All about AJ

This post is going to be all about AJ. For the last few days we have been picking on AJ. I know it is mean. But it is nothing bad just playing with him.



On Thursday when I was getting him ready for bed he decided he did not want to put his arms in his sleeves. So I zipped him up. That is all I was going to do, then he goes and shows Arli and Arli ties his sleeves behind him. If that wasn't enough he feel down and could not get up. But he did find a way to escape.

He was to focused on trying to escape to look at me.
I did it I'm free!!!


Then Saturday we were at my mom's all day. We woke up at 5:20am and he is one of those kids who has to fall asleep in his bed or he does not fall asleep. So needless to say he was really tired. I tried to get him to lay down and go to sleep over and over again but he just wouldn't. So while we were eating lunch (thanks to my lil bro Kenton who made lunch any girl is going to lucky cause he cooks good and is only 16) AJ was trying to eat and sleep. He could not decided which was better. I had to video tape it because he has never done this. He even tried to "drink" his sandwich. He put the bowl up to his mouth and tried to drink it. He was exhausted. Nannie's boy

So AJ has yogurt almost everyday and loves it. We were at my mom's and he was having it for snack while my mom and I were working on making Joslynn's blanket, it is made from all of her clothes. Well a cat walked into my moms back yard and I went to get AJ so he could see it. This is what I found. He is never this messy with his yogurt. But I guess he felt like being messy today.
This is yummy Mommy!!

Random

I decided to take some pictures today of the boys just playing. This is what they do a lot of the day when we have lazy days. Although I am very happy to say that AJ has found a new love....books. He will read all day, and always wants us to read to him. I am so happy, I never really read to him before. I would but only every once in a while. This also helps with his speech. Since the dr's are worried about it. I have even started taking him to the library and he did awesome! We did not stay long because we were in a hurry plus he just wanted to play with the other kids and not read. But he was not loud, did not run around and held my hand the whole time. He gets to pick out 10books every 2wks. And I am totally stealing this great idea from my friend Annie, but I am going to get him a library basket so we keep the library and our books separate.

AJ was in time out for hitting and found his book and my big blanket and started reading, I thought it was so cute that I could not be upset at him anymore although he did hit Erik. So he still had to do time out.

Erik has been getting better since being back on the amoxicillin. Which I am so thankful for. He sure does know how to scare us. He has been super happy the last few days. I think he is teething because he is drooling like crazy and is always chewing on his fists. Arli even asked for a paci for him because he does not want him to get to sucking his thumb or fingers (which is amazing because Arli has always hated paci's and refuses to give our kids one).

I love this boy


Arli will probably be switching jobs in March. Which is good. The place he is looking at has great commission checks. His friend who works there now says that last months highest commission given out was $9,800! Which is awesome and it is fairly easy to achieve.




I am doing good too. Not doing nothing new and exciting, just loving being a mom and wife and trying to keep up with everyday things.


The boys playing

Kitchenaid

So here is the picture of the knives grandma. do you see the spots? They sort of look like little rust spots. Sorry to everyone else. But I had to show this to my grandma because the warranty is almost up.

Erik update

So I took Erik to the dr's and they did not hear anything in his chest. They did a booger test to see if he had RSV and it came back and he does not have it. Thank goodness. They also did 2 chest x-rays. We do not have those back yet. She decided to put him back on the amoxicillin because he is only congested when he drinks his formula. So he is now that he is back on formula he is also back to not sleeping very well and being super congested. This makes me think milk allergy. He does perfect when he is on pedialite. But he was on it for 3days straight and the dr does not want him on it too much. So for now we have to wait until friday to see if his medicine is helpling. If not I am going to talk to the dr about milk allergy.

Family fun

Nalani, AJ and Alanna

Nalani

Alanna

Climbing Nannie's tree

I love that our kids the same age

So beautiful

"What in the world is she doing to us???"

