Texas in 5 days!!

We are heading for Texas in 5 days. Yes, me and 2 wee ones on the plane. I might enjoy a mimosa on our 7 am flight, while we eat dum dums, watch wiggles, color, eat more and whatever else I can do to entertain our almost 2 year old. I'll get back to you on that.

I had to find a place for Pres to stay during our visit. A friend in the neighborhood dogsits in her house with 2 kids and husband (brave!) Presley had her first visitation today. I was worried, because pres can be hyper at first. But my friend said she did great and calmed down quick and took a nap in their bed...she might not come back!

In the meantime, we are waiting for warmer weather and getting ready for spring. We have lots of time inside and go out when we get the chance.

Sadie interrupting Presley's nap in the chair.

G man couldn't make it to dinner.

Gray's day. We eat lunch....

we shop....

Looking forward to go home after 5 long months! I plan on gaining 10 while I'm there, meeting some babies, seeing fam, and relaxing!!

A day in the life of Sadie Bob

Long ago my cousin gave me the nickname of Karen bob. So, naturally when Sadie came along - so did the Bob. Fernando, grayson, my dad, ryan seem to call her this. And it is soooo fitting sometimes.

Dad got her and grayson shirts made - gray-boy and sadie bob.

She doesn't eat much for breakfast. So I was so happy when I saw her chewing away at what I thought were her waffles....no girl scout cookies. And I caught her stealing oreos out of grayson's lunch before school.

Tired yet??

Popsy comes to visit

Popsy came to visit this past weekend. He hadn't seen the kids since we moved! They enjoyed their time with popsy. I also put him to work. He painted our dining room and Sadie's room. Plus he painted all the baseboards where we put in the new floors. He did it in half the time we could have!

We miss you Popsy!

Our first trip to the Hospital

In my last post, I mentioned we were on the mend with pneumonia....I was far from right. That Friday my little man was admitted to the hospital and we stayed 3 nights. I took him in Friday morning to the doc (after a monday and thursday visit)- my mommy gut feeling said something wasn't right with his breathing and cough. Sure enough - he had a low pulse/ox level of 88 (they at least want it to be 92.) After breathing treatment in the doc office, it didn't rise. So, off the the hospital we went. I thought we would be there for a couple of hours or maybe over night....boy I was wrong. This little man needed oxygen for 3 days. Finally on night 3 he went all night without oxygen and we were on our way home on Monday!

He had this happy and perky attitude throughout - it was hard to believe he needed to be in the hospital. Sadie made herself comfortable when she came to visit. Thank goodness it was on the weekend, so Fernando could stay home with Sadie. These are the moments when living far from family, make it so hard. He is much better!

Fernando and I made it to our first hockey game. It was quite a game. It ended with the Penguins tying it up in the last 6 seconds, it went to overtime, then a shootout! It is an intense sport. I might have enjoyed a pile of nachos too!

Gray brought this home the other day. I just think it is so cute. He is growing so fast....I can't believe it.

My two babies - growing up!

My three babies!

pneumonia and chicas

My sweet boy has pneumonia. He has been the sickest here than he ever was at home. He is on the mend, but I am missing these sweet little faces.

As for this one...She is keeping me busy! She loves chips as much as her mommy and refers to them as "chicas". Not sure where that came from, but she says it often!
Did I mention busy and causing heart attacks? I was in the other room for one minute and came in to find her here.I slowly walked up and didn't want to startle her - in the process of my slow walk up - I told Fernando to bring the camera- he snapped just in time as I pulled the "mountain goat" off the mountain! This very moment confirmed our limit of 2 children!

Rookie Sledding

We have been waiting for the perfect sledding weekend. So, today was the day. From the view of the hill, you can see I needed Fernando to assist me, so it had to be on a weekend. We suited up and headed out the back door!

We took more video than pictures, I will attempt to upload those later. I couldn't quit laughing. I felt like a kid. It was so fun.

This lovely red "saucer" was a piece. It just spun you around in circles....or maybe we don't know what we are doing. It ended up being Presley's frisbee and she just ran around with it.
Presley chased whoever was sledding down the hill. Fernando said she was nipping his arm while he was in route. Strange dog...
The ride down is fun, but the walk back up... not so much. Especially if you are carrying a toddler. Sadie had fun. She kept crying if we grayson went down. She wanted to go too.

Grayson started going down all by himself. I see winter olympics in his future??
Next up, we will attempt to hit the slopes. Should be interesting with two kids in tow.

k

The Pittsburgh Zoo

The weather has been unusually warm for Pitt, so we thought we'd take advantage and take the kids to the zoo.

I asked Grayson his favorite part of the zoo and he said "eating ice cream" - GO figure!

k