Houdini Strikes Again!

Yep, so the first time I was sitting in the kitchen at the bar and had just put Molly down for nap and then I hear in the monitor "uh-oh". I just figured she had thrown her paci out of her crib. Then I heard her knocking on her door and trying to turn the handle! I freaked! Sure enough today she climbed out of her crib twice and fell one time really hard. I propped her door open and decided I'd watch her this time and ran to grab my camera. I only got 1 good picture before I was scared she was going to fall again, she had both legs propped up on the ledge and had pulled herself up with her arms. She's just insane! She's way too young for a toddler bed-She's very very smart too, she understands commands and is so quick to help you with anything but is also very stubborn! She would never lay down in her bed if she didn't want to.
Her ears seem to be doing great but her speech is still behind. We have a check up in a few weeks and I'm sure they will assess that too. I told someone the other day that it's a darn good thing she's cute because she gets into so much! She's trying really hard to hang onto the dining room chandelier! She climbs up onto the table and just sits there and waits to get in trouble! Now she's been standing up on it and trying to reach the chandelier! I've been spanking her but, again she's a 16 months so obviously the spankings are really setting in yet! Doesn't mean I wont stop trying!

Go Red Sox!!!

Baseball has begun! I mean really what more is there to say? We're at the ball field at least 2x a week and schedules for Molly are all thrown off, the weather is phenomenal,and everything is wonderful!!! Molly is of course a nightmare at the ball games! She picks up rocks, sticks, dirt, grass, trash, ants, ANYTHING and goes and hands it to total strangers and thinks they are going to say "Thank you"!! They all just laugh and some even say 'wow, I don't know who you do it all day'! Sometimes I don't either! To say she is a 'handful' is an understatement! She climbs the bleachers, the fence and every once and a while will yell and cheer for Turner! She sees him being the catcher and will yell "HI" to Turner and wave! Very cute! I'm sure we'll have a hundred more post for the bestest team ever-GO RED SOX!!

Muskrat Love

So we have a new pet..Ok not really, but he is fun to watch, and just yesterday we realized there are 2! Here's a few shots of them that I have gotten

Prayers Needed

Alrighty, tomorrow is the "big day". Hopefully the day that Molly is not sick again for a long, long time-ok, wishful thinking, a mother can dream huh? Molly's surgery is first thing in the morning-although not as early as her last surgery! So be thinking of us tomorrow and send a quick shout out prayer for her! I'm sure it'll go fine and she'll be ready to play and eat and climb on everything in the house and Johnny and I will want a nap! Thanks again for the prayers!

Little Houdini

So while cooking dinner-I put Molly in her high chair for a "snack". Well, I turn around and she's done this..... I mean really??? How is that even possible? You can even see Mack in one of the pictures up on her high chair looking for her legs!!! She's a nut! Johnny and I are convinced now she does crazy things just for "fun" or to see if she can get in trouble! She's super fast too, I'm sure because she's been walking so long!
We also went and did her blood work today,which was so pitiful but even worse because I had to bring TUrner with me and he was so upset to see Molly crying and getting "shots". I guess I should back up for those who aren't on facebook. Molly had yet another ear infection and so I begged and pleaded with her pediatrician for more answers, she's sick all the time. So when talking about our family medical history, which my mom told me I was sick so much as a toddler that she had to take me out of daycare. Apparently some of this stuff can be hereditary, which I knew ear problems were, but he wanted us to take her to do Immune Deficiency bloodwork. I happily agreed, we just want answers on why she's sick all the time. She's still having her 2nd surgery on this coming Monday-adnoid removal and another set of tubes in her ears. I really hope this works and hopefully we will have answers about her Immune System bloodwork maybe even as soon as tomorrow! She's such a fun, spunky, little fireball with sooo much love when she's healthy and well. I just want people to see that side of her all the time!!!

