Young Women in Excellence

Shout out to my half baby Jorden.

She did AMAZING at Young Women in Excellence. She talked about her baptism and faith. She used her daddy's favorite scripture and one of my favorite primary songs and it was just perfect.

We love you Jorden and you never cease to amaze us!

Scanning

Hanna scanned a bunch of old pictures in for us, yay for girls' night!

The deal

So here's what happened with Ainsley....She's been wetting her pants involuntarily for well over a year. I kept thinking it was an attention thing or a lazy thing so I just kept ignoring it or punishing her or getting mad, etc. We were finally convinced to go see a doctor which revealed that the poor kid couldn't control it (and here I was getting mad at her). The x-rays showed that she has a chronic constipation problems (which we had no clue about as she never said anything about a tummy ache). But I guess it's been so bad for so long that it's desensitized all her abilities to go to the bathroom on her own, she has no signal even going to her brain anymore. So anyway, we're working on problem 1. getting her regular consistently and 2. we basically have to completely re-potty train her.

But today I'm happy because at least they had an answer for us. There was a solution and not just "Your kid is lazy."

So anyway, that's our "medical" problem that we've been dealing with with her. It will take us a few months but we should be able to get her back to normal after that.

too much

For once my absence is because of things that are going on and not because of lack of interest. I'm the Webelo's leader now, the girls started ballet class, so that combined with gymnastics and preschool and I'm a little flustered.

I also worked a little extra last week so Hanna could take it a bit easy. Kyle will be here this week though so hopefully things calm down a little bit for her.

I've been reading a lot and that seems to take up blogging time as well.

Ainsley's still having her little problem but we got in to see a specialist next week and hopefully we can get some answers.

Caelan can't seem to get over this allergy/asthma thing so her cough is terrible :(.

And now it's off to gymnastics.

Jorden went to her first 14+ stake dance on Saturday and had a BLAST!

P.S.

I still haven't gotten the pictures off the external, I promise I'll try to do that this week.

kids make us worriers

I thought Caelan's flare up of bronchiolitis a few months back was just a fluke and that the doctor was kind of premature in saying she had asthma like Ainsley but she's having another flare. :(

What's funny is that when Ainsley was younger and had all her breathing problems, I have actually had someone tell me that it was partly my fault because breastfed babies don't get asthma....well poo on you because Caelan was breastfed well past a year and here we are again!

Okay, really I don't care that much. Having her first flare up at age 3 is better than Ainsley's first which was at 4 MONTHS!!!!

Ainsley, by the way, does not seem to be growing out of it like her doctor had hoped.

Okay, enough parent rambling...

Hanna's is up north at her in-laws cabin and my mom is in Mexico (without me!!) so it's been a quiet weekend. I read three books yesterday (yes, full novels) and did some cooking and cleaning today with Caelan home from church with her horrible cough.

I suppose there isn't much else going on. I'm just working like crazy (trying to take on a little extra because of missing a lot of last week while on vacation).

Getting ready to do the hcg again so make a little more headway.

Ainsley's doing well in school but we're having a sort of personal/behavioral/medical problem that could possibly indicate ADHD and yet, she's doing well in school so I'm kind of stumped. We have a doctor's appointment Wednesday to begin the process. Hopefully it's the simple medical fix and not the behavioral that would start us on a whole path of testing (blah). She's my genius child so I'm sure whatever's going on, she will overcome.

Jim's crabby and moody. I think he's stressed with work and I'm at a loss as to how to help so we just stand back and let him figure things out.

And now it's time to take my poor coughing baby to bed :(

No baked beans for me please

We're back from our trip. Overall I think it was a success. It was a little stressful and a little obnoxious with Patty not having a house anymore but we had fun I think.

Ainsley is reading like crazy. She started her first Junie B. Jones book which almost made me cry (almost, I'm not one of those sappy parents).

Caelan's a turd.

I'll put some pictures up later as they're on the external that I think hasn't been unpacked yet.