Family

Our family is doing pretty good. We are having the usual bumps and surprises that come up, but besides that we are holding it together.

Bree will be getting a feeding tube again this week. She should be taking at least 60 cc's a feeding now and she is on average taking 45 cc's. So, we are going to let her eat what she can out of the bottle, and when she runs out of steam, we are going to put the rest into the feeding tube. So, during the day we will let her feed on demand like we have been (about every 2.5 hours) and then at night we need to get her back on a schedule of every three hours. This will continue until she is gaining weight appropriately and eating her feedings all by bottle. We will be having a nurse come to the house to put the tube in and to teach us about it. Hopefully this happens sooner than later, but I will find out today when the pediatrician calls.

Bree also got her synagis shot yesterday. This is a shot to help prevent RSV. Hopefully it works and we do not have to go through what we went through with Riley last year. (For those of you who don't know, Riley had RSV last year and was hospitalized for a week with it!)

Riley is growing and expanding her vocabulary like crazy. She now says "E-tan" (Ethan), "reeeee" (Bree), "eat" (no explanation needed), and so many more! I can't think of them off the top of my head. She is also starting to 'talk in sentences'. She is just making up goobly gook noises to make it sound like she is making sentences. She does this most when she is sitting down looking at books and reading to herself. After "reading" her book she exclaims "ALLLL DOONE!" and gets out of her rocking chair to get another one.

Since she is showing interest in actually reading books we are starting a bed time routine of bath, (ONE) book, prayers, and bed. Quick and easy, but it allows her time to settle down.

Speaking of routines, Adam and I have gotten together and even made a schedule for ourselves. It feels like we have just been co-existing as of lately. We take care of kids, get them into bed, veg on tv, then not too shortly after the kiddos, we hit the sack ourselves. So to help us feel more connected with one another we are starting out small with a game night on Fridays, and a movie night on Mondays. (Movie Monday, Fun Friday) We hope to continue this even until the girls can start to participate.

Our anniversary is coming up as well (FEB 5TH!) and we have had some friends offer to be brave and watch Bree and Riley for us so we can have a few hours to go out and celebrate our 3 years of being married. A lot has happened in those three years! Moving states (twice), and two kids later we are still holding strong. We have our issues just like everyone else, but it is our love for one another that brings us back together and we work out whatever the issue was.

Hope this finds everyone happy healthy and in love with life!