Catch up continued... Halloween

The entire trick or treat group!

Halloween came and no one had thrown up in three days so we were good for trick or treating.

Melissa took the kids to a friend of hers house for a small Halloween party on Friday. I figured the party would be early in the day so it wasn't a big deal. She ended up not taking the kids until like 3:30 pm so by the time I picked them up they were exhausted.

I tried to feed them dinner early so I could get them ready and out the door to go. They weren't hungry that early so that didn't work well. Once we got over to Charlotte's house they were getting hungry and wanted to eat everything they could reach. Neither one of the kids could be still for 2 seconds. Ethan took off down the street the minute we got there. Paige ran wild from one thing to another. Her favorite was a big bucket of candy corn that was on the ground for a game. We are always invited to Charlotte's house for the outside Halloween party and the way our kids act in public that might change. I saw all the other kids even kids their age and none of them were running crazy. It must be a twin thing because all the twins I know are as wild and energetic as mine. I hope!

The only way we could control the kids or get a picture was to strap them in the wagon. Trick or Treating was just not going to happen this year they were just too tired especially Paige. All they wanted to do during trick or treating was eat puffs and sit while we pulled them in the wagon. If I walked more than 2 feet away Paige she would lose it. She has been so attached to me lately. On our last outburst we decided we were done and started packing them up in the car.

We got in the car beat to hell and looked at the clock...7:32pm! What! We had only been there an hour and were barely even past bed time. It was pathetic! One good thing about very scheduled kids is that they are just that... routine. Problem with that is that they do not flow with changing the schedule very much either. They were just too tired from the little party that evening to give a damn about trick or treating. Oh well we had some fun so it was worth it. They were an angel and a devil but not in that particular order! LOL


We are here and ready to party...

Emily just wanted a hug and couldn't catch Paige.
I love this picture! So cute!

He kept just running to the street and up the sidewalk. Guess he knew what to do.

The "leashes" did not work well in their costumes. Little boy was tired.

Emily wanted a picture and Paige wanted a drink. Lets go!
It was so over at this point.

Better luck for trick or treating door to door next year!

Catch up continued... Cowboys game

October 26th Cowboys vs. Tampa Bay

The Cowboys game was fun especially since we won. The last one we went to this year was the first one they lost. Driving home with Dallas after a Cowboy's loss is just not fun. If you don't know what that does to Dallas let me just say it's horrible.

We met some really nice people in the parking lot and tail gated with them before and after the game. Talk about some die hard fans they even brought their own porta-potty for the girls! We are planning on meeting them for a Thanksgiving feast/ tailgate at the Thanksgiving game as well. The team itself was really playing horrible but we had more fun at this game than any we have ever been to before.


The tailgating party and the couple who owns it all.

The girl in the pink was from Canada and we both loved her. She was so sweet.
It wasn't pretty but we won!

The next week consisted of checkups everywhere. Ethan had an appointment on Monday to follow up from his hospital stay with the pediatrician. I ended up keeping them both at home Monday because Paige was still throwing up and very very cranky. She takes forever to get over a stomach bug. Ethan had a post opt appointment with the surgeon on Tuesday in downtown Fort Worth. All was well at both appointments. He is completely healed from the surgery and should not have any future problems in that area. His rash has faded mostly and we will have to go back for more blood work in a month to see how his clotting factor is recovering. All in all I was just hoping for two well children for Halloween on Friday.

Catch up continued... Halloween party

The entire time we were busy with Ethan at the hospital Paige was at home throwing up every other day. We would think she was fine and then she would throw up again. This went on for a week and then she went several days without throwing up so we thought we were in the clear.

I also fell in a hole the week before Ethan went in the hospital and sprang it pretty bad. Amazing how you heal faster when you don't have time to be hurt. LOL

I was nearing Sat, the 25th of October and I had gotten myself into a very exhausting weekend. I had postponed the garage sale so many times that I never noticed it fell on such a busy weekend. The sale was Sat morning and that evening was the AMOM's group Halloween party. I had already dropped off a box of crafts individually split in bags for kids of all ages. I also agreed to bring a cake for the cake walk and a goodie for everyone to eat. As soon as we finished the garage sale, we started baking cakes and such. About that time Paige throws up everywhere. Shit! Is she sick or did she eat too much? We waited a while and gave her a couple bites of bread. They soon came up and we knew I could not take her to the party and infect everyone else. Cheyenne went with Ethan and I to the party. Dallas stayed at home with Paige.

