Cohen gets tubed!

Cohen has had quite a few ear infections lately so our pediatrician referred us to an ENT specialist and we decided to get tubes put in his ears. He wasn't too sure what was going on when we got there. He didn't like the gown at all. He liked the funny hat but hated the socks they gave him. He did really well with it all. He didn't care when they took him away from me to get started. It was harder on me than anything. He has been a little bit irritable today but overall he has been just fine. I just hope it helps the little guy. Ear infections can't be fun for him. I felt bad because he is such a tough little cookie that I didn't even know with a few of the infections until we were at the doctor for his lung problems. I finally got to where I could tell by his balance. He hasn't had much of an appitite today. I am sure that will change soon. But he didn't even have his second nap today. He's so good.

Cohen's new mask

With Cohen's latest round of breathing problems the doctor gave us this new little mask to use with his nebulizer. It has been so so nice! The old one he just wanted to play with and I am not sure he got as much of the medicine as he should have. This is the way to go with him for sure. He seems to actually like it and will leave it on and everything. Caeli wasn't so sure about it when we got it. She told me "Mom!! It's for girls. It's purple." I told her that it could be for boys or girls and that it was a dinosaur so boys like it too. She put her hand on her forehead and said "Oh, no! Not a purple dinosaur! ANYTHING but Barney." Cameron's hate for Barney has definately rubbed off on her. I laughed, and reassured her it was not Barney. As soon as Cohen's flare up of this latest inflamation goes away they are going to start him on a daily asthma treatment. I hope that it helps. I feel so bad for him. It's can't be fun to have breathing problems all of the time. It just seems that it is never going to go away.

IT'S A GIRL!!!

We had an ultrasound yesterday and found out not only is the baby perfect and healthy, but it is a girl! I am really excited about having another girl. We were a little earlier then our 20 weeks to get the ultrasound because I have been having a couple of problems. (imagine that, me having problems in a pregnancy:)) But everything with the baby looks really good. We will get to have our regular 20 weeek ultrasound here in a few weeks. so bonus. We got a few fun pictures which I will post as soon as I can find a scanner to borrow... My favorite one of her, is actually of her little feet. Now we will just see if we can agree on a girl name. That one might be hard. It is always fun a reassuring to have an untrasound and get to see the baby moving around and doing cute little things. She would put her hands on her face and then play with her feet. I love it.

Moving in....

We spent this weekend helping Steven and Jazmin move in to their new house. They bought the cutest house out in Eagle Mountain, but it was a DISASTER. The lady that lived there had dogs. Horrible disgusting shedding dogs and she never cleaned up after them. The picture above is of me cleaning dog urine off of the wall. Don't ask why I am smiling. It was horrible. I have never seen so much hair and pee everywhere. My mom cleaned the carpets and I can't believe she got them clean. They looked so good afterward. I think poor Jaz is going to be finding hair for the next year at least.

Caeli thought she was pretty big stuff. She mostly walked around and told us what to do. (where would she learn that hehe) She got to spend some time making snow angels and throwing snow at Cam. She learned about ladders and spent a lot of time going up and down the ladder. She just would walk around and say "I am doing the hardest jobs"

Cohen carried this little scrub brush around and "helped" too. He helped my mom with the blinds (which were disgusting I might add) He just got the biggest smile on his face and clapped for himself. He is growing up so much so fast!!!

Friday night we worked really late. We had all of the carpets clean and drying and we decided to just sleep at the house. The kids took the bathroom, Cohen in the tub and Caeli on the floor. We took the kitchen floor. It was quite the experience. We had 2 blankets, on on top and one on bottom and 2 pillows. We finally got to sleep about 2:30 and the kids woke us up at about 6:45. It was the longest shortest night of my life. That is one hard kitchen floor. We were so tired and we couldn't quit laughing at ourselves. The boys went back to Salt Lake to sleep. They were smarter then us. :) It was one of the grossest projects ever and I don't remember ever being so happy for a shower. I love all of you dog-in-the-house people, but if you have a dog that must be in the house..... clean up after it!!!! I am still in awe that anyone in this world lived like that. but all of our hard work paid off and the house looked really great when we were done. We had a lot of laughs. It's fun to be with the family no matter what we are doing.

