Sick Molly

Little Miss Molly has hand foot and mouth disease.  Most of her sores are around her mouth and nose.  And a few in her nose.  And then she has a few sores in other random places.  One on her bum, two behind her knee, and one on her hand.  Obviously the nose looks the worst.  Poor little thing.  Doesn't seem to bother her too much though.  Lucas has had a fever and threw up once which is what Molly started out with but so far he hasn't had any sores.  We will see what the next couple of days bring.

Random Pictures

Just a few random pictures for your enjoyment!

This little cutie is my niece.  Do you see the worried look on her face?  Our new baby might be in trouble with Molly around! 

The boys decided to make some hammocks.  Pretty clever I'd say. 

And then they used them as superman flying machines. 

Laundry for 8 anyone?  I usually do laundry twice a week so we have about 6 or 7 loads here.  Not sure if their is room for one more pile. 

Poor Preston had to have two molars pulled.  His six year molars (he is actually 7 and 1/2) were coming in at an angle and eating away the roots of his two year molars right in front of them.  So we had to pull the two year molars out so the other ones could grow in all the way.  Then when the permanant molars start to grow back in, on come the braces to move the 6 year molars into their correct position.  Sounds like fun huh?  He did so good though! 

Little Molly loves watermelon!  She cried when I wouldn't give her any more! 

I wanted Dave to take a side view of my belly but he never gets it right so I took one of him first so he would know what to actually get in the shot.  And then he still took a full body picture from my head to my toes.  He had to do a few retakes of me but finally got it right. 

Me at 28 weeks and 5 days.  Only 10 more weeks to go.  Hopefully! 

Miss Molly thinks it is fun to strip down to her birthday suit!  This was the second time I found her naked in one night.  Only this time she, along with her bed, was all wet!  Super fun right?!  I thought I would be smart and put a onsie on her the next day.  One time she wiggled her way out the top of it and pulled it down over her feet and then stripped the diaper.  The next time I put a onsie on her she managed to reach in the leg holes, undo the diaper and then pull it out!  So when Jack brought her out to me after her nap, she was bare bum under her onsie which was still on and snapped up! 

Oh Lukey!  He had his legs through the arm holes of his pajama shirt and then he tucked his arms down in as well.  So this is how he had to eat his dinner.  Silly boy!

Potty Training

Big boy Luke!!

Doesn't Lucas look so cute in his new undies?  I was going to wait until the end of summer to potty train him cause that would put him at the same age as his brothers were when they finally got the whole potty thing down.  But as much as I hate potty training, I decided to start in June rather than wait till the end of summer.  That way if it didn't work the first time then we still had the end of the summer to try again.  And hopefully still have him out of diapers before baby #7 arrives at the end of September.  We went on vacation the first week of June so the next week I decided to get it going.  I stayed pretty calm all the first morning despite all of the accidents.  About two in the afternoon I started to lose it when he peed in his underwear probably 5 times in 2 minutes.  Arrrhhhgg!  What in the world was I thinking?  This was going to ruin the whole summer!  We wouldn't be able to go anywhere.  Including Lagoon which we bought season passes for.  But I stuck with it.  Even though I didn't have high hopes for him getting it.  He was about three months younger than his brothers were at potty training and he doesn't hardly talk.  Again, what was I thinking?  But I am very happy to say that he has gotten it!!  I wouldn't say that he is 100% but he does pretty good.  And we have gone out and about.  Even to Lagoon.  Sometimes he tells me he has to go but mostly it is me asking him all day long if he needs to go to the bathroom.  Or telling him it is time to go.  He has done so good!!  Which makes me so excited!  A few accidents here and there and some days are better than others.  But not too bad.  It's pretty cute to hear him he tell me he is dry.  And he loves to do it all by himself!  We just have to pay attention to when he is done so we can get him out of the bathroom before he empties the entire roll of toilet paper into the toilet.  Hopefully by the end of the summer he will be 100% with no accidents!  During the day at least.  Naptime and bedtime are a whole other story.  I can dream right?! 

Up next: Potty training Molly.  She has started to strip all of her clothes off throughout the day so I might be doing her sooner than I would like.  But it sure would be nice to only have the new baby in diapers!

Birthday Time for Lucas!!

It's Birthday time again!!

 Lukey Bug is 3!!  I can hardly believe it!  He was so excited to wake up and see balloons for his birthday!

 Don't you love my sweet cake decorating skills!?  Good thing my kids don't care.  We could hardly get him to stop eating his fruit snacks long enough to blow out the candles.

 Present time!  I think the fruit snacks were his favorite!  He also got a Dinosaur Train book (he loves that show), some blocks, a bike helmet and of course a bike to go with it.

 He wasn't too sure about riding his new bike outside.  It took him awhile to get the pedaling figured out.  On the tricycle he never uses the pedals so this was a new thing for him.  He had it down by the next day and then he wouldn't let anybody else touch his bike. 

Oh Lukey Lukey!  He is a character!  We love him to pieces at our house but their sure are some days where it would be easier to keep him locked in his room all day!  Sometimes he can be so sweet.  I love when him and Molly actually get along and play nice with each other.  It's really cute when they get laughing together.  But most of the time they don't get along so well.  Expecially when riding in the suburban.  They sit next to each other and usually fight over who is touching who's car seat.

We are working on getting Lucas to talk.  We started with Early Intervention and then went on to pre school through the school district.  Which he enjoys.  He does pretty good using words when he wants to but alot of the time he just points or uses strange sounds.  It's coming.  Very sloooowly.  His brothers and sisters have so much fun with him.  This little boy is very sneaky.  He likes to get into just about everything and makes lots of messes.   But he is so stinkin cute!  From the day he was born he looked absolutely perfect and so adorably cute!  We loved him then and we love him now.  Happy Happy Birthday Lucas!