A Crazy Fun Life With 3 Kids

Long Gap

2010-01-20T08:51:00.003-06:00

Wow I haven't blogged in a really long time. The Army moved us to Fort Knox, KY. Soon as we got here they decided they want to medically retire Michael. So they moved us here just to decide that they want Michael to retire out. So we are just sitting on pins we should know by the summer what they decided. It doesn't really bother us either way he only has a year left on his contract so we were planning on getting out in the summer of 2011.

Our kids are growing fast Broc will start preschool in 2 months. He and Peyton will be in separate classes but ride the bus and eat lunch together. He is really excited about it and can't wait to ride the bus. I am excited to only have Hunter for 16 hours a week. Utah State Health Department did Peyton's Autism test on old test forms so we have to get them all over. Its a good thing though now that is she has gotten older they can fit her into a specfic form of Autism. They are all very sure she has Asperger's Autism. Which is a very high functioning she just has social problems but is on the same par intellect wise as her peers. Hunter finally is suppose to be getting his shoulder fixed this summer. There going to add a bone graft onto his left shoulder's ball and joint to fill in where his bone just didnt grow for some reason. Hopfully the stem cells they add will help the graft grow with the rest of ball socket or else he will have to keep going in every few years to get more bone added. He wont be a football or baseball star but soccer is looking promising.

I still have 1 1/2 arms and no idea when there going to fix the problem from the car accident. It is getting really frustrating there are so many things I can't do and limitations when it comes to the kids that just annoy me to no end. All the muscles in my arm have gone to waste pretty much so I can lift a 3lb weight to shoulder length and you can easily see the exertion and trembling as my muscles try to hold that weight. All the surgeons who have seen me are all split half say I fractured my collarbone and need pins and plate to anchor to my sternum the other half think that half are quacks and say they dont know what is wrong. I stand in the middle just wanting someone to try something.

Moved

2009-07-21T15:57:00.002-05:00

Well I decided 14 months in Utah was long enough. So I drove to TX and meet up with Michael (left the kids in UT) and we got the keys to our house and moved in! We got a house on base at Fort Hood. Its a 4 bedroom 2 and 1/2 bathroom house with a backyard and a living room as well as a family room. We decided to let the kids have the living room as there playroom. The kids have not seen the new house yet. We are unpacking and setting up everything before we leave back to UT to go get them and bring them to TX. Michael is resigning his contract with the Army for a few more years. While in he is going to the LPN year long training. Peyton will start her 2nd year of Special Education Preschool in a few short weeks. While we are here in TX she is going to go San Antonio and get seen by the institute the is one of the leading researchers for children with Peyton unique set of disorders. We are hoping that they will be able to give us some new information about her disorder, as well as new things to try to help her learn around her set of disorders. In other news I finally was allowed out of the my shoulder brace but still am not allowed to start physical therapy or really do anything with my arm or anything. They are still making up there mind about a 2nd surgery to fix my joint where the sternum and collarbone meet. After they figure that out they then have to figure out why I lose feeling in my whole shoulder they say it would have something to do with my spine and that would be a surgery of it own to fix that problem. So I have no idea when I will actually get to really use that arm as a normal person would use there arm. The longer this goes the longer it will be till my lawyer can settle with the people's insurance for the lady that so stupidly decided to not stop at the red light. They unfortunately said they can't settle till the Doctors say that this is the best my arm is going to be for the rest of my life and the Doctors are not ready to throw the towel in yet they keep making me do all these weird excersises hoping that it might help or they tell me to not use the arm hoping longer amounts of time without movement will make the problem correct itself. Its rather very frustrating and painful. I have to take sleeping pills now just so I can sleep cause the pain is enough to keep me awake at night. Currently my arm can only go to shoulder height in front of me and to my side I cant lift it over my head or behind my body. I am hoping with just having had the internet and everything setup and being in my own domain that I have more control over that my blogging skill will increase. I guess we shall see.

Its Been Awhile

2009-06-09T09:57:00.002-05:00

Wow its been a long while since I have made a post on my blog. Needless to say things have been really busy.

At the start of May I had surgery to fix some damage from when I got rear ended in a car accident. My surgeon found out that I had fractured my collarbone and tore 2 muscles. I went 6 months with no one else being able to figure this out. So I got 3 pins put in my shoulder to fix my muscles. I was suppose to only have to wear a shoulder brace for a month then I would be able to start moving it some and do physical therapy. Its been almost 6 weeks since surgery and I am still wearing the shoulder brace. Since I fracture my collarbone and no one knew it cause they misread the xray CT scan and MRI it didnt set right next to my sternum so it has dislocated 3 times in the 6 months. So now I have to get another surgery now to fix my collarbone. I am very unhappy about this news. The kids and I were suppose to be moving to Fort Knox, KY so Peyton could start her second year of preschool and meet her new therapists. Now the children and I will be staying in Utah till Oct.

