking around so that’s why it took 3 hours. She loved playing on the bob the builder ride she kept asking to go on that a couple of times. We played every game there a couple of times. If Tait would have come I’m sure he would have gotten her a toy in the crane game b/c she kind of stared at that for awhile and I know that I wouldn’t have been successful so I didn’t try.

So we got home and I turned on the TV Louder then normal. The Dora movie was a dancing movie so I made Lehna get up and dance every time it came on so she wouldn’t get tired sitting. We played with play dough and just had a good time playing.

About 4 a.m I woke Tait up and told him to get a shower and stuff b/c we had to feed Lehna. So we were going to go to Bob Evans or Steak N Shake so we could get her fed. We left our house about 5:30 and this was probably the HARDEST part about the whole thing was the car trip. Lehna kept trying to fall asleep I rolled down the windows and she just tried to doze off. It was VERY difficult. We got to Bob Evans and they didn’t open until 6 a.m so we kind of wondered around the parking lot still keeping Lehna moving… the poor baby she was so tired. Well after breakfast we went to the clinic.

We were early but that was okay b/c the tech was early also and invited us back early and that was WONDERFUL. So we got back and the lady asked when Lehna slept last and I told her we got her up and midnight and we have been up since then. She gave us sympathy and told us this should go really fast then. The setting up probably took the longest b/c they had to put these probes on her head with this gue and Lehna wasn’t so excited about that… but I sat next to her and just told her to close her eyes. She fell asleep as soon as they turned off the lights.

The tech didn’t say one word to me during the test UNTIL I broke out my book to read then the lady was ALLLLL TALKY. She explained what the different waves meant and that was pretty neat. And she said that from the test (she isn’t a doctor) but she said it looked normal to her. They did a strobe test where they flashed a strobe test for a couple of seconds.

We got home about 8:30 a.m and Lehna was put in the bed and she didn’t move… she was so tired. Tait went onto work and I slept. Lehna woke up at 10:30 and asked if she could get up and I told her that that was fine but I was going to stay here and lay down. Lehna and I both feel back to sleep… we both woke up at 2:30 p.m.

After a couple of days we did hear back from the doctor after I had to CALL THEM FOR THE RESULTS and the tech was right she is normal. The plan now is to wait and see. This isn’t very fun… I mean I hate the thought that we have to witness another seizure I mean I didn’t see the big one and I don’t want too… just hearing about it was scary enough. So that’s Lehna’s health update. It’s good she’s normal but still frustrating that there’s no other news.

As for update for everyone…

Maya is up on all four trying to crawl… she hasn’t managed to figure it out but I figure in the next week or so she’ll be mobile. She’s already rocking and kind of jumping on all fours when you put her on her tummy on the floor. She is also eating solid food and not liking it too much. I mean it doesn’t look too good to me and Maya makes the FUNNIEST faces when she eats it. She’s getting way too big way too fast. I just want her to be a baby… not be mobile but just let me cuddle her and not grow up. (sigh) I guess that’s not going to happen but still…

Tait and I well we are still pretty boring… nothing really happening right now… I mean besides the normal stuff. Work, Home, Sleep, Repeat. Pretty exciting.

I hope to have pictures next update… have a Good Friday!

Update!

I am trying to get my updates up a bit faster then I managed to do last week! So here it is in all its glory.

This weekend was a pretty fast weekend. On Saturday we got up pretty early (thanks to Miss Maya) and we headed over to Tait’s coworkers football game. He is nine and they have a youth league, to be quite honest I didn’t really know who had the ball most of the game and I couldn’t remember the score. It went REALLY fast so that was kind of nice. I talked Tait’s coworker the entire game so I was distracted.

