Gripe Water

gripe water is the best stuff ever!! In the night brooke would have a hard time going back to sleep after she ate. She would fall asleep on me, but once i put her down she would fuss. It would take an hour or more for her to go back to sleep. And once she was asleep she would squeek and squawk all night (you know those baby noises) which would wake me up, even if she still slept. So i thought one night, i will give her some gripe water. Difference of night and day! even though she wasnt crying in pain, she must have had an upset tummy because i gave her the gripe water after feeding and watched as she would just relax! the stuff works within 5 minutes NO JOKE!! you can watch it comfort them. i have been giving it to her for over a week and she will eat and be back to bed within 30 minutes!! The day before yesterday i ran out and she was just uncomfortable, i couldnt put her down! So i wasnt getting anything done! yesterday i got some more and she could be in the bouncey or car seat and i could do the dishes!! i am telling you this stuff is amazing!! it just settles her tummy! we gave it to hunter when he had gas. i think for brooke she needs it to help digest and settle her tummy. i gave it to my nephew who would cry NON STOP and it was like he was a completely different child! Every mother needs it!

Memorial Day

All Loaded up ready to go!




For Monday i wanted to go on an excursion to get away from Rexburg and spend a day together as a family. So we went to jackson hole. I have never ever been. It was the most beautiful drive and we had a good time walking around and going to the shops. Hunter loved all the animals in the stores that were taxidermied. Funny boy. We went to a BBQ place for lunch and of course stopped at the square ice cream place on the way home. It was a perfect day and the weather was GORGEOUS! on the drive home however i just felt achey and now i have the cold/flu. BLAH! today is better than yesterday and that means tomorrow i will fell better than i do today!

I sure do love them!

Dear Tooth Fairy

You are REAL!! And we are so grateful for you! We dont know who you are, but we are so thankful for your card and for the donation to the root canal fund! You have no idea how much that means to us and how grateful we are to you. Thank you for the Beautiful hat for Brooke as well. May God Bless you, because you have blessed us! thank you thank you thank you!!!

Keep on keepin' on

The title of this post was somethinga good friend of mine would put at the end of every letter he wrote to me on my mission. Its so true to life, we just keep going nd go foward with faith.
We were able to go to Brandon's wedding. he is my nephew that is 4 years younger than i and is more like my little brother. i am so glad that we were able to go and to be there in the temple. They are a beautiful couple and so happy. That is if they dont get swine flu while in mexico on their honeymoon. Our kids did great and Hunter was so happy to be out and to play with cousins. he has the best cousins! no matter how much older they are than him, they are still excited to play with him. Which is great because i was always worried that my kids would be so much younger than everyone else's.
Brad put time and effort the previous week and made me a beautiful mother's day card. it was very thoughtful of him. We stopped in shelley to be with the family for a BBQ at Dave and Jaimi's. Again, hunter had a blast playing with Averee. She has always been so good to him and he LOVES her. as he should. they played on the swingset and ran around. he especially needed that after the 3 hour car trip.
Brad was complaining of tooth pain and went to the dentist yesterday. he came home after having 4 teeth pulled!!! this all done without insurance and yet it will cost the same as my root canal. 3 of the teeth were wisdom teeth. poor man. Bless his heart he tried to go to work today and just came home after an hour, he was in so much pain.
So i am worried about finances (the hormones also intensify this worry. gosh darn hormones)but Brad is always so good to calm me and say things will all work out. so we will just keep on keepin' on!

Update

Thank you for your prayers. they have definately made a difference. Brooke is doing WAY better. Hunter's eyes have been red and goopey and i am thinking, "oh no! this is the worst pink eye i have EVER seen!" My nephew is getting married tomorrow and i wanted some antibiotics before we went (if we were really to go). So brad took hunter in and it turns out it is all caused by an ear infection!! which is a relief because that;s not contagious. So we have some super duper antibiotics and tomorrow we will be able to see Brandon get married. I will still be more protective of germs with brooke, but it is such a relief for hunter not to have pink eye. Especially when he comes up to brooke and says "EYE" and touches her eye. They both have appointments on monday so we can follow up. Again, big relief.

Today was our first outing as the Adams family of four. We went to the mall and wal mart. Brooke was covered and asleep the whole time. It was so surreal to be there, the four of us and to see brad pushing the kiddos in the double stroller. Surreal and yet natural at the same time. So wonderful.

2 weeks old

Brooke is two weeks old today. Last night we went to the E.R. because she has a stuffed nose with gross stuff coming out and she was really struggling to breathe. Turns out she had a fever of 100.1 and when a newborn has a fever of 100.3 they do a bunch of tests like a spinal tap. Basically, a 2 week old baby should not be having a fever and because she does they were pretty concerned. So she ate last night at 11pm fell asleep finally at 1 am and did not wake up until 6 am!! that is a LONG time for my baby girl. She has not been eating like she has been and that too is a concern too. So we have been taking her temp all day because if she gets to a 100.3 they said to bring her in ASAP. not so fun to see your little baby so sick at such a young age.
So with her being sick i am now going to be pretty anal about germs because i have been very lax and now i feel guilty. No unclean hands around my baby, sick people and we arent going anywhere for a while. and i told Brad he will be sprayed with lysol the minute he gets home. I think every mother feels this way once their brand new baby, or any baby gets sick. When you see them so sick, how can you NOT feel this way?
So today she has continued not to eat but she is still having wet diapers which is good. She had sick eyes this morning but this afternoon she was awake for 3 hours!! She seemed to be feeling better and ate some, but spewed everything up that was in her belly (including mucus) three times! We will just continue to watch her and to pray for her.
However, even though she is sick, i was able to get some pictures of our baby girl.