Peyton finished her first year of preschool and got a diploma. She had a lot of fun with her teacher and all the friends she had in class. She has at least another 2 years of preschool. Then she will have to do testing to figure out if she goes to regular kindergarten or a slowed down version of kindergarten. She is loving playing outside in her pool and watering all of the flowers outside. She has been workinghard and is starting to get good at making sentences when she is talking to us. She is also letting us know her feelings and finding ways to communicate them to us. She is been potty training the last 2 months. Sometimes she is good about it but most of them if we dont force her to the potty then she will just go in her underwear. Her doctors said it would be hard for us to train her that its just part of her developemental disorder and that we just have to keep working with her.

Broc is getting to be more aggressive in letting his sister know that she has made him mad. So he been in time out quite and few hundred times. He finally is staying in nursery all by his self. He will scream while I am leaving then he stops and either plays or goes to sleep. He is out growing his speech finally. With Peyton being behind in speech he mimic'd her but now he is outgrowing that and is adding words all the time. He is finally getting ready to potty train which is a good thing. He also notices so many things sometimes I have to remind myself that he will learn things faster or before Peyton. I am so use to working at Peyton's level that I forget that my sons are going to learn things easier and faster then she does. He is still in love with his cars. We think that he may be a Rugby player though. We were watching a movie called Forever Strong and he got so excited when they showed the boys playing rugby.

Hunter is so close to walking and he such a good talker. He can say mama dada broc peyton and hi. He is going to be turning the big 1 in a few weeks now. Hunter had to get switched to a bottle he fell off the growth chart so we have to feed him high calorie formula and add sugar and butter to the table foods he eats He has been on the fat boy diet for 3 months he is still off the chart but he is working on it. We also found out the Hunter has astma thankfully we didnt find out the hard way. He has to take medicine every day that helps keep his airway open. He hates and will scream the entire time he takes the breathing treatment. He had some good news though a new xray of his shoulder has shown growth in the bone which is good news. It isnt fully grown in yet but there has been some process. He also is finally sleeping through the night. He apparently likes a really soft bed. We folded up a huge king size comforter and put it in his crib and now he will sleep all night. Everyone in the house was so thrilled when Hunter finally started to sleep.

Michael is due home in a few weeks. He will be home for good from Afghanistan. The only down side his home is Texas and the kids and I will be in Utah till the Army moves him to KY. So he will still be gone but no one be trying to kill while he is in TX. He got the purple heart while he was he was out on a patrol. It was really scary cause it was the first time the Army called me and the lady was so uncalloused. It scared me when they asked me if I was my husband wife I grabbed the counter and braced myself I seriously felt my heart fall down to my feet and I didnt know if I could hold the phone to hear the news. Just for her to tell me that he burned his ear and got some bullet fragments in his leg. The funny thing was Michael already told me that he got hurt the Army was 3 weeks behind. So I thought that there were calling cause he died. So I will be much more relaxed when he is in TX. He is very excited though the kids and I bought him an iPhone for Father's Day. It will be able to hold his medical software on it and tons more. So I will be dropping it off to him when I drive his car down to TX to meet him off his plane.

So that is the last 2 months in a nutshell. I will post pictures soon my 1 terabyte hard drive died so yeah there went my picture my 90 gigs of iTunes and 500 movies and tv seasons as well.

Michael went back to Afghanistan

2009-03-27T14:12:00.002-05:00

So the last 2 weeks went by so fast but they were so fun. Michael came home on the 14th and he had to leave on the 25th. We had a lot fun getting to see him. The kids were a little shy when they first walked over to him but in a few minutes the shyness was gone and they were all over Daddy. The loved playing with Daddy and having him put them to bed. Broc was so happy I thought he might just keel over from being so happy that Daddy was home. While Michael was here his brother Sam got married and he was the best man and Peyton was yet again a flower girl. This was the 4th wedding she was the flower girl for. I think I should start renting her out to be a flower girl for weddings cause she has so much experience now. It was also Broc's 2nd Birthday while Michael was here we threw him a big Cars themed party and I made him a really cool cars cake. He got lots of.....Cars for his birthday. It was also Michael and my 5 year wedding anniversary I can't believe its been that long already. We upgraded our wedding rings and Michael got a Swiss Army Watch. Michael also got to bless Katie son Ace while he was home he thought it was a very enjoyable experience. Peyton was given a definitive diagnosis on having PDD-NOS which means Pervasvise Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. A big word which means she doesnt fall into just one category she falls into multiple things but not enough of one of them to be that one thing. They say that she will be in special ed for almost all of school. But they say as an adult she should be able to live on her own get married and have her own kids. They say its very rare for a child with PDD-NOS to grow out of there delays and problems. So she will always have it she will just have to learn and adjust around it. So she will start taking more Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy along with seeing a regular therapist to help her with coping and keeping her at a balance level. They are excited with the progress she has been able to make so far. They said they dont see any of the traits in our boys though which is good that means they won't have the same problem as Peyton. In other news Hunter is a crawling maniac now. We weren't suppose to let him learn but he figured it out and does a sort of Army crawl. He still favors is bad arm he doesnt put much weight on it with the funny crawl he does. He is also sleeping by his self almost. He is getting a little better about sleeping he can almost sleep for 4 hrs in his own bed before he comes into bed with me and bugs me all the rest of the night.