After we got home from the game I worked on laundry. It was so warm outside I was able to get some clothes out on the line and that speed up my laundry process. I still had some to do on Sunday but it wasn’t too bad. We also put together Lehna’s new tricycle. Lehna doesn’t quite understand the pushing once petal at a time so we managed to put the bike together. I still need to tighten the clamp that holds the handle bars together b/c it turns pretty easily and that was making Lehna frustrated. That was our Saturday…

On Sunday Lehna woke up in a HORRIBLE mood like literally right after she woke up she was crying and throwing a fit I was so frustrated. So I debated whether we should go to church or not. So I decided that we should go since we aren’t going next week since we’ll be in Peru. So we headed out to church. I’m certainly glad we went we had some good speakers, it was our ward conference, and we had members of the Stake come and talk and they were really good very entertaining. Lehna was horrible about half way through sacrament. I took her out to her potty break after the sacrament was passed and Lehna decided to put her dress in the toilet water and decided to lock me out of the stall… needless to say the two year old brat child appeared in church. So I put her in timeout. After her time out it was AMAZING she was her normal charming self it was FABOULOUS. By the time we left church Lehna was a totally different child she was so pleasant and offered her cookie to both Tait and I it was very nice. I’m glad b/c I don’t think I could have taken a day full of Lehna the brat child.

Well this week we have A LOT going on. I was talking to one of my friends at lunch this past week and it has been brought to my attention that I have FAILED to mention Lehna’s EEG that is coming up… Well this test sounds like a TON of fun let me tell you. Lehna has to be asleep during the test, which her test is at 7:30 am on Thursday so I asked the nurse “how do you make a two year old sleep on demand?” Well the nurse informs me that not only does she have to be asleep BUT ALSO she really needs to come in “sleep deprived” and I kind of giggled at that point and asked, “how does one do that” well…. She informed me that most parents we’ll put there kids to bed an hour earlier then normal then wake them up at midnight the day before their test and KEEP THEM AWAKE until their appointment… I LAUGHED I said “really” and she’s like yeah you can clean your house, take the to Wal-Mart or meijers anything just don’t let them nap or snooze in-between. LOL RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT! So needless to say Tait and I have Thursday off so we can “recover” from the test. Tait wants to take “SHIFTS” as far as keeping Lehna awake… the hardest part I think it is going to be keeping her awake in the car… Tait said he is going to alert the CPS worker on call this week to let them know that if they get a report of parents taking their two year old at Wal-Mart at “early o clock” in the morning that it’s probably just us and to ignore it… LOL So the other part is we have to feed her 2 hours before the test. Now Lehna can’t have any type of caffeine or anything like that so that makes me happy of course it doesn’t say anything about the parents so I will be drinking a LOT of caffeine… So keep us in your dreams as you dream away on Wednesday to Thursday… Helen has offered to take Maya so that makes it a bit easier on us. I don’t think I would have been able to keep one kid asleep then keep one kid awake… I mean ONE IS BAD ENOUGH.

Jackie is coming over on Tuesday to finish Lehna’s flower girl dress. She has the hem pretty much done she just needs to do the zipper. She wants to be able to put it on Lehna as many times as possible if she needs to make sure the bodice doesn’t pucker. I know she’ll do fine but I can understand Jackie’s worries.

Speaking of Jackie… Jackie made Lehna some REALLY COOL letters for her room. Lehna had a VERY blank wall and I was telling Jackie that I needed something for that wall and couldn’t really think of what to put there. Well she said she would make Lehna’s name in big letters. I am attaching a picture of it so you can all see Jackie’s handy work. She did have me hang them… which I have to say that was very difficult. I don’t know if this but I like to do things about 80%. It’s a horrible habit of mine and I’m NOT a perfectionist in ANY stretch of the imagination, so I know that if Jackie were going to hang them she would make them hang perfect so I had some pressure on me. After I got the hang of how to do it, it wasn’t too bad and I think they turned out REALLY cute… So thank you Jackie you have inspired me. I decided that Maya need her name in letters too sooooo I bought her letters today and I’m going to paint them and get the hung up on her blank side of the room. I’m pretty excited about it. I think once I get them done it will be REALLY cute. Of course when I was at Wal-Mart I forgot to get spray paint so that’s not a good start but I’m going to work on making them to how Jackie would have made them soooooo it may take me awhile… I’ll have to make sure that I have enough time to do them and don’t rush through it. Here are the letters below of the “raw” letters they aren’t painted but the little animals are completed.