We did not have Ethan in his costume at first because it was too hot.

Everyone else was in their costumes so we dressed him in the car.
He loved his pitch fork!

It felt really weird being at a party with only one kid especially a twin party. We left in an hour simply because I was so exhausted. Not to mention we had tickets to the Cowboys game the next day.( Told you I had completely overbooked my weekend.) By the time we got back Paige had thrown up all over her bed and she was sleeping on the chair while D finished cleaning it all up! Poor baby! Ethan had a really good time at the party and I should have let him stay longer but he won't remember so forget it, right! Thanks Cheyenne for going with us.


He liked being behind the bean bag toss until we showed him what to do.

He was good at this game! Ethan's first hay ride and allergies followed.
Eating dinner on the hot tub cover and he dumped it everywhere. We just don't do well with plates!

Catch up... hospital days

I am determined to catch up on my blogging and get everyone up to date. For the entire month after Ethan's surgery to repair his hernia we were knee deep in a nasty stomach virus, a garage sale, and more...

I had planned on having a garage sale on the weekend that Ethan had surgery so it was obviously postponed. I had scheduled to have the sale on the next week but Ethan had gotten a horrible stomach virus and was too sick to have it so I moved it once again. I had Dallas' parents watch the kids on Sat, Oct. 18th so I could get everything ready for the garage sale the following Saturday. Ethan did not feel wonderful but he was well enough to go to their house. His parents wanted to keep them overnight so we let them. They did really well on their first night away from home and didn't wake up at all.

I worked my butt off on the garage sale and when we picked the kids up on Sunday morning Paige had thrown up. Are you freakin kidding me! Dallas' parents also pointed out some spots on Ethan's hands that they thought were bites of some sort. I noticed some eczema on his elbows too but just figured he was allergic to something in their house. By that evening Ethan was showing more and more of a weird patchy, red, purple, rash that was not raised and looked like those scary rashes you see online. I called the pediatrician and ask what to do. She said if the spots did not change color ever so slightly when you pushed on them then he had to go to Cooks. Sure enough his spots did not change color at all and I was off to Cook's.

Dallas stayed behind with Paige until we knew something more. It was about 7 pm when we got to Cook's and they checked us in immediately. Once we were checked in we were put in a room immediately. Ethan was so upset since it was his bed time and he was already tired from spending the night at D's parents the night before. The ER doctor looked very puzzled and I have to say that made me uneasy. They decided that they needed to do blood work. We had to hold him down forever while they accessed which arm would be the best. The attempted one arm and were unsuccessful. Then they had to start all over on the other arm. When I thought okay this can't get much worse they wanted to catheterize him for a urine sample. Great! After all that was over we waited.

After waiting for sometime the doctor comes back in and starts asking more questions. He proceeds to tell me that their is an abnormality in Ethan's blood work and we need to run it again. He wanted to put a block in his hand this time in case they had to get more later or administer medication. So I got to hold him down while they put an iv in his arm and covered it in several layers of tape and such to keep him from pulling it off. Every time I would get him calmed down they would come in to do vitals or something else. After the second round of blood work they told me that his clotting factor was not right. He was not clotting and now they needed to know why. They called in a specialist to look at him and discuss the diagnosis. I could tell they didn't have a clue. They admitted us at around midnight and Dallas met us at the hospital. We didn't get in our room until almost 2 am and then they wanted to wake him up for vitals. Are you kidding me!!! Don't You Dare Wake Him Up Again! We got very little sleep that night and it would prove to be the same the next night.