Meeting of the Minds

2009-03-05T17:18:00.003-06:00

Michael is finally on his way home. He will get to be home for 2 weeks then he will have to go back to Afghanistan for another 2 months then he will come back for good. Then we will move back to TX where all are stuff is. I am excited I can't wait for him to be back for good. I miss having my own space.

Ace has been coming up to hang out and Hunter and Ace love to stare at each other they are going to be good friends when they get older. Peyton has some more testing to pinpoint where her delays are and how severe they are and how to help her with them. Broc 2nd bday is coming up and he is having a car themed party. He will also start getting all his shots now that he is 2. After Peyton started showing signs of delay we choose to forgo immunizing the boys till they were 2. In that short time things have changed. There used to be so many more shots when Peyton was the boys age but they cut out like 7 shots. So I think that regardless of the bull they push on immunizations not leading to autism or be harmful they must of not bought it themselves and cut back and changed the age on some immunizations.

Michael and I 5 year anniversary is this month as well. I still can't believe its been 5 years. It has gone by so fast. We are going to do sealing for the dead at the SLC Temple for our anniversary. I would tell you what I got him but he reads my blogs so then he would know so you will just have to wait till after the 20th.

It's been 3 months since my my car accident where I was rear ended when I was stopped at a red light. I am still fighting with the insurance company of the person who hit me. They are being cheap skates on paying me a fair value for my minivan. Also my attempts at finding a 2000 or higher in Land Rover Discovery II SE7 are still in vain. I looked at many who have problems with the shift differentals or engine problems. Then I looked at 2 worth buying but one guy just stopped answering my calls and the other family want more then it is worth. I am waiting cause I think the lady will cave cause no one else has made offers and with the economy no one is willing to shell out 6 grand. So I am hoping her desperation for the money will make her come down to what I am willing to offer her. I shall keep you updated on my process of finding a Land Rover. Thankfully the medical portion of my thing will finally settle. I have to have surgery to screw my muscles into my shoulder to fix my problem they also think there is tear in there that they wont be able to see till they cut my arm open. So needless to say my payout I have been told will be substantal due to the pain and the surgery. I havent been able to take anything to help with the pain the last 3 months due to breastfeeding Hunter. So my pain and sufferage will be high. I am hoping it high enough to payoff the loan on our 2007 Suzuki Forenza it is such a bad luck car. It has already had its tranmission and alternator replaced and still the radio doesnt work. There are also a few areas that still need to get painted because of accidents and stuff. I hate the car personally and I think it hates me too so I avoid driving it at all costs.

Broc Nudity Pants

2009-02-12T22:27:00.002-06:00

So the other day I took the kids to Mc Donald's. Broc instantly ran to go play in the playplace. Since he is potty training he is wearing pull ups now instead of diapers. So 5 minutes go by and a little girl comes out of the playplace. She goes to her Mom and says "Mommy there is a boy naked in there." Next thing that happens is Broc comes sliding down the slide BUTT NAKED! He has a big grin on his face and starts running to go back into the playplace. The little girl was really distraught over Broc nudity and was complaining to her Mom. I on the other hand thought that was just so funny. I was curious how he didnt get a slide burn on his bum.

I saw Licia and Ellis tonight. They came over to have dinner with my husband's whole family. We played some Wii and caught up on the going on in everyone's life. She seems a bit quieter then normal but other then that she seems to be the same NayNay as always. Peyton was confused at first when she saw Licia and I standing together. She was unsure who was who.

Michael is due home for 2 weeks of leave in 3 weeks. I am so hoping that this leave doesn't get cancelled like all the other ones have been. Its been 8 months since I last saw him and I miss him so much. Lucky for us it is schduled for so he will be home for loads of stuff. His brother Sam is getting married. He is blessing Katie's baby Ace. He has to sit in the Eagle Nest for both of his brothers court of Honors. Then its Broc 2nd bday. Then our 5 year wedding anniversary. He is taking me to the SLC Temple. We are going to do some sealing for the dead. We havent done a sealing since we did our own. We just been doing endownments or the first part. I can't spell it and I dont want to butcher it. Then he will be here while Peyton finishes some medical testing. So he will be able to help me choose which type of treatment we think will be best for her. Then we have a parent teacher conference setup so we can talk to her teachers about what her doctors said. So he will be a busy guy.

PDD pervasive developmental disorders

2009-02-04T13:37:00.003-06:00

Finally an answer! Peyton had some testing done today and was observed. They are very sure that she suffers from PDD. She had an IQ test done today. Most of the areas she was tested on she was borderline to big delays. Then she surprised and astounded us all when she scored higher then her age group in Object Assembly. So we make a joke that Peyton is a savant. Peyton was able to assemble puzzle that children in her own age group would not have been able to assembly. Overall her scores follow. Verbal 14% Gross Language 18% and Perferomance 82% and Total her Percentalie to her age was 45%. Her overall IQ is 98. They think Peyton suffers from Sensory Overload where little things that most of us handle with no problem stress her out so much they cause a meltdown. They also believe she is color blind. Michael is red green and blue green colorblind. While it is very unsual to see a female colorblind they think that she just might be. They said if Peyton had been tested at an earlier age they would of marked her as being Severely Austism. They are excited and amazed by the strides Peyton has made in her own development. They said Michael and I must be doing a very good job with being able to balance her delays to her learning. In March Peyton will do more testing to find out her Sensory problems and then we will have all the tests done and the doctor will give us a answer and a list of treatments that might help her. So I am so excited and proud that Peyton has done so well and that she is continuing to do well of course we will never be able to overcome all her delays but we can learn how to help her learn and grow with her delays.