Lehna's Name

Maya's Name

Also Jackie gave me another tip about getting Lehna and Maya a Halloween costume at Once Upon A Child sooooo I stopped by there the other day and this is the outfit that I found! Isn’t it just the cutest thing you’ve ever seen! Lehna LOVES IT! We have been having her practice her lion roar so it’s pretty exciting. Maya is going to go either as a duck or a pumpkin I have both I also have the skunk that Lehna wore her first Halloween so I don’t know what we’ll do yet. We found out this Sunday that our ward will have a Halloween party. Where they will have trick or treating right at the church and they will have like games for the kids to play soooo I think we are going to go to that instead of trick or treating in our neighborhood.

Lehna as the LION! Roar!

The last thing that I have for you is kind of a strange phenomenon that seems to be happening around our house.

This is a picture of the girls’ room. We combined the girls’ rooms b/c we the room on the end of the house gets REALLY cold in the wintertime. The windows aren’t’ the greatest in that room and I think it just catches the wind easily enough to both the East and South but anyway… so here’s a picture of the room….

Maya's Side of the Room

Lehna's Side of the Room

Well the next pictures are of the “toy room” we decided or more like I decided that I hated having the toys in the living room. I mean it makes the space look REALLY small and it’s just clutter and lord knows I don’t need help with the “clutter bugs”. Well here are the pictures of the toy room, please keep in mind this has been after weekend of playing in the “toy room” so nothing is put away… I don’t really inforce picking up in this room at this point b/c I can always just close the door to the mess.




Well slowly the toys are working their way out of the toy room. This is a picture of the kitchen and if you notice there’s a walker in the kitchen…



Now when you get to the living room we have a corner that has started to ‘over flow’ with toys… I guess so much for moving all the toys to the back room.



I mean there’s still room to walk around in the living room but it’s still annoying. I know that Lehna is usually pretty good about putting her toys back in the toy bins when we ask her to, but the big toys can only be blamed on the parents. Because neither Lehna nor Maya can carry the big toys that are placed in this corner… so if there’s one thing these kids don’t need is TOYS good lord… But as Helen says “Christmas is only a few months away” LOL

Well the last picture I leave you with this update is from when we tailgated last time. The central Michigan vs. Purdue game. This was Papal Tim holding the girls. I think they kind of like him. I’ll leave it up to you to decide.




Well I hope you guys all have a good week this week are going to be fast and furious… I know that Monday and Tuesday are probably going to be the ONLY days that crawl by but for the rest… I’m already looking forward to the weekend! Well have a great week!

Here is my update.

I know that I have been lacking in the update realm but I’m a working progress. I have pictures and everything to put up but they are like two weeks old SOOOO I’m going to put them up ANYWAYS just so there are pictures up… then later I’ll update another date with pictures…

So here’s the update…

On Labor Day we really didn’t do anything too productive besides going to the park. I took pictures at the park so I’m putting those up… We really just lay around and didn’t do much of anything else. Tait did mow the yard, which was exciting but that was about the only thing exciting that happened that weekend.

Then the weekend before last we took the girls to their FIRST Purdue Football game. We had a good time we got a new awing to go over us b/c we didn’t know if we were going to rain or not. So we went to the game and just before the first half was over it started to POUR on us. Everyone around us had umbrellas and jackets we did not. I didn’t bring anything for the girls. Maya seemed to like the rain; she looked up at the sky and watched the rain come down. Lehna on the other hand kind of freaked out so Tait put his shirt on her and his hat and she sat very patiently on Heather’s lap until we decided to leave. It was a good time… it truly was even though we left at half time.

