Feeling HOT HOT HOT

July has heated up nicely and we LOVE it! We decided to get ourselves a little ghetto pool to cool us down in the backyard. If you know Sean at all you know how immaculate he keeps things and this extends to this little pool of ours. I walked out one day and him and Gar had taken the grease catchers that I use to cover the wok so oil doesn't pop all over and those were now the pool strainers. Truth be told, I'm not sure I have ever used the wok but if and when I do I would have been prepared. Another night I snuck out and they were out doing "chemistry" (as Gar told me) with the pool water. They had like 3 different viles and were testing the water and adding the needed chemicals. We take our ghetto pool very seriously around here!

Who has the cutest pool boys? I do.....
I did happen upon pool supplies that were on sale so I upgraded us to a real pool strainer

*I threw this picture in because who doesn't love a baby in a bikini?*

p.s. I should mention that this is not our grass in Adi's picture. Pool boy might lose sleep if he thinks people would think this is our grass. He's all about the turf maintenance and this one is not up to his standards. Sleep well my love

Bat, Ball and ummmm, what goes here?

Oh Yeah, a glove. That would have worked nicely on this last play of the season! Ouch

3 days of wakeboarding on it in Lake Powell probably didn't help much! Yet, this is the response I got........

and here's how we feel about that

9 Month Well??? Check

Wow, 9 months, I cannot believe it, time is flying!! No major malfunctions this time and Adi was such a super trooper and gave everyone big smiles. Kaley said all the ladies voted in the office and she was the cutest little thing to come in that day and I couldn't agree more. She is pretty darn stinkin cute! However, while the dr was looking in her ears he discovered she had an ear infection. What?! How?!? Who?! How does one not know she has an ear infection, Mother of the Year here people. Once again, I thought the runny nose and coughing was teething. Or wishing it was teething because the two teeth on the top are starting to get longer and it's really going to look silly when she doesn't have the other front tooth yet. Here's how she's looking......

Head 17.3 inches - 25th-50th percentile

Weight 16.5 lbs - 10th percentile

Length 27.1 inches - 25th - 50th percentile

Still a peanut

and just in case your wondering a new front tooth popped through on Saturday. YEAH!!! Not sure why she has to get so sick every time she is teething.

Watch Out World

Baby girl is on the move.........

Pep talk by big brother

Hot Dog, Hot Dog, Hot Diggity Dog......

Can anyone listen to that song and not have it stuck in your head ALL day?

Well, that song reminds me of our cute little bonus room, the one where we close the vents to keep most the air downstairs and where I could do Bikram Yoga. Holy Hell it's hot up here.....so hot I can't stand to even download our pictures from Hawaii, or that's the excuse I'm using.

But look at the view from the window!

And the hits just keep coming

*this picture pretty much sums up June*

Double ear infections and a new tooth behind us we dropped the kids off at Aunt Sue's (yes, I do have the best sisters!) on Friday, ready to start our vacation. *Side note, my hunches were right and Adi did get a new tooth with the ear infections. Not one of the front teeth she needs but one of her eye teeth, yes, our daughter has a fang ( really!?!?). Anyways, we dropped them off and flew off to Hawaii for some fun in the sun! (literally we needed the sun , hadn't seen it in quite some time with all this rain)

However, when I called on Saturday morning to check in on Aunt Sue's mental status (and the kids) Adi was not doing well again. Maybe the ear infections were back? Being the Super Mom, Sue survived the weekend and packed up all 4 kids and took Adi to the Pediatrician on Monday. I should mention that on the way to the doctors office a tire tread shattered Sue's car windshield ("Aunt Sue, watch where you are going!" haha). Her ears were good but now she had a very sore throat but the only thing to give an 8 month old is Tylenol and Motrin. As luck would have it Sue's 2 kids both came down with the flu on Tuesday and Wednesday, Good Times! Gar started running a fever but really nothing more, luckily. We got home the following Friday and everyone was back to health, minus the windshield. On Saturday, Adi woke up with a little cough and runny nose but I didn't think much of it until Sunday morning. The poor little thing could barely breathe her chest was so congested. By noon I was in my usual freak out mode, I don't handle sick kids very well, and took her into Insta Care. They hooked her up to an oxygen reading machine (which of course Adi screamed about) and they didn't like the results. They decided to give her a Nebulizer treatment, wait....did I say they gave her? I meant they made me give her. Have you every tried to hold a sick, squirmy, screaming bloody murder 8 month old down while holding a mask to her face that is making this awful sucking noise with steam coming out of it? It sucked and I cried! After all this the doctor came up with a diagnosis of asthma, WHAT?!?! Coincidence that Aunt Sue had the same symptoms during the weekend? Anyways, we now own our own Nebulizer machine which was a god send for the next 2 days because she was able to breathe a lot easier and is now back to her old self.

Oh Yeah, Happy Father's Day! I didn't mention that on late Sunday afternoon I got the flu and was out of commission. Sorry Sean, I owe you another day.......

I'm now happy to report that in between all this another tooth popped through on Tuesday. A front tooth next to the fang, now she'll just look lopsided!

More to come on Hawaii but now I've got a game of "Go, Fish" calling my name

Double the Fun

It all started out so innocently last Sunday, a small fever, nothing a little Tylenol couldn't handle.  Monday morning brought a little bit more of the same but I chalked it up to teething.  No worries until around 1 that afternoon when I get the dreaded phone call from day care asking me to come pick up Adi, her temperature is now 103 and she had a dose of Tylenol an hour ago.  We tried a dose of Motrin but we couldn't get the fever to break.  A quick call to the pediatrician and they say there is some sort of fever that has hit the valley, not to worry it goes away in time, just keep giving her Tylenol and Motrin.  That night she screamed for hours so I finally sat in the recliner with her and let her sleep on my chest.  Around 3 am I woke up soaking wet, Adi had sweated out her fever and she was doing better so I was able to put her back in her bed and get a little sleep.  Tuesday morning she was a little warm but nothing like the day before but she couldn't go back to day care yet.  Lucky for me Aunt Kim was available to watch her half day.  She did great all day and I was happy that her fever was almost gone and the worst was over but around 7 pm the fever came back.  She was on fire again, this time we got temp readings from 103 to 105.  Wednesday morning she wasn't any better and I was a complete mess!  At my work, the first part of the month is our absolute busiest time and we've only got so many days to get everything in and reports out the door.  This is one of those times when all I want to do is snuggle Adi better but I've got to be at work.  How do you chose work or family, the balancing act is impossible!?!  Aunt Kim swoops in and saves the day again(I don't know what I would do without my sisters!)  I am able to get an appointment to see the dr that evening and we figure out that on top of the fever she has an ear infection in both ears.  That explains how miserable she has been!  We start the  amoxicillin and I feel better knowing that I am finally doing something to help her.  The fever had broken early Wednesday so Thursday she is able to go back to day care.  I drop her off but around noon I get a call that she has been crying all morning.  I head over there to see what is going on and I notice that she has a rash all over her body, is she allergic to the amoxicillin?  I call the dr again and they want to see the rash to be able to tell.  Sean picks her up and takes her to the appointment but they can't tell if she is or not so they suggest to stop using the amoxicillin to see if it goes away.  I'm stressed out again!!  Friday morning the rash is clearing up and Adi is smiling again, YEAH!  I pick up some ear drops and she becomes a whole new woman. 

It was a hell of a week and I am so glad it is behind me!   

*Thanks to Kaley for working at the pediatricians office and being so patient with me also*