Potty Training

2009-01-23T18:58:00.002-06:00

Some success is finally being made in Potty Training. Peyton is not having very many accidents anymore. She has even told us that she has to use the potty. Now I just need her to go number 2 in the potty when she needs to go. Broc wants to go potty the way Peyton does. I am close to giving up the battle and letting him just sit down to pee. He will try harder to go pee if he gets to sit down he throws a little big of a fit when I try to get him to stand up. The downside to letting him sit down is sometimes the carpet ends up getting pee'd on.

Hunter has learned to crawl we try not to let him really do much of it. The doctors still don't want him to do any crawling they still worry that his shoulder or his arm or both could break. Hunter is a big pig the kid can eat 2 jars of baby food and a baby biter biscuit in one sitting. He just has such a fast metabolism that he is just always so hungry.

Peyton has been skiing quite a few times so far this year. I say to the world watch out she is going to be in the Winter Olympics soon. She flies down the bunny hill going 15 mph. She loves when I and Opah (grandpa) ski out in front of her then she will follow us through turns and she will just fly down the mountain. She loves it when there are cones setup she will try to salom the cones like a downhill skier. She may not say much and she may not be totally potty trained but she can tear it up on the ski slopes. Opah thinks that she will get to burn her worm this year. The worm is something that keeps her skis pretty close together so she doesnt do the splits and stuff. I have some video on my cell phone i took of her I will have to remind myself to post them up so you guys can see her awesomeness.

Broken!

2009-01-03T08:53:00.002-06:00

Michael warned me when we had our boys that there were going to break things and get stitches from being crazy little boys. I just didnt think it would happen so soon.

Boy I was wrong.

Broc broke his arm last night when he feel off a barstool when he was sitting at the counter about to eat dinner. He has to go see a orthopedist on Monday to get a hard cast right now he has it splinted and wrapped in cotton and a ace bandage and in a sling. He broke it at his elbow.

"Ooh baby baby its a wild world"

2008-12-30T19:32:00.005-06:00

Wow its been a very crazy month.

I will start with Hunter and move on from there. The big guy turned 6 months old and is eating baby food now. He loves squash and pears and sweet potatoes. The suergon who saw him say there isn't anything they can do for his shoulder right now and that he wants to see him in March to do some more x-rays. They are hoping that some cartlidge in the area will fill in the gap that is there from the malformed bone. So he goes to physical therapy and she decided to tape Hunter's shoulder to help it from coming out of its socket. The taping works well on him and it hasnt come out nearly as much as it use too. We are not allowed to let him learn to crawl though cause there worry that the weight on his left arm will break his shoulder and his arm. So we have to police him and make sure he doesnt try to crawl. Which is hard cause he was so close to crawling.

I got rear ended when I was at a stop light in my minivan. The lady just wasnt paying any attention and smacked right into me going 20 mph. The only one of the kids I had in the car with me was Hunter at the time. Her excuse for hitting me was "I was in a hurry". So I been having fun doing lots of paperwork and going to the doctor. Hunter thankful was fine I took him to the ER right away I was so worried that it might of messed his left shoulder up. I sprained my pinky and got chest contussions and jammed up my whole left shoulder. They are very sure they will total out my minivan. My feeling are not all that hurt about that I wanted a different minivan anyways. I just have to do the whole car shopping bit I wont get lucky like I did with the van where I just bought it from Michael's Aunt.

Broc is starting potty training. Today he picked out his big boy underwear. He choose a disney pixar match. It has Cars. Toy Story, Nemo, and Incredibles. I am hoping that him potty training might make Peyton want to use the potty. As of now she doesnt she every once in a blue moon will actually use the toilet on her own, but other then that she just doesnt do it. We haven't pushed her in the potty training department cause we have been more concerned with her speech and other delays. Also the doctor said there was no point in trying to potty train her till she cant understand 3 steps commands and she cant quite do that yet. So we are hoping that Broc will take to training like a fish to water and make Peyton want to do it too. So wish me luck either I will be training one child or two children to use the potty.

The kids had a blast at Christmas. Broc loved the train table that he got from Santa. Peyton got a trike from her Grammy and Poopah (that is what she called grandpa she calls him poopah) They got a ton of other gifts as well but those were the ones the seem to take to. Peyton was real cute we handed her a present and told her who it was for and she go "Sam where are you" then find them and hand them there presents. I think of the 6 months that my husband as been away I think this was the time I felt the most lonely. Seemed that everyone had there someone but me and he missed the kids go crazy over there toys. I really missed him like the whole week. I hope the next few months past by sooner he says he might make it home as early as March but he will definatley be home by June. I hope he is home in March so that way he is home for our 5 year wedding anniversary. I still cant believe it almost been 5 years since we got married in the St Louis MO temple.

