I'm BACK

Well my summer hiatus is over and I have to say I have really missed my endless hours on the computer. But have found the break did me and my family a world of good.

We played, we exercised, we loved each others guts out. It was fun. It also made me less addicted to the computer. I think I can be much more moderate now. Thank goodness for self discipline.

Well on to what you missed.
This post may be long but I will make sure and put it a Ton of pictures so it is more entertaining for those of you who are not big readers. ( you know who you are)

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Disney World

We had an incredible time! Nuf said!
We also took over 700 pictures, so here are just a few.

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Next swim lessons.
The kids really loved the water and had such fun swimming every day for hours.

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We went to family reunion at the Thelin Homestead
We camped, rode four wheelers, swam, played in the sand, had campfires every night, played in bouncy structures, and spent a fantastic time with family.




Jerika is allergic to mosquitos and one bit her eye, so it is all swollen in this picture.

Summer Break

So I have made a goal to not be on the computer this summer, starting tomorrow.

Yeah crazy I know.

But I think that now that the weather is good I should be out enjoying it, my children, and my husband.

I will be checking my email weekly but that is it. I am not allowed on other than that.

So here is a list of the things I will miss this summer being off my computer.

1. Writing my blog and posting pictures for you all to enjoy. ( don't worry when I come back I will surely give a recap)
2. Reading all of your blogs. I enjoy knowing everything that is going on in my family. I feel so much closer to you all. My friends blogs keep me so informed of their lives. Even the "strangers" who are really not strangers but dear friends who I have met on the Internet will be greatly missed. I am gonna miss the laughs from reading your hilarious posts. (you know who you are)

3. My dear face book I will miss you greatly. I love reading status updates, and of course commenting. I also am gonna miss all the games I play with my face book Friends.

*My farms (yes three..My Farm, Farm Town and Farmville) I will not plant anything, luckily the fruit on the trees wont rot.
*My restaurant (it will be closed up and all my Friends that work there will be resting)
*My sweet pet will be lonely, hungry, and dirty without me there to love her
*My Sorority.. We are small but I think I have like over 10 million dollars plus all my yachts and hummers.
*My Mafia... boy do I hope some rival mafia does not steal all my money.
*My souped up, purple and pink Enzo Ferrari that I race all my Friends in.

4. Digital Scrap booking. Yes I love it, my kids love their scrap books. It is my art. But alas it too is on the computer and must be avoided for the summer.
along with this comes missing freebie hunting, challenges, forums, my scraping community, missing weeks of scraping book camp, and speed scraps. I will miss it all but I will be back after the summer with lots of pictures to scrap and will be rejuvenated again.

Well I think that is about it. I think you can see why I need a computer break. I gotta get to my real life and living it. Well at least for the summer.

Till September Adieu.

Kingergarten Graduation...Jerika

So today Jerika Graduated from Kindergarten. I recorded the songs they sang, so cute!!
Here is a picture with her freind Emma.
Here she is with her kindergarten teacher Mrs. Foster
And here she is as she is graduating.
The following are some really cute video clips of the music they sang.

This song is a song the music teacher wrote about a promise the kids make to be drug free. Jerika was pointing right at me as she made her promise. I had tears running down my face the whole time, I could not wipe them away easily since I did not want to have a bumpy video.

Worried

I am freaking out a bit...

Trenton Doctor called this morning early, waking me from my sleep. She called to tell me the results of some blood work she ran on him at our appointment last Thursday. She was concerned about some lymph nodes in his neck that are protruding, even when he is not sick. She was going to do some blood work anyways since he is a terrible eater to see if if he anemic, so decided to do a full blood work panel just to make sure something wasn't going on.

So when she called this morning I was worried, they usually just send results in the mail, unless there is an abnormality. She started off by telling me the things that were normal, his iron levels looked fine, no lead.

