January and February UPdate :)

Okay so now that I have about caught up with the pictures from the past 3 months....

Lets Update:

Baylie:
Baylie has an actual diagnosis!!! WOO HOO!! I should probably not be so happy that my kid has problems, but as most of you know this 'diagnosis' has been almost 4 years in the making! Baylie had a doctors appointment in December with a geneticist. She has a triplication on her first chromosome. Which mean that instead of two copies (one on each set like you and me) she has a total of 4. What does that mean? We don't know because there is no other documented case- Baylie is the first. So still keeping with trying to help her be the best Baylie she can be we went to Billings to meet with doctor Nicholson. She is a neuropsychologist. After playing with Baylie, asking me lots of qestions and reading the evals and other doctors notes she concluded that Baylie has high functioning autism (aka. Asperger's). So we were not shocked, but relieved that finally we can move forward. She was put on Trazadone to help her sleep and so far its working good! Other than that Baylie will turn 5 in a few weeks and she got registered for Kindergarten to start in Fall 2011! Holy COW!!! I just dont know where it went. She continues to like school and is even starting to engage some of the other kids in playing (yay!)

Daisy:

Daisy turned 3 in December. She is a big pain in my butt, but I sure do love her! She started preschool at the end of January and is so far LOVING it!

Pepper:

PJ is one day shy of 9 months old already!!! Where did that go??! She has four teeth and uses them regularly. She adores her sisters and her daddy and has started speaking! Mama, Dada, lala (when i sing to her she sings lala back to me!) baba etc... She is trying hard to stand alone and pulls up on everything and now recently is now scooting along things (like the couch) holding on. Not much longer for her and she will be running with her big sisters!

spagetti face!

HI!

This is her bear stance- she tries to push up so she can stand but instead she just falls back on her tush!

James got a new job finally and loves it there. He now works for L&H Industrial. His offical title is oilfield/megadoor. He has been there 3 weeks and already has been given a good raise and his benefits are awesome. He come home happy now (sure beats coming home cranky all the time like he was) I think he found his forever job at last!

Next to bat: Christmas

Christmas 2010. Well let me explain. We have to have several "Christmases" though there is only one Christmas. We just have so much family that's divorced, living in other places, and not related that having one just doesn't work.
So the first Christmas was at my lovely sister and brother in-laws house with there two boy and my mother in-law. James unfortunately had to work late that night so he missed it :o(.


All of the kids wanted to sit with Josh to open their presents. Dustin is off camera in this shot. But sitting in Josh's lap is the newest addition to their family Ian!

Next was our family (at home) Christmas. It was nice as my mom and step dad joined us and we had a lovely day!

The stockings were hung by the tv with care....(check out those amazing dolls)

The tree after Santa came to visit. Never mind that angel up there, she was celebrating a little much.

Daisy and Baylie each got a new toy organizer. Baylie got a Fairy one and Daisy's is Princess.


This is Pepper trying to chew that present open.

This is Baylie holding her new dolly. These dolls (one the pic above, one B is huggin, and one beside her) were hand made by my grandma and they are amazing!

We actually went to Christmas Eve service at church and here are the girls in there Christmas dresses!

This next one is of Pepper at Baylie's Christmas program at school. Baylie was being very grumpy that night and i was able to get a good shot of her all dressed up :(. BUT PJ was pretty darn cute if I do say so...

Little behind oops!

So I will be doing SEVERAL posts today/night. My sincere apologies for slacking and I really hope to remedy this problem by getting a new computer very soon. (This one takes FOREVER to upload anything!!)

So I guess to start off- the pictures of Daisy and James' birthday party. Now most of you know that they share the same b-day so we have one party. This year, however, we did two parties. One small one on the actual day that was just us and then a bigger one on the weekend. James asked me specifically for the monkey cake that you will see. It is a monkey head shaped cocoa crispy treat covered with peanut butter to make the face and brownie ears and m&m eyes and chocolate liquorish for the rest.

Daisy telling me "I Love You"

Mr. Monkey-face

Daisy blowing out her candles

James blowing out his candles

Next the birthday party that was on the weekend. If you are wondering about the frosting, Wal-Mart. It like fell off the cake and i had to putty it back on- oh well it still tasted just fine!

The horses had some messed up hooves and fell over in the 'dirt' part of the cake, I had to attempt to fix it.

She didnt care all she saw was "HORSIES!!"

See them leaning- they were drinking a little too much Colorado kool-aid!

Me helping her with the wooden fairy house Aunt Bree got for her.

