Moving

It's been a while since I've written anything...that is because we have been in limbo for a few weeks. We moved to Nevada, but our rental house wasn't going to be ready in time, so we stayed with the Armantrouts for two and a half weeks, and then finally last week we got into our house. We are actually living in Boulder City right now. We like it a lot. Well, Ben is coming in on a year old. Still no crawling. I can tell that he wants to be mobile and follow his big sister around, but he just hasn't quite figured out all the motions he has to do. He is getting closer that is for sure. He can just about get himself on his knees and if I help him he can get onto his knees, then he rocks back and forth. He is pretty quick at going backwards - I don't think it will be long before he gets himself going. He has four teeth in (two bottom and two on top). WOW! When he gets teeth he get grumpy. I can always tell when one is trying to push trough because for four or five days prior he is super whiny and sad. Then it pops through and he is back to normal. He can copy us when we say "ma ma ma" or "da da da." That's the extent os the talking, but I don't think that will be too far in the coming either. I can tell that he is figuring more things out and understanding more of what is going on around him. We took a bike ride the other day (the weather is beautiful here in March). He sat in his little trailer (without his car seat) and loved every minute of the ride. He is a real outdoors boy - loves walks and rides and swinging on swings. I know he is going to be in heaven this summer when we spend 50% of our lives in our swimming pool, especially since as of late he is completely entertained by the bathtub. He gets in the tub with his sister and splashes and splashes. They have all the fun together. He has gotten into a new habit. Whenever he is tired of the food on his highchair, he starts to drop each thing one by one onto the floor. It's a pretty fun game. A couple days ago we all sat down to have dinner prayer and Dudey was sitting in his highchair like usual. When we all folded our arms so did he. He put his two little fists together. Ahhh - just melted my heart. He's done it a few times since then. It's amazing to think of what they catch on to at such a young age. Well, I think that is the news with Ben. Oh, I better write about his first hospital experience (minus birth of course). In February Dad had to come up to Vegas for a couple of weeks early to start work. We stayed in Clearfield because we didn't have to be out of our apartment yet. Anyway, both kids got fevers and were coughing a lot - sounding pretty bad. My doctor is open 24 hours so the earliest they could get us in was 8:10 PM. We went in and the doctor looked at both kids and decided to check Ben (since he was there). We got chest x-rays for Caelan and did the usual check for her. Then he sent us over to the hospital (right next door) to test them both for RSV. We went over and did the check, which took about an hour. It was totally traumatic. They had to wrap up the kids' arms and then stick a long tube up Caelan's nose and suck out mucus. For Ben, they just used a suction machine

to suck the mucus up. Both kids were hysterical in tears - I really couldn't blame them. Then we went back over to the doctors office. He did an official check on Ben. Both kids had ear infections and RSV. There is really no cure or treatment for RSV - it just means the kids have a really bad cold that you have to watch pretty carefully. Since Ben is so young, they tried a breathing treatment on him to see if that helped him improve at all. It helped a lot, so they sent a nebulizer home with us. We got home that night at 11:30 PM. I was exhausted - not to mention the kids (who both fell asleep in the Doctors office - Caelan on the floor and Ben in my arms while I was giving him his breathing treatment. Within a week, there were doing 100% better. What an ordeal. I'm glad to be here in warmer weather so we don't have to deal with the coughing and gunk in the throat as much.....well, hopefully. So that's it. Ben is growing and becoming cuter and cuter every day. His little smile is to die for.