This past weekend I was lucky enough to find tickets on Stubhub.com that were only 6 bucks per person so I “surprised” Tait with tickets. I put Surprise in Quotes because I was telling him about them as I was ordering them. I had to send them to his office since I was going to be out at conference in Indy all day Friday so I didn’t want to Miss FedEx when they came on Friday. Tait was pretty excited they were cheap enough that we got two extra tickets for Tim and Trent and they came down to watch the game.

When we put up our awing this time we had some trouble pulling the stupid contraption apart. So we pulled really hard on it and it finally went up… much to our dismay that the one side of the awing was bent… so after one time of using the awing I have to take it back. It was only $60 but still that’s STILL $60 BUCKS! So my plan was to take it back on my lunch hour today during Work but… plans changed.

Lehna and Maya have the stomach flu. Lehna was throwing up every HOUR last night and Maya isn’t throwing up but it’s affecting her other end. So today I got to stay home and watch them all day. I called the doctor on call last night b/c Lehna was vomiting so much I thought maybe it was something else but the doctor just said it was the stomach flu and to keep both girls as hydrated as we can. So needless to stay I didn’t sleep very much last night. I got to change Lehna’s sheets and bedding four separate times and my bedding once. By the end of the night I had it down to a system. Lehna kind of gives a warning cry before she spews so I would RUN to her room and pulls her off the bed and then just “wait” it was pretty fabulous.

Tait got Maya duty while I tended to Lehna. Maya was up a number of times last night so Tait and I didn’t get very much sleeping at all last night. Both girls are still feeling pretty yucky so Tait has arranged to where he can take the day off tomorrow to watch them since I need to go back to work. I really hate it when the girls are sick it makes me worry about them and there’s just nothing I can do to help them.

So that’s what we have been doing for the last 24 hours is nursing the girls. I am hoping that it will just take them one more day to get them back to ‘normal’ Lehna is very lethargic and for anyone that knows Lehna you know that means she’s not feeling very good she’s usually bouncing off the walls so this was quite a change. I did a ton of laundry today so I could get all the sheets and blankets washed. They said this flu has been going around for the past two weeks so it’s just a bug. The doctor said it would probably last 24-48 hours so hopefully by the time I get home tomorrow they will be back to their old selves again.

So that’s life at our house right now not too exciting I just wanted to send an update to everyone out there to let everyone know that we are alive and kicking.

Enjoy the pictures.

Lehna in a very cute hat!

Maya giving me a BIG smile!

Lehna in her Purdue Cheer leading Outfit!

Lehna playing on the slide

Vacation Update

Well we had an exciting weekend. We went to Wisconsin this past weekend/Week and let me tell you we had a BLAST!!! We had so much fun it was great, another awesome thing was the kids were wonderful they were both very well behaved and good the entire trip. There were only a few hiccups but for the majority of the time they were sooooo good!

We left Wednesday night from daycare. Tait’s parents were nice enough to let us use their van and that was really nice. We had entertainment for Lehna the entire journey back and forth, they have a VCR and monitor in their car so we watched Wiggles, Little Einstein’s, Veggie Tales, and Dora. Well I should say we listened to those shows we didn’t really watch them since they were facing the back seats, but it was great b/c Lehna was so entertained by them.

We arrived in a few short 5 hours up, which was good. We only ran into a little weather at the very tail end of our journey which we hit in Wisconsin just north of Milwaukee which we only had like 2 hours left and it was just rainy nothing serious just annoying. We found out later that the van only had one headlight so it made it a bit more difficult to see through the rain but we survived. Once we got there Mom had made us some pizza bread and they played with their grandkids. Lehna warmed up to mom and Terry after about an hour and she played with them all weekend!

On Thursday we hung around the house. Which was very relaxing. Lehna and Terry went to the park in the afternoon and Lehna LOVED that she loves playing and swinging at the part so Terry was willing to take her so she got VERY BUDDY BUDDY with her b/c of that. Here are some pictures of us playing around the house and stuff.

