Crikey!

Kyle here, just wanted to show how fearless Dana Lee is. This is from this summer in Colorado, that's right, that is a 4 foot long snake that she's playing with.

Twinners

So, I've had zero desire (or time) for blogging lately but I had to post this because I think it's so cool. Check out these little chicas. Don't they share a remarkable resemblance? I literally could not stop staring at these two.





I think they are 2nd cousins. The weird thing is I don't really think her parents and us look alike much at all. Does anyone else see the resemblance?

Dream a little dream

When it rains...

it pours! In the last 6 days we've found ourselves in the ER twice, doctor visits 3 times, and one 4 hour afternoon in the Urgent Care clinic.

The scoop on Ryder: He is allergic to milk and eggs. Because of the severity of the reaction and his young age we will go see an allergist to understand better what is going on. In the meantime, he has discovered the cords.


Kyra has been one sick little girl. She's had a rough bout of the flu and has had to go in to get fluids twice due to dehydration. Today she turned a corner and appears to finally be feeling better!

This is what Kyra has been doing the past several days. (Minus the vomit and diarrhea. Your welcome.)


The brave little patient.


The crazy little fan club.

Allergic reaction for Ryder, panic attack for me

Tuesday night I put Ryder to bed just like normal. He was tired and went down without a complaint. Kyle had been gone all day so when he got home a few minutes later he was able to say goodnight to the girls before I was finished putting them to bed. I decided to to get Ryder up to say hi to his Daddy since he hadn't seen him all day and he was probably still awake.

I'm so glad I did. I found him sitting up quietly trying to itch his hive covered body. Then I noticed his swollen face. Mostly in his eyes and his lips. HUGE! It looked so wrong. I hurried to show Kyle who is good at staying calm in these types of situations where I am SO not. I was ready to run out the door with him to get him to the hospital but Kyle called the nurse. When she asked if there was any swelling and Kyle said yes, she said, "there IS!? Hang up and call 911!" So with that Kyle was out the door with poor Ryder who had started vomiting. He was getting worse fast. They took him into the ER (thankfully only minutes away) and immediately injected him with epinephrine and some other drugs. He came home a few hours later after the medicine had taken effect. So now we are waiting on some tests to figure out what triggered this. In the meantime we are paranoid about feeding him and armed with epiPens. Dairy is our main suspicion. Remember this post? Hopefully we will figure it out soon!

Spiders in the bathtub

Bath crayons are a wonderful thing. I don't know where my two silly girls came up with the idea but they went on a spider drawing kick one morning during bathtime.
My favorite is that each spider has a different facial expression. Here we have the happy go lucky.

Watch out for this one, he looks a little crazy.

Here is a flirty, sly little vixen.

This poor little guy is lost, sad or confused.

This girl looks friendly. I know it is a girl because only girl spiders have eyelashes. That is what Breckyn taught me.

Definitely worried, or maybe confused.

My kids make me laugh. A lot.

Simone, let's talk about your big 'but'

I just have to post these pictures on the off chance that one of my brothers looks at my blog. They will think I am so cool that we live 10 minutes away from the Pee Wee Herman dinosaurs. That's right. Be jealous.

Imagination

It was the middle of the night. I hear screaming. Go check on the girls. They are both sitting up looking like they just saw a ghost. Kyra solemnly tells me they have seen a humongous giraffe coming out of the ceiling fan. I say, "Oh honey, that was just your imagination!" Her eyes widened as she thought about that for a moment. They seemed okay with that and so I tucked them in, kissed their cheeks and wished them good night.

Next morning: I go in to say good morning and Kyra exclaims, "My 'magination' didn't come back! Maybe it is in the closet!! Will you check?"

I've tried to explain to them what their imagination is but it has been burned into their little minds that their imagination is most definitely a giant giraffe coming to get them.

They've never had a night light, but with their imagination on the loose we decided now might be a good time for one. It has been several weeks since we purchased this pink, princess nightlight and I am happy to report it has successfully kept their imagination away.

Happy Valentine's Day!

We love Valentine's Day. It is a great day to remember how much we love each other! Valentine traditions for us include creating Valentines, baking cookies to share with loved ones and ordering in a heart shaped pizza. Ryder has been perfecting the wet, open mouthed kiss and loves to plant them on us all. Share the love :)

Don't eat sticks or this could be you...

At work we pulled a 13" stick out of a puppy. I don't know how, but somehow the puppy managed to swallow something that long. Part of the stick was stuck in his esophagus and the other end was pushing his stomach way back in his abdomen toward his tail. Talk about indigestion! This is a picture of the stick as it was being pulled out.