They didn't do much to Ethan at all during the hospital stay they simply ran test and kept sending different people to look at him. He was feeling much better and we were having a hard time keeping him busy. He was the only sick kid in Cook's running up and down the halls and spending his entire day in the playroom. We took him on many walks around the hospital grounds to keep him busy. Once all was said and done they determined that he does not have a blood disorder or clotting problem. The clotting problem was caused by the virus he had. They said that his antibodies attacked his clotting factor and their was nothing we could or should do. As long as he was eating, feeling okay, and not running a high fever he would be fine. The rash would fade and his clotting would return to normal but they didn't know when. They said it could take up to 6 months for it to return to normal. They have no idea why his body reacted this way but at least we know he doesn't have a fatal blood disorder.

My little cowgirl

Recently April brought over another load of clothes for Paige that range up to size 3T. Paige found these and wanted to wear them immediately even in her pjs!


Too Cute!

I hear the angels singing and nothing else!!!

I can't believe it has been over a month since I last blogged but honestly it has been one hell of a month! I am just going to work my way back over the past month and give everyone a quick update... well as quick as I can. Ha Ha Ha

This weekend we lost yet another room in our home to the children. First the office was converted into the nursery. Then the game room was transformed into the playroom. Now the guest room is officially Paige's bedroom! I decided at 2:30am one day last week that I was completely over the kids sharing a room. I won't go into the details of my horrible week of sleepless nights last week and over the past month but lets just say enough is enough. Due to a nasty stomach virus, the time change, teething, and a bit of attitude I have been kept awake in a whirlwind of whining and crying.

Don't get me wrong I have no problem getting up and taking care of my sick child in the middle of the night however I do have issues when I am getting up for no reason. Paige was waking up anywhere from midnight to 2:30am every night. She would whine and cry so loudly that Ethan would have no chance of a good nights sleep. I would try to rock her but she would have no part of that. I would finally have to take her out of the room, change her diaper, give her a drink of water, and try anything else I could to get her back to sleep. All my efforts were useless and I would usually end up putting her back in the nursery and letting her cry it out. The only problem with her crying it out is that Ethan can't sleep through it and she knows it. She would get up, stand under the video camera, look up and scream to me. She would kick her bed loud enough to scare the dogs and I am supposed to just leave her and allow her disturb everyone in the house. I finally decided to take Ethan into our room when she started and let her deal with it without disrupting everyone else. This was a great idea except in the morning I was left dealing with moving the sleeping baby back into the nursery without waking either one and Paige is a very determined little girl. Last Thursday I moved Ethan as soon as she started and put him in our room. I turned down the monitor so only I could hear it and I dozed in and out until 5 when I finally got her up. The next day she would fall asleep in the high chair eating lunch because she was exhausted.

Don't think for one minute that Paige is the only one that causes a problem she was just the trouble maker this week. Ethan had been waking her up for the past two weeks when he was sick but he is just not quite as aggressive or hard to deal with as Paige. He will rock, cuddle, and go back to sleep she will cat scratch you while screaming and squirming trying to get down. It's so NOT cute in the middle of the night!

Recently we got a bunk bed for the guest room to allow us to sleep our friends a little easier when they come to visit. We were very upset about losing the bunk beds to give Paige her own room but I was determined it had to be done. I ended up leaving the beds in the room for now and I think it may work out. The kids love playing on the bed and it gives me somewhere to change her diaper if need be. It will also come in handy when I can just sleep in the room with her if she is really sick. I moved Paige's crib and room decor in her room on Saturday and had it ready to try for nap.

Both the kids went down with no problems for nap that day and night time that evening. Paige didn't make one sound during her first night in her own room! I was so happy words can't even express! At nap time on Sunday both the kids went down without a problem and Ethan woke up within an hour and a half, woke up, stood up, looked around, whined a little and laid back down for another 40 minutes. I swear I heard angels singing! Normally he would have whined and screamed until I had to rush in there so he didn't wake her. By the time I would get to him she was awake and 'ta-da' I have two pissy tired kids. Well not anymore!

Last night Paige woke up and was whining. I jumped up and about half way across the house I realized she didn't have anyone to wake up so I went back to bed. Within 10 minutes she was back asleep. Did I mention how excited I am!!!! The only question I have now is why we didn't do this a long time ago!!!



Yes the TV will be out of the room by this evening!


We are planning on painting and decorating both the kids rooms but for now this will work!