Can't forget

Oh we can't forget the yearly dying of eggs. My mom helped the kids and I get the task completed. Grandpa was so gracious to volunteer to hold Mckenzie on the couch (okay really he wanted to take a little nap). It is amazing the million of choices of egg coloring kits at the store, we stuck with the pretty basic kit that came with neat little collapsible containers to dye the eggs in, and some little eye and mouth stickers. There were little hands featuring a broad range of colors, reminded me of really bruises. Madison was all about getting the eggs the perfect color. Garrett really got into the egg dying this year. His face tells the whole story in his picture featuring his favorite egg.

Special Day

Sunday was Mckenzie's special day.
She was given a blessing at church by her dad.
She looked beautiful in her white dress! The day was beautiful!
We had many friends and family members there to be apart of her special day.Our friends Doug and Janae drove from Cincinnati to be here, my parents came from Wisconsin, Bryan and Buffy, Shawn and Donnelle, Josh and Jen, Dave's mom. Thank You all for coming to Mckenzie's day.
What made it even more special was that this special occasion took place on Easter Sunday!

Easter Cuties!

Today was full of two candy eating kiddos, probably loaded on more sugar than two children need before going to church.
Oh but they looked cute!! In their new Easter attire.
Mckenzie was just as cute but will get her own post, she was blessed at church by her dad.
My parents are here this weekend too and all that fun and info coming in future post.

Here is a little sneak peek of the three cuties together.

Loving it...

Loving that these two people are here visiting, not only am I loving it but the kids are loving having Grandpa and Grandma here to play with. Mckenzie is glad to finally meet them, she has been held and loved on all weekend by these two. I think it was secretly a race to see who held her first when they got here.
Too bad the weekend is going way to fast!

Looking Out

Here is where we can find Garrett when the weather is good and he can be outside.



He loves to sit out on the deck railing, eat a snack and just sit here looking around. Annie makes her home laying on the deck right by him. You ask him what he was doing out there and he says, "just thinking and sitting." How cute is he! When I took these pictures he sat there for about 20 minutes.

Where did this come from.

And to think she is only 3 weeks old. She is already trying to grow up to fast. She loves her belly and holds her head up so well! It was so cute to watch her holding her head up and looking around taking everything in.

A cute boys Birthday

Garrett had a little birthday party today. Friends and Family came to celebrate the special little boy. This boy is loved and very spoiled by many! He called the shots today, the cutest was when he wanted to open his "prizes" i.e. presents. The he asked everyone if they wanted to eat cake.
We even had a pinata, which is something we have always done on their birthdays.

The cake of course had to be speed racer, and this mom had to complete the task. I must say I need to take a class on fondant (secretly this stuff scares me). The cake would have been been better, I carved out the cake but after putting the icing on you couldn't see all the details, fondant would have definitely helped. But Garrett was happy and that is all that matters.



He received some great gifts, many of his favorite things. He is really gotten into batman lately and Madison and Mckenzie got him this dress up outfit, should have known what was coming. I mean really he was on the chair! Logical way off is to jump to the bean bag.



He is our cute little man! I can't wait to see what the next year brings us. This last year has been fun with trips to the ER and a stay int he hospital. The biggest change was watching him grow up and learn so many new things. He is a smart kid, finds a way to get what he wants, new words, questions and answers.

We love you Garrett! Hope you had a great party day!

Mckenzie - 2 weeks

Each of our kids has this very picture taken of them. Dad holding them in his hand. It is amazing to see how different they fill his hand. Looking at this picture we can really see the similarities of Madison and Mckenzie. Granted the similarities happen looking at Madison's 3 month pictures.

And who can resist cute hands and feet pictures, complete with mom and dads hands!






She sure is cute! And a keeper!

Was I really that far behind?

So here is to post number 3 in one day! WOW!!!!

Mckenzie had her first bath, finally the umbilical cord fell off. She loved it. Even with the sponge baths she loved getting her hair washed and that continued with the regular bath.

And yes, look at all those rolls!

Mckenzie had he 2 weeks check up and weighed in at 9 pounds 14 ounces. 21 3/4 inches putting her well into the 90% for her weight and height. She is healthy and growing great. Next checkup at 2 months.

(She is always giving us the pirate look!)

And last of all today...Garrett is really warming up to having a little sister, about once a day he ask to hold her. He still has his moments of wanting all of the attention but we are working through that. There is no denying that he loves his sister.

She thinks it is hilarious!