The babies all tired out



My sister came down from Cedar City today with my Aunt, cousin and 3 of my nieces. All the other kids had school so that was a bummer. But we had a blast. My mom and I watched all 3 girls while the adults went to a food convention. (they run a cafe in Cedar) So we had a almost 5yr old, 2yr old, 20mo old, 5mo old and a 2mo old. It was ALOT of work. But it went a lot better than I thought. We only had 1fall and 2meltdowns by the older ones and the babies were babies and slept alot. AJ had a blast playing with the girls. He loves being around his cousins. It is always fun when they come up. They do however get annoyed with me because it seems like I have a camera in their face the whole time. Which will only happen more once I get my dslr camera, so kids you are forewarned. here are some pictures from our fun filled day. I did not get too many good ones of the babies. My camera messed up and when one of them was awake the other was asleep. But I will try to find one. Erik looks like a monster compared to Oaklie.

New pictures

I do not know exactly what it is but I love this one.

Happy Valentines day

cute:)

close up time

My favorite outfit

I like this pose
and...what do you want?

Kissie face

So Happy

The only good one that was not a snapshot of AJ.
This is what he thought of the photo shoot.

A couple of weeks ago my friend Tiffany took the boys' pictures. Or should I say took Erik's pictures. AJ was just not in the mood. But Erik had some great shots. She takes awesome pictures. Here are a few shots. It was so hard to choose so there may be a lot.

Ok so now that I have them uploaded I realize it is alot. But it was just to hard to choose. I should have just done a slide show but ohwell.

Please pray for Erik

Erik has had the most problems. On the 9th he was diagnosed with bronchitis. The dr put him on amoxicillin, well on the 12th she took him off of it because it was making him have bad diarrhea. (I know TMI) She said if it did not get better by today then to call back. Well on Saturday I thought it was getting better. But I was wrong. Saturday night was horrible. He was half asleep from 2-3am. He would be sleeping then would not be able to breathe. Then he would moan and groan for about 30sec or so and fall back asleep and then repeat it all over again. He then was very cranky from 4-almost 5am. I thought it was just his congestion which he has had for over a month now. So we went to church only made it through Sacrament and Sunday school then left cause he was super cranky again. We came home and he slept from 1:30 to 8:30pm woke up had a bottle went back to sleep at 9:45 woke up again at 1:45 then went back to sleep until 7:30 this morning. But now he has a new symptom. The skin between his nose and upper lip is turning light blue. He has a dr's appointment tomorrow first thing in the morning. We all know how strong the power of prayers can be so if you do not mind please say a little prayer for Erik. We are so worried. He has such a strong Spirit. We love him so much and do not want to loose him.

Saying goodbye

AJ at 10mo. (Time goes by way to fast!)
AJ playin

Joslynn being silly

Joslynn at 8mo

So AJ has finally ruined a toy. He decided it would be fun to get poo on it. Oh the joys of having a 18mo old boy. It just happens to be my favorite toy. We have had it since Joslynn was about 4-5mo old. I feel so upset, partly because Erik never got to use it and second because this is the first toy of Joslynn's that we have ever thrown away. I am sure in time we will have to throw away more. It just feels bad. Just like when I had to finally whipe her hand prints off the wall. They were up there for almost a year. But I had t do it. I guess in both situations that it is like whipeing her away or loosing her again.

Anyways good bye to the intelitainer.

Lied Discovery Museum

He had to do it by hisself.

AJ in the wind tunnel
Erik just hangin out.
AJ also loved these bubbles

So a couple of weeks ago we went down to the Lied Discovery Children's Museum. We had a blast. It was sort of small compared to others we have been to. But AJ jad soo much fun. He really loved the water. They had so many cool things. The one I liked the most was the hurricane tunnel. You went in shut the door and it would blow wind up to I think it was 150mph. Aj was not fond of it. He loved the tunnel and harp. It was a laser harp with no strings. Erik had fun too. He just slept and got held but had so much fun. He was kicking away when everyone came over and talked to him. He is such a little attention lover. It was an awesome family day.

Erik is 4mo and AJ is 19mo!!!

