Natalee's 18 month pictures

Natalee's 18 month old pictures

Photo by: JcPenny's

Pumpkin Patch

The Pumpkin Patch

Eliza smelled something????

Natalee's Little Pumpkin

Adorable Eliza

Charlee's Pumpkin

Mommy's Pumpkin

Natalee's Pumpkin

Tinker Bell's Pumpkin

The Family of Pumpkins

Where did September go?

Where did September go?????

Here are some pictures from September that never made it onto my blog in a timely manner.

Natalee loves to help cook, especially chocolate pudding

Charlee's new haircut, done my Tiffany

A evening of dress-up with her big sister

Applesauce and a Lime Popsicle

I'm going to try better for October but no promises.

Natalee's T&A-Post op Day #1

Natalee is doing great on her first day after getting her tonsils and adenoids out. She has been fussy, sleepy, and not quite my happy little girl. She hates her medicine so it's a struggle every couple of hours. She's drinking some but not her usual 1/2 gallon of milk per day. As you can tell from the pictures, she's happy and making a mess.

Shortly after these pictures were taken, she became extremely fussy, spit out her pain medication, and went to bed at 5:30.


Charlee has been great to help me with Natalee. They played outside for a little while. It was a great distraction for Natalee.

Tinker-Bell is also enjoying the outdoors.

I'm so happy to have Natalee's "Huge" adenoids out. May be we will be able to go longer than a week without being sick.

It worked for Charlee.

More Tonsils and Adenoids

Natalee is officially scheduled to have her tonsils and adenoids removed on Friday September 17th.

In a 6 week period, she had three seperate colds which caused asthma attacks which lead to inhaled steroid treatments so....The adenoids have to go. Both of her doctors (Pediatrician and ENT) both believe the adenoids are causing the trouble. Natalee's tonsils are large but not HUGE so I was given the option to leave or take them.....

....I said," Get it all done in one surgery".

Dr. Stephen Miller will be doing the surgery. He also did Charlee's T&A.

I feel that I'm getting to be a pro at children's surgery. May be I should move my career to pediatric nursing. NO!!!!!

Let's hope for a fast recovery.

Update--Natalee's Growth

Natalee had a late 15 month well-baby or an early 18 month well-baby doctors visit on Tuesday. She is 17 months old, weighs 24 lbs (50th percentile), height 31 1/4 inch (50th percentile). She also received 4 immunization, two in each thigh. Once again she has another cold. That is 3 within the past 6 weeks. Every cold comes around of Flovent to help her asthma. Her tonsils are also enlarged so I made an appointment on Thursday with Dr. Miller for tonsil and adeniods evaluation and hopefully removal. Dr. Miller did Charlee's T&A. I'll do anything to decrease the number of colds my little gets. It worked for Charlee.

Natalee's natural hair do

A First Time For Everything

Tonight for dinner, I had prepared a nice pork pot roast with carrots, potatoes, onions, the whole works. I set the crock pot this morning and went to work.

The Girls were hungry when I picked them up from school so I thought perfect. We'll have a nice dinner, go for a walk, play with Tinker Bell, get ready for bed, and then go to bed.

Well......

....Charlee decided to throw a fit and refused to eat any part of her dinner. After 90 minutes of crying (I just went on with eating, cleaning the dishes, playing with Natalee, etc...) I gave her the choose of eat dinner or go to bed. Off to bed without dinner she went.

Of course, I didn't just say "go to bed".....it was another 60 minute battle of taking her back into her room probably 200 times.

I almost called NANNY 911.

It is 7:22 and both kids are asleep, I think. I haven't seen Charlee for almost 20 minutes.

I spoke too soon.....

... She need to go to the bathroom.

The long night of a single mom....