Our friend Whitney and Travis brought their sons over to help us celebrate. That's Ethan there by Daisy and just behind them is KaCee

the pros and cons of "moon dough"

For Christmas I got the kids (the older kids) Moon Dough. For those of you unfirmiliar with this product here is the link. I got them this thinking it was a good alternative to playdough. So here are the pros and cons from the mom of an almost 5 year old and a 3 year old stand point.
PROS:
doesnt dry out (rather clever you can leave it out forever and it will still be usable)
flakes right out of fabric with scratching
if it get squished into your floor it just comes right up because its dry not wet
not salty dry hands after play
no sticking to molds, it just pops right out!
balls back up and sticks to itself after play like playdough

CONS:
it crumbles like none other
more expensive than playdough
perhaps a little harder to hand mold than playdough
doesn't come with any kind of container

So as the mom of preschoolers I both like and dislike this product. I like that it comes right out of everything, and that it never dries out. But I hate that it crumbles so much it really makes a mess. It is gluten (wheat) free which is awesome and hypo allergenic also awesome. But it isnt safe to eat like playdough (which tastes nasty but is harmless if swallowed). For me that is a con too because of Baylie's problems she still feel the need to explore orally and Daisy copies that. Also due to crumbling it gets on the floor and I worry PJ will eat some too.

BOTTOM LINE:
If you have older children that no long feel the need to put things in their mouths this stuff is AMAZING! If you have kids that still put stuff in their mouths or a little on crawling around your big ones during play time then I would hold off buying this particular product. The age rage is 3+ I would agree and maybe even say closer to 4+

Daisy at 3

HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY DAISY ANN!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES!!
So I will have a long post tomorrow after her party with pictures and such but for today just a status update.

As of my home measurements today Daisy is:

37 1/2 inches tall
and
36.4 lbs.

That puts her in the 95% for her height and about the 92% for her weight. So By my guess she will be another tall one- maybe not as tall as Baylie and PJ will be, but taller than my 5'7".

RIP Blue Waters of Bristol Bay

Today heaven gained another beautiful angel My mom and step dad made the decision to put down our beloved Blue Waters of Bristol Bay aka. Gator. On Saturday morning he was attacked by two pitbulls and after being rushed to the vet in Gillette and a 3 hour surgery where they attempted to put him back together he struggled for 3 days to continue his life. But this morning his health went down hill and they had to put him down as he was suffering and wouldnt be able to recover. Here are some pictures from his long and loving life:

(all of these were taken by me in Rozet)

The man who's pits killed Gator are still around. They attacked a Jack Russle the day before and paralyzed him and he was put down as well. The piece of scum that owns those dogs moved them in the middle of the night on Saturday before authorities could seize them and quarentine them until judgement was passed. The dogs need to be put down. They have also attacked a person and were once again moved before authorities could take them in. The man's name is SEAN LEWIS, AGE 31- BROWN HAIR AND GLASSES, DRIVES AN OLDER GREEN CAR. USED TO LIVE IN SLEEPY HALLOW HAS RELATIVES IN GILLETTE AND MOORCROFT. These dogs are extremely dangerous so beware. Please if you know where in Gillette this guy or his dogs (two pitbulls one black one brown with white spots) are please let me or the police know immeadiately. Sean Lewis has a brother named either Clay or Trey. Both are now currently wanted by the law!! Thank you.

Two part post part 2: PJ

Today's Part 2: Pepper

On November 15 PJ turned 6 months! She is getting so big. By my rough home estimates she weighs about 20 lbs. and is about 28 inches tall.

For someone that can't crawl yet she sure is mobile! She almost has it though. She gets up on her hands and knees and rocks but everytime she tries to lift a hand she looses her balance and does nose dive.

During the past two weeks PJ has been seen by the baby tooth fairy and been blessed with her two bottom teeth!! Yesterday the second one came in so she enjoyed her very first graham crackers!

During the past week she has also added some new sounds to her baby babble. Finally some consenents have joined all the vowel sounds! First was MAMA then last night B joined the word party for BABA. I dont count those as first words but I am glad to finally hear them!

PJ can sit for short period of time on her own before she looses her balance and slumps to the right or left. She is generally happy to sit, but doesnt care for the bumbo much as it always makes her throw up. She is still fighting with some reflux, so I think at her 6 month check up in December I will ask about some Zantac.

She is still the happiest baby I have ever seen and super easy to get along with in her personality. Which makes her my little dolly peach baby and makes me feel so grateful we have her in our lives.

And if you like the Chirstmas photos they were taken by the uber talented Jenni Hitt of JL Photography!