Lehna Riding the Motorcycle

Lehna riding the Motorcycle

Maya on the Motocycle

The next morning we headed off to the Children’s museum, which is in Milwaukee, which was only about 2 hours away. The museum was pretty cool over all it was a bit crowed I’m used to the very large children’s museum in Indianapolis and this was about a ¼ of the size. It basically had one floor but all the exhibits where so kid focused that there were actually things to do. Tait made the comment that at the Indianapolis children’s museum there are things for the kids to do but most of them are broken or missing so it doesn’t make it very fun for kids. This was a lot of fun b/c all of the toys were directed at Lehna’s age and above so she made things and played in the different exhibits. Her favorite spot was a windy slide in the music area of museum that she went to visit twice. We brought the stroller for Maya but we carried her for the majority of the journey, note to self-next time bring the baby pocket swing for the baby instead of the stroller. My favorite part of the museum was this section for the “artistic child.” They had this really cool machine that made you look like you were a conductor of an orchestra. Well you waved your baton and that controlled the speed of the music so I had a lot of fun with that. Lehna didn’t quite understand what we were doing so I kept taking it from her showing her how to do it, hehehe okay so I just liked to play with it. But it was pretty cool, below are some pictures of that part of the museum I’ll try to write underneath what is going on but they are pretty self-explanatories.

Lehna the Train Conductor

Lehna Milking the Cow

Lehna Riding the Dragon

Lehna Creating Art with her Mommy

Lehna working on her masterpiece

Lehna's Masterpiece

Lehna Making Music with her Daddy

Lehna's Favorite part of the Museum

Mommy's Favorite part of the Museum

Maya at the Museum

When we got back to the house we had an awesome steak dinner that mom prepared for us. Terry’s friends came over Judy and Paul they were traveling through on their way to Indianapolis to visit their son so they wanted to go and visit them. They don’t see Terry and mom very often so they stopped by. They were nice people so I was okay sharing my time with parents with them.

On Saturday we were off to two new places to Ella’s Deli and also to the Henry Vila’s Zoo, these places are in Madison and they were about an hour southwest from them. It was a nice drive to the zoo we only got lost once going there. The zoo was a bit difficult to park at but the zoo was really nice. It was free which was really strange and they zoo seemed cleaned and well taken care of. The zoo was pretty small it was about the size of the Fort Wayne zoo so not too large but big enough that it spread out people so we weren’t right on top of each other. They had all different types of animals there everything from Pythons to Polar Bears I mean not too shabby for a place that was literally in the middle of a housing addition. It reminded me lot like the Colombian Zoo you know just kind of in the middle of the street not really where you expect to see a zoo but that’s where it was located at. It was a pretty cute zoo overall. I am posting some pictures of the zoo.

Lehna with her Nanna

Lehna with her Papaul Terry

Feeding the Goats

Maya with Papaul Terry

We also went to this little deli after we went to the zoo called Ella’s Deli. It was a crazy little deli there were so many things that were hanging from the ceiling that moved and twisted around. There were pretty cool things like in the glass like our table had origami displays, which were like a big shadow box, but you ate on top of the shadow box, it was pretty fun. The food was good as well. Well after we ate the deli happened to have a carousal that you could ride on with some tokens. That was a lot of fun. The carni running the ride after out time was over asked us if we wanted to switch horses. Tait told him no that one time was plenty for us and then he went on about how they guy didn’t have any tokens b/c the people inside took them from him. We just kind of smiled and said oh okay. We had no idea what he was talking about but once on the horse was enough for us.

Lehna was great the entire time. She played with Terry and that was quite a huge step for her she went right up to him and asked him to take her to the park and also where we was when he left the room. This is so great for her she is usually so nervous or shy around him. Also she warmed up to mom really well too so that was very encouraging.

