our little girl

My oh my, we had quite the weekend with our girl. It's hard for me to think about what to write right now because I am still feeling a bit emotionally drained from all we have been through in the past few days. To make a long story short we unfortunately spent our rainy Memorial Day weekend taking care of one sick little girl. Over the course of the last 5 days we have made 5 trips to the pediatrician and one trip to Childrens Hospital's ER. It was pretty miserable. The short version is that she was having problems breathing due to respiratory type problems. We went through a similar episode with her about 3 weeks ago and they treated her with Asthma medication. It was hard for us to believe we were right back there with her not even 1 month later. We had some of the meds left over thankfully and used that on her until we could get to the Dr. on Saturday. We were in and out of the Dr. all weekend. Monday the situation got a little bit more dire as she was not getting better, but worse. The Dr. diagnosed her with pneumonia
and ultimately sent us to Childrens to have her observed. Having to go to the ER on a holiday weekend was not fun. It was very busy. Thankfully after about 2 1/2 hours they determined that she was stable enough to go home. Today I took her back to see the pediatrician and it was determined that Chloe is defiantly doing better but that we are not completely out of the woods yet. We were given more meds to help her little lungs get stronger and have to take her in the 1st part of next week for hopefully the last time for a long time! At this point they are not officially diagnosing her with asthma but there seems to be a trend developing. Time will tell and hopefully with the help of the Dr.'s, medication and lots of tlc we can get her lungs strong again and her immune system back up and fighting. Thanks everyone for all your messages we appreciate every single one. We have such amazing friends and family.

pictures

The kiddos are napping and I have been going through pictures on my computer. I love taking pictures more than ever. I have always loved pictures, loved to share them and capture life through them. Because with pictures we can remember both the little and also the big things that happen. I especially love taking pictures now because my main subjects are just so much fun. Plus they are pretty stink'in cute. I am also feeling really thankful right now for the development of digital photography. Can you imagine taking pictures of kids using film? I know our parents did and their parents did. But how did they ever know if they were actually getting a good picture?
Anyway here are few of my favs from the last week or so...

Carter rough-housing with my Dad

My girl

you know it's almost summer when the little chubby toddler feet start hitting the grass bare. I cannot wait for summer!

Chloe also likes to get in on the wrestling action

Checking out the ducks at Bothell Landing yesterday

My Mom & Carter checking out the ducks as well. We brought bread to feed the ducks however I got scared once I realized how aggressive they were and how fearless my son was. So we decided just to 'look' at the ducks and point at them and say "duck, duck, duck'.

Not such a bad problem to have...

So I have had this looming project of going through the many pairs of shoes I have had in boxes in my garage since moving into our house in 2007. Considering it is now well into 2010...it is a project that I have obviously been avoiding for a while. When I worked for the shoe company, part of my job was to try on shoes. So needless to say I was given a crazy, ridiculous amount of shoes. Not such a bad problem to have at all. In fact it was pretty amazing. I really loved that job. I think I have possibly only bought 2 or 3 pairs of shoes since I got that job in 03'. I have been hanging onto a lot of the shoes because I always think, well what if I go here I will need those shoes to wear with that outfit. When realistically I don't really have very many places to wear about 80% of the shoes I kept. This could all change one day however, so I will hang on to a few pairs for now :-)
I did good though I am now down to about 4 boxes instead of 9.

Pile of boots

I could not even get all of the pairs in a single shot. But I'm sure you get the idea. lol.

olive fingers

I am pretty sure most people have memories from when they were kids of putting olives on their fingers and then eating them. I know I do & I can remember thinking how cool it was. Carter & Chloe think it is pretty neat and it buys be lots of time while I am trying to cook dinner.
They are the cute :-)

A little dirt doesn't hurt...thankfully!

Carter loves dirt. He loves to play with it, eat it, throw it in his hair and pretty much anything else you could imagine to do with it. His favorite toys as of lately are also sticks. He is happy for hours with just a big pile of sticks and dirt. Such a boy. The differences between boys & girls seems more & more apparent as they get further into the toddler stage. The fact that he likes to get dirty does not really bother me at all in fact I kind of like it.

Isn't that what being a little boy is all about anyway?

Treasure Hunting

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Newcastle Beach

Today we met up with Jerame's family at Newcastle Beach to have a little Bday celebration for his oldest sister and to also enjoy this beautiful Seattle spring weather. The twins had a blast playing with their cousins and were absolutely exhausted by this evening!
It was a wonderfully perfect Saturday.

Chloe making new friends with another little girl

Jerame & his Mom

Our beautiful niece Livy

As you can see the kids had a lot of fun with the sand/mud puddle. Carter was the ring leader in this situation. He started stomping in the puddle and the girls followed shortly there after. It was only a matter of time until they were all 100% covered in dirty, sandy water. There was a Dad that walked by our kids in the puddle as they were lathering themselves with sand and he just laughed and said, "Now that is living". I loved it. So ture. There really is nothing better than watching your kids do something they are truly enjoying with all their hearts. The squeals, laughter and giggles that were emulating from all of their little bodies were just sopriceless. It is a memory I don't think I will ever forget.

The Birthday girl (Lyra) & her daughter Skyler