Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Kels is crying and I can't think of a good title....


Kelsey has been feeling fine since her UTI last Thursday, which is great, but due to a positive culture test and her young age, she is scheduled for some more testing. Next Wednesday, she will have an ultrasound done on her urinary tract and another procedure where they will use a cathader to use dye in her system to see if she has backflow to her kidneys or see if she has a bilateral something? It's all quite confusing and the terms are way too long for me to use. She will have this done next Wednesday morning at Holland Hospital. Something I was hoping wouldn't need to be done but her doctor assures me it needs to be. Her doctor has been absoultely wonderful and has made several phone calls to our house to help explain things. Let's just pray things are fine and she just happened to get one rare infection.
Macey is dealing with her cast still just fine. Has gone swimming several times in her boat or just by putting one leg in on the side. Jason's parents are out camping for the next month, in Shelbyville (20 minutes south of here). Macey has already spent the night there once and loved it. They will be taking both girls this weekend as Jason and I celebrate our 4 year anniversary, which we are very much looking forward to.

Still no bites on the house yet. Just talked with the realtor today and he's going to be putting out flyers on the for sale sign. He said the website is getting a lot of hits but still no showings. In two weeks if still nothing, we'll have an open house on a Saturday.

Since everyone's been enjoying lists, and I like reading and writing lists, here is what's been the latest with our girls lately.

~Macey plays store, crawling around the house with her purse full of pennies, buying all of her toys or toys for Kelsey. She tells me she's going to either Meijers or Target then, says "Goodbye and I love you too Mom" then asks how much something is to buy. Sometime's her reply is "That's too much money Mom"

~Kelsey is a rolling machine, only from her back to her stomach. Then gets FURIOUS when she's stuck on her stomach within 5 minutes. She's only figured out how to roll back over to her back twice.

~Macey is addicted to Barney the Movie, and calls it the crazy boy movie or poop movie. A boy steps in poop at the farm.

~Kelsey has decided she hates rice cereal now and will clinche her lips together when fed. We'll wait on cereal for awhile :)

~Macey is obsessed with Bennett. Everything is, "Bennett likes that" "Bennett has that too" "Bennett says that" Good thing we're going to visit him tomorrow.

~Kelsey is waking up so I must be done.



Saturday, July 5, 2008

Never a dull moment....


Somehow, someway, our girls like to get sick near Holidays. On July 3, at 9:30pm, Kelsey decided to run a 104.3 temp. It came out of the blue and she was shaking and breathing really strange. So off to the ER we went. (mind you this was the second trip to the ER in only 3 weeks). She ended up having a bladder infection, is on antibiotics now and is fever free and feeling a ton better.
On the fourth, Macey and I went out for breakfast with my side of the family to Russ'. Russ' always seems to taste great. Of course I got their blueberry pancakes like I always do. Mace picked toast and eggs. Went to Meijers to get Kelsey prescription which was one of their free antibiotics, so that was nice. Went to Jason's brother's house at night for supper and to watch fireworks from his deck. Brenda, Keith and Dolly came along too. Macey didn't cry for the fireworks (which I was expecting since she screamed at Coast Guard fireworks last summer), enjoyed them for maybe 10 minutes then said she'd rather go in to look at books. Figures.





Tuesday, July 1, 2008

She's my big girl....

Kelsey turned 4 months old today! She was very good at her check-up until the shots came. It was like she knew the shots were coming, they laid her on the table and she looked up at me and her bottom lip started to quiver before anything happened. She calmed down quickly afterwards and has been good to go since. She weighed in at 14 lbs 14 oz. (75th percentile) 26 inches long (97th) and her head was 50th percentile. I'm glad to say she's a very healthy little (big) girl! I spent this afternoon taking some pictures of her which is becoming more and more fun with her smiles, expressions, and her holding her head up more easily.

Here's what life at 4 months old is all about for Kelsey:

~sleeping approximately from 9pm-7am
~feeding all the time still-we need to spread this out and feed more at a time, any helpful hints?
~short naps around 9am, noon, and 5pm.
~rolling over from back to stomach and then getting frustrated because she's stuck-this has been happening early morning or during nap and it wakes her up because she gets so mad.
~reaching for objects and putting them in her mouth.
~sucking her thumb if not both at the same time
~drooling nonstop
~watching her sister's every move
~watching the Tiger's play at night in her bouncy seat
~still not sure about cereal