We had a great time in Wisconsin with Tait’s parents moving up there really soon Tait and I are really debating moving up there as well. I don’t think it’s something we are going to do right away or anything like that but something we maybe looking to do in the future. We just had such a great time. We decided we would go back in February mom has been talking about going to Dell’s in Wisconsin every since they moved there and I think next time we will make that a reality. We just had so much fun there so that will be fun going to the indoor water parks in wintertime.

Maya has learned how to roll over. She was really close when we were in Wisconsin so when we came home the first thing we did is put her on the bed and she rolled over like she had been doing it all her life. So that was exciting. Another funny game that Maya is doing is she takes blankets or diapers and puts them over her face. She puts them so they are placed right over her face then once she gets it there she starts to wave her hands and kick her legs. Then once we pull the blanket it off of her head she just smiles and puts the blanket back over her head. It’s the silliest thing ever. I am putting pictures of that b/c it’s pretty funny.

Maya Blanket On

Maya Blanket Off

Well that was our weekend. We did have a good time there. It was something that I can’t wait to go back to do it was a nice vacation. I think Tait really had a good item and I know the girls had a great time. I love being able to see mom it’s just really nice.

My Family

2 Week Update!

So much to update… so I will try to keep it as SHORT as possible but I do have a tendency to ramble on and on AND I haven’t updated in 2 weeks so let’s just so MUCH has happened.

Let’s start with the simple stuff first. Tait turned 30!! This past week! He had been counting down like the dooms day clock every since January and now that it’s come and pass he can say that he survived it, with very little injury. We had a nice celebration. Helen and Tim had taken our children from Sunday-Wednesday of last week so on Tait’s birthday we got our children back. All I have to say is THANK YOU HELEN AND TIM! It was such a nice break. Lehna was on my very last nerve. Recently she’s going through this two year old “stage” and let me tell you it’s been AWFUL! She won’t listen she refuses to sit quietly for ANY length of time and her behavior can go from ‘good girl to ROTTEN child’ in seconds. It’s so unpredictable she gets mad at silly things and becomes frustrated VERY easily and when that comes there is NO reasoning with the child. So when Helen and Tim offered to take our children it was SOOOOO wonderful! I was all over the idea because I NEEDED a break. So after a refreshing 3 days of NO children I was ready to be able to handle Lehna once again. She still is having her Mood swings but at least I’m not ready to kill her when the evil Lehna appears. So Tait’s parents took us out for dinner for Tait’s birthday, then the next day I made Tait’s favorite meal and we had ice cream cake. It was just a small thing for his birthday. I feel bad b/c I know Tait was really expecting something grand since he’s been talking about his birthday sine January and I feel bad disappointing him he says he’s not but it still makes me feel bad.

Lehna Looking Pretty Cute!

Why do the make kids clothes in WHITE?

Some Lehna health news while Lehna was at Tait’s parents she was playing outside with Tanna and Landyn when she fell to the ground and her eyes rolled back into her head again. She did not shake she just kind of acted out of it just really spacey for about 2-5 seconds. Tanna said they brought her inside and she had a retired Sheriff help her but they said she wasn’t hot or anything she was literally playing and fell just out of the blue. Well I called the doctor when she got back and the doctor got me in touch with the neurologist (the one she’s seeing at he end of this month) and he wanted more details of what happened. He asked me if this has ever happened before I told him that the “episode” where she just falls and her eyes roll back and she gets really out of it has happened before. The doctor informed me that this is actually a form of seizure that she is having. So he sent us Friday to a children’s cardiologist to rule out any problems with her heart. We were pretty nervous about this appointment b/c the doctor said that if she has something with her heart then it’s going to be some serious things. Well Lehna went and all of her tests came back as perfectly normal. The doctor said that as far as her heart is concerned she is a perfectly normal healthy little girl. So we were VERY relieved to hear that. He said to just keep our appointment with the neurologist. The neurologist did give me his on call number that he wants us to call if this happens again. So we will be on the look out for more of that.

