Lady Ellice

Okay so I haven't posted in a while. Ellice: Life for me has been pretty hectic. My job working with students with emotional behavior disorder has been very busy. Never a boring day. Pray for me every day. We also got a new principal at the beginning of October. That has not been easy. there are some improvements but change is never easy. On Dec. 16th I had surgery to replace my ACL (that's in the knee). This was a worker's Comp surgery that I couldn't ahve last year when I got injured due to the fact that I was pregnant with my beautiful (handsome as daddy just informed me) boy Jareth. I still can't walk yet and it is very hard to do anything. I can't lift jareth. Laurana and I have been home together for 24/7 for the last week and to say we are alittle tired of each other might be an understatement. AS for the year: I feel like it has been a good year, I have a job that I love most days, two children I love all the time and a husband...

So things here have been good. I feaked out a little about getting my house clean for a party last weekend and my parent's this weekend; eventually i realized that I work full time, have two children, and alot of other commitments to try and keep my job and two sick kids this week.. and well I did my best and went from there. My parent's visit was great( more pictures to follow) they came by friday night night and met jareth. Laurana gave Oma a hug, but was still a little leary. Argyle had gone golfing so there were less people there. which was nice. then they went to dinner with Evan. Saturday morning mom and I spent a great time to gether we hit khol's, Starbucks, and meijers. then I ran to walmart for those two or three things that meijers doesn't have. then home for pizza with the family. Laurana loved seeing oma and opa. then to bella's birthday party. Laurana loves the play ground now, she is not terrified of the slides and such like she was about tw...

Today is the tenth anniversary of 911. I remmber where I was. I was teaching at Clark Co. Chrstian school. It was my first year teaching. My kids left to specials and I was grading papers. we had filled hte head masters office with black balloons for his 40th birthday and thought it was a great day. Then he came to me to get the one TV in the school, someone had called and said something happened. we plugged it in and they were showing the penegon. I said "that's not the world trade center that looks like DC" and a title flew up to say that the plan had crashed there. then we watched in horror and the second plane flew into the other tower. the kids (high schoolers) and I watched it the rest of hte day. it was a hard lesson for kids who had thought themselves safe and thier country above that terror. Today at church we sang patriotic songs, honored our first responders and had a picnic. It was fun, Laurana didn't even cry when I dropped her off. Came home and I went t...

Looking back through older posts, I jsut realized that Jareth is sleeping just like laurana was at this time. in fact he is sleeping a little longer in the night and has been since school started. God has really taken care of us each and every month. Money is always tight, but some how we always have food, formula and diapers. I have a wonderful husband who takes great care of me and the kids, does dishes and never makes me take out the trash. Laurana is cuter than a bump on a pickle, and talks like a champ, and Jareth is a good natured baby. I also realized that I use to put down what we did all week and I liked going back and reading that so I shall attempt to do so again. Starting with last week. Monday: I had a confereces/PD all day. It was intersting learned some new things and did some data stuff. Ate lunch at chedders, and enjoed being with other PASS coaches. then home and to Bible study. Love my girls. as always prayers all around. home to brad, and panicing about the pay chec...

So looking back I realized that when Laurana was this age she too use to wake up in the middle of the night, not at a feeding time with nothing wrong wtih her. I would let her cry for 5 minutes or so and she would drift back to sleep. she was always rested and happy in the morning when i did get her up to feed. this went on for a few days and then she stopped waking in the middle of the night and slept from 9:00 at night til 6:00 am. Jareth however I have been going in and giving him a pacifier and trying to settle him every time he wakes up becasue I am afriad he is going to wake his sister. I think it might be hindering him. he is getting use to me coming in when he cries and is not sleeping well at night, despite the fact that he is not hungry, clean and swaddled. I think I might have to just let him cry it out a little and see if it helps. Laurana is a pretty hardy sleeper now I think she will be fine.

things here at fort Gullett are going well. we can make ends meet although barely so that is good . the kids are both healthy and lively. Laurana is unfortunatly going through that really rough cry dramatically over every little thing phase, but we are working on it. Jareth has started cooing, and smiling and laughing real big when you talk to him. He is in a very happy mood so long as he is not hungry. I do think he is going through a growth spurt. He had been eating on 4 hr schedule and to day every 3-3.5 he has started crying for food and taking 4-6 oz so he must be growing again. work is going great, I love my job and I love my kids. I found out that I am going to have the ACL replacemnt surgry from workers comp in Dec. so as to try and limit the number of day I have to be out. Laurana is coming home from daycare and telling us about her day... "I colored...I played with Teegan, I went down the pink slide... I went down the pink slide again, I ate food, I went down...

