Doctor Ella can do anything!

This is the song Ella was singing while running around with her doctor kit! The self confidence on that girl, go Ella! I hope she grows up to keep it!

Not feeling so hot...
What a bad month this has been for Jack. I've already posted about the rhotovirus. Well then Ella got a cold and gave it right back to Jack. Only Jack's little cold turned so much worse. I took him to the doc's on friday, just look how miserable he is in these pics! He had a fever of 102.6, eeeek! They got him in early and told me it was just a cold. Well fast forward to saturday lunch time. Jack is crying and fussing, so daddy watched him while I showered. I get out of the shower to find out that his lips, hands and feet turned blue, very blue. So I call the doc they tell me to get to the ER right away, no time for lunch. Of course we get there and he is all happy, telling the nurses "hi" and the nurse in triage says, ooh he looks good now. Yes of course he does, isn't it magic how kids feel better the minute you get to the ER. Well the doc sees him, says he has an ear infection, and that he isn't checking for strep throat, which he could possibly have, because he is going to get antibiotics anyways for the ear infection. He could also have a sinus infection, UGH! And for the breathing problem he is put on steroids. He fell asleep on my chest at the ER, he was so not feeling good, that isn't my Jack. When we got home the advil had worn off and his fever was 103.5. Some more advil and a nap later, he was feeling a little better saturday night, slept most of the day sunday, and continues to improve, wheeewh!

This is for everyone that thinks Jack is such a little angel!!! He can be such a stinker!! I don't know how many times a day he gets dragged out of the dog water, maybe too many to count? We keep the dishes clean now, cause there is just no stopping him! And he gets soooo mad when you take him out! Talk about a temper! He throws himself on the floor, will bang his head on the floor, flip around, and just scream!!!

Here's friend Ella!!
That is what Ella says to Jack when he gets out of bed each morning! And lately she has been so huggy, I love it, she hugs my leg and always tells me "mommy I like you". Well baby, momma likes you to!

So I finally talked Jamie into setting up the pool! I swear he is such a fuddy duddy some times! I know the kids will use it, I mean they were in there playing yesterday for over an hour while it was filling up. Even Jack loved it! He kept playing with the hose but screaming when he would squirt himself in the face, silly baby. He was soaked but having fun! Ella ran around in there the longest, playing with Jack's baby float, she could sit in it all the way so she stuck her feet into the little holes, sat on the edge, and used her feet to scoot around.
No pictures of that, but here are the ones of monkey Jack climbing the slide to make up for not posting them last week!!!

Ok, so I know I tell everyone how funny Ella is, and the things she comes up with all the time, but today she reached an all time high! Tay and Cam were running through the hose, super soaked, and Ella thought it looked like fun, so she had to go inside and get her bathing suit on. After one short squirt with the hose, she ran and hid by daddy, and when asked if she wanted to run through the sprinkler, she said, "no it's to wet". What a goof! Water, wet? Really? That kid cracks me up!

What is going on in little Jack's life? He is one busy guy I tell ya! Yesterday he figured out how to climb up the slide all by himself!! What took the rest of the kids till after age 2, Jack is doing at 13 months! Such a monkey! So now I can't go far from him in the backyard, cause he thinks if he turns around by the ladder he will be able to get down from the fort all by himself, ummmm Jack? Did you notice you are 5 feet above the ground?
Jack started saying Tee, for Taylor!!! He looks at her, tries to get her attention and yells Tee, Tee, he gets so excited! She should feel super special as his vocabulary only consists of ma, da, baba, ball, bye and now Tee! Of course ball is his favorite!
I was watching him play today, admiring his cheesy smile, and it reminded me just how much he looks like Cam, it amazes me some times! Hey lucky me, 2 really good looking guys!!! Moms, watch your daughters!

Where did Jack's hair go?

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That was what Ella asked me today while they were in the tub, I poured a cup of water over his head, and his hair is soooo blonde it disappears. She couldn't figure out where it went lol!!!
She comes up with some doozies, such as...
Now her favorite thing to say is "or something". She asked my dh, are you sick or something? Or she says, "whatever your name is". I always mess up the kids names, so I say, Tay, Ella, whatever your name is. So she does it to me and dh, mom, dad, whatever your name is. Little smartie pants!

Put me in coach!
I think Jack is ready! He is already fascinated with all balls, every time he sees one he goes nuts, yelling, ball ball ball! So one of his first words! He was watching the boys play, he didn't want to leave the fence, and was watching that ball like crazy!!!

Playing outside... The time passes quicker, the kids are more content, and of course they have a ton of fun! I love this play fort, Jamie and I worked hard building it, and although Taylor outgrew it all too quickly, Cameron still has fun with it, and Ella and Jack have a ton of years ahead of them to have fun on it. Yes it was very hard to move from one yard to the next, but I think it was well worth it (don't know if Jamie thinks the same thing hehe).
Ella likes to stand up on things (flipped over laundry baskets, chairs, now the fort) and sing really loud, so here she is singing to me, her made up songs! And Jack figures if Ella can climb all the way up the slide, he should be able to to!!! Oh and of course Jamie joined in on the sliding fun!

White hair? Aubrey is so sweet, I was telling her that Jack has the same blonde hair as she does, and she felt his soft hair, and told me "we have white hair, not blonde hair". How cute is she? But she is kinda right, it is lighter then blonde!

Well it is finally done! Jack's 1 year shoot! I wanted to wait till the bruises faded on his head (HA funny me), then he was sick and miserable for 2 weeks (ok so we both were), but here is my little man! Jack at 1! Getting into trouble, walking everywhere, and an all around happy go lucky guy! Gotta love him!