Abby Normal

2008-12-03T14:59:00.002-06:00

So poor little Hunter having quite a adventure. When he was born he came out kind of sideways so when his left shoulder start to pop and move around we all just thought it was just something he would grow out of from something that happened at birth. Well now that the he has gotten to be quite the big guy who moves around its just dislocates out its socket very often at least once a day sometimes more. So after this happened I took him to see his doctor and his doctor did some xrays and referred us to a occuptation therapist and to see a pediatric orthopedist. The therapist after hearing that Hunter was almost 6 months and the problem he had fit him real quick and saw us today and she took a look at his xrays that I brought with him and was flabbergasted so she showed it to another therapist who was also flabbergasted who promplty took it to a orthopedist surgeon that works on adults only and he wasn't sure what could be done to fix the problem with Hunter being so young. They then came back and told me that Hunter's ball and joint socket that is his shoulder and his humourus bone is anatomically abnormal. On one side where is suppose to be rounded its totally flat on the other side where it is rounded like it should it to long. So they would have to surgical correct it by grinding some down on the long side and building up on the side that isn't rounded. But since he is still growing it causes a problem. So on the 9th we will find out what the surgeon thinks.

I must not blog enough or people have in for me!

2008-11-26T12:13:00.005-06:00

Trying to figure out if I dont blog enough or if just maybe people have it in for me with the vast amounts of free time I wish I had. But I got tagged twice to do this so now I going to do just cause I got tagged twice.

Crazy Eights
8 Shows I Love (There arent enough hours in the day so I am just going to say 8 shows i watch often)

1. Backyardigans

2. Wonder Pets

3. Wow WoW Wubbzy

4. Dora the Explorer

6. Grey's Anatomy

7. House

8. One Tree Hill

8 Things I Did Today

1. Got up at 3:30 and 6:00 with Hunter (He wakes up every 2 hours at night to eat but Grandpa decided to have a slumber party with Hunter and kept Hunter till Hunter was starving)

2. Gave Hunter the bread bag its the only thing that he will chew on besides me while he is eating that will stop him from crying. Note: I watch him when he chews on so he wont choke or suffocate himself.

3. Peyton, Broc, and I made biscotti cookies

4. Gave all 3 kids a bath. Peyton and Broc took one together and at the end I put Hunter in with them when the water was the right tempertaure for him. Note: I held onto him the whole time and the kids showed him all there bath toys.

5. Talked to Licia on MSN instant messenger

6. I will change a good 10 diapers maybe more but I know at least 10 most of them will be Hunter so maybe i should guess 15-20.

7.Cleaned out my van. Yesterday I cleaned out the little car and today was the van's turn. The van was worse cause the kids spend more time in there.

8.Cross my fingers I may finish the Work and Glory book 9 and be done with series I have like 150 pages to go. But with Hunter teething all he wants is for me to do is hold him and I am sucker for his sweet face and I give in. Note: I loved the series it was really good I learned a lot about the church and its history and gave me more respect for those who paved the way for us and didn't let a few big trials beat them down and continued on with the work of the gospel.

8 Things I look Forward to:

1. Michael coming home for leave

2. Michael coming home from Afghanistan (its between April-June 2009)

3. Hunter sleeping through the night

4. Moving back to Texas when Michael comes home I love the warm weather.

5. Peyton to catch up to all the children development wise so she can go to regular kindergarden

6. Christmas I can't wait to see the kids face when they see what the got (Broc got a train table he loves trains and Peyton got some musical instruments she loves music)

7. For licia to come home so we can talk more often then we do now

8. Eating at In-N-Out again one day its been almost 5 years now!

8 Favorite Resturants

(this is a tough one I can't really eat out ever since I had Hunter that kind of greasy fatty oily stuff makes my stomach sick)

1. Mc Donalds perfect place to go on a date when you have children and live away from family cause they play and you get a chance to talk

2. In-N-Out

3. Subway doesnt make me sick so it a good thing

4. Really cant think of any others that dont make me sick

8 Things On My Wish List

1. For Michael to tell me the Army cut there tour short and he is coming home tomorrow

2. A bigger better Mini Van

3. For Obama not to screw thing up to badly and to not be re elected to a 2nd term

4. For my kids to grow up with a good head on there shoulders

5. More sleep

6.A huge magnet wall for all of Peytons creations she makes at preschool

7. for a heathy family

8. For the next 4-6 months to go by real fast so Michael will be home soon.

There I did the tag

Video of Ace

2008-11-23T17:27:00.003-06:00

This video was taken not to long after and it was made especially for the new Uncle Michael who won't see him till he'sh b about as old as Hunter is now so 5 months.

