Our Little Crawler!!!

September 2010

Finally another post. I am really trying to get better with posting.  We are enjoying the beginning of the fall weather here and the start to our school year.  Yes I am homeschooling again...but still just pre-k.  The kids seem to like it and I really like it too.  We are still figuring out some things but otherwise they are doing pretty well.  I started with reading program for Isaiah that was supposed to be good...but we both did not like it and we stopped after day 2.  He was not liking reading...and what is the point if he does not LOVE to read!! So...I am teaching him the same way I taught all my other students and he is liking it much better.  Hope is doing great with it too.  Another advantage of such a close age is I can teach them the same things...and they both get it!! LOVE it!

Here are some pictures that we took recently.

Date night with Dave and Micah.  We have been trying to be better about going out on date nights since we have Ashley here.  The big kids complain when we are leaving but we go around 2 or 3 in the afternoon and are back to put them in bed...so then they dont mind.  

My big girl!! She is such a big girl and lost that baby face....so sad:(

Loving her little bro!

What's going on?

Sipping on some water with help from my big sister:)

A day at the zoo! So much fun!

Kristine and Tyler came along:)

Checking out the bears.

Trying to get a group shot.  Ashley is my photographer!! Love her:)

Pretty girl:)

TYLER!!

My big boy! Getting so old...can you believe he is going to be 5!! in a couple months:(

Me and the moo! He is so adorable:)

Ashley and Micah! He loves her:)

The girls!

MICAH!!! I Love all the silly faces he makes:)

Group shot!

Isaiah and Pa....took forever to get one where they are both smiling!

Photo shoot...he was so smily that day!

Tyler just wanted to eat him.

Playing with grandma

Thrush

For the past 3-4 weeks, we have been dealing with thrush. Poor Micah got it somehow and it has taken forever to go away. We first tried the medicine, but he was spitting up so much on it and got a rash on his face (which I will talk about later...but not from the medicine)...So we took him off of that and I researched a natural way to do it. He has been on diluted grapefruit seed extract for a few weeks. I think it is finally almost all gone...I only saw a tiny spot in his mouth today. So please pray it it gone.

I never realized how much you have to wash, sanitize, boil and wash again. We have been washing all his toys as soon as he is done with them, his sheets everyday, boiling his pappy's everyday, making sure the big kids don't get it!! So crazy. So that is why I have little time to blog. LOL! Although...thank God for Ashley...she is amazing and such a huge help. Without her...well I don't want to think about it. LOL! God always provides!

Micah was also not sleeping well when we had it. He would scream when we tried to give him a pappy at night...and the only way to calm him down was to feed him. I was feeding him 3-4 times a night....I was exhausted!!! So last week we finally weaned him again! Then I thought I was getting the thrush the other day! I freaked out and called the doctor to get medicine...but after reading it and all the side effects I didn't want to take it!! LOL! So again I searched and I have been using the grapefruit seed extract as well. For some reason, we are more of a all natural family and that works well for us. The medicines...not so much.

So about Micah's rash on his face....
He gets this rash on his face after playing with toys or rolling around on the floor. We thought it was from his medicine, then his other medicine, the his juice cup....Well, my sister just happened to want to see Isaiah's baby book from when he was 6-7 months old and....Isaiah had the same rash on his face. I completely forgot about it! It is from his saliva when they are teething. I am so glad I take so many pictures so I can remember things like this!

I cannot believe Micah is going to be 7 months tomorrow:( It is going so fast!