While we were in Indianapolis on Friday for the tests we were also there for Tait’s cousin Travis’ Wedding. Travis and Sheri Lee have been dating for about 4 years so it was exciting to see them get married. I have a few pictures from the wedding. I didn’t take too many only b/c I really wasn’t in a good spot for pictures. Lehna sat on my lap for the entire wedding just pointing and asking questions. Maya sat in her car seat for the wedding just sleeping and then work up when they started to sing, but she laid their the entire length of the wedding, just happy as a clam. Maya is so easy compared to Lehna I hope she continues this trend when she gets mobile… I’m sure she won’t but it sure would be nice.

Bride & Groom Dancing

The Happy Couple, Look at those frowns :)

Lehna & Landyn Dancing

Landyn & Lehna doing the "One Leg Shake"

After the wedding (which was on Friday) we went to Tait’s aunt and uncles pretty much all day on Saturday. It was pretty fun we just talked and watched the kids play. It was a nice relaxing day. It was nice b/c we still had one more day left for the weekend before we have to return to work. So I recommend Friday weddings they are nice, sure you take the day off of work but that’s never a bad thing and it doesn’t take your entire Saturday you still have time left in the weekend.

Deklyn Swinging

Lehna Playing with the Cork Screw!

So great news. Tait’s dad got a job in Wisconsin! Can you believe it? They are actually on their way up now b/c he has to fill out some pre-employment papers/screenings. Helen will also be moving up with him, you can tell that she isn’t too excited about it. I think she’s keeping an open mind but I think she wants to stay close to her grand children. Where they will be living from my parents is about 70 miles south from Hartford they will be living in Kenosha, which is literally just over the boarder in Wisconsin. Tait and I are now tossing around the idea of moving up to Wisconsin now actually. Tait said with his job he can pretty much go to any state b/c he has the necessary 2 years down and well my job isn’t really “transferable” but I’m sure I could find something up there that would be wonderful. So I don’t know. I mean I kind of want to wait and see what happens with the Wagner’s first to make sure they are going to “stay” up there and kind of go from there. We don’t have to pack up any time soon and quite frankly our home needs some work. I LOVE the idea of being able to be near of both sets of grandparents so when we go to Wisconsin this coming week it will be something we will investigate a little further. I think I have the support form my mom but I kind of just want to feel it out. Maybe in a year or so we will make the move we’ll just have to see.

I have talked a lot about everyone in my family except baby Maya. Let me tell you what a GREAT baby she is. She takes over her daddy’s personality 100% she is so happy and patient. She doesn’t have a problem just waiting until you have a chance to pick her up if she’s laying in her swing, jumperoo, or car seat. As long as you talk to her periodically she will lay there forever. She is also so happy. She just lights up when she hears voices and gets REALLY excited when she sees her big sister. Lehna adores her she loves to bring her toys and say things like “that’s my sister Maya” and make her laugh. It’s really quite fun for all of us to watch them interact. Maya really hasn’t shown any interested in getting mobile at all. She can “almost” flip over but hasn’t quite mastered it yet, probably in about 2 more weeks before she gets all the way for the full rotation, but even just holding her she doesn’t really have any desire to stand on her own feet or anything like that. She has started to stand more her just putting her in her jumperoo has really improved that but as far as wanting to get mobile she has NO desire. It’s so fun, I LOVE that she wants to stay a baby longer. I love just snuggling her and rocking her to sleep she’s just in no rush and it’s wonderful.

Maya's Tummy Time

So we still have Molly we had a lady come by and meet her last weekend but she decided that she wanted a puppy instead. I mean I don’t really blame her if I had a choice between and older dog and a puppy it would be pretty easy to determine what I wanted NEITHER! So we still have her she still listed on Craig’s list but we have only had two inquires about her so far. I don’t know. Daisy is the dog that’s been annoying not Molly so we’ll have to see what happens. Trent is going to come dog sit when we go to Wisconsin so that will be nice not to have to worry about what kind of disaster the house will be in when we come home. WE are going for like 5 days I’m so excited.