Ace Christopher Ooka

2008-11-23T17:18:00.002-06:00

So Katie and Chris had there new little boy today Ace Christopher Ooka on Nov 23, 2008. He weighed in at 6 pounds and 2 oz and he was 19 1/2 inches long. He apparently enjoyed his little womb house, because he did not want to come out when it was time. So after a little help from a vaccum he finally decided to come out. He came out nice and healthy and Katie is doing just fine as well.

Silly Boys

2008-11-10T15:32:00.002-06:00

The boys were giggling so we just had to take a video of it. Hunter has such a cute little giggle its hard to not laugh when he is.

Surgery

2008-11-08T21:28:00.002-06:00

There will be a slight lag in my blogs for at least 2 weeks I just had my appendix out and they use the same cuts they used when I had my gall bladder out last year which means it will be a very tender casue they cut through scar tissue. Peyton's autism test is finally happening it on the 12th of Nov so I am really looking forward to that and see what type of learning disability they find her to have so I should know soon and hopefully after all is said and done then we will be able to get her specialists that can help her overcome her unique set of disabilities. I had a warrant out for my arrest but lucky for me I remembered it before someone arrested me and got my court date rescheduled for a ticket I am fighting. So hopefully i will recover fast and be back to blogging a new blog in no time.

Halloween

2008-11-01T08:57:00.003-05:00

Wonder Woman and Superman evaded a small part of Utah last night on the search for candy. The kids had a lot of fun at a carnival and then they went trunk or treating and then if that wasn't enough candy for them they even went trick or treating to a select few members in our ward. In Utah trunk or treating is not limited to your ward it is a whole community thing where all the wards and local people who are non memeber all do it. So they had a lot fun going even when it started to rain and they were slipping on the wet grass and sidewalks. Then after all the excitement they crashed right into bed with only a small request of having some milk which I allowed since they had filled themselves with homemade doughnuts and really huge cupcakes while they were out. Afterwards I went through all the candy and took a portion out to pay the Daddy taxes. Daddy gets all the fruit candy or chewy stuff or anything with peanuts in it. I filled a whole hallow pumpkin with the daddy taxes and the children still have half a bag of candy that is okay to eat for them.

First Tooth!

2008-11-01T08:52:00.002-05:00

It happened so fast but now my youngest and last baby got his first tooth. I can't believe he is getting so old now. I am starting to feel a little old with one in school and my youngest getting his teeth in now. Hunter been working on that tooth for quite awhile now and it finally got made its entrance. If you look closely in the picture you can see the white of the tooth from where it just popped up on the bottom.

Playtime

2008-10-30T11:42:00.004-05:00

So the kids decided to play with Hunter by jumping around him on the couch he thought it was so funny that he started to giggle and talk back to them. I had to post the video cause it was to cute to not.

Table Manners

2008-10-27T09:35:00.005-05:00

My children being the wonderful little people that they are have very good knowledge of table manners. I am sure you can tell from the pictures how well my children pay heed to these manners I have been trying to instill in them.

On another note though we are all very excited that Michael should be home for leave. As long as anything doesnt come up this time we should be able to get to spend thanksgiving with him and we may have an early xmas since Broc is getting a train table. When we found out we were pregnant with a boy Michael said "I hope he likes trains so then he and I can have a train table and play with trains and collect them" Then lo and behold every since he was 8 months old and he got is first 10 pack of hot wheels and and 3 Thomas and Friends trains for xmas he was in LOVE. Broc's love as extended to him having 100 Hot Wheels in there own case and he still has his first train set that he got when he was 8 months old.

Update to this post my husband's leave was once again denied so we didnt get to see him. They are now saying it should be in March around Broc's bday and are 5 yr wedding aniv.

First Day of School

2008-10-20T10:35:00.005-05:00

Today was Peyton's first day of Preschool! She was pretty excited about it when I was getting her dressed and ready for school. When we got there she started to cry cause the school is across the street from the park where she always plays and she thought we were there to play at the park. Once we got into the school she was intersted in seeing all the big kids running and laughing as they were on there way to there own classes. Once we got to her class she was greeted by one of her teachers who was introducing her to system the class runs on. So I shall make a new blog about how much she liked or disliked her first day of school after I pick her up this afternoon. On another note Broc was very mad that Peyton got to leave and he had to stay home. I think he will enjoy school when he is 4 and gets to go to preschool. He won't go to school like Peyton at 3 because he doesn't show and speech or other delays like Peyton does.

Also on another another note Hunter posed for me and I snapped a ton of pictures so here are his cute pictures.

Happy Birthday Peyton

2008-10-13T17:47:00.004-05:00

Happy 3rd Birthday Peyton!!

So it was Peyton's 3rd party this weekend and as you can see Broc thought the cake was very yummy! She had a pirate themed party and Grandma made her a Pirate Costume for her. I made her a pirate ship cake which took some work but turned out not bad considering I have no talent for the arts.

She was a happy pirate and enjoyed opening all her presents that she got for her birthday. She is also a big girl now who starts preschool on the 20th of October she got to meet her preschool teacher today and see her classroom and learn some of things she will be doing there. We are hoping the 3 years of preschool will allow her catch up time to be ready for regular kindergarten.

