I took the kids to a Halloween portrait session at one of my favorite stores. Ethan cooperated and was being so silly for the camera...it was awesome! And then I took them all trick-or-treating at all the stores. Here are the pics!
(ignore the lack of pants....it was a rough day and we had just changed out of our Halloween costume and the babies didn't cooperate long enough to put pants of Ethan....he would rather not have them on anyways!!)
He loved the wagon
And wanted the biggest pumpkins
He loved running into the corn maze
He had so much fun
I have been awful with the blog!! Mainly because I always want pictures to accompany my posts (but you will have to wait till tomorrow for pics). It has been a busy couple of months. Nothing can prepare you to handle 3 kids under 2!! But it does get easier each day, here are my updates on each baby:
Ethan - He is as handsome as can be (and he looks like his father) so he is a lucky boy!! I have mentioned before that he had a hard time adjusting to his sisters. But we have come to discover that he has a speech delay and possibly a sensory disorder. He knows how to tell us what he wants without words but can't communicate with words. It looks like he'll qualify for the state funded therapy program . Which mean he has to rank 33% below his developmental age. So it is heartbreaking news that he so behind but it is also a blessing that we caught it early and he will receive the help he needs!
Claire- She has been smiling for a few weeks now and she started to giggle last week. Now she will full laugh when I kiss her. She is such a cuddler and loves her mom! She has great head control but hates tummy time, we have to work on rolling over...she's gotta beat her sis and that will take lots of work!! As of today she weighed in at 11lbs 11oz.
Brooke- She is soooo social. If you even walk past her she will smile and "talk to you" she loves people and playing with anyone who will give her attention. She just laughed for the 1st time today! She is soooo close to rolling over, we just need to work on that neck strength. And she weighted in at 10lbs 14.5 oz
Ok pics of the pumpkin patch to come tomorrow....I promise!!
Brooke
The Girls
Ethan is slooooowwwwllyyy.....very slowly adjusting to his sisters. For the 1st month they were here after each nap he would run downstairs so excited until he saw that the babies were still here and then he would have a complete meltdown. But those are in the past now, he realizes the girls are here to stay.
I totally jinxed myself with my previous post..."a better week"...I never should have said such a thing. This is my baby tonight
He started to get sick over the weekend. On Saturday he was throwing up when he ate and on Sunday he slept lots, had no appetite and was just cuddly and clingy to me, but by Monday morning he was running around playing. So he seemed to be feeling better and this morning he woke up and wanted to run around and play but he still had no appetite to eat. So I decided he was well enough to go to school for a few hours. He loves playing with the other kids and gets so excited when we get there. But when we got there he was the only kid there! The teacher asked if he got the "dreaded sickness" so I said yes but he seemed fine yesterday and doing even better this morning. Well she called me at 11:30 and said she took his temperature and his fever was around 105...wait...what....so I freaked out. When I got him he didn't feel that hot and our pediatrician's office was closed for lunch so I took him home and gave him tylenol and I got a temperature reading of 100. He went down for a nap but he woke up about 45 minutes later with a little cry/whimper and still had his eyes closed. His fever had gone up again (around 101) so I took him to the doctors, but his fever at the doctors was still around 101 so it seems he is just fighting off this cold. We came home and he slept a little more but when he woke up his fever was back up to 102+ so I gave him more meds and it has slowly come down. I am waking him up tonight to give him meds so his temperature doesn't spike again. The doctor thinks it easily could have been at 103...that's so scary to me...especially since I thought he was okay!!
So our week of doctors and more doctors has continued and we need it to end soon!!!
Oh and at my prenatal appointment on Monday my belly measured smaller than it did 3 weeks ago...how does that happen??? I swear it is huge and I look like I am going to pop. He then talked about scheduling the c-section around 39 weeks...so I told him (jokingly of course) that I was going to have to find a new doctor...39 weeks...Ethan was born at 39 weeks weighing 7lbs 11oz...so if we double that....I could be delivering almost 16lbs of baby. He laughed at me and asked if he was scaring me yet...seriously we don't need anymore scares around here...but thanks!!