So what is going on over here? I guess I need an update! Jack is better, he had me quite scared fo awhile, and the lack of sleep was getting to me! So he finally fought off the rhotovirus, eeeeek! Funny how after being dehydtated how excited I got to see his diaper full of pee in the morn! He is back to eating, smiling, laughing and walking everywhere to get into trouble! So back to our old Jack, I sure missed him!
Cam had his appointment at Detroit Children's Hospital monday. The new doc is upping his meds, and we are scheduling another MRI, and a 24 hour EEG, which means we will be at the hospital that long, eeeeek! She wants Cam to be seizure free, meaning the medication controls the seizures, not his lack of activities or such. That makes me happy, I just want to feel that he is safe when he isn't with me, not having to worry so much (is that possible?).

Also did a photo shoot of baby Addie on Monday! What a doll!!! I can't get enough of the lil' peanut, she is sooo stinkin cute! And cause Jack was there as well, here he is, in a pink bucket hehe! I figured I would change these to black and white anyways, but hey, boys can't sit in pink buckets, right???

Detroit Tigers!!!!
Taylor and Cameron got to go to their first Tiger's game on the 25th! It was amazing, just being there gives you such a rush!!! No they didn't win, but that didn't matter to us!!! Tay really didn't want me or Auntie Kristie to do the wave or get up and dance and kept grabbing my arm and pulling me down, but other then that she was loving it hehe! Cam was intriqued, I was suprised at how close attention he paid to the game! Maybe he will pick up some tips! Cole was really thinking he would catch a ball and wore his mitt the entire time! Aubrey was way more interested in the junk food then the game! There was a fire works show after the game that was awesome!!! Super fun family night!

What a week... Poor Jack, he is a miserable mess. It started last Monday, he was playing with one of Ella's toys, fell on it, and it scraped the back of his mouth, there was a lot of screaming and blood, and one scared mommy. Usually it doesn't take Jack long to settle down, but I knew he was hurting when he kept crying, breaking my heart. I wanted to get him checked out, probably should have, cause it was a long long night. Poor Jack screamed most of the night and was miserable every time he tried to swallow. His shots were scheduled for Tuesday morning and I had to put them off for so long, I felt I shouldn't wait. So he had his immunizations, then we rushed straight to the docs to make sure he didn't do any major damage. They told me it looked painful and nasty, but that he missed all the important things in his mouth and only hit tissue, still painful for him though. Nothing they could do though. Then Wendesday he wakes up with a temp of 103 degrees, eeek. Had some Motrin which controlled it, and another docs call, they said to keep an eye on him. Then diarhea all day. Up all night again. Then Thursday it was vommiting and diarhea, another call to the docs, told to keep an eye on him. Up all night again. Friday morn he wakes up pretty happy, but then up all night Friday night, more vommiting, diarhea, same with Saturday, then up all Saturday night. Sunday morn I had given up, I called the doc's again, they want us to go to Urgent Care, but of course they don't see anyone under age 2, so off to the ER. They get us right into a room, but Jack is miserable and screaming, this goes on 2 hours, still no doc. Finally a nurse asks if anyone has seen us, I say no, I'm in tears telling them I came here for help, get someone to help me. In just a couple of minutes a doc is there, then they give him Motrin for the pain and something for the vomiting. He starts to drink a lot, well a lot for what he has all week, then they let him eat some cookies, and he pigs out. He was walking up and down the halls saying hi to all the sick people, they got quite a kick out of him, as well as the nurses. A little like his old self. They send us home, doing NOTHING, and you guessed it, up all night Sunday night. Well Monday is his family birthday party, he still has diarhea, but no more vomiting. Can't go swimming with everyone, but I put his tootsies in the water, he kinda liked that. He had fun with his cake, played with it more then eating it, it was the first time I had seen him smile in days really. He even drank a baba before he went to bed, but then around midnight he is screaming again, and pretty much up all night. He woke up at 6:15 am with a dry diaper, which meant just over 12 hours without peeing, and his mouth was dry, so off to the ER again, cause these are the so called signs to watch for. They are poking my poor baby trying to get blood and get an IV in, no luck, it took 3 pokes, they did get some blood to test, but no IV in, they gave up and told us to give him water and popcycles. He is 5% dehydrated, which isn't that bad, but scary enough. Still nothing they can do for him, he is miserable and napping now, what a morning. Apparently he has a virus, nothing they can do but wait it out, nothing they can give us. We have another check up for tomorrow, just waiting for the nurse to call so I can schedule it.
But here is a pic of Jack eating his cake, can't even tell how miserable he really is here at all...

What a super exciting day for Ella! Her last day of Discovering the 2's, next year it will be Discovering the 3's, and NO mommy there with her. Ms. Sue had a super fun filled day planned for the whole class, starting with making a bubble blower!!! There were bubbles everywhere! Then they all got to play on the gym set for a bit, burning off some extra energy. Then there was ice cream sundaes, and the kids got to pick from chocolate syrup and a bunch of different sprinkles. Last was book reading, singing, and the handing out of diplomas and a treat from Ms. Sue. Ella was all worn out by the time we got home! What a happy happy day!

Can I just say what a nut Ella is? The things she comes up with, she just amazes me day after day. These are some of Jack's toys, there are shapes that go in those holes, or in Ella's case, hands and feet go in those holes!!! She was singing and dancing, just a goof ball! See, even though she was having a bad, crabby day, she is still good for a laugh!!!