My growing children...

I can't believe how much the kids have grown recently. I decided to measure and weigh them the other day since they don't really go to the dtr as much as they use to. Emma has really grown as she is 38" tall and 35lbs and Aidan is getting so tall at 46" (almost 4 feet!) and 45lbs. I can't believe Aidan is that tall at 4yrs old. When I myself am only 5 ft 4 inches tall. He is going to be way taller than me if he keeps going at this rate! ha!

Lucy

On top of everything else going on with us lately we decided to adopt a puppy from Red Dog Farms. She is a chocolate lab mix and is super sweet. Chris was really the one who started talking about it and I still was not really sure at first b/c of how turned upside down our house seems all the time, but of course once I started looking at the photos really wanted to go see them. All of the puppies, some chocolate some black were all at a foster families house and I met Chris and the kids over there one night and I just happened to get there first, yea. So, I got to see all of the puppies by myself, so cute. We had kind of already picked out Lucy and she was one of the quiet ones, which I'm hoping is a good thing. She still is very cuddly and sweet and loves to be held. We are trying to crate train her and she is doing pretty well, but still having accidents in the kitchen. Here are a few pics of her, I need to take some new ones she is already grown so much, hopefully I can get some of Macy and Lucy together if Macy can handle it. Lucy is right around 12 weeks old.

Fall is Here, Halloween

Wow, I have been such a slack blogger, haven't posted since August, geez! I plan to try to be better at blogging more often, we'll see. Things have been super crazy for us lately, still trying to sell our house, one of these days I hope to post we have. I have been dealing with several medical things since August, one being a lump I discovered under my arm pit that turned into an infection and 4 different lumps and eventually Merca b/c I was getting the wrong treatment, ugh! It was was one of the most painful things I been through recently mainly b/c it lasted so long, 2 months of dealing with that and not being able to fully use my arm, then I go and stab my wrist trying to carve a pumpkin! Geez! It happened so fast and I really didn't know what to do at first except put pressure on the cut and try to get the knife out of reach of the kids who were running around me asking Mommy what's wrong. I probably should have gone to get stitches, and that is exactly what the nurse I work with told me the next morning, but at that point it was a little too late, she helped me clean and butterfly the cut and how to properly keep it clean and bandaged. It has been almost 2 weeks and it does look better, but is going to take a while to completely heal and part of my wrist is still a little numb. I'm not sure why I am so accident prone, I just hope it doesn't rub off on the kids! I think it has a little with Emma as she cut her forehead the day before Halloween when we were at our neighborhood festival and tripped on the harness holding down the bouncy slide and we were only there for like 5 minutes! Luckily there was a nurse on site and cleaned and bandaged it for us. It has amazingly healed up to where you can hardly see it.

Emma and her cousin Carter

Emma and Grandpa

Emma trying on Aunt Jenn's purple wig, not too sure about it.


This was pre-head injury!

My little princess!

My Cheeseball

Trying to be crafty with the kids. Making Candy Corn Garland

Aidan did enjoy helping out.

My Butterfly Princess and Dinasaur

Aidan and Emma dancing around like ballerinas!