I think I get it now, only it's a little too late!!

I read alot of blogs of mommys who "wear" their babies. Every time I see a new post or picture about it, part of me wishes that I had done this with my kids.

I did have a "Snugli" that I would use here and there, but not as frequent as I would now, if Owen wasn't so big.

Well, last night, Owen was pretty cranky. I actually said to my sister on the phone that Owen would crawl back into my womb if I let him! ;) That's how clingy he was. I was trying to get dinner ready, and he just wouldn't let me put him down. So I thought I'd go get the Snugli and see if that would help take some of the weight off of my arms. Now, this thing is only supposed to hold up to 26 lbs. Those of you that know or have seen my "little" Owen, know that he is NOT 26 lbs. At this point though, I didn't care. He was driving me crazy, and just wanted to be held, so this was my only option. I put him in there, and he LOVED it!!! The only downside was that one of the snaps couldn't snap, because he's too big. He stayed in there for at least 30 minutes while I prepared dinner. I kept asking him if he wanted to get down, and he said "no" every time. He loved it!



This morning - same thing. I'm not sure if he is coming down with something, and just wants to be held or what, but as I'm in the kitchen, he comes in and starts begging me to hold him. I tell him to hold on one minute, and he runs into the laundry room and gets the Snugli, and says - "hold me in here!" How was I supposed to say no now! :) So again, while making french toast, I held him in the Snugli.

I think it would be alot better if I had a Mei Tai or a Sling, but I don't think it's worth it to spend the money at the age and weight he's at.

To be honest, I didn't really understand why people "wore" their babies. I just figured - Hey, put him in the swing or the bouncy seat, or whatever. But now, I think I get it. It was really convenient for me to hold Owen AND cook dinner at the same time, and everyone was happy. If only I had started to read blogs when Owen was a baby! :)

Little brothers...

Last Friday, Chloe had two friends come over for the day to play. Things went really great! Well, minus me having to make the boys come downstairs every 2 minutes so that they wouldn't "bother" the girls. But other than that the girls got along wonderfully.

The three girls came down with fancy dresses on, and asked if we could turn on a princess movie so that they could dance and do a show. Chloe wanted me to video tape it.

This is what I came up with... (you have to give it a few seconds to see the little brothers being a big pain!)



The girls took it really well though! :)

I might be knocking on would here?!?

When Chloe was a baby (about 5 1/2 months) she had RSV. She didn't have to be hospitalized, but it resulted in long battles during the winter months - and some summer months for that matter - that required breathing treatments, albuterol, prednizolone,(sp?) etc. It was pretty brutal. We had to wake her in the middle of the night to give her treatments, etc. It was awful.

When Brett was a baby he also got RSV, we basically had to do the same regimin with him as we did with Chloe, and nine times out of ten, they both had to have treatments and medicine at the same time.

Fast forward to Owen. He got RSV at 2 1/2 months of age, and actually had to be hospitalized. It was pretty bad. I've never seen it that bad before - the other two where never hospitalized. We stayed in the hospital for 3 days to get it under control. This also resulted in many days after that with treatments, and medicine.

Each winter, Ryan and I would just expect to do breathing treatments with each of the kids, and it just kind of became routine. Chloe and Brett were diagnosed with asthma, and they said it was a result of having RSV at such a young age. Owen was never diagnosed with asthma.

Here's where I start to knock on wood...

My kids have been SOOOOOO healthy this winter. I actually can't tell you the last time we had to do a breathing treatment. Usually in the summer we have to have a round of them, because if someone gets a cold it usually effects their lungs. NOT this summer!! And usually after we go to the indoor waterpark hotels each year after Christmas we have to bring the nebulizer with us, because at least one of the kids would start coughing and wheezing while we were there. NOT this time!! And usually by October we are starting treatments on somebody, and we've yet to do ANY!!

It awesome, really! We have prayed over our kids so much for this problem, and I'm really just going to believe that the Lord has healed them!

Um, NO!!!!

So, I'm sitting here watching A Baby Story. My boys are playing around, and Chloe's getting ready to have a couple of friends over to play.

I wasn't paying any attention to the fact that both of my boys are staring at the t.v. screen while the lady is pushing the baby out - ooops. O well, it's nature, right?!? Anyway, they show the baby after it's out - all cute and cuddly, and Brett says, "I wish we had another baby." Owen then replies, "me too."

Sorry boys - no more babies for this family!! :)

Worldess Wednesday - They've been dry all day so far!! Come on Owen, you can do it!!! :)

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Happy New Year!!

We had a GREAT New Year's Eve. We didn't really want to do much, after just getting home from our trip. So, we decided to lay low. It started out that we were going to put all of the kids to bed. Chloe wasn't quite ready, so we let her stay up. We decided to play Monopoly, Jr. with her and eat oranges - yes, oranges. That's what Chloe and I had a taste for! :)

Ryan was Troy Bolton! :)



Chloe made it to about 10:30, and then decided that she wanted to go to bed. She was pretty tired. I saw the ball drop in NY, and then fell asleep on the couch. Ryan woke me up 30 seconds before midnight. I rang in the new year, and then ran up to bed! :) I was pretty tired too. I'm not sure when Ryan finally came up to bed.

New Year's Day was pretty low-key too. We played more board games and cleaned up a bit, (my house was a disaster!!!) and then headed out to go ice skating with Ryan's family.

What fun we had! Chloe's never been ice skating before, and Grandma and Grandpa got her new skates, so she was pretty excited.

Once we got there, she wasn't so sure of it. They had these walker-type things to help you learn, and that's all she wanted to use...





Ryan was supposed to be "helping" her, but he was having too much fun on the ice himself!





And my nephew, Josh, was too busy banging into the walls to help her! :) Just kidding! :)

Finally, she let go of the "walker!"

I decided then that I needed to get on the ice. Me, being the dutch person that I am, just told Ryan to take his skates off, and I'll wear them for a little bit. I wasn't about to spend another $5 for 10 minutes of fun. They were about 3 sizes too big, but they worked out o.k.:)




Chloe finally figured out that she could do it. She let go of her walker, and we made a line and skated around.


Owen was just pretty sad that he couldn't join in the fun! :)

The snow didn't stop falling all day - it was great, really. It started to get dark, and with the lights of the rink on, it was just a really pretty scene.


Timmy had way to much fun! :)




After skating, we went to my in-laws for a ham dinner! It really was just a great time, once again, filled with great memories. I declared at dinner that we needed to make this a tradition! :)

These are for you, Mom!!!

My mom lives about 2 hours away from me, and she only got about an inch of snow. She couldn't believe it this morning, when I told her how much I got, so these are for her!:)

Too bad we didn't get all of this snow on Christmas Eve! I'm loving it either way! We're off to go ice skating! :) (Chloe got new ice skates from Grandma and Grandpa T. for Christmas, so she's eager to try them out!)