But there was something amis with his red blood cells, his white where also high. The phlebotomist said that she should have a hematologist look at his blood as which she did and both said that he has Megaloblastic anemia, a deficiency in B12 and folic acid. She said that if left untreated it could cause neurological damage. She said the condition is often hereditary and was there any of this in our family history (Not that I know of)

So she said I would need to bring in Trenton to do more blood work and see the hematologist, she would make a referral.

So there it is. I of course jumped on Wikipedia and looked up

Megaloblastic anemia is an anemia (of macrocytic classification) which results from inhibition of DNA synthesis in red blood cell production.^[1] This is often due to deficiency of vitamin B₁₂ and/or folic acid. Megaloblastic anemia not due to hypovitaminosis may be caused by antimetabolites which poison DNA production, such as some chemotherapeutic or antimicrobial agents (for example azathioprine or trimethoprim).

It is characterized by many large immature and dysfunctional red blood cells (megaloblasts) in the bone marrow,^[2] and also by hypersegmented or multisegmented neutrophils.

Freaking me out a bit. Oh well, hopefully it is easily treated and all will be well. So his eating is probably the cause. If I could just get him to eat, meat, or veggies. Ugh.

Here is what one site said under Megaloblastic diet...People who are strict vegetarians and, most particularly, people who do not consume eggs, milk, or meat can develop Cbl deficiency. Counsel these people to either change their dietary habits or remain on supplementary vitamin B-12 therapy for their lifetime. An oral tablet of 100-200 mcg taken weekly should provide adequate therapy.

I looked up foods high in B12 and Folic acid and am going to see if I can get him to eat them. I made split pea soup for dinner, it is in the crock pot. We will see if he will eat it.

Wonderful

So Trenton is Talking (I guess that is what you would call it) but I wanted to capture my favorite things he is saying before it changes and I forget it.


So...

Trenton says "Waahpee", for water. When he wants a drink he will repeat over and over Waahpee. What is up with that, you ask? Well it is actually adorable because he is saying "water please." See my girls always say "water please" at the table when they want some, and he thinks that the word for water is water please. Cute huh? He also says "ayne oooh (thank you) after he gets his water. My girls have taught him manners and he does not even know it.

Trenton also says "I do, I do, I do" over and over when he wants something, in a really high pitched voice. It is because I will ask the kids, "who wants ______" (insert anything you offer a kid) and they yell "I do." This has led Trenton to believe that "I do" is how you ask for something. Funny, cute and a bit annoying when he is screaming it in that high pitched voice and you are trying to figure out what he is asking for.

Done! Recorded! Ahh that felt good!

Arancini

Arancini, pronounced Ah-ran-chee-nee, I was a wonderful street food that I often ate in Sicily where I served my mission.
I was thinking about it yesterday and decided that I was going to make it with my kids.
I made a yummy risotto, as you have to use rice/risotto in the recipe. We had that for dinner then we had much more so that we could make our Arancini.

It was so fun putting the Arancini together with my kids. They kept calling it a craft you can eat. Here are some pictures of the finished product. They were so good that the Trenton even ate one.

Shocker since he hates to eat, still he ate one, well half of one at least. Don't worry my other girls finished off the rest as soon as he put it down. What a fun Friday afternoon activity. Messy, Messy fun.

Picky Eater

I am sure anyone who reads my blog knows that I am talking about my son Trenton. He continues to have eating issues. He is a crazy man when it comes to eating food.

Today was no exception. He has been a crazy one today. He is starving but I have no idea what he wants. At breakfast he said pancakes, yes he actually said the word, so I made him some, even put chocolate chips in them, but would he eat them, no way. He seemed fine until I cut it for him, then all h.e.double hockey sticks broke out. He was screaming and throwing his plate and all things tantrum like. I knew he was hungry, but what to do.

After awhile of Jennedy explaining that his screaming was hurting her ears, I carted him off to his crib to "cry it out" in peace.

As soon as he was done, I got him out of bed and begged him to show me what he really wanted to eat. He got a bowl and I went through every freaking box of cereal we own, he finally settled on honey bunches of oats, thank heavens. I then proceeded to feed him, he calmed down and all was well. Victory!!!!

