Abigail tried oatmeal cereal!!!!

Today while we were out and about i stopped in at my mom's work and we picked up some oatmeal cereal. I fixed it for her with a bottle when we came home and she downed it! YEA!!!! Abby hated the rice cereal! I tried anything and everything to get her to eat the rice and she would not do it! She downed the oatmeal without gaggin and acting like she was going to throw up! :) Made my day!

April is here!

Abigail- 5 months old

Brooklyn- 4 1/2 yr old

Abigail- 5 months old


April 1st we had Brooklyn's easter party at school. They had so much fun and they dyed 2 eggs apiece and then we proceeded over to the park for a egg hunt and to finish out the party. The kids had so much fun with everything- snacks- hunt and playing!
Abigail is still sick with her stuff she has. Camden took her to the dr on the 31st of March and they said she had a ear infection and gave her meds for her ear and the cough she has. She has been on the meds and is about done with them well she is still not better so we called the dr back monday and they have put her on breathing treatments= mommy hates! Hate them cause Abigail has one right before her normal bedtime and then she is up till 12 sometimes after! ERRRRR! She is doing much better being on them and not coughing as much but she is still alittle so hopefully a few more days and she will be cured! PLEASE HOPE!!!
I am so happy that Brooklyn has not came down with Abigail sickness that she cant get over! With the weather being so nice some days we have been hanging outside alittle more so Brooklyn can play and not be cooped up in the house. Last week we had a rain storm move in and my mother had a window fall down on her when she tried to close it and it broke her nose. I took her to the er to have it looked at and my dad met me there. Poor thing looks horrible! Brooklyn is looking forward to Tori's bday party this weekend! The following weekend i have a baby shower but we were also planning on a family vacation down to Branson to visit with family we have not seen in 5 years. Then come the 29th we have Abigail's dr appt and then get to find out if she has to have a test ran or not! Keep figures crossed we dont have too~!
Camden is enjoying the weather due to now he can go fishing more! He just put a new gas tank on his truck due to the old one leaking like a faucet and its going good! He just told me the other day he losted his wedding ring!:( We have looked all over and only a few more places to look and if cant find it its gone! This month we will be married 5 years but been together 8 1/2 years! He was working on helping coaching soccer but due to his schedule changing and my schedule for work he has not been able to.

-Easter-

We started off by going to sunrise service at church followed by breakfast. Then came home and took a little nap before church.We made our way back to church and following services they had a easter egg hunt for the kids. We spent some time with my parents and Amy and her kids and Nick were over for a while as well. Amy had a easter egg hunt for the kids so Brooklyn had 2 hunts in one day = way too much candy for one day! We had pizza for our easter dinner which was good! :) We made our way home about 5ish that night and Camden mowed the yard while i took pics of the girls outside. Overall we had a good easter!

come may we have our trip to the zoo for preschool and our friends are having a baby and miss Alaina will be here! :)

Just some pics

-Brooklyn's family- ( pictured is mommy,Brooklyn,Abigail,daddy)


-Brooklyn and Abigail in their St.Patty's day shirts Gamma made them-



- All the grandkids- Gaige,Demi,Brooklyn,Arabella,Abigail and Evan-

-Abigail trying cereal and her reaction-

What's been happening in March???

This month has gone by so quick! We celebrated St Patty's day and Gamma ( Aunt Peggy) made the girls st patty's day shirts that turnt out so cute! The girls love them! We celebrated my parents anniversary along with st patty's day and then my mom's birthday- that sunday after her birthday we were at my parents house and all 6 of the grandkids were together so my sister and mother got pictures! Gaige and Demi finally got to meet their new cousin as well. Overall that was a good day! Days shortly after that we started again, to see how well Abigail likes cereal and overall she hates it being spoon fed but in a bottle she will atleast eat it but i still dont think she likes it. I have tried everything even buying the mixed fruit/rice cereal and just plain rice cereal and also tried mixing it with formula. She justs hates it! I dont think we ever tried rice cereal with Brooklyn, i think we started right off the get go with oatmeal which maybe what i have to do with Abby. Tompkins said as soon as she hit 5 months old to start the cereal so its a on going battle! Abigail finally started rolling over all the time now! She did it 2 times at Aunt Peggy's house but then after that she never did it again! Low and behold she started doing it all the time now! I am glad she is starting to stay longer on her belly cause she needs to learn that strength to hold that head up and also to grow her hair back on the back of her head she lost!

Brooklyn is still loving school and she just found out recently that they are going to the zoo so she wants to go NOW! I told her she is going to have to wait till may when they are supposed to go. She has also been fighting sinus drainage and congestion and coughing due to drainage! Cant wait till this weather stays at one thing instead of going from cold to hot and back to cold!She is excited to go to Tori's pinkalicious birthday party and also excited for easter to get lots of candy. She is learning more and more things and doing very well at knowing her colors,shapes and abc's. She can write her own name very good. She is excited to go to preschool again next year. She loves her sister very much but still likes to pick on her like every big sister does!

