Happy Birthday Little Sister!

Happy Birthday to little Eja Baby!

I love this girl so much. She has been the sweetest, happiest, most content little child.

She is starting to walk. She usually does 6 or 7 steps at a time before she falls. Her favorite thing to do is climb up on chairs, couches, stools, etc. and just sit and watch. It's really cute.

We had a little birthday bash with the fam.

She wasn't sure what to think about the candle and everyone singing to her...

I had to stick it in her face

Her first little taste...

Getting more into it...

She really didn't care about any of her presents except the little balloon that I got her. But Kaia & Sienna had fun opening them for her

Crazy face. By the way, she has 4 teeth now

She loves to climb in her bumbo and just sit

Eja and Grandma

She loves her little horse. Sienna pushed her around the house for a good 30 minutes and she LOVED it!

YAY FOR DUSKY!!!

YEEHAW for Dusky!

After a lot of work, flying, and studying; and after two intense days of interviews, Dusky has been hired as a pilot for...

He starts training March 7th.

He's been working hard and we are so proud of him.

GOOD JOB DUSKY!!!

February Haps

A little update on our lives...

I came home from work the other day and this is what I found. Kaia had given Eja a red vines licorice and Dusky said she really enjoyed it. Can you tell?

The girls love taking baths together. When I put the two older ones in and not eja, she stands at the tub crying and trying to get in. She usually ends up soaked anyways (by her sisters of course) so I might as well just let her get in and play!

February 7th was the big 7 for us. 7 wonderful years of marriage to my wonderful husband. I love him! He's the best husband and dad in the world.

We hung out at the house for most of the morning. After the girls nap we went over to the soccer fields and played soccer for a while. Then we took the girls to my mom and dad's and Dusky and I went to dinner and a movie.

We ate at O'Charleys. It was really good. Then we went and saw "True Grit" It was pretty good. Then we picked up the girls and went home. I had made a fort for the girls while I was cleaning the kitchen floors earlier that day so when we got home Dusky and Sienna decided it would be a good idea to go camping in our fort. I wasn't sold at first. I knew that I had a comfortable bed that was about 10 feet away. But Dusky and Sienna were so excited. They gathered every pillow and blanket in the house and actually made a really comfortable bed. Then they turned the fire on so it felt like we had a campfire. We all slept there all night long. It was really fun. I'm so glad I married a man that is creative and goes out of his way to have fun with his kids. They ADORE their dad!

Dusky, my dad, Zach, and Tanner went hunting in Texas a few weeks ago. Tanner and Dusky picked up the 172 in St. George a few days before and flew it out to Texas. While they were there they started using the new airport. This plane was President Uchtdorf coming in to give a speech and dedicate the new airport.

The first plane that landed at the new airport

I'm pretty sad that the airport moved. I had a lot of good memories at this old airport. We used to ride our biked down to the airport when the Skywest offices were here and visit my dad at work. This is where I learned to fly, got my solo and my private pilots license.

AAHHHH, The memories!

Anyhoo...Here is the results of one of our lovely Georgian Ice Storms.

Little Miss KaiaKaia LOVES school. She is so smart. She's turning into such a big girl. It makes me sad, although it is fun at the same time. It still amazes me that we can have conversations like adults. I did Naomi's hair yesterday and as Naomi walked out of the bathroom she said "Oh Naomi, Your hair is sooooooo cute. It is sooooo cute!" She had the whole valley girl thing going on. It was really funny. She takes such good care of her little sisters. She LOVES dancing. She would dance for us all day long if we would let her. She does ballet and hip hop.. I really need to get her in a dance class. Her hip hop dancing is hilarious. We turn on the fast music and she bounces all around and then randomely does her version of the splits.

Senny Penny

I love this sweet girl. She is the toughest (physically) and softest (emotionally) EVER! She wants to do everything her big sister does. Every day she asks me if she gets to go to school today like Kaia. Although she's not interested in the learning part. I was practicing ABC's with her the other day. I help up the paper and said "What is this?" and she said "I can't tell you right now, I'm just to busy for that!"

Kaia came in the other day crying and told me that her shoe was really hurting her and sienna said "well...take it off you big BABY!"

The Baby Ej

She is so dang cute! She has had a rough time since she went to the hospital. She went to the doctor a week after her last check up and we found out she had another ear infection. She went on antibiotics again (by the way, she already had yeast from the antibiotics before) and it has been a few days since she got done with that round. She woke up the other night screaming. She seriously cried for most of the night. I was holding her, rocking her,laying by her and she would not stop crying. I think that is the first time in her life she has ever acted like that. So I took her to the doctor the next morning. She still has an ear infection. The last antibiotics didn't work, so they gave us a prescription for a new kind. Poor girl.

In happier news, she is getting pretty good at her balance. She still doesn't walk more than a few steps at a time, but she's ALMOST there.

