Look Who's A Big Girl Now!

That's right people Kabree's a big girl now!

Kabree officially wears panties and goes potty in the toilet!

Enjoying Cousins

 Katie and Keagan

 The kiddos enjoying the tramp

 Wyatt & Kabree playing Don't Break The Ice

 Kooper, Mattie, Makenna, Kabree, Morgan & Wyatt

playing Wii Party

 Enjoying Taco Soup 

 Bath Time

Wyatt and Kabree

 Keagan chilling in the bouncer while Mommy bathed the kiddos

 Enjoying Mountain Dew Cupcakes

Movie Time

    Kabree LOVES all of her cousins and we are very lucky to see them all very often.  But the one thing Kabree really LOVES is when they come to her house, she loves showing them her room and toys.  Larin and Jessica wanted to go to dinner and enjoy their Stake Adult meeting Saturday night so they asked if their kids could hang out with me and the girls.  We said "of coarse!".  We had so much fun with all of them and they were great little helpers at cleaning up and helping with the littler kids.  Zach got the tramp put up Friday so the Kabree was pretty excited to have her cousins jump on it with her.  I think all of them would have stayed out there the  whole night jumping if I would have let them.  Katie snuggled on Keagn lots so I could go out and play with the other kids, don't worry she got lots of snuggles through out the night from all the other kids.  We played a few games, ate, bath time and then got to watch Chipwrecked.  It was such a fun night and both my girls loved it, hope we get to do it again soon!

Craft Day

 Our hair bows

 Whitney sewing away

 Our burp rags

 Our Mountain Dew cupcakes

    How did we celebrate Whitney being done with finals well Thursday we shopped until we dropped and enjoyed dinner at Costco, I might add we shopped for craft supplies and groceries : ), probably not exactly how a college student wants to celebrate lol.  Friday we jumped right in to our crafts, we decided to start off with our bows, they were way easier then we thought and we already know how we can make them way cuter next time, we decided we will just call this time practice.  We stopped for a short lunch brake and then dove into our burp rags.  Whitney wanted me to teach her how to sew and we figured they were a good place to start.  Let's just say this sewing experience went a little better than the last teaching experience ; ), no fingers were sewed over in this one.  So maybe I won't wait 3 years to teach another niece this time, but in Lib's defense she was only 10 at the time.  Moving on to our busy day we then attempted Mountain Dew cupcakes.  Ok, our whole family except for my parents LOVE Mountain Dew so I decided we should double it.  Whitney and I should not bake together lol.  Well we baked our cupcakes and tasted them, both thinking they were pretty good but maybe a little more lemon and lime zest would make them taste more like Mountain Dew, by the way yes we were taking sips of Mountain Dew while taking bites of the cupcakes to compare.  So on to the frosting we are figuring out our doubling measurements when at the same exact moment we both gasped and looked at each other realizing we forgot to double our lemon and lime juice for the cupcake batter and that is why they weren't just right.  After we laughed our butts off we frosted them and despite our mishaps they tasted pretty good but I'm pretty sure they would taste even better if we had made them right lol.  It was a great way to end a fun year of having Whitney live with us.  We have the exact same personality which everyone thought would make us kill each other and only last a month, but we made it the whole 9 months and didn't even yell at each other... too bad : ).  We are sad she is going home for the summer, Kabree is going to miss her like crazy but we know her parents are super excited so we will just have to visit her there.

Our Beautiful Girls

   

    Our Little Misses are growing so fast I swear they change right before my eyes.  I couldn't love them anymore than I already do and I think they couldn't be any cuter if they tried, I feel so blessed to have these two beautiful girls call me Mom.

Kabree 3 year checkup

    Kabree had her 3 yr check up last week she weighs in at a whooping 29lbs, 36 inches tall she is in the 25% for weight and the 13% for height.  She is a very healthy very energetic 3 year old.  During the visit she was talking up a storm to the doctor telling him stories asking him questions and telling him the color of every ones cars (I have no idea where that came from).  He looks at us and says well I guess she can speak in complete sentences and knows her colors so there's no concerns there.  We love her so much and are so happy she is a healthy little girl, we feel so blessed to be her parents!

