Monday, November 23, 2009

8 months




Gwen turned 8 months yesterday (22nd)! She is the sweetest most precious little girl. I am in love with her. She is always happy, so well natured, so loving and sweet. At 8months Gwen is army crawling all over. She says "Mama"(started saying about a week ago). She has her two bottom teeth (which she got at 7months) and now has her top left front tooth and her top left eye tooth. Her top right front tooth is breaking through as we speak. She weighs a little under 16lbs and can still fit in to some of her 0-3 shirts, but usually wears 6month clothes.

This precious little baby girl has had a rough last 2 weeks. It started with diarhea for 4 days every 5minutes, then led to a head cold. She had a mild head cold for a few days and then a week ago (last tuesday) it turned into a barking cough, whezzing, and low grade fever. The fever only lasted one night, but her cough and wheezing were there. I took her into the doctor on wednesday. The doctor said she had Croupe. But the frustrating part is that there is no antibiotics you can give to relieve her. They say just put her in a steamy hot bathroom, use the humidifier, vicks vapor rub, tylenol, etc. All the things that I had already been doing but didn't seem to work. So we went home to wait out her cough for the next few days and hope she would start to get better. Her sleepless, crying, coughing nights have been hard for this sweet little baby. Saturday night she began to get even worse. With even worse coughing, and low grade fevers this baby girl wasn't on her way to getting better. I decided to stay home with her on Sunday to let her rest and sleep. Well she didn't do much of that because of so much discomfort. She slept for maybe 15min. at a time and then woke up because of fever and coughing. It breaks my heart to see this sweet, innocent baby so helpless and in discomfort. All I can do is give her tylenol, other temporary relievers, love and to hold and cuddle her, but nothing to help her get rid of the discomfort and pain she was feeling. Last night, Sunday night, she was up all night with a fever of 102. She was acting lathargic, not eating and looked so sick and in pain. I sat up in bed all night holding her on my chest. Thats the only way she liked it. Jono was so sweet and was up with me trying to help her out. Jono decided that he wanted to take her to the hospital to have her checked out. We didn't want to take any risks since there are so many crazy sickness out there right now, and since she had been sick for 2 weeks and not getting any better, but worse. Jono took in around 3:30am while I stayed with the boys. This gave Jono quality snuggle time with Gwen. She just laid on Jono the whole time in the waiting room. Poor Gwen had to get a catheter so they could test her pee, thermometer up her bottom a few times, and X-rays to check out her lungs. She looked good for the most part. But the respritory doctor said she had RSV. Its a viral infection so not much you can do. They gave her a breathing treatment to help break up the junk in her lungs. Jono said she did so well. What a sweet little thing. I told Jono he was the sweetest dad to take his little girl in so early in the morning. He gets an award in my book. Gwen is now sleeping, but still feverish. I hope she can begin to get better and fight off this awful cold. I am glad nothing is majorly wrong, but just want this little girl to be her happy self again soon. I am so thankful she is my little girl. Your Mommy and Daddy love you so much Gwen!
*Sorry this was so long, just wanted to record it for her journal*

Sunday, November 22, 2009

mommy's dress


I feel so pretty. I am wearing my mommy's baby dress. My Grammy saved it for my mommy, so that i could wear it. I love it and feel so special.
love
Gwen

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

quiet play time

Carter & Sawyer were being so cute while playing in their room together. They were so quietly playing with their seperate toys. I had to grab the camera cause its not very often that they are this quiet and calm while playing. They are usually running around the house being crazy boys.

Sawyer loves T-Rex. He thinks it is so fun to "ROAR" at us, to try at scare us.
Carter admiring his bakugan. One of his favorite toys.
Sawyer giving his T-Rex loves
Carter just looking at how cool his Bakugans are.
Sawyer.

little helper

This little man loves to be a helper. Sawyer and I made pumpkin muffins while carter was at preschool, so there would be a yummy snack that we could all enjoy when he got home. When it comes to baking/cooking sawyer is right there in the mix of it. Sawyer runs to get his little stool and pushes it across the floor up to the counter so he can be right up there with me to help. "Mommy...help me?"(can i help you?). He's a good little helper, and also great at sneaking tastes of what we are making. I think I said one more lick like 5 times. (: I hope he's always this excited to help me...just love him.



Wednesday, November 4, 2009

gwen on halloween

gwen:jesse
gwen stefani: jesse
Wow, who would have known that both Gwen's would dress up as Jesse!


halloween

carter: buzz lightyear
sawyer: black spider man
gwen: jesse from Toy Story 2
sawyer.carter.gwen
ella.carter.shea.sawyer

So this year for Halloween the kids were going to do the whole Toy Story theme. Carter: Buzz, Sawyer: Woody, & Gwen: Jesse. Well when I tried on sawyers cowboy outfit he said, "I don't want this, I want carters costume!" I mean seeing that carters costume is a cool space ranger with blinking lights on the wings, I totally understand sawyers complaint about wearing a boring cowboy outfit. I didn't think Sawyer would really care about it and think his costume was just great. Well since he did care and wanted something "cool", I took him to the store and he picked out the black Spider Man. He loves it, especially that he has big muscles when he puts on the costume. Even though it doesn't go with the Toy Story theme, I thought, oh well, at least he's happy. Carter was happy and so was gwen. They all turned out to be so cute, and had so much fun running from house to house getting their candy!

pumpkin carving

The boys were so excited to carve pumpkins. Carter wanted crazy teeth on his, and sawyer got a cute Bat. By the time we got to doing Gwens the boys were tired and done. So I never got around to doing hers.:( Its so fun to have fun little holiday activities/traditions to do during this time of year.
cute gwen
gwen: I think she looks so dainty & sweet. She has her little hands placed so gently on her legs

Monday, November 2, 2009

Sawyers Disneyland Birthday

For Sawyers 2nd Birthday we decided to celebrate at the happiest place on earth...Disneyland. We decided to make it a "party" and have our family and some friends meet up with us. We had a fun day and evening at Disneyland! Sawyer has been before but not that he can remember. He loved it! We will for sure be going back often with our renewed season passses. We love our Soy Boy and are so glad he's ours. What a cute little boy!
I am a little sad I forgot to take pictures most of the time so only have a few . We had lots more family there celebrating little sawyer. Thanks everyone for coming and making sawyer feel special on his big day!

The big 2 year old
Silly smile
Carter. Shea. Mason
Curren. Sawyer. Owen
Curren.Sawyer.Owen
Owen.Sawyer on small world
Our little family on Small world
Gwen