Been A Few Days

Well now that Christmas is over, I have a little bit more free time. Things have been pretty crazy for us around here.
On Christmas Eve I was at my family-in-laws. Christmas Day was a awesome day. We got up around 930 am and ate breakfast, then did Christmas with my parents, then we went to my great-grandma's for Christmas with the family. We got to see family we havent seen in about a year. It was a good time. Then me and the kids came back and to my mom's and we sat here for a while, I worked on Michael's book im making him. Its one of those photo hard cover books you do online and then you send it to the company and they have it sent to you in 2-3 days. I am doing one for over Christmas of everything I am so excited to get it back, I cant wait for him to see it. It may bring tears to his eyes, but I cant wait for him to see it. On Christmas Evening we went to Michael's grandma's it was a pretty good time, although a little akward since I havent met all of his family til that night. But Michael called me while I was there to say Merry Christmas, and I got to talk to him for like an hour or so. He stood in line to call me for 5 hours just to talk to me, talk about crazy huh.
Now that we are done with the holidays, I had to go to our bank, which I found out doesnt exist in the state of Nebraska, so I had to drive to Sioux City, Iowa, which sucked a nice 1 1/2 hour drive just to go to the bank. Then today I had to go to Sprint so I could have them change my telephone number to a local one. Only because Michael calls Offuit Air Force Base and can talk to me for free, but only if I have a local number we'll I do now, so now I can talk to him. Well Thats all thats going on here.
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and I hope everyone has a Happy New Year.

I Thought Things Were Getting Better

After all of his tests they came back and told me that his esophagus was working properly. His fever they don't have an explanation for. So I was told on Friday to start introducing his new formula Enfamil Nutramegin. They said his formula was the cause of him pooping so much. Since Friday he has not been pooping nearly as much. But he is still vomiting. Its not your average amounts of spit-up. He has been very crabby as well. They have diagnosed him with having GERD, and he is on prevacid. It is helping a little bit, but not nearly as much.
Ciarrah has an attitude problem, but nothing new. I have been okay I guess you could say that. Things are a little rough, but we are getting through it. It has only been a week since Michael's been gone, it feels like a lot longer than that. We can't wait til June, when Michael comes home for 2 weeks. I'm counting down the days. LOL.
Well Cooper will be awake soon, I better get going. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.

One Hell of a Day So Far

Last night I had Cooper in the ER. He had only eaten 2 times in the last 12 hours and he was having projectile vomiting and really bad diarrhea. He had about 20 stools in 12 hours. So I was afraid he was going to get dehydrated, and on top of that he had a fever of 104.5. My poor little guy. So they took blood, and did an x-ray. His blood work came back as a viral infection not bacterial. So they sent us home to do pedilite and to get to the doctor today.

Well we just got back from the doctor. We have to have an ultrasound done at 3pm to check and see if his esophagus is closed and working properly. They also changed his formula to Nurtimigen. I went and got a can, I cant believe how expensive that stuff is. I just hope it works. Then they also changed his medicine to something stronger to hopefully help get his acid reflux under control.

Well thats all for now, Ill put an update once we know something more.

***UPDATE***
We just got back from our 3 hour time at the hospital. His ultrasound looks normal, which is really good. Also his blood work came back with his potassium high. So we have to call the doctors office tomorrow and go from there. At least all is well right now. If only he could eat cause hes starving.

Worst Day of My Life

I can say I have officially had the worst day of my life. That day was Saturday. Michael left us for Iraq. We had to be at his work place at 5 in the morning. We did bag drop offs, and weapon check outs, and then we went to the gym and we said our goodbyes. It was a very stressful day for all of us.
Cooper doesn't know what is going on, but he knows something is up. Ciarrah has been asking for her daddy Michael, she thinks that he will be home soon, but who in the world do you tell a 3 year old, that her daddy wont be home for a year. I just don't know how.

We'll if you haven't guessed we made it to Nebraska. We left yesterday afternoon, I couldn't bear to stay in our house without my husband, especially since we didn't have anything in our house. It was a long drive. We drove for about 6 hours last night. And we drove for about 7 hours today. The drive is supposed to take about 13 hours to get here and we usually do it in 12. So I guess having a 3 week old and a 3 year old didn't slow us down lol.

We'll I should get going I need to get to sleep before my little boy gets up. We did hear from Michael today he said he made it to Kuwait, so we are happy. He will be there til after Christmas before he heads off to Iraq. Please keep him in yours prays.
Love Ya'll

Last Night

Last Night, it started raining here. It was pretty cold. Michael decided to go outside and smoke and since the kids were asleep I went out with him. And to my suprise I found this little guy.

He was outside just SLOWLY moving across our patio. It was so awesome. I've never picked up a snail before. I wish Ciarrah was awake to see him. I went out this morning to see if he was there, but he was gone. I figured it was too cold lastnight for him to be out but I guess not.

While we were outside it started sleeting. I couldnt believe it. I was hoping to not have to deal with that stuff til I got back to Nebraska. So of course I had to get a picture. Lol.

Well this may be last post til next week. So I hope everyone has a great week and weekend.

Bummed...

Michael came home this morning after PT and told me that there date has been changed. Instead of them leaving on Saturday, they are now leaving on Friday. We were going to move everything out of our house and into storage on Friday, but now we have to do it on Thursday. Which means we dont have much time left. I really am not prepared for how Ciarrah or I am going to react when he leaves. Im really scared and sad. I know he'll be okay, but Im still worried. Well Ive got to do some last minute packing.

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week. Oh yah. I wont be blogging until we get to Nebraska which will be next week, the computer goes with Michael.

Christmas Time

Today, we went SHOPPING. Michael wanted to get the kids something for Christmas before he leaves. So we all went to the mall, and we went and saw Santa too. It was an eventful day. Although, Ciarrah didnt scream when seeing Santa, she sat on his lap and even took some good pictures. It was awesome. Cooper slept through the whole thing. Go figure. But at least he wasnt screaming, like when we went and had family pictures done.

After that we finished putting of the Chistmas tree. Ciarrah decorated it all. She put all the ornaments on it. They are all at her level, but thats okay I dont mind. I just left it alone. She was so proud of herself, she kept saying how she did it all by herself. She tells ya that all the time now.

For Some reason it won't let me embed the Christmas Pictures, so ill leave ya with a link so go check them out.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ciarrahsmom/Christmas?authkey=Bx0_-1yCRug

Its Been Awhile

So I feel like I havnet blogged in awhile. We've been so busy, Michael parents and brother and sister just left. We had a great visit with them. They also were all very helpful. His step-mom, Tammy, helped give both kids baths, they feed Cooper and Ciarrah. It was a very welcomed break for me and Michael.

Yesterday Tammy and I went and got pedicures. It was an awesome experience, Ive never had one before. Im thinking that I need to do that more often, like once a month or so. LOL.

Also yesterday Cooper had his 2 week appointment. He got his foot pricked again. He has gained a pound since we left the hospital weighing in at 7 1/2 lbs. He also has acid reflux and hes on medicine and doing much better. He actually slept pretty decent last night, only woke up 2 times. And he slept in his bassinet!! Not the swing. This is good for us.


Well since this is our last weekend together, we are going to see Santa and go look at the holiday light show at the near lake. Can't wait to see this there is suppose to be 100 different designs. Im really excited. Monday Michael goes back to work and then next weekend he leaves. Which means we're leaving the state of Texas to head back to Nebraska. We should be back in Nebraska about the 17th of so.






We'll I better get going I hope everyone has a great week.