New Pics

I just wanted to post these new pictures of the kids yesterday. We all are having so much fun being outside, it has done wonders for Lilly with eating and sleeping. With Lilly's Reglan medication (for increasing her appetite) has been great for her feeds as well (she is getting about 750ccs per day)

Taking a snooze

Before

After: SHE LOVES SAND!!

Paul attempting to get Dylan's kite up

                                                              My baseball star
other than that things are still going well. I need to get Lilly in to see a dentist (her teeth cam in faster than expected) which we will do May 10th. It was fun trying to get a dentist that would take her because she is considered "high risk". I can't wait for the Parent's Day at childrens on May 22nd! I am hoping to see some old friends and meet some new ones too.

More Teeth for Lilly

Well everyone we have 2 molars in and two more poking their way out! She now has three teeth on the bottom and four on top! Steak here she comes.... We have enjoyed the past few nice days in the last week. Today was 80 degrees and sunny, took the kids to the park, ate ice cream (Lilly fed most of hers to the puppy that was there) Dylan played with a girl his age.... BIG milestone for him ( he normally would rather play with older kids) and followed her around like a puppy. Lilly loved being outside and watching the kids run around... ate a lot of sand too! ( Is it a CHD thing to love sand over food? I don't kow, but she sure does.) We have a weight check on friday and a GI check next week. busy busy!
Dylan and I go into Dallas Headstart (our local head start) to get him enrolled into 3 year old pre-k. He can't stop talking about it. Yesterday we were in the car and I was telling him all that he will learn, reading, ABC's, and of of the other stuff when, with his "matter-of-fact" tone he said to me, "Yeah Momma and we PLAY!"
 I count my blessing daily and pray for our friends still battling their Hypoplast fight (Dave and Gilda we love you and Ellie very much! Hold onto your faith).

We have molars!

Lilly has both molars coming in! The one on the right side is almost all the way through and the left side is just popping up. It is getting harder to hold her still, she wants to be on the go...typically one year old. The therapist doesn't think it will be too much longer and she will be walking. Lilly is a little skeptical about letting go of whatever she is holding on to...but, when she isn't paying attendtion, she will stand by herself....until she realizes it. I think that she is coming down with something AGAIN. It has to be this crazy weather, one day it is 70 degrees and the next it was snowing....gotta love Wisconsin!
Our at home nurse will only be coming once a week now and weight checks are still being done every two weeks. Doctor Dietz only needs to see her every three months as well as Doctor Fish, her GI doctor. They told me to let her be a kid! Eat dirt, get dirty, maybe even eat some grass too ( I hope she wont eat bugs like Dylan use to!). Other than that everything is on the up and up.
Thankyou for all of the prayers and support that everyone has given us. We have been blessed and I know that God is not done blessing the miracles in our lives.

Happy Easter!

Well we finally did it.... 14 lbs! It took us long enough but all is well. Lilly and Dylan enjoyed Easter this year and we had fun keeping the grass out of Lilly's mouth. She loves the trampoline and crawling on the grass. Her and Paul found some eggs that the bunny left for the kids. Dylan is at that age where he knows what he needs to do, which makes it all the more fun!

Here are some pictures of us enjoying the nice weather last week.

Lilly, Daddy, and Koda

Justa swingin'

Dylan jumping on Paul's Grandma's trampoline

Pual cousin's: Megan, Elizabeth, Grace,

Lexi, Lilly, and Dylan

Lilly found an Easter Egg!!

Ready for bed, devil horns and all!

I hope everyone ejoyed their Easter weekend and kissed their kids, and had fun all day!!

Awesome moves!

I haven't updated for a while so I figured what the heck.... We got home from Marshfield and it took a while for Lilly to get back to normal. Dylan and I had the cough and am now completly done with it (knock on wood). Lilly had her check up last week with Dr. Forster and Dr. Dietz and she doesn't need to be seen for 3 months (besides weight checks)!! Dr. Fish, her Gastrointestanal doctor, had us go upto 4 times a day on the Metoproclam (which is her appitite medicine). It seems to be doing really well and Lilly is doing good with it. She has been eating meat up the wazoo!!! She loves meat, pork, chicken, hamburger, beef, you name the meat, she will eat it. We cut her small strips and she tears it down into small pieces.
We are enjoying the wonderful weather!! The kids and I played outside all day. Dylan and I planted trees in the yard then the three of us washed two of our trucks.....yes I said the three of us, Lilly had to play in our soapy water! Then we went for a walk and picked up the garbage along the road. Let me just say that we were all VERY tired when we crawled into bed. Koda, our puppy, has become very smart over the last few weeks. He now plays fetch...and not just any old fetch, I throw the baseball to Dylan, who hits it with the bat, Koda goes and gets it and brings it back! I really do need to move too much. The only issue we still have with him is his teething, which yeah, is still going on . I had no idea that at 13 weeks old he would still be teething.....the joys of puppies!
Lilly said Momma today (more than once) she has said it before, about a week ago, but it only happened once and she wouldn't do it again! She is on a roll with crawling, there isn no stopping her now! She pulls up and will walk around things. Oh and for the first time ever today, Lilly clapped!!! I had been trying to get her to clap for weeks and Mary (Speech and Physical Therapist) came over and Dora came on. Lilly danced during the intro and as soon as it was done, she clapped and laughed. I almost fell over laughin so hard! Mary seems to think that Lilly is no longer real behind with stuff; maybe a month or so as normal kids. I don't know because I judge it from Dylan and what he did and when. When he was almost 1 he started to walk and he already had a vocabulary of 5 words or so!? I guess I just get frustrated sometimes when I KNOW she can but she refuses to! Oh the joys of being a mom!!
As for O2's and Heart Rates, better than perfect! O2's have been 85-92% and HR has been 100-120's and slowly going down more weekly.