Sunday:
Started off great! We enjoyed sitting outside by the pool with my parents and my sisters family. And the kids got to swim in the pool with Poppy and we were have a great time. Then as Ethan was getting out of the pool he slipped on the concrete and hit his head...he hit it hard. He had a huge red bump on the side of his head. We took him inside iced it, tried giving him a paci and that didn't help calm, tried a bottle and that didn't help he just kept screaming and then he suddenly feel asleep sitting on my lap. Ethan doesn't do this! We were then unsuccessful at waking him up so we threw some clothes on him and went straight to the ER. They took him back right away and found that he was conscious so we went back to wait like everyone else in the waiting room. He woke up after about an hour and couldn't walk. If I put him down he would try to crawl and then just sit there and reach up for me to pick him up. The doctor even asked us if he knows how to walk...umm.... yes he runs!! So they took him right back for a CT scan and of course I couldn't be in the room with him because of the pregnancy so my sister had to comfort him (and she did a great job...thanks Meg for singing to him and telling him stories...we love you). Oh and Jeff wasn't with us for any of this, my cell phone battery was dead so I didn't have a phone with me and we finally called and told him what happened after the CT scan. I didn't want him freaking out at home while we were sitting in the waiting room. After the CT scan Ethan began to walk and finally started to run the hallways and explore everything, at that point we knew he was doing better. After a couple hours of waiting I asked if we could leave since he was better and it was getting close to bed time. But apparently hospitals aren't hotels and we had to wait, so my Dad came down with dinner for Ethan and we waited till I was done waiting and finally the doctor called the radiologist to see where are results were...needless to say it was a long day!! But everything was okay and Ethan is back to normal!!Monday
: Just hung out with my sis, Jake, Abbie and my mom. The kids played outside and took nice long naps then we played a little longer and made the drive back home to see the progress Jeff made on the nursery (pics to come in another post...but he has done a great job so far)Tuesday: I had to do a 3 hour test for gestational diabetes. I failed my 1 hour glucose test by 1 point so I had to repeat this test. They make every pregnant woman do this test, you drink a really gross sugary drink and an hour later take your blood to check for gestational diabetes. Since I didn't pass this test I had to fast for 12 hours have my blood drawn, drink the sugary drink and then have my blood drawn again every hour for 3 hours. I have some awesome bruises as proof from all the blood draws.
After that test I had to take Ethan in for his 15 month baby well check....I was only a month late on this and forgot his immunization card! But I thought for sure he didn't need any shots....of course I was wrong. He had to get 2 shots and his leg got nice and swollen and is just now starting to look better...poor baby he is traumatized of the doctors since Sunday so this visit to the pediatrician didn't help! But we got some new stats for him:
Wednesday:
Ethan had his 1st dentist appointment. Again he freaked out once he realized he was in another doctor office. They had us in a room with lots and lots of toys all around for him to play with and after a few minutes of no one doing anything to him he slowly started playing with toys. So we were able to talk to the hygienist and ask questions before the dentist came in to look at his teeth. He did great and his teeth look perfect.
We finally had Ethan's 1 year old pictures taken...we were just 4 months late...but they turned out so cute! I love them!! My friend is starting a photography business and she is so good, you can check her out at www.michelesunseriphotography.com.
Here are a few of our favorites
We made our 1st family trip down to Santa Barbara a couple weeks ago. We anticipated Ethan doing awful in the car so we planned stops every 2 1/2 hours. The way down to SB wasn't too bad but the way home was awful!! A 7 hour car ride and he slept for 20 minutes, even the DVD player wouldn't make him happy...and he we all know Bob the tomato makes him smile every time.
Jeff had to work most of the trip so Ethan and I hung out during the day. We went to UCSB and got him a sweatshirt. I never thought I would go back to campus pushing a stroller and looking 9 months pregnant....I can only imagine what I sight I was!
Our trip was only a few days but we managed to see a lot of friends and visited Jeff at work. Ethan got to meet all his co-workers and destroy their cubicles (he loved that part).
We took Ethan to the beach as 1 of our stops on the way down to SB. He wasn't too sure what think of the water and sand but he seemed to like running around.
We are loving this beautiful weather and Ethan has been able to play outside every afternoon the past couple days. We got him a bubble machine and he loves trying to catch the bubbles, it is hilarious to watch him run around in circles trying to get the bubbles. Here are some pics of him playing today.
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Obviously he was not happy about getting his hair cut 
Ethan's new hair
Jakey also got a hair cut with Ethan and didn't cry nearly at all compared to little E, probably becase we promised Jake that if he was a big boy for the hair cut we could all go to Chucky Cheese afterwards. So here are a couple pictures of Ethan's 1st visit to Chucky Cheese