I don't get it....the kid will put crazy things in his mouth from Polly pocket accessories to red sharpie pens, he will eat a crayon, or play dough, rocks, sand, hair rubber bands, and even random fuzz of the carpet, but food, NO WAY
Here he is after drawing on both legs then arms and eating the tip off of the red sharpie yesterday. Little stinker.

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Still I cant get him to try lunch meat, or any meat for that matter. He wont even let it go near his mouth. The only vegetable that he will let go near his mouth is a pickle. Troubling to say the least

So Trenton just woke up from his nap starving. I was going insane from the screaming and yelling of eat eat eat.(new word, hooray!) We explored the kitchen, he has no idea what he wants. I was frustrated to say the least. So I shut him down stairs and decided I was going to assemble everything that he has been know in the past to eat and let him choose. Waaallaa.


He got his own horderve tray. Yes I suspect he is spoiled. But I cant let him starve. Now at least he has stopped screaming and he can eat to his hearts delight all his favorite treats.


What is in his tray you ask?
apples (I hid chocolate chips underneath) He found those fast and he ate them up
pickles (his veggie of choice)
Crackers
Veggie Chips
Nips
English muffins with butter (cut in half)
Cheese
Craizens
and Graham Crackers
There you have it. Yummy for him.

Hot Hot Hot

So the last few days have been blazing hot. So we set up our little pool. Now it is not super little or anything, nor is it like you can swim in it really. But it is fun and we put the slide from our play house into it and have a blast.

Now here is the coolest part. We made it hot water!

Yup, we hooked up a hose to the water heater and ran the water into it, we also had the other hose from the outside spicket putting water in. We had to do this cus the water was so hot coming from the water heater.

I never would have done this in the past. But now that we have our solar water heater, the sun is heating it up and it does not cost us a cent so it is exactly the same price as running cold water in. So why not do it right. So I sat in the "hot pool" and my kids played, Joe was inside cooking us dinner.
Trenton was falling and practically drowning every couple of minutes. So it was imperative that I stay in there with him, instead of watching from the sidelines. I kept trying to teach him to close his mouth when he goes under, but it never stuck and he would spit up water upon my rescue and cry and hug, then off he was again happy as a lark, ready to practically drown again in a few minutes.

Watcha Doin'

Jennedy says...

Watcha doin' mom
Cleaning, what are you doing
Watching you clean.

Watcha doing mom
cooking dinner, what are you doing
Watching you cook dinner

Watcha doin' dad
getting Trenton dressed, what are you doing
Watching you get Trenton dressed

And it goes on and on like this all day long.
And I love it.

A long, wet, walk with my favorite six year old.

I just went on a long walk in the rain with my Eldest Daughter Jerika and boy was it fun.
This child blows me away. She has such a spunky, kind, enjoyable personality. She acts shy and coy but she is a real talker and innovator. She is creative and funny and is so Charismatic. I am crazy about her. Here she is all wet after our walk.

Things I want to remember about this time in her life are that Jerika loves to climb trees, every huge tree we would pass she would talk about how much fun that one would be to climb. She loves to smell the flowers, each flower is an adventure to her, her excitement about it amazes me.
Jerika also loves to balance, whenever there is a curb, she is right there working on her balancing skills.
She will say, "I'm going to bounce."
She means balance but with her child accent it comes out bounce. Sometimes she falls, but she gets right back up, she is not one to easily give up on a challenge. I remember teaching her when she was little to say "I never give up" and jump up and keep trying. She definitely has taken that saying and fused it into her personality.

Jerika loves the rain, most particularly the puddles. She will jump in any puddle I let her, and even some I ask her to stay out of. She was funny on our walk today, because last time we were out and she jumped in puddles she got mud all over her pink pants. So today she pulled up her pants all the way to her knees,
I was like, "what are you doing" and she's all
"this way I wont get mud on my pants when I jump in the puddles that have mud in them" Smart kid! I would have just chosen not to jump in puddles but not her, they seem to call to her and she heeds the call.

