6 Months Old!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday Abigail turned 6 months old!!!!!! That went by way to fast. Last night i put her on her hands and knees and she stayed like that for a bit. i got a pic of her still holding her upper half up. The outfit she has on was Codys. Actually now that i look, both outfits were codys.

Yeah Sammy!!!!!!

I love our dog. She doesn't let strangers come up to our house. Which happens ALOT out here. Someone showed up to sell us frozen steaks and he wouldn't get out of the car because of her and then today i heard a car door and then Sammy jumped up and started barking REALLY loud. The guy practically ran back to the car. The driver hadn't gotten out and she was laughing at the guy. They were both dressed up and he had stuff in his hands. I'm thinking they were Jehovah's witnesses. They show up at our house several times a yr. That would be nice if they'd quit coming. Yeah Sammy for protecting her family.

The other top tooth

Came through yesterday. 4 teeth total, yikes.

Ben and Lily- ( I stole it from you Ashley)

This is Ashley's baby girl Lily. Ashley use to work with Ben.

Tank

This is my sisters dog Tank. He is 10 y/o and his age caught up with a while ago, but now there is no stopping it. They are going to take him to the vet tomorrow to have him put down. :o( He is deaf and has been for a while. He falls alot and is peeing blood with clots and blood in his poops. He is a great dog. I havent seen him in yrs but when we all lived in Ca and you walked in you'd have to give him a hug or he'd follow you around untill you did. He acted human. He could say "I love You" I am so not kidding. It was amazing, I hear him over the phone. Just the other night he was 'talking'. I feel so bad for them. To the kids Tank has always been there, as far back as they can remember.

I have a picture of Tank playing with our dog PJ who is 10 yrs old too. I'll look for it sometime this week. We took PJ over for a playdate, LOL.

Tina, Brian, Brandon and Alex, Im sorry about Tankers

some pics

Cody playing machine pitch baseball. Ashley does any of this area look familiar?

Abbies new swing. It's like the Cadillac's of swings. :o)

Abbie wearing Kaitlens. I told my mom I'd send it to her.


Abbie sitting up.

Here it is

Ugly huh? wonder if it was that ugly before going through Matthew. It's a 1995 penny.

"In God we trust"

the joys of being a mom

Matthew finally went poop last night and i got the lovely job of looking for the penny. It was actually there. We now have the penny that Matthew choked on. Over the last day and a half i tried to convince myself that maybe it wasn't a penny, maybe he wasn't choking *that* bad. But he was truly choking and it was a penny. So i let my brain stop there and just be very glad that that i was digging through poop.
Soooooo, i know your asking yourself "where's the picture?"............ soon, I'm just to lazy to take the pic and upload it.

Fevers, fevers, fevers

It started Sunday with Cody and he ended up missing 2 days of school. Kaitlen started on Tuesday and then Matthew on Wed. Im just waiting for A to get it and maybe thomas. He kinda misses getting sick from the younger ones.

Had to do the Heimlich on Matthew

Last night Ben was putting Abbies swing together (it finaly got here) and she was sitting next to me on the couch and Matthew had gone behind Bens recliner where he hides to go poop. Well he comes out from behind the chair choking and it wasn't the gagging on something whack him on the back kinda thing. I hopped up and grabbed him and did the Heimlich twice and it dislodged it and he threw up. He swallowed what ever he was choking on. We asked him what he had in his mouth and he said a penny. I went and looked behind the chair to see what else there was and there was 2 more pennies, and a lid to a water bottle and a small alan wrench set. It was scary and I am ever so greatful for the Heimlich.

Teeth

Her top left tooth broke through today and it seems her other one is on the move. I hope once that one is through that they are done for a while.

Kaitlens Recital

Here she is in her tap costume on dress rehersal night




this was the actual recital night and i let her hair go curly instead of doing it straight.
im not to fond of make up on 4 y/o but what to do?

Ballet costume
Her flowers and balloons from mommy, daddy and aunti and uncle


K and Emily

Matthew and William- they could be twins

Kaitlens cake

it was also Bens birthday that night so they put the sombrero on him, LOL and put his pic on the wall :o)

oh Abbie

Tonight we were going out to dinner but we were ahead of schedule so we stopped off at Build a Bear and Code, K, Matthew and Abbie picked out their stuffed animals. Well Ben picked Abbies. C got a snow leopard, K got Shrek, M after MUCH thought got a white dog (he named doggy) ben got Abigail a bunny with long ears that she likes to suck, yummmm. So we get to dinner and Kaitlen gives A a drink of her tea through her straw and would you belive she sucked it up through the straw twice!! She can also sit up for a fair amount of time and correct her balance. Boy, she's growing up too fast. The straw thing just gets me. oh, one of her top teeth should be in soon. What the heck?! a 5 month old should not have 3 teeth, yikes.

Just a swingin'

Little Miss Abigail loves her swing and I blame Ben...LOL... When she was like a week or two he held her between his two hands under her armpits and swung her to and fro untill she fell asleep. So we went and got her a cheap swing, she's our last so we're just waisting money anyway so get the cheapest. WEELLLLL, she loves her swing. She uses it several times aday. SHe is to big for her swing. So what do we have to do??? Get a bigger swing, one that goes up to 30#'s. Here it is. We should get it in a couple days. All of our kids had swings and she's the only one to like it. Thomas had my neices hand me down. Cody had his cousins hand me down. Kaitlen had a travel size one so cody couldnt accidently knock it over. Matthew used Kaitlens and when he was done with it we gave it to the church. It's funny because we had to borrow it to take with us to Vegas so A could have a swing to swing in. Oh, SHe's to big for that one too. What a moose. (a sweet moose)

Pics of my mom

Nana and Abigail




Mom and Lucie

Sheri, me, Mom, Tina, Jackie

Amber Cody Jackie Mom Thomas Abbie Marissa Kaitlen

Everyone waving when we left

hair

Mom called and she has started losing her hair. So Tina and I went in together and ordered mom some hats/scarves. The first one they call a beanie, we ordered 2 of those. One in pink and one in camel. This is the scarf, the exact same one on top of the photos. Here is the sleep cap we ordered too, got the cream one. Here is a little something that i though she'd like to hold on to, especially during chemo. She is real excited about the hats. I hope they don't take to long to get to her.

