Random pictures for your viewing pleasure

sweeping for daddy at the office, he was working one day and she wanted to go "too" so she went swept and helped sand.. :) isn't she cute. Such a daddy's girl.

sister kiss, this is the new best way for Adlanna to hold Jennalee, we learned from Joane and Adlanna does really well. Aren't they cute?



Jenna scratches herself DAILY I have cut her nails down to stubs but she still does it, I think her toes did it once, AND she has scratches on her legs if you believe it.
one tired girl... practicing sitting up in the boppy


yes they are watching a cartoon... I need sanity sometimes.


curly sue... well curly addie... but it doesn't sound the same.


this is one of the products i got to test out and review for the Buzz blog and she copied the boy on the bottle you should check it out, I am keeping track of how much stuff I get for free to review, how much stuff I give away and how much stuff I win and we are near 200$ in each catagory just for this month alone.


she is always wanting to help me cook. :)


which is good since I just started co-authoring a FOOD blog with 5 other women.. :) we are trying a new recipe out each week.. so its fun so far testing out food and etc. :) we are also doing reviews on food products and giveaways there too. We have curious chef sponsoring some stuff for us in FEB. It's exciting.

UTI

So Saturday morning at 2am Adlanna was screaming from her bedroom, come to find out she had an ouchie on her "bum" (front bum if you will) and then her tummy and then her bum and back and forth, we checked no rash, she went to go potty but refused to go. It was sad. We put her in a baking soda bath for 10Min's to soak and she said better, so we got her out and she started crying again so we put on some medicine to make her feel better (including motrin) and finally got her to sleep again, the next day she kept having accidents because she wouldn't go on the potty.. because when she did it HURT. So we pumped her full of cranberry juice enough that we had to wear pulls ups because she peed like every 10Min's LOL and we gave her another soak around lunch and another at bedtime, Then again on Sunday. Monday morning she cried the first time she peed and didn't cry the second time, but on Sunday she was only sad about half the time. I was afraid it wasn't going away and that UTI's can spread to kidneys so I scheduled a Dr. appointment and took her in.

the Dr. said she HAD one but it was gone good job with the cranberry juice. The potty training puts the kids at an increased risk for UTI's and that's how it is. The only thing is if she is learning to wipe herself and wiped the wrong way, or if she sat in a bath too long the anal bacteria can make its way into the bladder (yuck, sorry if TMI) well I don't think either of that is what caused this but something had to so *shrug* who knows, but we are going to be super careful about wiping now since it has happened.

The Dr also gave me other information I find value able so I'll jot it down for my knowledge to reference later.
1. babies can get them by wiping with baby wipes too much,- ie. even when they only pee
2. some kids get them often and they have something anatomically incorrect and need to see a specialist...

That's all. Thanks for making it through this post. Today no pain at all so far, we are going to continue to do cranberry juice and after the Dr yesterday I stopped and got some D- Mannose from the heath food store to use and try. We plan on doing it with the cranberry for AT least today then I'll decide by gut instinct.

:)
So glad it wasn't worse!

my funny girl

A minute ago Adlanna felt warm, so I asked if she was hot (to Chris)

an hour later she is feeling her own forehead saying HOT, and fake coughing and saying SICK

Crack me up!

Jennalee is 4 months old!

Jenna is growing WAY too fast. here is some things she is doing daily

• rolls from her tummy to back instantly
• she scootches on her tummy or on her back and she somehow rotates in a circle 180-360degrees it's funny to watch
• She tries to grab things if you show them to her,
• she loves to talk and sing with sister
• she sings herself to sleep when she gets tired she starts singing... I should get this on video
• She goes to bed around 8pm and wakes at 6-7am.
• Her hair isnt blonde yet, its still really red and light light brown or strawberry blonde... hard to tell still.
• She loves her tongue, to sit up, to talk to anyone who will listen
  
• She is VERY ticklish and laughes every time I get her dressed or undressed, her right arm always does it. She is ticklish other places too but I think her arm is the MOST tickelish
• She stopped puking so much this past week (except for yesterday-- now I think it might be soda pop instead of chocolate still trying to see)
• She is skinny all over but has ROLLS down in her inner thighs...
• She loves to be held and swaddled
• She has a nice sized bald spot
• If you lay her under her toys she will reach up and grab them, and make it turn on.
• If she gets excited she throws her head down and tries to eat you.
• She giggles if you kiss her repeatedly -- one of my favorites!
  

Adlanna is a wonderful big sister, she loves to lay next to her sister on the floor (as you can see) she loves to talk and play and show her toys and read to her, she loves to have her sissy lay next to her on the dora couch. She loves to give sissy good morning kisses and hugs and says "mournin" (even if she wont give mom a good morning hug she will give sissy one)

She really likes to put her fingers in Jenna's mouth and we don't want her to so we do have to tell her not to put things in jenna's mouth all the time! I think Addie thinks it' s funny that Jenna wants to eat everything.

Let me give you an example why we dont want fingers OR anything in her mouth, Adlanna got a play food set for Christmas it contains a carrot and she tried putting it in Jenna's mouth so she could "eat" it and gagged Jenna in the back of the throat... I WAS MAD. We are teaching Adlanna it's PRETEND food to PRETEND to bite and eat it, not really trying to bite and eat it, good thing it is so sturdy and her really biting it isn't doing anything to it. LOL Good job Melissa & Doug toy company!