Renovation update and pics!

Our huge garage!

Paper going up for siding!

Walls going up!

Roof going up!



More roof going up!

Scott is moving right along with our big renovation/add on! It is getting exciting! We now have a roof and walls up! Bedroom windows are in and facia and sofit and the front porch were all finished today! Scott is hoping to start siding this weekend and finish by the end of the week. Scott and his dad work most every evening after work and all weekend long. The girls and I miss having Scott around to help and play but it is so nice that he is right outside if we want to talk to him. The girls love watching him work and always want to help. The noise keeps the girls out of his most of the time though! Especially Ryan as she hates loud noises. Well here are some pictures before the long weekend of work began. Ill put more pictures up again soon!

Half Way!!

Well I have officially made it half way through this pregnancy already! Hard to believe really! This is the point in the pregnancy that I usually start getting excited because it all seems to be more real. The baby is moving a lot now and my belly is starting to stick out. People are starting to realize Im pregnant and not just getting fat! That is always nice when that transition occurs. Other than being tired this pregnancy is still by far the best one yet. If it was like this every time I would definitely have 5 kids! We shall see what happens. Scott and I have talked about names and thought we were just about there and realized not so much. So we are back to square one starting over. We have narrowed down a couple first names but no decisions yet. But dont worry Ill let you know once we decide! Tomorrow is our second of 4-5 ultrasounds. This is the first one we could find out the sex but of course we will not! So dont ask! We love the surprise and I would actually be quite upset if I found out before delivery. I dont like to know what Im getting for Christmas either! Everyone tells me it is a boy, but we will see in 20 weeks or less! I had one bad week of migraines again but quickly called my neurologist and he increased my prevention medicine and after 2 days I was all better again. I have had only one since that time which was two weeks ago. One every two weeks I can handle! I actually had 4 migraines all in less than 24 hrs which is a record for me. Scott finally had to take me to the emergency room to get some good drugs in an IV to knock them out. There was no other way to get them to stop. That was no fun but after 2 days of recovery I was back to normal again. By the way I should mention this happened the weekend after Bek's surgery, which was the same week we got tons of water in our house and mildew and mold developed quickly, and a water pipe broke in the wall spilling more water in our house causing more mildew and mold! It was a very rough 1 1/2 weeks for our family but we recovered! We are glad to say we are doing much better! Anyway, I hope these last 2o weeks go as well as the first 20. We are drawing near to the 27 week mark that put me on bed rest the last time. So I would be lying if I didnt say I get nervous as is approaching before we know it. But deep down I really feel like this pregnancy will be different!

One more surgery!

Well this time it is Ryan's turn for surgery! We feel bad for her but are completely ready to get it done! Ryan had four ear infection from Jan-March. Not normal for someone almost turning 3. But also when we took her into the ENT we discovered that she still had lots of thick fluid sitting in her ears! So the infections are going away but she isnt getting rid of the fluid on her own. So that means tubes! Not a big deal surgery but a surgery that is worth every bit of nervousness and uncomfortableness that it brings! Tubes for Bekah was the best thing we ever did as she had 9 ear infectiond in 8 months with trapped fluid. After the surgery she has had only one ear infection in 8 months so far! Pretty good if you ask us! We are looking forward to Ryan getting some relief in her ears but dreading the fact that she is old enough to know what is going on. We are going to wait till the morning of surgery to tell her what is happening so that she won't freak out quite so badly! We hope she does well and can be a brave little girl. Please pray for her the morning of Thurs May 21. This will hopefully be our last surgery with these girls for a long time. We hope getting all of this done by next fall will give us a good fall/winter with the new baby coming in Oct!!!

Ryan Kaley!