At one point we saw a lot that had overgrown grass and she grabbed a handful reminding me that they would make the perfect whistles. See I taught the kids how to make grass whistles a while back and she remembered. I believe it was may father who taught me when I was young to hold the thick grass between your two thumbs and blow through the hole. So Jerika and I stopped and made whistles and laughed. She said maybe the birds would come over to us, and land on our arms because the grass whistle sound was calling them.

Finally, Jerika started talking about that lady in Enchanted who sings Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah, and the birds and other animals come running to her, so she started singing that, which was so funny becuase her voice could not do it. So we stop again and I sing it for her, she tries to imitate me which is so funny and we crack up, she says she can't make it sound like mine because I have a grown up voice. (so true) so we continued walking home, singing the Ah song and laughing when Jerika would try to imitate me. She made me film her when we got home so now you get to see her sing it too.

Cake fun

Our cooking group learned how to do fondant on cakes, I had a blast and did it on Jerika's birthday cake too. Super cute and super fun. I will be doing fondant from now on. It is so smooth and easy and the colors are great. Also I learned a recipe that is actually yummy and the kids ate it up.

Jerika's party

So we had a super fun party for Jerika today. She chose a camping theme. Here are some pictures from the fun party.

Sizzors?

Jennedy and I just went to pick up Jerika at the bus stop. On our walk there I pointed out a baby bird.
Jennedy said "him has a muver and dad huh."

Yes he does

"And him haves bears and him haves sizzors."

What? Sizzors?

"No kids!!"

Oh... he has brother and sisters

"Ess, bears and sizzors."

Of course.

Once again that kid cracks me up.
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Oh one more thing that is so funny about Jennedy.
Normally two year olds tell thier parents NO all the time.
Instead when asked to do things, pretty much anything, she says

"Me no want to."

It is better than NO right. It is easier to battle that.

Often I will say something along these lines. I understand, I don't want to make breakfast either but I am going to because it is nice and because I love you. So you should get dressed for mommy when she asks you because it is nice and because you love me.

This generally works and off she will go to do what I ask her to do.
Other times, especially if it is something she really really does not want to do she will say

"Me not want to go to bed, Ever" ( is sounds like Evah)

Wow, you will sure get very very sleepy if you wont sleep Evah.
Last night I told her No to something she asked to do that I did not want her to do.

She said. "Me no want YOU to say NO......Evah"

Good luck with that, Yeah like that will Evah happen.

Silly

On the way home tonight in the car, Jennedy looked out the window and said.

"I see a piece of the Moon mom."

The moon was just a tiny sliver. Then she told me

"that was the tiny piece and she would look for the big piece."

In the front seat Joe and I were laughing at how cute she was.

Getting my Groove back.

I got my groove back. I had a great day yesterday. I actually did everything I expect myself to do in the day of my life. I cleaned. Yup, those crumbs on the counter were washed away, several times during the day. I swept, mopped, vacuumed, and even bleached the crap out of the tub. Yup things were looking good. Well it does not last. That clean house. But it was good while it lasted. Now I am back to my old self of keeping things looking good and getting on with my life.

Here I am today finishing up my 8th load of laundry, well two are still in the machines, but I am really being the great house keeper my mother raised me to be.

Hooray, I am crawling back on top from under the sadness of loss.


So on Sunday we went and saw Tyler.

My kids were saying how much they missed him after church and so I called the birth mother and asked if we could come visit. She was not at home, she was at a friends. But she said she would meet us at her house. Wasn't that sweet, she drove home so we could visit. It was so nice to hold him in my arms, he was asleep so he was not squirming to get away as most 11 months old do. So I just got to sit and cuddle him and kiss his head and love his little guts out.

Trenton had fallen asleep in the van on the way over and so I stayed outside the van with the van parked in the shade with the doors open and held Tyler while both my boys slept. Birth mom took the girls inside and fed them pudding and Caprisons. I felt so lucky to have that time alone to love on him. He woke up later in the visit and you could clearly see that he had missed all of us. He was so excited to see us. It was a nice visit.

