Good Dog

Seeing the photo of Maizy with Riley made me reminisce what a good dog Riley really is. I mean seriously, how many dogs would endure this time after time. Here is Riley with baby Alexis:

And 2 1/2 years later with baby Maxwell:

And 2 years later again with Maizy:

Thank you Riley for being the best dog a family could ask for.

Recent Funny Comments

So Alexis and Max have been quite busy lately. They really love their new sister! But that does not mean the funny and random comments that take place on a daily basis have stopped!!!! Here are a few clips.



Alexis and Max both came home from camp with goldfish the other day. FAB-U-LOUS! Who the hell needs two more living things???? I prepared them that goldfish don't last very long. The next day Alexis's died. Her comments were "well, why did mine die and not Max's" and then "well, when is Max's going to die?" In response, I said, "I have no clue" and "I hope very soon", respectively. Two days later.....we are once again a fishless family. Thank goodness!



When food is hot during dinner, we usually poke holes in whatever it may be with a fork to help it cool faster. Last night, we went out for pizza. Max's pizza was hot so he wanted to poke holes in it. Then he took a piece of pizza that was Ben's. He decided to poke the holes and then say, "I forked daddy's pizza". Not funny itself; however, imagine it said by a two year old who does not pronounce his R's properly. It has now become "I f&c$ed daddy's pizza". At least it wasn't apple pie!!!!

Sweet Siblings

Alexis and Max have been lovin' on their new sister!!!!! Here is a compilation of the fun!!!

And even Riley has gotten in on the action......

So Far Behind

Well, life has gotten a little crazy over the last month since my last posting. Here are a few updates:

First and foremost we welcomed our 3rd child and 2nd daughter into our beautiful and amazing family on June 22, 2010. She weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces of perfection!!!

It was a very easy entrance as compared to the other two, but then she decided to go and stop breathing on us! The day after she was born she was sleeping in her cart and started making some noise. My mom picked her up and she started making some weird noises. Then I realized that she was beginning to turn blue and not breathing. My mom ran out of the room and luckily right outise of our door was the nursery nurse. She ran in, grabbed Maizy, and ran out. She came back a little while later and said that she had a lot of mucus balls in her airway. She sucked them out and said there was one more she couldn't get so she would give her some formula to try to get her to swallow it down. Great! Then she came back to our room. At 3pm, they came to get her for her 24 hour PKU test. While she was down in the nursery for this, she stopped breathing again. This time they hooked her up to the pulse ox machine and all sorts of other monitors, had her in a little incubator and took her down to NICU. We were able to visit with her down there and feed her every three hours. She was also very jaundice so they put her under the lights. She had some really cool shades on:

She behaved herself in the NICU so the next morning they moved her to the special care nursery. She was still hooked up to all kinds of monitors, but didn't need the one on one care. I was discharged from the hospital that night and we had to leave our room by midnight, but Maizy had to stay. I could not envision myself walking out the door without her soooooooo.....we stayed in the lobby. Literally, we slept on the "couches" in the lobby. And I use the term "sleep" very loosely because every three hours I had to go upstairs to feed her so we were only in the lobby for about 2 hours at a time. But unfortunately at her 2am feeding, she started dropping her oxygen levels while eating. We thought it was maybe positioning, but she did it again at 8am. So she had to stay another night to monitor her eating behaviors. We think the problem was that she only had the suck-swallow part of the suck-swallow-breathe cycle. Luckily the neonatologist took pity on us and let us stay in the "Nesting Room" that night. Basically, in the special care nursery, the babies there all need monitoring for some time so this is a room where parents can stay with their babies as a trial run before taking them home. They are still monitored, but the parents are responsible for caring for them rather than the nurses. Here we are with Maizy in her cart in the background and Ben on the so called bed:

Finally, we got to come home!!!! Maizy could not have a happier brother and sister!!!!

Welcome to our family, Maizy Daniella!!!!