Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving weekend! We were at Chris' parents on Thanksgiving and then visited my Papa the next day. Had a great weekend!

Togetherness!

Just a couple pictures today....
I just love seeing my children being loving with one another. Whether they are playing around, dancing, hugging, wrestling, having bath time....it really doesn't matter. Togetherness just makes my heart sing....cheese, I know. I just pray that as they grow they will stick together, get each others backs and continue to love on each other.

Stay Puffed Children!
This was right b4 going out the other day. I had to drop off a bill and it was bitter COLD!!! They find it quite entertaining to see each other with the hoods up ;P



This pic looks like they are dancing :)


Instead of Sumo wrestling we will have Puff Jacket wrestling


It's really funny 'cus the jackets are still a bit big. It looks like they have swinging nub arms. "It's only a flesh wound (insert British accent)!!" baahaa (for all my Monty Python & the Holy Grail fans....such a great movie).....anyways...

Some bath time!
I just love bath pics. Mostly b/c I know that the amount of time I have to be able to photograph and post cute stuff like this will only last but a short while.




The chair...
For some reason the three of them decided that their chair was more fun upside-down...maybe 'cus it is hard to fit each other together in it the right way...who knows....





And of course......Gabriel

Asher - Update after Pulmonary Specialist visit

We went for Asher's visit today with the Center for Children in Lowell which is a branch office for UAMS and Children's Hospital.

They took X-Rays of his lungs. His X-Rays looked horrible, but this was to be expected with his Chronic Lung Disease, being on the ventilator, lung blowing twice, etc... SO no surprise there. Our lungs continue to grow through age 7 at which time they will be deemed full grown, SO his lungs should just continue to get more healthy...it will just take time.

The GOOD NEWS is that according to Dr. Menendez, he looks much better than his slides show....which is good. His lung problems are not getting worse, it's pretty much just that he has this cold with wet cough/congestion that is causing the wheezing and faster than usual breathing.

To help this issue of a wet nasty cough we have to put him on another inhaler...Atrovent which is supposed to get rid of the wetness, congestion. The Albuterol is for the actual cough. Then we have also been using Flovent which is for inflammation of the lungs. We also got a new/larger chamber.

His food/drink calorie intake:
The nutritionist at this place was SO much more helpful! We have lots more ideas to help with his calorie intake and weight gain. Hopefully we will start to see improvements over the next few weeks. His weight gain will also help his lungs out.

The doctor also gave him an awesome car toy (shown in pic) that he could take home!!! Super excited about the car. It is soft and makes noise. Those things are expensive at the store, so we didn't get them one for Christmas like we were planning on...

...It's the little things in life :P

SO...
Thank you JESUS for the good report and wonderful visit and the awesome nurses, dr, and specialist...and the car toy!

AND...

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for our little man!!! You guys rock!! We couldn't have ever asked for a better support of friends and family in our life.

Love you all!

Quick Asher Update

The Pulmonary Specialist finally called and we have an appt scheduled for Nov 4th.

Asher still seems to be wheezing and breathing fast, but has been eating much better YAY!!

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for him! We love you all!

Please continue to pray for him

Dr. visit , Pomegranates, Books and Child Leashes

So took the kiddos to their 18mos Dr. Visit!
Gabriel and Trinity are doing great! Although Trinity does need to lay off the milk a bit :O Dr. dropped her and Gabriel down to 24oz. per day. Asher is still doing well, but his growth chart is declining. So we are trying to fatten him up even more....ugh. He is also breathing a bit too fast again...about 60 reps per min and wheezing, so we had to get him some meds and will be taking him to a Pulmonary Specialist. He's a strong, happy little man, and we know that God is in control :)


Book time at the Howard hizzie....Gabriel, Trinity, and Asher love books. Anything colorful and/or with different textures are usually a hit.





Rapin' it up.....or so it looks....they really like Chris' hat

This is Gabriel....and Trinity backin' him up


My little man of happiness

The "Harness Buddy" story:
SO, bought these at Target the other night. Super excited. Have always been against the child leash, but decided that it was better than one child deciding to run from me and land in the street and soforth. We practiced at home and the kids did GREAT! SO. Went to work this morning super pumped about breaking out the harnesses.

Get the kids ready to go...jackets on, harnesses on, get out of the truck, start walking and BAMMMMM..... "OH MY GOSH MOM, IT'S A LEAF!!!!" came streaming from Asher's little thought dept. "OOOOOO GRASS" flowing from Gabriel's....."I'M FREEEEEEE" yells Trinity's spirit. So this is the scene...me with our large baby backpack on, my purse, little cooler with milk strapped across one shoulder, and cappucino in one hand.....AND three 18mos old babies on leashes in the other. What was I thinking? REALLY????? SOOOOOOOO I end up unloading everything I am carrying onto the grass and after spending about 5min laughing, corralling, chasing, laughing some more I decided to throw them all back in the truck and grab the stroller. UGH.....seriously....UGH

At least it was entertaining.....Hoping to get the parking lot video so I can submit to Funniest Home Videos....it would def win 1st prize. I'm still laughing about it....but at least I am REALLY good at laughing at myself. Goodness....





Oh yes,
and our children REALLY like Pomegranates. Wierd

Random

Hey all,
These are just some random pics that we took over the past few weeks. Hopefully we will have some nice Fall weather pics within the next month or so. Just looking for a nice "leafy" location. I LOVE fall leaves!!!! If you have any suggestions where a good place would be to take some good family pics PLEASE let me know!


Our kids love playing in and on the clothes baskets.


Trinity tickling Asher


Gabriel.....being Gabriel


just playing


Asher with his Fedora....or um plastic container hat


Daddy and Gabriel


Kiddos in our "new" recliner!!!


Such a beautiful little girl. It's a good thing she has two brothers. Not to mention a 3rd Degree Black Belt as a Dad.



Tennis anyone?



Rockin' Frog



I just love this look :) too funny


pretty boy smile!

More pics and updated to come!

Well, as you all have noticed we have not had any recent updates. Our computer completely crashed...no fixing it. So we have been without for some time. Sad.

Some wonderful friends are letting us borrow one of their computers until we can get one of our own. SO thankful!!!! Love you guys!

Don't have time at the moment to update with pics, but stay tuned....there will be some soon!