Broc was a very patient guy while Peyton opened all her presents he just stood by and watched all the activity going on around what a great little brother. He then happily played with Peyton in the ball pit that he picked out for her birthday. Then he fought with her cause he wanted to wear her princess high heels that she got for her birthday. My son has quite the fetish with shoes he pulls out all the shoes from the shoe basket everyday and hides some of the shoes making it hard for us to find them when we need them. His wife will be happy though cause that means she can have a million shoes and he won't complain he will probably be the one buying them.

Orin's Wedding

2008-09-20T10:03:00.003-05:00

So Michael's brother Orin got married yesterday to Danica. They had a nice ceremony in her Mom's backyard it was small and private. Peyton got to be the flower girls this was her third time being a flower girl in a year! She also was the flower girl for Katie and Licia weddings. Broc had no role but he was all "pimped" as Orin says in a little tux that a ward member had from when her sister got married that fit him. They had a lovely three tiered styrofoam cake with just one real piece for the cake cutting. They served cheesecake with 3 different toppings. I also got a citation yesterday while driving and it was so stupid that I have to tell the story. I was driving up the divide (a moutain road cut on the edge of a mountain that passes between another that leads to a valley surrounded by mountain) and I was behind a red SUV. I wasnt to close on the way up and on the way down I was in 2nd gear so I was going 30 miles an hour and he brake checked me on the way down and i didnt need to swerve and I didnt hit him when I braked. Then when were in the valley I turned down the road that leads to where I live and he flipped a U in the intersection and was following me I just assumed he was a lost toursit since I live in a resort community where people come from all over to do stuff here. So when I pulled into my driveway and starting getting our there he was and he said in a not so nice voice "Give me your license!" I was started by the fact that a man had stocked me to my house and so I was said "Why" and he says "Im a sheriff with such and such and you were going 50 miles up the and down the divide" of course I am thinking how could I go 50 if I was behind you. Then my mom comes out and askes what is going on and she has Hunter with her and he yells at her that he is a sheriff and so when my mom asks for ID he never shows us any. Then he makes calls to find a on duty cop to write me a ticket and when my mom asks what my ticket is for and he says for going 50 up and down the divide she asks how fast were you going and he says that it doesnt matter how fast he was going. Then she says yes it means everything. Then he says he was giving me a ticket for tailgating and driving recklessly. This whole time his wife and kids are waiting in the car. Then the on duty officer arrives stays in his car the whole time never gets out to talk to me or give me my ticket the off duty officer did everything. So my dad knows the head sheriff and he called him and told him what happened I still have my ticket to I appeal it in court but the off duty sheriff I getting a talking to on Monday.

Brotherly Love

2008-08-23T11:36:00.005-05:00

The kids decided to cheese it up for the camera and I so I had to post up there pictures. Peyton and Broc love to hug and kiss little Hunter so they were happy to pose some pictures with him. I wasn't able to get a picture of Hunter smiling but I am going to keep trying till I get the picture.

Word Vomit!

2008-08-18T15:40:00.002-05:00

It would seem there is a lot of word vomit going on in our house. Broc is just having a explosion of words just falling from his mouth. With Peyton being developmental delayed I have only heard the stories about word vomit and a 1 1/2 year old. Broc can count to two and knows what the color red looks like and geesh so many other words it so awesome to hear him learn new ones and use them.
Peyton is going to start testing to see if she qualifies to go to a preschool where there is a speech therapist to help her. I wont have her go all week though only twice a week when she has speech therapy just because I think she learns better in the home and I dont want her to pick up any bad habits from other children her age since she is such a mimic. Plus I am still waiting for the magical day when she is ready to potty train her doctor says there is no point in trying till she can understand 2 step directions and she isnt close to that one yet.
Hunter is getting to be quite the huge guy. He is such a content little guy unless he is hungry or has messed his diaper. Him being content makes things a little easier when it comes to the other 2 running around wrecking havoc on the world. His eyes are still blue which I am hoping means it is permanent. His hair has increasing amounts of red in it as well which I hope will keep increasing as well. He has the chubbiest cheeks that just beg to be pinched. The only problem is that for having 3 kids and even when I am holding Hunter I got asked at the library if I needed my Mom's signature to get a library card. People mistake my sister in law who is 16 for being my kids mom all the time if she is out and about with them at the store or park.
Michael gets to come home October 10th for 18 days of leave which I am really looking forward to. Michael got medical evacuated a few days ago to another base in Afghanistan he is having intestinal problems. Which was very odd seeing as since Hunter was born I have had so many tests done to find out what was bothering my own intestines. Hopefully it won't be a big deal and that he will recover with no major hiccups. I have a lot of videos and stuff to post I just need to grab the laptop where a lot of the pictures are and post them up.

An update finally!