Trip to Chattanooga

What a crazy 2 1/2 days that was. Johnny was in training all last week in Chattanooga for work. So we had planned ahead of time on driving down and staying with him in his hotel room. Chattanooga has so many great family things to do. What we didn't plan on was....Molly getting sick on the drive down, the Children's museum being closed on Wednesday for winter break, both kids nearly drowning in the hotel pool, and chaos all around!
Molly cried the entire way down to Chattanooga on Tuesday. She was perfectly fine the entire day and I purposely did not give her a nap. So, sure enough I'm blessed with one of those kids when they cry too much or too hard they puke. yep, puked all in her new car seat just one exit away from the hotel. She also ran a super high fever that night and had both Johnny and I worried. Woke up Wednesday totally fine! I guess just some crazy virus or ears bothering her-who knows anymore. So we decided to go to the mall to have lunch on Wed and play at the playground in the mall and hit the Children's Discovery Museum on the way home Thursday in hopes of wearing everyone out for the ride home! It worked! Oh yeah the pool incident. So I told Turner to sit on the steps while I put Molly's ear gear on (plugs and head wrap). Only my kids.... well sure enough he ventured out into the deep-he said the waves took him back there! The "waves" from the indoor hotel pool! right. So there was my firrst lifeguard save- needless to say, he had to sit out of the pool for a good bit for not listening!
Then Molly decides she's done swimming-or so I thought- and wanted out. So I wrapped her up in a towl and she laid on the chair outside of the pool. Turner had been begging me to let him jump to me and me catch him. I finally gave in and he loved it. I was facing Molly the whole time and she was about asleep-so i thought- so Turner jumped again to me in the pool...at the SAME EXACT TIME-Molly jumped up and ran to me to jump in to me also! Turner was mid-air and Molly just dove into the pool at my feet. I grabbed her by the neck at my ankles with one hand and grabbed Turner in midair with my other hand! It was insane! To top it off they were BOTH laughing! I was in tears and yelled-"EVERYONE OUT OF THE POOL!" We left immediately and I swore that never ever again would I take both kids swimming by myself-I don't care if they are 20 and 24!!!! Which is just too bad because they BOTH are like little fishes! They LOVE the water! I was awake all night long, thinking what if this, what if that, what should I have done, etc etc... anyways, here's the happy pics before this event!!!

Silly Willies

Well, I realize I'm no good at this blogging, but here goes anyways.... Molly Bolly has been so sick! Yeah big surprise I know, I honestly can't remember the last time she was healthy! SERIOUSLY! It must've been before Christmas. Anyways, she got tubes in November and has had 4-5 ear infections since then!!! Unheard of!! She was diagnosed with croup two weeks ago on a monday and on thursday after 4 days of steriods-she was worse-still had a fever, coughing, not sleeping/eating, and nasty runny nose...so we head back! Surprise! she has another ear infection so we got the strongest antibiotic out there-so they say- and more ear drops but one tube is clogged and so after a trip to the ENT-he says he wants to take her adnoids out and put in another set of tubes! I mean we litterally just got the bill and paid it for the tubes in november! INSANE! The ENT really thinks that this will help and get rid of her chronic infections. No wonder she's so tiny-just recently got to 21 lbs. she's always sick!
So we've been stuck indoors since Christmas-either because of snow or sickness and I'm over it! I know the kids are too! MOlly's surgery is March 15th and I'm just devastated that we have to put her to sleep again and inflict more pain-but I'm praying this will be the end of it! I'm really wondering if there's something else going on, why can't she seem to "kick" the common cold and why is she sick so frequently!? Is she allergic to something-dog, milk, air??? Hopefully we wont have to find out after adnoidectomy!
Turner is doing so well in preschool! He can write his first and last name and it's so cute! He really is a smart kid if he'd stop talking long enough to listen and learn! (takes after his momma) He loves animals and can not wait for "fishing season"! He 'usually' takes such good care of his sister-looks after her-because she's usually getting into trouble! SHe loves to hug on him and sit next to him and boy don't dare leave his bedroom door open or she's in there faster than lightning! THey are really good kids and I enjoy every minute ok, every other minute, I get to spend with them! I really am truly blessed to be able to take in every little milestone they are reaching now!