Oh kids...

Note that I am writing these things on here largely because this is, for the most part, my journal. I don't want to forget them.

The other night after I had already put Cohen to bed, Caeli and I were having a little fun time. We were doing puzzles, coloring and playing some good ol' go fish. After a few minutes of coloring Caeli sighed and asked. "Mom, can we do something fun?" I told her she could choose and we could do anything she wanted. She put her finger to her lips and one hand on her hip and said "hmmm... well, how about the cooking channel, maybe we could find something tasty to make Dad for dinner." Caeli has also recently taken to making up recipes. She'll draw pictures and tell me what they say. One of the latest was- 2 cups milk, 2 cups eggs, 2 cups sugar and 2 cups chocolate.

Caeli won't let Cohen touch any of her dress up items, jewelry or make up and several other things. (some of them Cohen's toys) So when Cam had Caeli out running errands with him the other day I found Cohen hiding in Caeli's room with her princess crown and necklaces playing her leap pad (that he is also forbidden to touch) I walked in and looked at him and he started laughing and ran away before I could grab the camera. That picture would have been great blackmail for when he was older.

Oh, one more funny story, Caeli keeps asking what we will name our baby. I was rattling off a list of a few names and when I started naming boys names and included Conor she said oooh yeah, or what about blitzen or comet. So maybe we will name our baby after the reindeer Conor, or Blitzen or Comet.

My little Pink

I am in big trouble.

The other day while we were waiting to pick Cam up from class this song came on..... Pink's "So What". Well. Today I was in the other room and I could hear Caeli singing to Cohen..."We're all gonna get in a fight! So what, I am a rock star, I got my rock moves." Over and over. I kept listening, only to hear her repeat more and more of the lyrics. There are probably worse songs, but there are lots that are WAY bettter for a 4 year old to know. Then later this afternoon she was dancing aroung and singing it again and I got a few pictures

I think Cam taught her to do some kind of rock star move.... she does that and then sticks out her tongue. She put on her pink clothes and put in her pink bow and said to call her pink. This all came from my mistake in telling her when we heard the song that the person singing was called pink and sometimes she has pink hair. She asked me if she could get pink hair. I told her that if she ever came home with pink hair I would shave it all off like a boy. That horrified her, I am pretty sure she won't be coming home with pink hair. Needless to say I think we will be listening to more children's songbook songs in our car.

Sick little guy!

Cohen the poor little man is sick again! He has had this same little cold that we have all had for a while now. But his wouldn't seem to get any better. He was really wheezy and just not quite himself. I thought it would just kinda go away on its own but I decided to risk being called the over-reacting, hypocondriac mom and called the doctor. (it seems we are always at the doctor for some reason) We got in there and the doc listened and looked and informed me that he not only has RSV (AGAIN) but he has ear infections. Appearantly his lungs are really inflamed and so we are on all sorts of meds. He made me a little more nervous because he told me if I don't stay on top of his lung issues he could have some permanant scarring and cause all sorts of trouble! As soon as we get this cleared up we are going to treat him for asthma. All day all that he wanted was his dad. I felt bad for a minute.... he should want me right? But it was really cute and I got over it pretty fast.

Pretty much that's all that is going on at our house lately. Cam started school. He has quite the load. I guess we'll see him in a few years :) We had a fun New Years Day party that I never got posted. We had a fondue party with Katie and Mike and Mike's siblings up here. It was soooo yummy. We then played rock band and just had fun. I am so glad Katie and Mike are up here. Overall things are going well for us and we are looking foreward to a great new year.