I can not believe that my boys are getting so big. They both had Dr's appointments today and both got shots:( But they were troopers and did great. So I will update on AJ first.

So he is 26lbs even (45th percentile) 33.5in (70th percentile). We have to take him to an ENT to get his hearing checked because he has had 7 ear infections since he was born and he always has a red ear. He does not say much. So our lives have to change. The Dr wants us to keep the TV off all day. Only on when he is asleep. Which will be hard for me because I have always been one to have t have the TV on for back round noise. But it is for AJ so I will have to suck it up and get over it. The reason for this is because he 1) only says 4 words daddy, bye-bye, ow and cheese (cheese is because I take way to many pictures). 2)He does not know his body parts even though I work with him everyday and he does not react when I ask him to do things like get me your shoes or bring mommy the blocks. Other than these thing he is doing good. He is doing good. He loves playing outside and is a typical boy.

Now for Erik, he is 15 1/2 lbs (50th percentile) and 24 1/4 in (13th percentile). So he is a little short. But all of my kids have been short at his age. So by me he is normal. He is talking all of the time and smiling like crazy. He has even started to laugh. He is getting so big. He does not roll at all. We do tummy time like 10 times a day but for no more than 2min because he buries his face in the ground. which scares me cause of Joslynn. But the Dr was ok with that as long as he does not get a flat spot on his head. Which he does not have. But he is strong. He will lift his head and shoulders off of the ground when on his back. I do not even think he will roll over from belly to back. He will just go straight to back to belly. He also love, love loves his hands. He will chew on them all day long.

Another funny thing that i found out is my kids have HUGE heads. I knew they were big. I just did not realize how big. AJ's is 50cm and above the 97th percentile and Erik's is 43cm and oddly enough above the 97th percentile too.

It is so hard to believe that they are getting big. I do not want them to grow anymore. I want them to stay small forever. I also can not wait for them to get older and see their life grow and them become best friends. I love them so much I can not even put into words. They are the best. AJ always knows how to make me laugh and everytime I see Erik's smile I just melt. I love you both.

Getting better

So AJ is fine. He is his old self once again. Although his face looks worse, but i guess it has to get worse before it gets better right? Arli keeps calling him his poor abused child. Just kidding around of course. Arli always finds little quirky nick names when the kids are hurt or sick. Or just anytime. Right now AJ is poor abused child and crazy hair (because he is not to fond of his haircut). And Erik is butterball and goopie (because of his clogged tear duct). Now I will say he only calls them these things like once a day or once every couple of days. So here is our "poor abused child" and I will go ahead and add one of "butterball".

AJ has had a rough week.

This week has been tough for AJ. It all started out on Monday. I was in a hurry and was not paying attention and accidentally shut his fingers in the car door. I felt horrible. But he did not even get bruised. Thank goodness. Then Wednesday we were at a friends house and he fell and got a bloody nose. It swelled up a little yesterday, but then today it was a pinkish purple and still swollen. Then today he feel off of our kitchen counter. He hit his head pretty hard. I took him to urgent care and he has a mild concussion but will be fine. I just have to watch him to make sure he does not start acting differently or vomiting. It could have been a lot worse. He is also horribly tired because he has been up since 5:30am and has had about 1hr of a nap all day and it is now going on 8:30pm. I think by 9 I will feel safe about putting him to sleep. So I feel horrible once again. Looks like I will have to buy him a toy to make up for it. The good thing is he is acting himself and will be fine.

which one does he look like?

Joslynn at 3mo

AJ at 3mo

Erik at 3mo

So Arli and I have been going back and forth about this for a while. Who does Erik look more like AJ or Joslynn? I think he looks like Joslynn, Arli thinks he does not look like either and my mom thinks he looks like both of them. So what do you think? Here are some pictures of all 3 kids all at the same age.

Impossible task accomplished

So this past Christmas just about everyone came up to my moms. We all missed you Grampy, Grammy and Aunt D. We had a blast though. We ate, ate and ate some more. We went to Ethel M's chocolate factory and the gift of lights at Sunset park. It was so much fun to have the whole gang here. Since we had everyone of the grandkids and great-grandkids here we decided to get a group picture. Now there are 12 plus we had my brothers girlfriend over so 13 kids all under 17 and they are all making a decent face! So here is my impossible task that was accomplished.