Little Keagan

    Keagan was born at 7 lbs 14oz when she left the hospital she weighed in at 7 lbs 8 oz that was Saturday.  Now the doctor came up to the hospital and checked her out and said she looked great.  Monday was our first doctors office visit and she weighed in at 7lbs 7oz, they said everything else looked great except she looked a bit yellow and they weren't feeling great about her losing an ounce.  So they told me to come back in on Friday of that week.  After this visit I was a bit worried so I started feeding Keagan every two hours but she was only wanting to eat like 1 1/2 oz, I also "baked" her, laid her in the sun naked for five minutes on each side every day to help with the yellow.  Well on Friday she weighed in at 7lbs 10 oz and didn't look yellow at all so they were happy and told me not to worry about coming in until Wednesday of the next week.  Saturday Keagan was pretty lethargic and wouldn't eat hardly anything at all, I tried getting her naked, changing her diaper, flicking her feet and nothing made her wake up.  Well being the high stress person I already am I hurried to Urgent Care to have her checked out they told me they won't see babies and take her right to the hospital.  Luckily for us one of our friends that's a doctor that actually use to be Kabree's doctor until he moved away happened to be in town that day and he came over and checked her out.  He calmed my fears tons and told me some hints of ways to wake her up and to keep on the feeding her two to three hours, even though the night because it was important for babies to get back to birth weight with in 1-2 weeks of birth.  Well I stuck to it but Keagan would still only eat 1-1 1/2 oz in a two hour period and was still pretty lethargic.  Wednesday came along and Keagan weighed in at 7lbs 6 oz, that's below take home weight and the doctor was more than a little concerned at this point, he could hardly get her to open her little eyes during the visit.  He said that she had failure to thrive and that it was extremely important that we stay on the two hour feedings and do what ever it takes to force her to eat those two ounces, he also said she needed to come in everyday until she made birth weight and stressed that if she didn't improve he might consider hospitalizing her and IVing her.  He also said that failure to thrive babies were  more likely to die of SIDS so to be aware of that.  I have never said so many prayers in a 24 hour period in my life that Heavenly Father would help me figure out how to keep her awake enough to eat and that she wouldn't die in her sleep.  We did lots of Kangaroo holding (skin to skin) that night and our Home Teacher came over Thursday morning to help give her a blessing.  My friend Rachel suggested I use a cold wash rag, when ever she fell asleep during feeding just place the wash rag on her belly to wake her up.  The combination of everything worked because Thursday's appointment she weighed 7lbs 8oz.  The doctor was very relieved and informed me just how concerned he was the day before.  He said because she showed such improvement in one day he wouldn't make us come back until the next Tuesday.  Well I kept on it like crazy every single day, still worried she would lose weight or not gain enough but come Tuesday morning she weighed in at 8lbs 8oz.  The doctor was shocked at the gain and just how alert Keagan was at the appointment, he said he wasn't sure if he had ever seen such a turn around and because of the extreme change SIDS was not as big of a concern.  He did also say that now I didn't need to wake her up at night to force feed her just let everyone in the house sleep at night if she would let us.  He also said that he was confident we knew the signs and could handle them so we didn't need to come back until June!!!  He said that the failure to thrive tendency is still there and that if she stops eating or becomes lethargic again to bring her in but other wise he felt she was doing great!  I won't lie there were a lot of tears that first week and I didn't sleep at all at night, I would check her every 10 minutes to make sure she was still breathing and then making sure I was on top of her feedings.  Last night was the first night that I slept between feedings.  However, because I have been waking her up so much at night now she is in the habit : (, she did at least give me three hour stretches instead of 2 so hopefully we can work on that now : ).  We are just so thankful that Keagan has made such improvements and feel very blessed right now.

Busy, Busy, Busy

 Kabree still LOVES craft time

 Justice, Hanna and Kabree

They love sleeping bags!

 Mattie holding Keagan with Jessica supervising

 Had to show off Keagan's pretty toes

 Makenna holding Keagan

 Jessica and Wyatt loving on Keagan

Kooper, Ethan, Katie and Shay 

 Kabree wanted to try out the bouncer

 Wyatt LOVED Keagan

 Ethan

Kabree riding tractor with Grandpa Vance

    Life is busy, busy, busy!  These two little cuties are keeping us on our toes, though we are super busy and very tired most days we are loving every minute of our lives right now.  We are back to having Hanna and Justice come during the week, last Tuesday was their first day back.  Kabree was very excited to have her playmates back along with craft time : ).  This past weekend we headed to Arbon to spend sometime with family.  Everyone got in a few snuggles and loves.  The kids were great and made us all feel very special and very loved the whole weekend, it was great to have some extra help with changing clothes and diapers and feeding.  My Mom took Keagan for a nap Sunday so that I only had to worry about getting Kab down for one.  It was a great weekend getting to see everyone and to show Keagan of a bit and the extra help was great too.