Whats up with my animals

First thing in the AM Bessie and Kessie escape and are gone. The famer down the road sees Ben looking for them and tells him theres a dead cow in a hole ( somewhere on there property) so we are guessing the dogs went to go find this cow. THen we get that horrible storm and i think they'll never come back. Oh Noooooo at 2:00 am today(wed) the farmer comes to our house to tell us he believes our dogs are on his porch. It wouldn't have been a problem except they were barking and stuff. Turns out they got themselves lost and scared. So we went and picked them up. Our neighbors are a mile away. We get home and get them put away and i come in change clothes and clean up and my bird freaks out in her cage and rips off 2 feathers and starts bleeding. So she is on my shoulder right now. I hope the bleeding has stopped because they can bleed out rather fast. Dare i ask what next???

Our new Puppy

Here's Sammy our new puppy. She is a 5 month old Rottweiler. We picked her up near Ft Smith on our way home :o) We went and looked at her the Wed before we left for my mom's. She is sweet. She stay right under you no matter what your doing, even dirty diapers.

We are home.

We got home last night and i'm so tired. My body hurts. So today im going to lay around upload my pics and wait for my sister to get here. My sister Sheri and her family are driving back to Michigan. They left las Vegas yesterday. On there way out last week they stayed in Tulsa so they are going to stay at our house and leave on Tues.

Abigail

Oh my she is a chunk. She just keeps growing. She's somewhere in the 17 # range. I just dont know the ounces. She is getting a ton of attention from all her Aunties and Nana. She can almost sit up on her own. she does it for a bit. She cant get her belly off the floor so i dont see her crawling anytime in the near future.

up-down

Boy, some days seem 'good', but when they are bad, there bad. You can go from a high high to a low low in almost a nanosecond. Definate emotional rollercoaster. It's very exhausting. so many feelings and i couldnt even begin to put it into words. I'm very very sad that I'm loosing my mom. we are planning to come back to my moms the 1st week in July, but she wants us to wait untill she moves to NC where my brother lives. She wants a huge family reunion. She even wants my dad there. They have been divorced for 21 yrs. I think if we can get the timing right they'd get remarried. (my moms husband left my mom last week, what a piece of &#@^#%@^@#&, but thats ok, it's better he's gone)

update

Hi everyone!!! i have my sisters laptop- yea. mom is doing good. she does chemo once a week. her sideeffects are not that bad. All controlled by meds. She goes for her treatments once a week for 3 months. Tomorrow is her 3rd treatment. Keep her in your prayers

You can't lose me- Faith Hill

A little girl, a little small for her age

A little too slow for the field day race

Momma's waiting at the finish line

And wipes the teardrops from her eyes

She says, You did just fine, honey, that's okay

Sometimes life's just that way

You're gonna lose the race from time to time

But you're always gonna find

You can't lose me

Bet your life

I am here, and I will always be

Just a wish away

Wherever you go

No matter how far

My love is where you are

You won't be lost if you believe

You can't lose me

Momma used to say, Girl it won't be long

'Til it's time to go out on your own

Chase your dreams, find your place in life

I know you'll do just fine

When that day finally came

There were things she needed to, but could not say

So I whispered softly as I wiped

The tears from Momma's eyes

You can't lose me

Bet your life

I am here, and I will always be

Just a wish away

Wherever you go

No matter how far

My love is where you are

You won't be lost if you believe

You can't lose me

We were at Lone Star the other night and this came on and I couldnt stop the tears from coming.

The diagnosis

Part of my moms biopsy result came back on Thurs. They ended up Biopsing the Liver to avoid collapsing her lung. She has Small Cell Lung Cancer. There are two types and she has the 'extensive' one since it has spread to her liver. It is a very aggressive cancer, statistically she has less than a year. She starts chemo on Tues and that will really help with the pain with her Liver, so im very glad that will reduce/stop?? the pain. Im a little irked with her oncologist. He told her when she's feeling better to go ahead and go back to work!!. She's a tiny woman and is a waitress and was having a hard time with the trays before, she should have really stopped working a couple years ago. Apparently he never told her the outcome of her cancer. He was very optimistic with her which is great, but left out very vital information. Leaving her with the assumtion that she'll be fine. He had even said that this cancer almost always comes back. There is no almost about it. It always comes back, AlWAYS. I told her not to go back to work. That when she's feeling better to go do things she likes or hasn't had the chance to do. My oldest sister has gone to the appointment too and when i told her al the stuff i read about it she was floored saying the Dr didnt say any of that. I know the internet is scary when it comes to medical information, but site after site i hit was the same, maybe slightly different % numbers. We leave tomorrow for 3 weeks and then i plan on flying out again in June and then hopefully again in Aug.
I'll try to update when im there. I'll feel much better once i see her.

4 month check up

Abbie had her shots today :o(, though she did really well. She weighed 16.6 and was just over 25 1/2 inches tall. 95th %ile all the way around. The Dr said we can start her on foods. We may give her a taste here and there but she's still really happy with just the boob.

Go karts and Bass Pro

The puppies name is Abbie too :o)

Kaitlen put her in the chair