Uncle Jordan

We love and miss Uncle Jordan.

He has joined the Airforce and we haven't seen him since November. He graduated from 'bootcamp' on January 2nd and is in Maryland for training. We are so proud of his choice to serve our country and love and pray for him. The last few posts have been inspired by him. No, seriously, I did the photoshoot of the girls in their dresses to get updated pictures for him. He gets internet access on Tuesday for the first time since he joined. It will be fun to communicate with him more!!

Here is a picture of him and his wife. Aren't they beautiful. (He has an awesome wife!)

Here he is at graduation. You can click on their blog link to the right to see more pictures.


(by-the-way, Heidi. Thank you for posting all those pictures of Jordan, we LOVE to look at them!!)

Katherine is 9 months old!!!

I know, I can't believe it either. She is such a joy and we love her so much. Here are 9 new things about her....

1) She is working on teeth 7 & 8.
2) She is pulling herself up on everything.
3) She likes to walk around pushing her walker from the outside rather than be on the inside.
4) She has started doing the sign for 'more' when eating
5) She copies my facial expression for 'all-done' instead of my hand motion (scrunches nose).
6) She gets most of her food at the table rather than nursing.
7) She has tried multiple foods including: potatoes, rice, black beans, peaches from a can, cheerios, yogurt, applesauce, bread, popsicle, fruitloops, steak,
8) She loves to take baths, if I leave the bathroom door open she heads right to the bathtub and she cries if she isn't finished bathing when you get her out.
9) She weighed 17 pounds at her last doctors visit.

She is getting so adventuresome. Today she just kept trying new things and as a result kept falling over and bonking her head. But after a few boo-boo kisses she would be right back at it. I think she fell and hit her head at least five times today. She loves Maddy and Maddy loves her. Every morning Madelynn gets up and asks "where's my baby-sister?" It is so cute.



Katherine on New Years Eve eating her cookie.

Check out the nose squintz on these next two pictures, both girls do it. It is so funny!!

The Many Faces of an 8 Month Old

Falcon Exhibit

We all know that Jacob's job isn't as cool as uncle Justin's as far as finding fun little critters to bring home for the girls, but this week he had training outside of the office which offered an opportunity to come pretty close.

There was a Falcon Exhibit at the same hotel as his training. He had me bring the girls down when he was finished with the training so they could see the cool birds. These are mostly hawks and an eagle. I don't think we got any falcon pictures.

Enjoy the pictures!!

RSV

So we thought our woes with Katherine were solved with the last diagnosis of asthma until she started running a temperature of 102 for 5 days straight!!! Since it was the beginning of a new month and we could finally see our new pediatrician, we took her into see Dr. Ho.

His assistant, who I thought was wonderful, had Katherine tested and the results confirmed before the doctor even got to us. It was positive RSV. He had us do blood work and x-rays and before we left said that he would admit her into the hospital except for the fact that the ER was full of babies waiting for beds, there was no room in the inn!! Oh, and a double ear infection, hence the fever of 102.

So we went home with different breathing treatments for her and now, two weeks later, she is doing well once again.

I am not sure if she has asthma or not, time will tell with that, but my theory (Corinne, tell me if I am totally off) is that she had a mild case of RSV all along. It was the asthma treatments that lowered her immune system to allow the RSV to come out in full force in order to finally be detected by a doctor. For the record, I had asked our previous doctor and the doctor at Urgent Care both to test her for RSV and they both said 'NO' and proceeded to tell me what RSV is and that my child didn't have it. WHATEVER, what could it hurt to just TEST HER?!?!?!

Anyway, that is my venting. I am going to post about something fun now.

(Corinne is Renae's totally awesome friend who diagnosed Kate with the asthma. She made me feel like someone was actually starting to listen to me, MY CHILD IS SICK!!!) Thank you Corinne!!!