SO the week before school started I got rehired to the position I was in last year. I will be teaching children with severe behavior disorders. It is lots of fun, never boring, and a challenge that I love. you have to love these kids or get a different job and I love these kids.. most days. :) Laurana and jareth started a new daycare. the one laurana was at last year didn't have room for jareth so we had ot move them both. they are now at HArvest Daycare in richmond. so far we are very pleased. It cost us alot more to send two and 4 days a week but we are pleased and daddy and mommy can both work for now. Jareth has really grown he was 11 lbs 10 oz at his 2 month check up today. he is bright, eats well, sleeps well (though not all night yet), and smiled at me for the first time to day. I love my little boy. Laurana is growing as well. she was 33lbs when we went into day to get her medicine for her ear infection. she was sad casue she wants to go...

JAreth So far he is doing great. he continues to grow, and is working on getting on a schedule. He still doesn't sleep through the night but that is okay. He feeds at 12:00 then is up around 4:00-6:00 ( I say around but he is up for two hours no matter what i do wide awake.) then he sleeps til 8:30.. that is when his day starts. He still has red hair, and his eyes are still that grey color. WE have noticed that he eats way better than laurana did but she slept way bettr than he does. Also she drooled when she ate, he spits up alot and some times at a distance of about 4-5 inches. Laurana She loves her baby brother. She wants to "get him" out of bed for mommy, and often we have to find nice but safe ways for her to help. Ironically even after she "pats" his head harder than mommy likes he looks for her if she walks away and cries if she leaves while playing with him. She is growing more vocal everyday. Her latest thing is she loves to have tea parties. She loves ...

hates when people make me feel inept. thanks to the dr. I feel bad about things I know were going well. Jareth is eating like laurana never did and then the dr and now I have added a bottkle and he is not eating as well. well to can play that game. I have taken most f the bottles back away and he is eating better. I also am not going back to see the ped on tuesday, I am goiubg to wait until friday to give him tome to gain a little weight and to be get adjusted. so poop on them, giving me doubt. stinking drs they just want extra co=pays anyway.

So we went in yesterday to get Jareth's weight and do his 2 week check up. He weighted 7.3 which is not up to his 7.11 birthweight. We went in prepared that they might tell us to supplement his breastfeeding with the occasonal bottle (like we had to do with Laurana) however he also has taken to breast feeding way better than Laurana ever did. He is latching on nursing for 20 minutes a side and Ican feel the difference before and after he nurses. it feels like the breast is beng emptied. so then teh dr. walked in. " there must be a disconnect" she looked at me like I was crazy when I said he was nursing, told me that he must not really be nursing right. Told us to go see a lactation consultant, to start giving him formula cause "you might not really be producing how much milk you think" asked me if I had been drinking water and eating (like I was starving myself) then said I needed to rest and asked if I was getting any. Brad said we were both pretty tired and s...

Daddy's in my life. are wonderful I am married to a man who is an excellent father. he plays with laurana makes sure she is as safe as well. he is proud of his son, and teaches her every chance he gets. My own father was a strong hard worker who loved me and although he use to eat all the cheese thought only of keeping me safe and helping me grow remember "it is not that he doesn't trust me it is that he doesn't trust every other man out here." I remeber my grandfather's with joy. I still have a penny bracelet from Papa and know some of my best songs from Grandpa.

Laurana the first time mommy held her Jareth the first time mommy held him. notice he has red hair and laurana's was brown

Jareth was born yesterday he came out looking great, but then started to have some trouble breathing. they did a chest x-ray and his lungs are slightly underdeveloped even though the amnio said they were mature. so they moved him to the NICU where he is getting c-pat oxygen and something else that boost lung growth. he was moved down from 4 to 3 today, which is a good sign that he is reacting well to what htey are doing, and he was sleeping nad breathing better when I went down to see him this morning. He was 7 labs 11 oz, and 19 1/2 inches long. he had a head full of redish hair. so hopefully that stays, casue a red headed little boy would be cute. ;) not that he wouldn't be cute with brown hair. I had a rough time yesterday with not eating, waiting a really long time and then Jareth going to teh NICU however with a little more sleep and time to pray I am doing much better.

So laurana's party turned out completely different from what I planned but in the end she seemed to have alot of fun, and her friends seemed to enjoy it. and she is 2 right.. I mean she won't rememeber any of this. .

So jareth is trying to stress mommy out. he has been head down for months now, with his strong little legs just kicking the snot out of my ribs, stomach, and other organs. Friday after a strong kick fest right before nap he decided he didn't like the view so.. he flipped completely to breech. this put his head where all the kicks had been and moved his kicks deep down inside where they didn't feel as strong. Going off my past history, when his movement changed and seemed to lesson and get alot weaker, I started to freak. Friday night I drank a whole soda quick and he moved in response so I convined myself he was fine. Oh my stomach dropped and I had a sereise of contractions that made my stomach feel much tighter and hard (also a dampens movement). So I went to cards, stayed out way to late, came home and.. didn't sleep much all night. cause I kept worrying about Jareth and his sudden drop in movement. so Saturday morning I couldn't take it iany more. I knew that if I w...