She loves eating real food and drinking from a sippy cup. She sings and dances. She waves. and, she's cute!

Da Poor Baby Eja

I started working a few days a week at Dimension 74 Salon in Peachtree City. It's great. I love it there. It's been really good because I only work on Dusky's days off for a few hours and he stays home with the girls. They Love their day with dad. But my blogging has suffered as a result of this change.

So I'm WAY late on posting this...or anything, but better late than never.

On New Years Eve we went to the Zac Brown Band Concert. It was soooo good. But the girls had been sick for a few days. Sienna got sick first and as she was getting better Eja started getting sick. Sienna got better on her own so I thought it would be the same thing with Eja. By Friday morning she was sounding pretty congested so I tried to call the Dr but they had closed because of the holiday. So I thought Eja would be fine until monday and if she was still feeling sick I would take her in.

My parents took the girls while we went to the concert. We left a little bit early and on our way home my dad called and said he thought we needed to take Eja to the hospital. By the time we got to my mom and dad's house it was about 12:30am. Eja hadn't fallen asleep AT ALL. She was so tired but she couldn't breathe. She was wheezing so bad. Dusky had to go to work at 4am (3 hours away) so he went to sleep for a little while and my dad went with me to take Eja to the ER.

The ER on New Years Eve/Day is a fun place to be. We walked in and it was completely packed. But you could hear Eja trying to breathe from across the room. Her wheezing was so loud. Plus, she was trying to cry, but she couldn't get any air in. It was the saddest thing i've ever seen. They took us into the back immediately. They tested her oxygen levels and she was at 60 something percent. They took her into a room and the respiratory therapist came in. By this time she was screaming. I'm not sure what he was all hopped up on, but he told us that she was NOT wheezing and he left the room. My dad and I were looking at each other like "What the heck just happened?" So I finally got her calmed down and my dad got the guy to come back in and he's like "She's wheezing really bad, we need to get her on some oxygen!" ya think? Anyways, They put her on oxygen and she started to calm down a bit. Her levels went right back up to 100%. She PASSED OUT! She was so tired. They came in and gave her an hour long breathing treatment and then put her back on the oxygen. She slept through all of this.

By this time it was about 6:00am. My dad and I had been up for over 24 hours and I was starting to feel it.

The doctor came in and took her off the oxygen and her levels dropped back down. She said that she was calling for an ambulance to transport us up to Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Atlanta. So about 8:30 that morning the ambulance got there. They let me go with them, but I had to ride in the front. It was pretty sad. They were strapping her to the bed and she was screaming. They ended up having to give her breathing treatments on the ride to the hospital but by the time we got up there she was doing a lot better. Her oxygen levels had gone back up and the doctor told me they were going to give her one breathing treatment and then they would probably let us go home. During her breathing treatment she took a turn for the worse. It was pretty scary. She had her oxygen mask on but her level kept dropping lower and lower. Finally she was in the low 80's and all of her alarms were going off. The Doctor, the nurse, and the respiratory therapist came running in. They turned her oxygen up and told us we would not be going home. So they admitted us and got us into a new room. They checked her ears and she had an ear infection too so they put her on antibiotics. By that time my mom came. She took over for a little while and I went down to the cafeteria and got some food. They put the little oxygen tubes in Eja's nose and she was NOT happy about it. She was crying and pulling them out every two seconds. It was tiring.

By that night I had been up for about 38 hours. Dusky called and asked if I had put his flight back on the ground by my dad's truck because his $1200 headset just got ran over. I started BAWLING my eyes out and at that point Dusky knew I was on the verge of a breakdown. He called in to work, told them what was going on, and used his sick days for the next two days. He drove right up to the hospital. By the time he got there I seriously thought I was going to die. He took Eja and I went and laid on the couch/bed. I was OUT. I'm usually a light sleeper but it wasn't until the next morning that I found out Eja had a rough night. They came in every two hours and her alarms kept going off when she would fall asleep so they had to keep coming in and turning up her oxygen.

Sunday was a better day. Eja did pretty good during the day. They turned her oxygen down a lot. But everytime she fell asleep they would have to come back in and turn it up. They wouldn't let us go home until she could sleep without having to be on oxygen.

The girls were missing us by that point so Carrie and Jesse brought them up and we all had a sleepover in the hospital room. Eja did pretty good that night so they let us go home Monday.

I had to make a check up with her pediatrician for Tuesday. When I went in they tested her oxygen levels because she was still kind of wheezy and she was 93. I was scared that they were going to send us back to the hospital but they did another breathing treatment and it helped. So she put her on a steroid and we had to give her breathing treatments for a few days at home.

Now Da Baby Eja is back to her good old self.

She was such a trooper. We love her so much and hope we don't EVER have to do that again!

The little Doggy that Grandpa brought her

Eja was sooo happy to see her sisters.