~ Abigail's 4 month check up~

* Abigail - Feb 2010*


We journeyed to the dr on Feb 24 and she went in and the nurse did all her measurements and they are : height - 24 5/8 in long
Weight- 16 lbs 2 ozs
head - 17 7/8


We sat and waited for Dr. Tompkins to come in and finally he made his way in and began to evualate Abigail. She is good in all of her growth but the thing that is he is worried about it Abby's head is too big. :( Everything growth wise is on the chart except her head which shows him concerns. Its way off the chart and has been! He said he will see her back when she is 6 months old and if her head grew anymore then we will have to have a ct scan done on Abby's head to see if there is any reasons to show why her head is so big- he said most of the time they dont fine nothing but its better to be safe than sorry. He also told us that normally if something is wrong she would be throwing up all the time, showing signs of her head hurting. So all we can do is wait and see! With all of that he told us he gave us nose spray that we put in her nose 1 a day ( which seems to be helping ) and do that for about a month and if it didnt get better than she just has a small nasal passage and hopefully will out grow that since she has been congested since she was born. Then on we went and discussed the diaper rash she had and found out its a yeast infection so now we have ointment to nip that in the butt as well. Overall after all that she is doing great. He did say she should be pulling her chest off the floor when she is laying on her tummy and we dont really see her doing that yet. We did tell him she did roll over 2 at Aunt Peggy's house which is a good sign she is learning things on her own! :) Only time will tell and hopes she is just a slower learner when it comes to things. And hopefully she just has a big head! I think she is just perfect and couldnt ask for a better baby! Happy all the time and smiles!

-what a suprise-

Friday the 19th while over at Gamma's house while Camden and i was working, Abigail rolled over!!!! YEA ABBY! She has never really showed any interest in doing that since she gets so mad being on her tummy! But after much success she DID IT! Now if you lay her on her back she shows much interest in wanting to roll over cause of the way she moves her body but still hasnt done it in front of Camden and i. I am just happy she showed her success in front of family! My baby is getting to be a big girl! Abigail is talking more gibberish and coo's and slobbers like crazy! So keeping the look out for those white shiny chompers to come threw! She is throwing us for a loop on her sleeping habits because she used to be more a wake during the day and slept really well at night and all night! Now she sleeps more during the day and then finally gives in at 1am and then gets Camden or I up in between 7 and 8. I am happy she is still sleeping threw the night but it would be nice to go to bed before 1am. Hopefully its just a fluke and she goes back to her old routine and doesnt stay like this.
Brooklyn has been wanting to help with sister and well she gave Abigail a ride! Camden was home with the girls and he layed Abby in her swing while he went to go fix her a bottle and Brooklyn went over to push her and she pushed too hard and Abby went flying forward out of her swing,face first into the floor. Camden said she didnt cry and didnt seemed hurt. She had a little red mark on her face but that was all. YEA!! NO BRUISES! Other than her tormenting her sister and beating her up, she has still continues to love school and loves going. Here lately it has snowed and she has been wanting to play in the snow but we have not made our way out to the snow to play in it.
Camden is still busy with working and then coming home. He is so ready for the weather to warm back up so he can go fishing. In April we are taking our own little family vacation (for the first time since we have been married) to Branson. We are going to go enjoy the scenes and Camden is going to be in his first fishing tournment and then we are going to go visit Granny Julie and Grandpa Dorsey. The last time we seen them was our wedding and they havent seen the kids so we want to go. I am still busy working all the time and then home with the girls on my days off. Last friday Camden offered to keep the girls so i could go see my high school friend who i havent seen since we graduated which was almost 8 years ago! :( I had such a great time catching up with her and seeing her kids. I wished she was here in MO but her hubby really doesnt wanna move back so i guess i will stick with keeping in contact with her threw fb and texting! Overall it was nice to get out of the house and by myself with out kids! One of these nights Cam and i are going to have a date night!

~ A NEW YEAR~

Abigail and Brooklyn

Evan Thomas


Abigail Rae and Lilleigh Rae



2010 has brought us 2 new members to our family! Both babies are so precious and so cute! We welcome Lilleigh Rae and Evan Thomas! Lilleigh was born January 20,2010 and Evan was born February 2,2010!


Brooklyn is still having fun at school and learning more and more! She is doing very well and she has learn almost how to spell her name by herself. There are a few letters she still has problems with but overall doing great. She knows her colors and her shapes and she can count to 13 by herself. We have a smart cookie on our hands! She has more and more of a attitude but she is a good helper when she wants be with little sister. She loves playing with her and i think its more or less making her mad than anything! She is still having issues with her sleeping in her own bed! We made her bedtime 9pm instead of 10, its 9pm all the time and so far it seems to be working ok, so far she only gets out of bed once and thats it and then she is asleep. But then she is into the whole waking up and going potty in the middle of the night and then its off to mommy and daddy's bed not back to hers!


Abigail is getting big and growing like a weed. She is starting to outgrown some of her 0-3 clothes :( She is eating 6oz bottles every 3 to 4 hours but sometimes longer. She is still doing very well at sleeping at night occasionally we have a few nights where she wakes up in the middle of the night but overall she is doing awesome with sleeping threw the night! :) We were giving her rice cereal in her bottles when she was like 5 wks old but we stopped that after a few weeks cause you couldnt see any difference in her sleeping patterns. Abigail goes back to the dr this month and we hopes to find out how much our chunky baby weighs! :) Her last dr appt she was 14lbs so it wouldnt suprise me if she is closer to 20! We have a growing girl on our hands!