2008-07-30T11:31:00.003-05:00

Sorry I know it's been awhile since I posted a blog having a new baby is my only excuse for it. On June 22 little Hunter graced the world with his presence. He weighed 8 pounds and 8 oz he was one big guy. He thankfully had no complications and was my healthy baby that broke the cycle by not having to go into the NICU. Broc and Peyton love to sit next to me or bounce Hunter when he is in his bouncy seat. Peyton loves to hug and kiss Hunter and she even wiped him once when I was changing his diaper. I think she will make a good Mommy when she gets to that age.
Michael made it to Afghanistan he is at Camp Monti where he is NCOIC (non-commissioned officer in charge) of the medical first aid station there. Camp Monti is a combat outpost so they just use that as a jump point to send troops into combat areas so he triages all the soldiers that come in and stabilize them for transport if they need to go to a hostipal. He is has decided to learn Pashto in what little down time he gets. Pashto is the afghan native language. He is going to take some pictures of the surrounding area he says its a very beautiful area so I will post some of the pictures up.
Peyton has made some major strides in the language department. Her speech therapist is quite helpful in giving us ideas to use to help Peyton learn to use her words and the add more words to her vocabulary. She is almost at 50 words now she is still far behind the other peers her age, but hopefully she will be able to close the gap with continued work. Broc is getting very talkative now he is working on catching up to Peyton. Broc is getting ready to go to Nursery in September I think he will enjoy it I just feel bad when it comes to snack time, because Broc never really stops eating. If anyone has food then he has to have it so snack time will be interesting.

Finally!!

2008-06-06T18:52:00.003-05:00

Finally after just over a year of complaining and switching doctors the new doctor Peyton has in Utah took one look at her and says "She needs some help." He set her up on a waiting list to have an Autism test and referred her to an early developmental institution here in Utah. She had her evaluation there and they put her speech and cognitive abilities at only 12-15 months so they say she is doing as well as her 14 month old brother. The physical therapist gave her a highest score of 30 months on fine motor but even that is slighty behind as she is 32 months of age. So she starts speech therapy and a playgroup thing with other children to help her better learn how to be more social.
Her therapists have very high thoughts that she shall be able to make a turn around and be ready for school and not be behind her peers. I hope that is the case as I would hate to have to keep her at home from school to prevent teasing and her falling through the educational crack that is the no child left behind program.
I also can not wait for her to get her Autism test they not quite sure she will fall into the spectrum she shows a lot of tendiences that other children with Autism have but the two biggest things are no present in her she can show affection and can be quite interactive once you get her engaged in play. But, the Autism test will be able to score whether it is some other type of learning disability and then work on fixing it.

Made it to Utah

2008-05-31T17:29:00.002-05:00

Well we made it to Utah, it was a very interesting trip getting here. On our way here I got pulled over in Texas for speeding. Lucky for us I got off with a warning, because Michael said "I am in the Army stationed at Fort Hood." The kids did pretty good on the way here they watched movies on the laptop the whole way and played with each other or more like annoyed each other. After 2 days of driving we made it to Utah and were happy to be out of the car all the driving and stuff made us really start hating our car. So now we're here and Michael will be leaving June 4th to go back to Fort Hood and finish getting ready to leave to Afghanistan.

The Death Of A Best Friend

2008-05-21T11:17:00.002-05:00

It is with a heavy heart that I have to say this. Peyton's best friend in the entire world died and she is so sad. Her woobie which as been through the ringer has finally succumbed to its many wounds and died. It is now in four pieces that not even the best woobie fixer could fix. I have tried to pass off the blanket that Broc has that is made of the same stuff off to her but she will not take it and is even now scouring the house looking for her lost friend. She has been taking that thing with us when we go out its gone to the store to Mc Donalds and countless other places with her always close at hand for when she needs the security of an old friend. Hopefully in time the new stand might come to be the same comfort as her old friend.

The First Blog

2008-05-21T10:45:00.000-05:00

Well seeing as everyone seems to be jumping over to blogspot I figured it was time I jumped too. I dont make promises to be good at blogging often. I am way busy with a 2 1/2 year old with learning disabilities and a 1 year old who loves to cuddle and my soon to be other one that I am sure will complete the other two.
So the most recent thing I can think of to start my blog on would be the move back to Utah and Michael deploying to Afghanistan. I'm looking forward to moving back to Utah it would be nice to have family that can help with the kids while Michael is away. I think Peyton is looking forward to it too she keeps calling for Dot (dog) and says Papa (Grandpa). I think she will enjoy getting 2 seasons of skiing and to getting to do whatever other fun activities we find for her. She likes when Grams and I would take her to the library so I am sure that will be on the list. Broc I am not sure he understands, but I know as soon as Michael leaves Utah that he will have a hard time. He worships the ground Michael walks on he thinks the sun rises and sets on that man. He will be crying and then Michael will come through the door and then he starting laughing and running to Daddy. So I think Broc might have it rough trying to make sense of Daddy not coming home at the end of the day or seeing him in the morning sometimes.
I think Michael will have many learning experiences in Afghanistan. I think he will enjoy the challenge and getting to use medical skills that he been honing will be something he enjoys. I am not worried that something will happen to him he is a headquarters medic meaning he waits at the base for the injured to come to him so he wont see much of the front lines. I will count down the 15 months though and pray they dont extend it for another 3 months like a rumor that has been circulated. So there is the first blog I am terrible at grammar so if it bothers you I am sorry grammar is not my thing.