Happy 6th Months Lola!

Oh...how time flies! Can't believe little Lola is already six months old! She doesn't have her well check until the 26th of this month, so I will fill everyone in on her height and weight then. She did have her ears checked today and they are clear, probably just tugging at them because she is teething! But with her having the infection almost two weeks ago, I would rather be safe than sorry, so they checked them! We are going to try switching back to soy formula too. They said that we would know in a couple of days whether or not she will tolerate it...I forgot how much it stinks! But I will take the stink over the cost of the nutramigen any day! Will just have to get used to it again! Cross your fingers that it works! I will be crossing them, along with my toes!

Things are good...

So now that school started I feel like I have neglected my blog...so sorry! I have been up to my eyeballs in schoolwork and have had no time to do anything else but it! So far the year has been great...it is always hard meeting new kids for me, I get so attached to the previous ones, it is hard to start all over. So if you are an old student that stops by this blog every once in a while - know this - YOU ARE MISSED!
As far as little Lola goes, she has an appointment on the 20th of this month to find out what is, or isn't, wrong with her head. It is an appointment that I am both looking forward to and dreading. Hopefully they will be able to give us some sort of answer as to what is going on.
Both Kyan and Lola are adjusting well to daycare, we are lucky to have Rennie still watching them!
We are spending the weekend at home, with much catching up to do on the house work and laundry - we got back to the house on Tuesday night with our air working again! Thanks so much to Frank and Frank for quickly getting it fixed for us and to Chrissy for playing phone tag so that they could come to fix the air! You all were lifesavers!
That's all for now...hope everybody has a good week!

When it rains, it pours...

Oh...what a week, not one I ever want to repeat or wish upon anyone! As far as Lola goes, she is doing wonderful, back to her normal self, with a bit of a cold! I got into see a pediatric neurologist on August 20th. Her pediatrician's office said they would push to get her in sooner, but I am not holding my breath. I was on the phone most of the morning on Friday, in between meetings for school, playing phone tag and trying to get names of neurologists, so I took the appointment on the 20th and called it a day. I was too drained to keep trying. My friend Kristen and my father-in-law Michael both helped me hunt down some names. Ok, so if that wasn't bad enough dealing with all of Lola's "stuff", our A/C decides to quit working on Friday night. I had a mini nervous breakdown and left Chad to make all of the decisions concerning it and getting it fixed. Poor thing, then when I try to help it just makes matters worse! Needless to say, our compressor completely locked up and quit on us, so as soon as we get the part, we are good. It is the waiting part so that we don't have to pay a lot of money. We have great friends who are helping us out. So while our house is hot, my in-laws have helped us out and we are crashing at thier place until it gets fixed! So thankful for family! That's all for now, hope everyone's week will be better than our last!

Asking for Prayers

So I normally am not the type of person that asks for this, but we had a bit of a scare last night...Lola fell off the bed. She was taken to Banner Estrella Hospital by ambulance and treated there. Chad called me on the way home from school last night (we had open house) and said to meet him there. They ran a ct scan to make sure everything was ok. She had vomited and was acting drowsy right after it happened, prompting Chad to call, and they thought they had better run the scan to be safe. Good news is that she has not been injured by the fall was showing no signs that were a cause for concern. After the initial getting there and her being scared, she was back to the same old smiley Lola before we left! Along with the good news, came some bad, and was a cause for concern. They said that with the technology today, they did see something, but what it is exactly they don't know. They found a 3 mm spot on her brain that they said could be from an old fall (she hasn't ever fallen before) or something from when she was born that went undetected, a brain hemorrhage, or it could be nothing. So we left the hospital with a very uneasy feeling in our stomaches not having a clear cut answer. I have to take her to the pediatrician today where I will get a referral to see a neuro specialist. Hopefully they will be able to give us more answers. As I know more, I will keep updating, but in the meantime, I am asking for prayers for Lola in the hopes that she will be ok from whatever this little dot on her brain might be.

The end of summer

Sad to report that summer officially ends for me today! The kids are headed back to the sitters house first thing tomorrow morning! I will be heading to school to do some things in my classroom for the next two days before we officially report back on Wednesday! I have had an amazing summer and stayed really busy, but I am excited to get back to work!

Celebrating 80's style!

On Friday, Chad and I attended our friend's 30th birthday.....80's style! Thank you so much to Grandma Donna for babysitting late night for us! We had such a blast! I had been preparing my costume all week, dressing as Madonna! Chad went as Rick Allen, the one armed drummer from Def Leopard, and yes those are my shorts! The birthday boy dressed as Prince, and I swear practiced Prince faces in the mirror before the big night, he looked exactly like him! My friend Susie went as Cindy Lauper (she is the one I made my tutu with!) and Frank and Chrissy were Brett Michaels and Gloria Estevan! Everyone who is anyone (and I would say there were 60+ people there) dressed up, you were the odd one out if you didn't! We were the talk of the bowling alley! This was a great idea for a party and we had so much fun! Thank you Brian for being so crazy and coming up with this idea! Happy Birthday!

Bowling with 3 year olds...and some cute little girls!

Nice form boys!!!

After one got done throwing the ball down the lane, they met up and watched the ball together...waiting to celebrate when the pins fell!

The girls cheered on their big brothers, they were both so good!

Today we met my friend Kristen and her two kiddos so that our boys could go bowling! Kyan's friend Gianni is a couple of months younger than him and play so well together! Boy, did they have a blast today!?! They were so excited to hit even just one pin and celebrated together! We shared a pizza and played in the little arcade before we left! I thought I was getting out of there without Kyan throwing a fit...but I should know better than to hold my breath! Not s0 lucky...lets just say the car ride and about the first 20 minutes home were a nightmare!!! After he calmed down, I rocked him to sleep (something I rarely get to do now with Lola here, we got some much needed snuggle time between us!) Hopefully nap time will take a little longer than usual today since he was so worked up!