Ryan is growing up so fast these days! We can hardly believe she will be three in July! She has already decided that she wants a Mickey Mouse birthday! That should be a lot of fun. Im already looking at many ideas for how to make her cake this year. It should be a fun bday! About a month ago I think I had written about Ryan's speech but I must say it has improved a lot since then! She seems to only have trouble with 2 syllable words but if I break them up for her she does very well and actually enjoys me doing that. So we have been working on our own and so far she is improving. She gets really happy for herself when she says a word correctly after being helped so that is really good. Ryan recently learned how to ride her big girl bike and absolutely loves it! Definitely her favorite thing to do while outside. We have to walk to one of the courts on either side of our house because we have no sidewalks but it is working out well and gives her a lot of space to ride. Bekah gets bored so we will have to find her a tricycle of some kind to get through the summer. The girls also got a brand new wooden swing set from Grandpa and Grandma Moon! What a nice gift for the girls! It is so much easier on me instead of trying to take crazy Bekah with no fears to a public playground! They still enjoy the public playgrounds but now we save those for times Daddy can go with us. Ryan's favorite family activity is going to the ice cream shop (Mrs. Curl) in downtown greenwood. We take the wagon and walk there. Ryan always gets a "nill nilla" ice cream cone. She licks every bit of ice cream she can without eating the cone! Ryan's other favorite snack is popcorn! That girl can put that stuff down! She just can't get enough of it! We make it special by letting her stay up after Bekah goes to bed and let her watch veggie tales while eating her popcorn. She thinks it is amazing! Ryan still loves to do school books and would do them all day if I didnt get tired of them. She loves to read books and basically anything that involves one on one attention! She definitely likes to be played with but if we are busy she plays a lot of pretend with her doll house. We really enjoy listening to her play pretend. We learn a lot about what she is taking in around her all day! The most recent change in Ryan is how much she loves sunday school! We started going to the church Scott and I grew up in and Ryan immediately loved it! Before this Ryan never made through a service actually they called her out before worship was over at our old church. However, at CCG Ryan made it through a whole service the first time! Ryan will occasionally cry when she is tired but otherwise she loves to go to church and wear a dress. She asks all week when it is church day! That makes Scott and I very happy! Now if we can get Bekah to go to nursery! Oh someday she will!

More Diarrhea!

Yep you guessed it! It is Bekah! Before Bek's last virus a month ago she started getting diarrhea and honestly we thought it was just because she had been on so many antibiotics lately but she just couldn't recover. The dr sent her for the fun stool test because he thought the diarrhea should've been gone even if from antibiotics. The stool test came back normal so we just put her on probiotics for a while. Then Bekah had the surgery and went on another antibiotic that actually usually slows her down but this time wasn't so we began to worry it could be giardia again! After recovering from surgery we felt we did what we could including the BRAT diet but it just came right back. We also started noticing her pants not fitting any longer. We figured after 4 weeks the dr would finally take the matter seriously so we took her in. After being weighed we found she lost a whole pound already which is a lot at her age and for someone who is already way under weight! So the dr agreed it seems to be all the same characterisitics as the last time and put her back on the nasty made to order Flagyl to treat giardia for 2 weeks 2 times a day. After 2 days we have already seen amazing improvement. She now sleeps all night again and has no more diarrhea and only 1-2 stools a day again! Yeah! We hope this does continue to work and she stays healthy for a long time!!

Adnoid Surgery

Well as many already know Bekah did indeed have surgery to remove her adnoids. The ENT could not believe how much worse she seemed since she last saw her six months before. So there was no begging the Dr to do this surgery as she thought it was a must. We also discussed removing her tonsils as they are very large as well. A 3 out of 4 on the scale I guess. But the dr and we agreed that she is just too young and could easily become dehydrated as she already doesnt drink that well. If she was in too much pain she may not drink at all which is normal with tonsilectomy. So we will wait to see if she grows into them in the next year. If not tonsils will be next year! This surgery was a bigger deal than tubes because she was going to go all the way under with an IV which is never fun for little ones especially Bekah who has always had trouble with them. We were so happy to hear that they had no trouble this time around and only poked her once!! The surgery was quick and Bekah seemed to recover pretty quickly at least we thought so. The first 2 days she didnt seem much worse than any virus she'd had before. But by day 3 the misery began. She developed a high fever and became unusually fussy. It was difficult I think only because Bekah has never been fussy like that. We didnt know what to do with our non cuddly fussy child! By day 7 we were frustrated because the dr told us she would be fine after 2-3 days. yah right! So we called her and she wrote her a new antibiotic since the original one obviously wasnt working. Around day 9 Bekah finally got better and boy were we happy. We are so glad this surgery is over and have already seen a huge difference. We dont even notice when she drinks anymore because she no longer gasps for air! She also had a constant low grade fever every evening and that is now gone as well! We pray this also helps her quit catching everything that blows by and she can stay healthy for a couple weeks!! Thank you all for all of your prayers!