Oh Madison when you look back at this you will think you were crazy.
Madison thinks it is so funny that Mckenzie will suck and root towards just about everything! Including Madison's lips and cheeks. I think she learned her lesson, well maybe, she let Mckenzie give her "little kisses" as she puts it and Mckenzie latched on so hard Madison's little lip was swollen. I think the shock in her face put the words out that she couldn't say. I had a hard time not laughing, don't knock my laughing either I know those out there reading this would have a hard time too!

Where did the time go?

Where did the time go?
Today Garrett turns 3! Hard to believe that he is 3 years old now. Dave and I can clearly remember the early morning he was born and how hard he fought to stay here on earth with us.

Looking at him now he is full of more energy then any one person should possess. He climbs, jumps, wrestle, fights with his sister, demands attention and doesn't back down in his quest for what he wants. When we go to the park he quickly makes friends and is definitely a leader.
Garrett is going to be a tough one. Even his allergies do not stop him, he just tells people what he can't eat. I am amazed by his ability to tell people he can't eat eggs or nuts. Not only that but most kids his age would feel left out at not being able to eat things, not him he just moves on with life.
Garrett loves Speed Racer, Batman, Spider man, Superman, and Scooby Doo. Playing with cars is on the top of the list too. This years birthday celebration is going to be speed racer themed.
He has a temperament like his dad, and is famous for pointing his finger and sternly letting you know to leave him alone or that he can do it all by himself. He has a million faces from mean to the cheesiest smile around.


It will be interesting to see how he grows this year and what new things he does. He is a smart boy and has so many traits that will take him far in life.

Who could resist such a cute little "big" boy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARRETT!

(Garrett just came in and said, "for my next birthday can I get a watch with people in it?" Not real sure what he is talking about. I reminded him it was still his birthday)

Could she be any....

CUTER!


We are loving having Mckenzie here with us!
She is thriving and doing great if only we could get her to figure out that we sleep at night!
And so nice having Dave home all week! Too bad he goes back to work tomorrow.

Officially Out Numbered!

Welcoming Home and into our crazy family!


Mckenzie Rae Walling
March 17, 2009 at 7:13pm
Weighing in at the nice size of


9 Pounds 8 ounces! That is the right weight.
And a lengthy 21.5 inches.

(She outdid her brother and sister by 3 pounds!)

Everything went great, we were called in to be induced on Tuesday morning, the whole labor and delivery time lasted about 7 hours. The Dr. was amazed at how big she is, no one expected that.
I was known in the hospital as the patient who had to be stuck 8 times just to get an iv in. 3 nurses tried twice each and then they called in anesthesiologist to come in and he missed the first time and then got a really small needle and finally it worked.

Madison is in love with her wants constant updates on her. (You tell by the picture her excitement)


Garrett is content to kiss her, look at her and play with her feet.


We feel so blessed that everything went well and we were able to hold her immediately and love on her. And really who could resist kissing on those cheeks.

More pictures to come!

The Latest

UPDATE - NO INDUCTION TONIGHT, THE HOSPITAL IS TOO FULL. NOW WE WAIT FOR WORD IF TOMORROW WILL BE THE DAY.


As of right now, still no baby, but we are scheduled to make an appearance at the hospital tonight at 10pm....yes that is right 10 pm! That is if the hospital doesn't decide to fill up today. Keep you posted as the day goes on. No call from the hospital means we are a go to arrive, if we get the call we will get postponed to who knows when, life is really just in limbo right now.

Still Here

We are still here expecting #3. She is a stubborn one, just ask the nurse who plays the try to get her to sit still long enough to get her heartbeat, it is a weekly game. I have another appointment tomorrow and hope to have a date set or geezzzs a little more progression would be nice. The waiting is killing me, and Madison can hardly contain herself. Garrett thinks he is going to the hospital with me, boy oh boy, can you tell we don't leave him much. In fact I don't think we have ever went away for multiple nights leaving him with someone when we weren't a phone call away and he knew it. This should be interesting. Well the bags are packed...kinda. The house is clean at this moment and we just wait!

ON AND ON AND ON

Oh my, Oh my! The list of things needing to be done is growing and things are not getting done! I had a whole list of things to get done before baby #3 makes her appearance, can I start to panic now! I feel like the house is in a state of controlled chaos everyday, is it even possible to have controlled chaos!
Hopefully this weekend we will get some of it crossed off and I can start to relax a bit. Right now my days are spent just keeping up on the basic chores and I am just glad to get that done!

