Merry Christmas

Some Pictures

Here are some pictures of what we have been up to the past couple of weeks. We have been busy trying to prepare for Christmas!! Hope all is well!

Lauren cooking with Daddy

Gabbie dancing at the mall

Gabbie and her best friend Maya

Lauren eating her feet

Lauren eating her feet again

A Boat & Truck For Sale

If anyone is interested or knows someone who might be, our truck and boat are for sale on craigslist. You can see the boat at: http://raleigh.craigslist.org/boa/509718196.html and the truck at: http://raleigh.craigslist.org/car/509721836.html. I promise to post some pictures of the girls soon. Lauren rolled over this week so that was exciting. We have some video of it that I will download so you can see. Have a good Friday! :)

4 Month Appointment

We took Lauren today for her 4 month appointment. They couldn't give her the shots because of the steriods that she was on so we will have to go back in a couple of weeks to have the shots. Her stats are:

• Weight - 12 lbs 12 oz - 30%
• Height - 24 3/4 in. - 30%
• Head - 42 cm - 75%

Our kid has a big head. Our doctor took her off all of the meds and said she sounds perfectly clear. Thank you for all of the prayers and everything!! Now we just need to pray that our babysitter starts to feel better because I am back without childcare for Lauren until then. Anyone want to help until the sitter is back in commission??? :)

Lauren Update

So it's been a long couple of days. Robbie came out of the field for some days to help me out since the days off of work are very low. She absolutely hated the breathing treatment at first. She would scream through the whole thing. On Thursday, Robbie called me at work and said that Lauren was having a very hard time getting her breathe so I called the nurses line and they told me to bring her immediately. They took us back as soon as we got there and checked her out. The PA that we saw told us that Lauren has bronchilitis. It's similar to bronchitis but it is in the small bronchial tubes. In an adult we would just have a cold but it affects her so much differently. So they changed one of her meds in the breathing treatment and put her on a steroid and also amoxicilin because they noticed that she was getting an ear infection. Needless to say, it's been a long couple of days. Lauren is finally getting the hang of the breathing treatments and has even started to fall asleep while taking them. That is definitely a blessing because it's so hard to hold a crying baby while holding that little mask to her face. My mom and grandma came down this weekend (which was previously planned) and helped us out. i needed to get the house back in order because the realtor is doing an open house next week and Robbie had to get back at work. We go back to the docs on Monday for a 4-month appointment (can you believe it???) and a follow-up appointment. I will try to update everyone and let you know!! Thank you for all the prayers and please continue them!

Breathing Treatments

I noticed a couple of days ago that Lauren had a little cough. It was every now and then and not very constant so I paid attention to it but didn't worry too much. Yesterday at the sitters house she had a HUGE screaming fit, enough that I had to come from work and calm her down. She had been really stuffy and fussy the two days before. So last night I kept hearing her cough. She wouldn't wake up but the cough was very constant. This morning when I went to wake her up her cough had turned into the croupy cough. I knew then it was time to see the doctor.

So after a long morning at the doc's office, we have discovered that Lauren has an upper respitatory infection. Because of her age, the doc decided to put her on breathing treatments so that it doesn't turn into asthma when she gets older. UGH!!! We did one that the doc's offce and she screamed and cried through the whole thing. Do you know how hard this is going to be??? She has to take the medicine to get rid of the infection every 6-8 hours and then after it clears she will have to 2 breathing treatments a day to prevent further infections. At least the nebulizer that we were given at the pharmacy is shaped like a cow. It's so cute and it's carrying case is a barn :) I'll take a picture soon so yall can see how cute it is!

Please say a little prayer that God will heal her quickly. Time off from work is very few since I keep using all of what I earn and Robbie is so busy at work right now it's hard for him to get off too!

Meeting Santa Claus

We went to go Christmas shopping at the Exchange today and ran into Santa. Here are some pics!

Thanksgiving Pics

Gabbie feeding her baby sister

Posing for the camera

Lauren & I taking an afternoon nap

Smiling for the camera

Grandpa with his girls

Lauren trying rice cereal for the first time

(she doesn't really like it)

Lauren trying her future cousin's swing out with her cousin Josh playing with her

My cousins Karen & Kristy and I. See Karen's cute bump?? She's due in April.

A playmate for Lauren

My aunt's Betsy & Jan and Memommy

Rynald & Gabbie coloring

Gabbie & Uncle Jimmy

Gabbie dressed up the dogs with lei's. Kristy showing them off

Josh and Memommy

Gabbie & I

Mama & Uncle Jimmy

Nana feeding her grandbaby

Josh & Karen getting some practice

Happy Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for this year!! I am sitting here holding our precious new baby girl and laughing at our oldest girl make jokes. We all are in good health and our together again. It's amazing how much has changed from last year this time. God has truly blessed us this year! We decided to come up to Durham this year to spend some time with our family. I promise to update with pics when we get back. We have been so busy with getting our house ready to sell. We put it on the market eariler this week.

We love you all and wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Three Months Old

I can't believe that our little one is three months old. Here are some cute pictures that I took yesterday morning. She has been laughing and starting to grab her toys. Now if we could just get her to hold her head up more ... life would be great.

Brr....It's Chilly

Here was Lauren this morning! Sorry for the quality of the picture, I took it with my cell phone! I think I might have overdone it a bit. I just wanted her to stay warm!

Tummy Time

Here is Lauren working on tummy time on her new tummy time mat that Nana brought her this weekend...
And here is Lauren about 5 minutes into tummy time... she hates it :) What are we going to do?

Marine Corps Ball

Robbie and I went to his ball on Friday night! It made us miss our friends that have moved away or are deployed but we had a good time.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween Everyone!! Enjoy the pics of the girls!!!

Lauren on the way to the babysitter's house

Gabbie dressed up as Wilbur the pig for her school book parade!

Gabbie as the wicked cheerleader..ain't she cute? Not so wicked!

Lauren passed out ...waiting for the trick or treaters!

Lauren mad as all get out - needless to say this costume didn't last long!

This costume (same pumpkin) worked MUCH better!

Last Soccer Game

Gabbie's last soccer game was yesterday. She won it 5-4. I wasn't able to get pictures because it was drizzling and I was trying to keep Lauren dry while watching the game. I am glad to say that soccer season is over. Now we only have dance during the week and our weekends free. It'll make for a little less running around :)

Some Pics to Get You Through

Pumpkin Patch

After we finally got Robbie awake and up and moving (remember he had duty last night - that means 24 hours of no sleep - he got about 4 hours this morning), we drove out to Back Swamp, NC (what a name) to Mike's Farm. We love going to the Haunted Hayride at Halloween and the Christmas Lights out at Mike's Farm. It is a working farm with animals and a delicious restaurant. A lot of the schools take field trips out there during kindergarten. The one thing that we had never had the time to do was to go to the pumpkin patch. You get on the hayride and they drive you out to the pumpkin patch and pick your pumpkin. It was a lot of fun.

Gabbie, Me and Lauren on the hayride. Lauren was not a happy camper but fell asleep about 2 minutes after this photo was taken.

Robbie and the sleeping Lauren.

Robbie looking at all the pumpkins

Gabbie and Robbie on the search for the perfect pumpkin.

Still searching...

Maybe they've finally found one...

They did...Gabbie showing them off...

Daddy, we did a good job!

The Family. Lauren looks awake right...she slept for the entire time we picked out the pumpkin then woke up in time for the picture...guess she knows what she's doing!