Little Bunnies!

Ok so it's been a while since I've been on here. Such a slacker. So the girls had a blast on easter. We still kept it pretty easy for them to find everything. Katie was trying to stuff all the candy in her mouth at once. It was so funny. Sami is wearing her new apron I made her! I am so domestic....

So poor little Beckham has finished his 5th antibiotic, and the ear infections cleared up, but still left fluid behind again. So the infections will be back, and when they are we will go see a specialist about tubes. His left ear drum also ruptured, so he has been having a hard time. He also has new teeth coming in. He's up to 7 now, with 3 more on the move. He is so active! He has started cruising on furniture. And he will let go of things to stand for a second or two. I want him to slow down!

Katie has been obsessed with her "princess" dress lately. She does not want to take it off. Ever. She wore it to a carnival, chuck e cheese, grocery store, and Red robin. Sleeping, waking, every second. I did manage to get it from her, with some kicking and screaming (from her) to wash it the other day. It is about time to steal it again. As you can see in the picture, she wears her regular clothes underneath. Some of you may be thinking, "well, aren't you the boss of her?" Which technically I am, yes. I, however, choose my battles with Katie wisely. She is a first rate rascal. She is by for the most fiesty (which really means bratty) of my kids. She is really giving me a run for my money, which is already in short supply. She is just so stubborn! (me tearing my hair out, while scratching my eyes out in frustration!) She is also the sweetest too. How does that work out? Split personalities? Well, wish me luck!

My little Katie-bugger

Ok so Becca tagged Katie so today you get to know all about her. Here are 6 random things about her!


















1. Katie loves to carry around the weirdest things. She loves tissues, which she affectionately calls nissues. Paper towels are a close second. She is the queen of random toys. If we come over to your houe, I guarantee that she will find something to play with that no one else would look at-or that you thought was cleverly hidden. A few examples you ask? Katie loves candles of any kind. If they are within reach, she is carrying them around. She prefers small ones and then she sips from them. At my parents house she always pulls the little scrap of a cloth from under the dining room table. (It's there to protect the wood floor.) She then wraps it up and carries it around like a baby. She also does this with the kitchen towel, or any clothing that she finds. She manages to find matches, knifes and other dangerous objects wherever we go. She also loves wipes. These can also be treated like little babies. Oh and yes she does have actual baby dolls....

2. Katie loves to bully Sami. She is so good at it too. She is constantly bugging her and telling her no about things. Sami is always complaining to me that Katie told her she couldn't do something or that Katie said she wasn't her: sister, mom, dad or whichever character she is supposed to be playing. Katie will go sit right next to, but mostly on top of, Sami. She will then lay there like a rag doll while Sami screams in terror. All the while Katie is smiling away. She does the same thing to Hammy but he loves it.
















3. Katie is so sweet! She is always saying thank you and pretty please. She always tells us she loves us so much. She loves to snuggle. If there are more than 2 people involved in the snuggle she then says: "Look we're a family!" She always plays with Beck, and then says " look he's love me!" She will change that s around someday I'm sure.

4. Katie is such a good eater. She will eat mostly anything. She likes somewhat spicy food too. She loves dried mango, yogurt, salami, pickles, V8, and of course, "treats" She asks for treats as soon as she wakes up in the morning.

5. Katie loves to color, and play with play-doh, or flubber. Luckily I think she is finally out of the coloring on walls and such. She can play with flubber for hours. (I could too.) She is very good about entertaining herself, and has become very independant in the last week or so. She wants to do everything by herself. And then if she can't do it, she kind of sits there for a minute, not wanting to admit defeat, then she humbly asks for help. It is so cute!

6. Last but not least, Katie loves the Backyardigans. She could watch them all day long, or talk about them and read books about them. She always wants me to sing their theme song at bedtime. I try to lean more towards primary songs, but she always wants that song. She is always Tasha the mermaid in the bathtub, and she makes Sami Uniqua wether she wants to or not. Before she saw the backyardigans she didn't care much for t.v. And she still doesn't unless its' that or shrek is another one of her favorites.

Health update.

Ok, so the kids are all doing much better! Thanks to everyone for prayers and such. Beckham is finally out of the woods. He is still doing breathing treatments but a lot less than he was. He is teething so I can't say he is a lot happier, but at least he's breathing easier. Katie ended up with double ear infections as well. She is also doing the nebulizer and an inhaler as well. The doctor said since the both have excema pretty bad that they were prone to asthma. I thought that was interesting. Anyhow, Katie will finish her antibiotic tomorrow and hopefully that will be the end of it for awhile! I will have to take a picture of Beckham with his little oxygen mask on and Katie with her "peace pipe" and add them tomorrow. Or the next day, or maybe never. But I at least thought of doing it!

My cute kids!

Ok so I thought I'd put up some recent, and adorable pictures of my kids. I'm annoying I know. Well, things are finally settling down. The kids are all slowly getting better. Here's Sami and Katie at Fat Cat's in Ogden Utah. We went bowling and played arcade games and ate some really expensive food....
Here's cutie Beckham trying to hide from the darn paparrazi. (Spelling?)
They are remodeling our apartment complex, so while it's annoying to have workers coming and going. It will definetly be worth it! We are trying to figure out our move to Utah as well. For Aarons' final year in optometry school we have four rotations. The first starts in May, in Salt Lake. The second is internal, somewhere around Portland, the third is Eugene Oregon and the final one is in Chandler Arizona. I can't tell you how excited we are about that one! One more year! I know many of you have been counting the days till we get back....so try to stay positive, the end is in site!

Sami has been tagged!