Amazing

I have some really amazing friends who through an amazing party for the soon to be newest addition of our family. Missy and Buffy did a great job, we played lots of games (which I love), had great food and just had a lot of fun hanging out. And did I mention the food spread and the lovely cupcakes pictured above. So cute and they were delicious cupcakes too!!! We received so many diapers and wipes and I am so grateful for friends and family. We also got a new stroller, we have a double stroller but Garrett broke our single one(which is no surprise that he broke it) It is the cutest stroller tan and sage green with cute little giraffes and hippos on it! LOVE IT! I have more pictures to add but I can't seem to get them to save to my computer, Missy sent them too me and when I save them they are blank...weird but I will figure it out and add them. And well I really need those pics cause my camera was in the hands of a five year old, there are some interesting pictures to say the least. So while I am working on getting the pics just look on at the cupcakes again and you can even dream you are eating one, they were really that good!
THANK YOU MISSY AND BUFFY IT IS NOT OFTEN THAT THE 3RD BABY GETS A PARTY!!1!!

Oh it is a good day here!

Madison is one happy little girl today. After weeks and weeks of watching a little tooth get looser and looser, her daddy and mommy could stand it no longer (she could pull her tooth completely forward!). Daddy stepped in and pulled that little, and it was really little tooth, right out! The one right next to it is loose too and I think won't be long since it was leaning on the now lost tooth. All of this happened about 5 minutes before going out the door for school (we were really afraid she would swallow it if she lost it. I think she will be toothless for awhile there is no tooth to be seen underneath!
She has joined the toothless club now and is so excited to see what the tooth fairy will bring, wonder what the going rate is?

We need your help

So in less then 3 weeks we will welcome a new little on into our lives and well she has a name just not the spelling. One is liked by me and the other by Dave. Look to your right in the sidebar and vote. It doesn't take much time! So do it!

But really who are we kidding I fill out the paperwork =) Just kidding! Vote away!

Wacky Wednesday

Yesterday at school Madison had Wacky Wednesday. She has done nothing but talk about this day for the last week. Her teacher talked about the day and all the different things they could do to dress wacky. Yesterday she got up and started to prepare her outfit. Jean on inside out, shorts over jeans, shirt on inside out, two different colored socks, rain boots, ponytail on top of head with two more pigtails in the back.
It took all I had to let her go to school like this!!!!
At school the whole day was wacky, worked on the worksheet and wrote letters laying on the floor under the desk, no chairs for school, instead of everyone starting the day in green they started in red. reading the story backwards, writing the letter for the day and messing the order up. Her teacher told us this is her favorite day of the year.
For the record I have no idea where she learned to pose like that.

Seeing is Believing

See there really is a baby in there! This picture taken Sunday at 36 weeks!
Madison says "it looks like my mom has a really big apple in my tummy but really it is a baby, and Garrett thinks it is a bunch of bananas"
Where they come up with this information I am not sure.
Lots of fun stuff planned and preparing to do in the next 4 weeks. Looking back with Madison we were completely prepared and set up for her at home by this time, Garrett I believe we were preparing with the last preps, and well this one....seems we haven't even begun to get everything ready. I think part of it is we have learned what you really need for a baby, and with Madison we had so much stuff we didn't even use!

Every 6 months!

Poor Garrett this is his life every 6 months at the allergy doctor. He gets retested for his allergies. He takes it like a man and this time he laid on the table and even fell asleep. I am so glad that he really doesn't mind doctors and needles so much. This picture was taken right after they poked his skin with the allergens, you can already see the hives/welts growing. The red circle forming by each pen mark is what they ultimately measure. Status update, continue on current diet and by no means give this kid nuts or eggs(although it seems to be narrowed to the egg whites). He is a tough kid!

Not an ordinary Valentine

You see instead of an ordinary Valentine's Day we opted for the different yet exciting and fun route. We took the kids to see their very first Hockey Game. We went and watched the Dayton Bombers play.......I have no idea how they played, really does it matter. The Bombers won that is all that matters! Garrett was all into watching the game, right up his alley. Pushing, shoving, hitting things with a stick, even a couple of fights. Madison was a little scared of the noise of the game but quickly got over that. Toward the end of the game Garrett and Madison pretended to play hockey, Garrett's' game was complete with sliding on the pretend ice(floor)

Before this unusual date night we went over to our friends Missy and John for a delicious dinner and dessert. It was a lot of fun to go with a whole group of friends/family. Although it is hard to carry conversations with others unless you are sitting right nest to them. I don't think I was able to talk to Missy all night I was on the end maintaining control of two crazy kids and a husband too!
Sorry about the picture quality, these are cell phone pictures, can you believe it I forgot my camera!

Update

I know it has been forever since my post, well in blogging world anyway. Nothing real exciting. Drs. Appt today went great, baby looks good and thankfully she is head down too! Hopefully she stays that way. I am on weekly appointments now. My only complaint is the unbelievabel thrist I have had this week. Really no news at this point is good news. Maybe I can manage a picture later =)