Bathing Beauties

Bath time is a definite favorite activity @ our house these days.  The challenge being that the babies want to sit up and play all the time, and I haven't gotten them seats for the bathtub yet, so some days that is a challenge.  Right before Thanksgiving, I was doing stuff in the kitchen one night and needed to give Hannah a bath, so I decided to just let her play in the sink.  To say that she loved it would be an understatement.  She splashed and played for a good 45 minutes while I got a bunch of cleaning done.  (Brady had skipped his nap that afternoon, so he went to bed @ around 6:45 that night and missed out on all the fun.)  Tonight I remembered to put my camera in the kitchen before we got started, and was rewarded with some absolutely adorable pictures of my sweeties. 

 

This is one of my favorite pictures of Brady...the look on his face just makes me laugh.

 I'd like to know what the two of them were conspiring in the picture, or if Brady was plotting against Hannah since she kept reaching over to his side of the sink and stealing his toys!!

 Sweet girl...you can see some of her curly hair in this picture.  I miss her cupie curl she had as a tiny baby.

It's so fun to see them accomplish new things every day.  Hannah figured out how to turn herself in a circle in the sink tonight, so we spent quite awhile just turning in circles.  And Brady did eventually figure out how to turn the sink on, so I had to turn him around in the sink to get him away from the handle.  Such fun memories!!

Bad Mom Moment #2...

Well, I spoke too soon.  Shortly after I posted on Sunday, both kids woke up with 102 fevers.  Hannah only wanted to be held, even after the Motrin and Tylenol kicked in, so I knew she really felt bad.  Brady was a trooper, however, there was one point where I was curled up in the recliner with both of them in my lap.  Hannah had started to have a little bit of a diaper rash before we went to church on Sunday, but I didn't think anything of it, b/c it doesn't take much for her to get a little red.  Just slapped some Corona on there and went to church and made sure the girls in the nursery put some on her when they changed her.  It didn't look too red when we got home from church, but by the time she woke up with fever it was flaming red.  So I went to option 2 and did Lantiseptic.  That didn't help, so I tried every other kind of diaper rash ointment I have (which is about 6 other kinds) and nothing was helping.  Finally, I just left her laying on a towel in the living room floor without a diaper.  That didn't even help.  By the time we went to bed Sunday night it was all but bleeding, and by the time we got up Monday morning it was bleeding.  I had to get up several times in the night to change her, b/c everytime she was wet or dirty, she would wake up just screaming bloody murder.  I felt so bad for her.  So Monday morning when we got up, I did what any good mom would do, and I texted some of my fellow mom friends who happen to also be nurses, and asked for their suggestions.  We finally decided that I had exhausted all options and should call the doctor so I did...and after listening to the description of the rash and then her fevers, etc. she said she wanted to see Hannah.  Can I just tell you how incompetent I felt as a mom @ that point??  For pete's sake, I am a nurse and a PICU nurse @ that...there is no reason on earth that my child should have a diaper rash like that!!!  Long story short, took her to the pediatrician and she tested positive for strep.  Never realized that strep could give you that bad of a diaper rash, but apparently it can, so now we are on antibiotics, and having to occasionally give her prescription pain medicine so that she can sleep some.  Praying that she will at least sleep a little better tonight than she did last night.  No sleep @ night makes her a bear!!!  She can skip naps, but sister needs a full 12 hours @ night. 

The Weekend

We have had a pretty chill weekend around here.  It's been nice.  I worked Friday night, so my mom and Billy had the kids yesterday morning, and then once I got up we just hung out.  I didn't get a bit of the cleaning done that I needed to, but we got to spend some good time together, so I'll just deal with the dirty house later.  Last night we ran to Amarillo to do some grocery shopping.  It was so nice for there to be two of us so that we could each push a cart with a baby in it instead of me having to sling one of the babies while the other one rode in the cart.  And the babies LOVED getting to sit up and see all the people and sights.  Today, the kids and I went to church and Billy is in the office getting ready for their bowl game next weekend.  Can't believe that it's already Thanksgiving!!  Just a question...how long does your pastor usually preach?  We just got a new pastor and he's very good...just rather long winded it seems like.  I'll leave you with some cute pictures since we all know that that's the whole reason we read blogs!!! :)

 We were cracking up @ Hannah with her legs crossed while she drank her bottle yesterday!

 I just love him!!!!

 I was trying to get a good picture of Hannah in her turkey dress after church today, but no such luck...I'll have to try again when somebody is here to help me and get you a better picture Hillary.

Finally!!!

We got a new computer so I am going to slowly start updating the blog and getting it caught up.  For Halloween, the babies were monkeys, and if I do say so myself, they were pretty stinking cute monkeys!  We were supposed to go ride a hay wagon through one of the neighborhoods here in Canyon with a bunch of friends, but the babies were a little under the weather, so we opted to just go visit dad @ work, to see Molly and Katie, run and see Mimi and Papa and then I took them up to my work for just a little bit.  They were troopers and did great.  I'm sad that we didn't get to ride the trailer, but we will be there for sure next year!  And now for your viewing please...two very precious monkeys!!