Bubbah turns 2!

Wow my little man is not a baby anymore. (sniff sniff). I can't believe he's 2 already, it seems like yesterday he was so tiny and small. I look at our newest daughter and am blown away by how much she's changed already and I treasure her being small because I know it doesn't last.

We had a construction themed party because he's all into big trucks and machines. I ordered a cake from wally World and put a few toys on there for decorations...

We invited one other family that moved with us from Germany here. They have a 4 yr old daughter and a (almost) 1 yr old son. So the girls had a playmate and they played outside mostly all day. Bubbah and his friend played inside together for awhile and I had DH BBQ some hotdogs and burgers. Of course we served all of Bubbah's favs: hot dogs, grapes and bananas, chips, BBQ beans, deviled eggs, and punch.

Then time to open presents (Bubbah had already messed his shirt so that's why he's topless lol). He got lot's of car-type toys: a remote control car, a music and sounds tractor, some mega-bloks cars, some spiderman utensils, and a Bat Man cape.

And one final shot....the picture every Mom and dad treasure! The cake/ice cream face!!!!

Me again :-)

Busy busy busy is the life of a Mom of 4! I hardly have time to sit down and breathe let alone update this thing. But I figured I had a spare minute sitting here snapping shots of our newest princess. She's such a doll and so sweet (I'm partial though I know!)

We've had a bad bought of janudice with her the past week or so. It was almost high enough for the doc to re-admit her to do some bili-light treatments. But modern technology prevails and they had a portable bili-light called a "bili-blanket" which was a big pad that was strapped to either Gwen's front or back and it lit up just as brightly as the hospital bili-lights. So with that and getting a heel poke everyday to test her blood she FINALLY is back down to an acceptable level. But on the last time she had her heel poked they put a pressure bandage on her foot. By the time I got the bandage off it had caused her foot to swell up and turn purple and the bandage was so tight that it cut into her skin and bruised the top of her foot pretty badly. My poor baby I felt just aweful that that happened to her.

apparently, its a really big deal that this happened to her because the supervisor of the lab came and took pictures of her foot and reported it to the Commander of the hospital. So that lab tech that did this to my baby is in real trouble. At least this won't happen to any other baby there. They aren't supposed to EVER put pressure bandages on newborns, they are just supposed to hold some gauze on it until it stops bleeding.

She had her 2 week well-baby after that all occured and everything is alright. The doc wants me to give her a little formula ontop of breast-feeding because she feels that Gwen isn't gaining enough weight. I am just going to try to nurse more frequently and then when she get's a re-check next week, we'll see. If she's still not gaining then I will suppliment a little. She may just be like DH and I and on the thin side naturally.

Here;s a few shots of her sleeping in her bouncey seat....too cute!