Jack-o-lantern

We made a jack-o-lantern today, well I did because Sydney thought it was gross. She is such a girl. A couple of handfulls of pumpkin guts were enough for her. Oh well, she had fun anyway and there were lots of giggles!

Pumpkin Patch

My mom and I took the girls to the pumpkin patch today. Sydney had a blast! It was this cute little working farm in the middle of the city. They had a huge corn maze, animals, and of course pumpkins.

San Diego.....................NOT!

So we were suppose to go to San Diego last week on October 11. We were all so excited because it has been 2 years since our last vacation. The bags were packed and loaded in the van, everything was completely paid for and then.... We had all been fighting a cold, Sydney had it the worst because of her asthma so I was a little worried about our vacation. Sydney was at the doctor a few times to try to get her asthma and an ear infection under control. I even had them check out Hayden because she was sick too and why not we were already there. Sydney was started on some new asthma medication (a round of oral steroids, Asthmanex - an inhaled steroid, increased frequency on the albuterol, and more antibiotics for the ear), and Hayden checked out fine, just an virus. Then on sunday Hayden started crawling funny and she had a fever. I kind of blew it off because she pulls herself up on everything and thought maybe she had a bruise from falling. By monday morning she was febrile for the 3rd day and would not crawl at all at this point. OK now I'm nervous. I would put her down and she tried to crawl, then just sat back down and cried. So instead of leaving at 6 am like planned I was on the phone with the on call nurse. Should we go to the ER or wait for the office to open. The not crawling thing freaked me out. The nurse said we should be ok to wait, so off to the peds we went. Now this is when I really got freaked out. The Dr was saying stuff like septic arthritis (bad joint infection requiring surgery), and a multitude of other infections that were an even higher possibility because Hayden is not up to date on her immunizations (insert a huge amount of mommy guilt here). He told us no California that he wanted to see her the next day and if her fever hit 103 or she was acting lethargic, that we needed to go to the ER. So after trying to explain things to a very disappointed 4 year old, Sydney and I went to Toys R Us to try to make up for it a little, and my mom went home with Hayden. By the time we got home an hour and a half later, Hayden's temp was 103 an hour after motrin. So off we went to the ER. By the time we got there about 45 minutes later her temp was 104.6. Wow. They were wonderful to us at PCH and we got right into a room. The doctor didn't think it was septic arthritis because kids with that are in an extreme amount of pain and Hayden was just tender on examination. Yeah! They did a bunch of labs and started an IV (3 heart wrenching pokes with her screaming with the first 2 and so worn out she slept through the 3rd). After some IV antibiotics we got to go home with a diagnosis of .....a febrile illness. Seriously. Now a week later Hayden has been back to the Dr twice more without any real answers, (she lost a pound in a week) but she is now feeling much better thankfully. What a crazy couple of weeks.

Hayden meets dino

9 month update

That's right my baby is 9 months old! We went to see Dr Apley for her well check on tuesday and Miss Hayden is right on target. She is a whopping 17#15 oz (25%) and 28 in (65%). She is just growing and changing so fast that I can barely keep up. Soon she will be running after Sydney not crawling. They are just amazing together. I love it! I tried to get her 9 month pictures taken last week and Hayden wanted nothing to do with it. She is such a mama's girl and wouldn't let me put her down for the pictures. I am going to try again soon and probably take her other favorite person (aka Sydney) to help distract her. No one can make her smile like Sydney can. And yes she still has her crazy hair!

Random pictures

Auntie Kristen trying to love on Hayden, and Hayden just wanting Mama!


Hayden and her friend GG (who is 4.5 months older by the way)


The girls playing dress up. Sydney was so excited to have her sister do her favorite thing with her!

Sorry for the lack of updates! No good excuse really. Well the girls are great. Sydney is doing wonderful in school and absolutely loves it! I really hope that it continues. Hayden is a crawling machine and about a week ago started pulling herself up on EVERYTHING! I am quite terrified that she is going to walk soon. I am so not ready for that. The girl isn't quite 9 months old yet! Well here are some random pictures from the past few weeks. They are kind of out of order sorry.

First day of school

Sydney is back in school! Yeah for both of us. She loves school so much and was so happy to be back. She is at a new school this year but is luck enough to have Mrs. Arriaga, her teacher from last year. She is getting soooo big! I just can't believe it.