Lot's of tagging going on out there. So Sami's tag is 6 random things about herself. Well, let me tell you, Sami is pretty random. Tonight we went upstairs to go to bed and she was standing in front of our full length mirror. She was looking over her shoulder at herself, saying how handsome her back (which probably means her butt!) looks. I think she got that from Aaron. Ok moving on!
1. She has two fiancees. Or boyfriends, or boy toys. Which ever you want to call them. She has two little friends in her preschool class that she is always talking about. Their names are Easton and Jackson. She told the babysitter the other day that Easton was going to help put a baby in her tummy! Woah I know. So that would be an explanation gone awry from Aaron. I've told him to be more careful in the future. So there's all sorts of marriage talk and such, but Sami hasn't picked who she wants for sure yet. Really there's no hurry.




2. Sami loves to learn! She has a few little workbooks that she always wants to do. She especially loves it when Aaron does them with her. She loves going to her preschool, though she's missed a lot for illnesses this year. She loves to learn new songs, and to look at shapes and letters.

3. Sami is such a little mommy. She always wants to help with Beckham, and is always pretending her stuffed animals are babies. She loves to feed them, put diapers on them, and puts them to sleep all around the house. Then she tells everyone to be quiet because the baby is sleeping. She kind of gets upset if you keep talking. She is always watching over Beckham as he is crawling to make sure he won't get hurt. She is very sweet to him, until he slobbers on one of her toys, then the sweetness goes out the window. She also nurses stuffed animals. She doesn't keep it realistic by just nursing babies. She doesn't discriminate between species.

4. Sami does not like "spicy" things. Spicy is a very loose term. It includes actual spicy food, such as mexican food. She also calls things that are in the mint family spicy. She will only eat fruit gum, no candy canes, and sometimes even ketchup is too spicy. Seasoned fries, or tater tots are also a no-no. She loves to eat pickles, pistachios, beef jerky, and anything with ranch.

5. She loves to play video games with Aaron. She even has her own controller. It's broken but don't tell her that. She always checks to make sure there are batteries in it. She always wants to sit on his lap to help him, which is of course no help at all.

6. When she was a baby she went through quite a fussy stage. I'd like to refer to is as the: Sami has really bad colic, and it's horrible, I don't know if I can survive stage. I've actually tried hard to forget it...Anywho, so she would scream and cry for a few hours in the evening and nothing could get her to stop. Nothing. So one time we tried playing music really loud to see if that would stop her. We have a dvd of Beastie boys' videos (courtesy of Darrel, I believe.) So we popped that in and selected Intergalactic. We sat down with her right in front of the t.v and turned the volume way up. She quieted down instantly and fell asleep within about a minute and a half. We were simply amazed. We tested this phenomenon thoroughly. Unfortunately, we had plenty of opportunities to do so. That was the only song that would do the trick. None of the other videos had the same effect. I even remember showing this to my younger brothers once, just in case no-one believes me. She would quiet right down and then fall asleep with this song blaring. It was crazy!
Ok so that is my little Sami! She is so fun to have around. I can't believe she is almost 4! I am getting old.

Tagged again!

Okeedokee folks. Lindsey tagged me so now you'll get to know much more about Aaron and I then you ever wanted to!
How long have you been together? About 7 1/2 years. Married for 6 1/2.
How old are you? Aaron is 29. I am 26.
Who eats more? Probably me
Who said I love you first? I can't remember?
Who is taller? He is but we tie if I wear heels. So you can imagine how often that happens.
Who sings better? Me, but it's just the lesser of two evils.
Who is smarter? I'm going to go with Aaron on this one. There are some subjects where I outshine him though. For instance I can call him names and tell him he is wrong in English, German and Japanese.
Who does the laundry? I do but he helps.....sometimes
Who does the dishes? We take turns.
Who pays the bills? They go through automatically
Who mows the lawn? We don't have a lawn to mow, but if we did he would.
Who cooks dinner? We take turns cooking mac n cheese! Aaron is a really good cook.
Who is more stubborn? I am.
Who kissed who? I kissed him. He said he wasn't ready for a serious relationship! He just didn't know what was good for him.
Who asked who out? I'd say it was me since I made the first move.
Who proposed? He did.
Who is more sensitive? That depends on if I'm pregnant or not.
Who has more friends? Probably me. (I know that sounds rude.)
Who has more siblings? We tie at 7-crazy I know.
Who wears the pants in the relationship? I'm going to say it's me. But I'm very nice about it!

Ok so I'm going to tag Brittany, Trina, Nicole, Becca and Jill.

We are sick...

So my kids are trying to set records for most hospital visits in 2 weeks. So as of publishing time Beckham has had 3 e.r visits, Sami has two, and Katie is the loser with only one. Sami and Beck are on their second antibiotic each. They all had pink eye in both eyes. Sami and Beck have had double ear infections, and they all have coughs, fevers, the poops, no appetite, and are cranky!!! Beckham has a nebulizer for breathing, and he was officially diagnosed with pneumonia today. We were supposed to fly home this evening, but since we went to the hospital instead, that didn't happen. So this evening he is running a fever (again) vomiting, (so much fun) and he is still having retractions around his ribs, and difficuly breathing. So I am sure I won't sleep a wink tonight! Sami was our temperature queen, topping out at 105.8. Katie highest thus far is 104.7 and Beck is usually around 103. Beckham is also getting two new teeth. They are all refusing to take anymore meds and I can't blame them. Well, I hope we make it through tonight. I am almost out of clean clothes and so is Beckham. So I'm going to try some grape pedialite and see if that stays down. Wish me luck!
P.s. Sami has been tagged and I promise to fulfill all your hopes and dreams and tell you all about her. Soon.