Joslynn

I finally feel at peace with Joslynn's passing. I hate saying "finally" but I can not think of any other way of putting it. I will always miss her deeply and wonder how she would do in life and what she would be interested in what she would look like and will always love her. But last night while I was saying my prayers and I love you's to Joslynn I got this over whelming sense of peace and felt the Spirit so strongly that I knew in my heart that she was ok and I could start moving forward in my life. And more importantly I would be ok. Even though lots of things have happened since she passed I have never really moved on. It has almost been like I am standing in the middle of everything while things are just buzzing by. I know that Heavenly Father has things in store for us that we will never know the reasons for. But I also know that He will always be there for us. I am so grateful for the Gospel and everything it offers. I am so happy to know that even though Joslynn is not with us anymore I know that we will be together again as we are an eternal family.

I also wanted to share some special things about her with all of you. She had the biggest brown eyes ever and they would light up the room as soon as she stepped into it. She had the funniest laugh. It was not even a laugh. It was more like a sigh but over and over again. She was so smart. She knew how to do her ring stacker and would get so excited when ever she did. She loved running around naked, well in her diaper. She also was and has been the only 1yr old I have ever seen dunk her head in the bath tub. She would do it and immediately lift her head up, look at me and give me this look like "did you see that mom?". She loved bubble baths and playing with bubbles outside. She loved watching The Doodle Bops on playhouse Disney. She only watched it a couple times as I did not have the tv on much. But when I would have it on and would change the channel (that show drove me NUTS) she would start to cry and come over to me and look at the remote like saying "turn it back mom". She love, love, loved her blankies I can remember one of her very few temper tantrums was because she saw me put one of her blankies (she had 3) into the dryer. She was so upset. The funny part was there was another one 3 feet away from her in our living room. :) She was such an awesome baby from the time she was born. She was sleeping through the night at 6wks old. She never cried, and she was always so happy. Did you know kids can be piggie banks? Well at least Joslynn could be. See, my nephew Malaki came down to spend the week with my mom and us. My mom gave him some change before dropping him off here. Well it must had fallen out of his pocket because the week after he left Joslynn got sick. After an x-ray they said there was a penny and a dime and they would pass, yay me right? Well 1wk later they still had not passed. We went and got another x-ray. Well Mommy or Daddy must had missed them because they had passed but she had 3 new coins 2 more pennies and another dime!! Well needless to say I checked her room thoroughly later that same night and found a stash of change in her "secret compartments" of one of her toys. She had an additional 2quarters, 3dimes, 2nickles and 3pennies. I guess she thought that we were not saving enough money for her. She did pass those last 3 and they are on the wall in her room with her x-ray. Something I think is just to funny is that she would not like me and Arli play hitting, pinching, tickling and all that stuff. Every time she would see us doing this she would stand there and scream. Oh and another thing...she was scarred of Daddy when he would wear sun glasses. It was so funny. She loved her cousins. She loved playing with them and getting all the attention from them. They all treated her so well and miss her so much. She loved her aunts too:) And especially loved their attention. They would ALWAYS hold her and never let her cry. She loved her uncle too. Other than Daddy that was the only man she would smile at. For some reason she did not like men other than her Daddy. And her Nannie, well that is

a
whole nother story. Nannie had her wrapped around her little finger. Every time Nannie would come over she would run to her and not want her to go. She loved her Nannie days. She loved all of us so much. She loved her grandpa when he came out. I have not seen my Dad with to many babies but he was so wonderful with her. She thought he was the best thing ever.

We all miss her so much and love her to pieces. It has been a long and very hard 2yrs for all of us. But I know everyone will get through it and eventually come to peace as I have with her death. Ironically this picture to the right was taken only 6days before she passed away. She was going to be an angel for Halloween. And she was, just not in the way we intended.