Kirsten's First Date

Last Friday Kirsten went on her very first date. I know 7 is a little young to start dating, but she was so excited and her date clearly adored her. I knew she's be well taken care of.



Brian took Kirsten to the Girl Scout Sweetheart Dance. She was so, so excited about "the prom" (ADORABLE!) I've been delaying this post because I wanted to add the picture of my dad and I at my first Girl Scout Father Daughter Dance... but who knows when that will happen. (I'm going to try to add it in soon though...)

Grammy took Kirsten for a manicure earlier in the week. After all, who goes to the prom without professionally painted nails?

Matt helped Brian to get ready for the big night.


Kirsten was thrilled with her corsage. She was SO excited about it. (On a funny side note, Brian said while she was dancing she was throwing her arms around so much that it literally fell apart and flew across the room.)


...If only I could make sure that all Kirsten's future suitors would adore her this much...

Best Buddies

100 Never Looked So Good!

Here is my "little old lady" on the 100th day of school. Doesn't she look 100 years old?

...Powder to give her gray hair, a pillowcase for a shall, and sleepy eyes. (My creative juices are a little sleepy these days... it worked well enough.)

Super Bowl Sunday!

Our activities have been very limited since the boys have been so sick... but we did manage to have a little fun on Super Bowl Sunday.

Our friends the Hamiltons are the biggest Steelers fans EVER... seriously. They made sure that Brian, Kirsten, and I were equipt with Terrible Towels to cheer during the game. They even sent Matt and Danny Toddler Terrible Towels!! SOOOO cute! We got some great pictures during the pre-game show (and then the boys cheered in their dreams while we watched the game with a couple of friends.)


Here our friends Charlotte and Ryan are getting ready to cheer on the Steelers.

Everyone knows the commercials are a huge highlight of the Super Bowl. Ryan picked up some 3D glasses for the commercials... I don't know who was more excited about the 3D glasses... the kids or the Dads... I thought they were all pretty cute :)

Better...But Still Sick

My sweet boys are still recovering. The sinus infections are FINALLY better. (Thank God!) This is the first time in MONTHS that the boys have NO runny nose, they are not snoring, they are breathing good etc. It would be a lovely change...

IF it were not replaced with severe reactions to the antibiotics. Right now we are fighting vomiting, heartbreaking rashes, and what is happening in the Huggies in this household is unmentionable. We missed an awesome birthday party, our weekly music classes, and a couple of playdates. I've changed more sheets and given more baths in the last week than I could possibly count. Sleep is just a distant memory... maybe it's more of a fantasy...

It's so hard to see my boys sick. I pray that they will be better soon. I'm a little concerned about their weights right now. They just can't keep anything down... and they don't have any lbs to spare! (Unlike their Mommy :)

...But we're making progress... it's slow... but hopefully in another week or two we'll be able to declare them healthy. Thanks again for the prayers and concern!

Update on the Updates...

I took Danny to the ENT this morning (with Matt and Grandpa in tow... thanks Dad!). It turns out that he has a pretty severe sinus infection... and so does Matt! (Thank goodness Danny was being clingy and didn't want to be seperated from Matt!) So we're starting 21 days of Augmenten and continuing on pain meds for 3-5 days. This SHOULD be the end of it.

My poor boys. I think (hope) we'll all be glad they had the surgery in the long run... but right now the "short run" is killing me!

The boys do seem a little better, or at least more comfortable, already & Kirsten is taking great care of them.

Tomorrow I'll post some adorable pictures and hopefully life will be getting back to normal!

Danny's Turn

This "simple" "easy" "nothing" surgery is going to be the death of me. Danny was at the pediatrition today and will be going to the ENT tomorrow morning. He isn't sleeping, is screaming in pain, won't let me put him down (seriously... not even for a second!), won't sleep, won't eat, etc., etc. His nose has been bleeding for 2 days and he is just sick and in pain. It's so awful.

I called the ENT this morning and they wouldn't give us an appt. until tomorrow. I felt like he needed to be seen asap so I took him to the pediatrition. They were very nice and said it is probably post-op pain but they don't really know what's wrong. They did give us some pain meds though so hopefully my little guy will get some rest and we'll have some answers tomorrow.

My heart just breaks for my little guys. There is nothing worse than seeing your child in pain :(

Matt's Update

Well, I posted last Friday about the twins' surgeries and how well they had gone. Sunday the boys started getting very cranky and had a lot of drainage from their noses and ears (ewww... I know). We were told that this was to be expected and that discomfort from the adenoidectomy would peak at 4 days post-op. Well, Sunday night was a hard night. The boys were up most of the night and were very uncomfortable. Monday night things got BAD for poor little Matt.

Matthew was up the ENTIRE night on Monday. He slept in 20 minute intervals when he became exhausted from the screaming... and when I say screaming I mean SCREAMING. I was very close to taking him to the ER but kept counting down until 8am when I could call his doctor. His fever reached 102 and he was just inconsolable. It was horrible.

I called the doctor Tuesday morning at 8:01. The R.N. assured me that this was "normal" and I assured her this was absolutely NOT normal. We went back and forth for a few minutes (I know she thought I was being difficult... but oh well) and I finally got an afternoon appointment.

Grandpa came to the rescue (once again) and kept the boys for an hour and a half so I could shower and stop crying. (I was soooooo tired and worried.)

We saw a Nurse Practitioner at the Pediatric ENT office at 3. Good news overall. The tubes were/are not blocked and there are no abscesses. Apparently my little guy has an extraordinary amount of swelling. The swelling is putting pressure on a nerve which is causing the fevers and terrible pain. She gave us some new pain meds and almost doubled his Motrin dosage. It seems to be helping A LOT. He is still not "himself" but he is definitely on the mend.

Thank you so much to everyone who has written and called to check on the boys. And a huge thank you to Jenna for adding us to her prayer list! (Jenna keeps an amazing prayer list on her blog. Be sure to peek at her 4 little cuties and check it out.)