Well that’s my update for now… it’s brief but there’s so much to say and hard to summarize it… at least for me it is. So until I update again have a GREAT week for me it’s going to be VERY short!

Girls Tummy Time!

Another Update after Lehna's appointment

Well I wanted to write to update you on Lehna. Basically after her appointment Monday the doctor feels that she did have a febrile seizure. They think that it was brought on by the heat that was going on outside on Friday. They said that it can happen again but most children if they have had one then there is only a 30% chance of the group of children that have one will have another one. They said to watch her when she’s outside watch for signs of her getting dehydrated.
The concerning factor with Lehna is the fact that when the EMT’s got there and at the hospital Lehna didn’t register a fever and that’s the problem b/c if she had a fever induced seizure then with her not having a fever is concerning. The doctor is fairly certain that it was a febrile seizure they are recommending that I see a neurologist just to rule out epilepsy, which it’s just a precautionary thing. So the appointment isn’t going to happen until August 31 which is a MONTH away. I wish that it would be this week but they won’t be able to do anything until then.

They do say that it can happen again so we need to make sure that Lehna is drinking water and staying cool. Of course this week it’s hotter than hot. We sent a water bottle with her for daycare so she can drink out if all day. They said at daycare today she was outside for just a few minutes and she came up to Shari and they said she had a rash all over her body like little bumps. It sounded like heat rash to me but I told them that I would talk to the doctor to investigate further, but in the meantime to keep in inside for the rest of the day. They said that even though she’s been out of the heat for the last couple of hours she still appears to have the rash. I will know later on today what they are talking about when I see her, if she still has the bumps, and go from there. I called my doctor but they are of course overbooked and are too busy to return my phone call so I’ll give them a couple more hours and then try back. I mean now that they are going to keep her out of the heat that will help but it still makes me crazy. I don’t think I will feel better until the summer is over and it’s freezing outside. It’s all very scary.

So until then I’ll keep posting on how she’s doing. If you would just look at her you wouldn’t have known that she scared the living daylights out of us. I am still not sleeping very well. I am up constantly checking on her making sure that she is okay. It’s awful.


I just wanted to give another update to you since it’s been another day. Yesterday was Lehna’s first day back to daycare. Lehna’s teachers all were giving her love with big hugs and telling her to stop scaring them so badly. They said that they took her outside for just a little bit when she came up to Suzie her teacher and Suzie noticed that she had a rash all over her arms and her legs. They said that the immediately brought her in and gave her some water and pulled up her hair and even gave her a cold wash rage to cool off with and the rash still stayed. Even several hours after she was inside for awhile the rash was still apparent. When I talked to Debbie it sounded a lot like heat rash so I told them I would check with the doctor but it sounded like heat rash. Well after speaking to the doctor the doctor said it sounds like Roseola which is a rash children develop after having several days of a high fever. It’s contagious and can be spread to other children. So my concern was all of the other children Lehna was around over the weekend. B/c she is past the contagious stage it’s only contagious when they have a high fever so that would be: Deklyn, Maya, and Landyn. Well Maya and Deklyn are too young for it so that shouldn’t be a problem but Landyn is in the “danger zone” so they said to watch him for a high fever. Well the doctor also said that it will go away in a couple of days. Well by the time Lehna got home from daycare the “rash” was gone. So I am not back to my original thought that it was in fact heat rash rather then Roseola I mean if it was Roseola it would still is visible when she got home from daycare. I told daycare this morning to keep her in the rest of the week since it’s supposed to be so very hot this week just to be sure.

I was thinking this morning that either way whether Lehna had a Febrile Seizure or an eplitoic seizure neither is very good. I mean Epolitic seizures means there’s something wrong with her brain which is no good and febrile seizures can be caused by heat and fever, I mean its Indiana we have HOT DRY summers. I mean either way they are too unpredictable and way too scary. I wish I could choose neither I mean they both are pretty sucky. But anyways I’ll keep you posted on her condition and her health status.