One of my friends commented that my situation is similar to a divorced couple regarding getting to see our kids. Birth mom can call me any time to visit and I can do the same with her. The good thing is that we like each other and that is better than most divorced couples.

Yesterday Trenton and I were looking at my blog and he got so excited when he saw Tyler on the screen. It was then that I realized how much he too was missing his brother. I am just happy that we will continue to get to see him. I feel blessed for that.

A little bit of a funk

I am definitely in a funk. I just dont feel like doing everything that I used to do. I have not vacuumed in days and there is much need of a vacuuming job. I have not made my kids clean up the playroom in days either. I did not even shower yesterday. I feel like my house is a mess. Not like the mess of things everywhere but the deep down mess that only a vacuum, mop and some strong cleaner can clean.

Ugh, I dont feel like doing it.

It has been a hard year with losing my baby and Tammy, my baby sister, dying. I feel overwhelmed with emotion and that is causing me to be lazy.

My mother would not be proud of my house. She is an avid vacuumer and always wipes of kitchen counters too, not me, at least not the last few days. There are crumbs on my counters and I have no energy to wipe them up.

My kids are bathed and dressed and fed and loved. (They are sick with ugly colds, that muck up their eyes with crusties) But the other stuff, the stuff that makes me feel good when it is done, is being neglected.

Perhaps I am just being lazy and am using my losses as an excuse to neglect the cleaning. Who knows.

Anyways on to cuter things....

Jennedy cracks me up, one thing I want to remember about this stage in our life is how she calls people "apple pie"

"Goodnight daddy apple pie." I love it.

This came about because when we would see a pumpkin in a book she would call it apple pie. It made us laugh, and since she is a comedian she continued to say it, at the funniest times and we would laugh more. Then it spread to everything else, she loves getting a laugh. So sometimes she will say I love you mommy. And I will say I love you too apple pie and she laughs and it is so adorable. I am so glad I am writing this down so I will always remember this special time with her.

Second I want to remember how when Jennedy has a runny nose she comes up to me and says "Mom, my nose is running out" I laugh every time.

Kids make life worth it don't they.

My favorite things

Thanks you everyone for your outpouring of love and concern it is greatly appreciated and I feel stronger knowing that people love and care for me and my family.

One sweet lady said something that really hit me. Maybe heavenly father called us on an 11 month mission to care for our baby. That was the mission and we did it, we did our part, we helped him through that part of his life and we were good and faithful servants. I would have loved to stay on that mission longer but he has other plans for us and our son. So moving forward.

My children are bringing me such joy these days so I am doing a "My favorite things" post today.

OK, my favorite thing right now about Trenton is his wave. He looks like the queen of England the way he waves. OOoh I cant give it justice by describing it so I will show you a video.


(That weird noise in the background was Jennedy growling into one of those play microphones that amplify the voice.)

Next my favorite things about Jennedy right now is how she has to call her dad every time she does anything remotely noteworthy.
Me went potty, can me call daddy?
Me call daddy and tell him me fell down?
Me tell daddy me hurt my finger.
We do call him often, it turned out to be a great reward for potty training.

Yes folks Jennedy is official out of diapers, completely fully out of diapers.
The truth is that that is really my favorite thing about Jennedy right now.
Great work Girl you are a wonderful potty queen!!!!

I went from three in diapers two 1 in diapers in 2 weeks so awesome.

My favorite thing about Jerika right not is that she can finally read!!! Yep she is a super advanced little kindergartner who reads at a middle of First grade level. (that's what the note from the teacher said.) She loves to read and has wanted to read for as long as I can remember, so it is wonderful that she is reading .

My favorite thing about Jacqueline is she is so nice, to everyone. She is always telling us she loves us and she is so happy to be in our family. She is so helpful and kind to all her siblings. She is just plain easy to parent. She also loves to tell me that I look beautiful after I shower and get ready for the day. She really builds up those around her with her caring loving spirit.
Also she is super limber and great at Gymnastics. Here Check this out.




Well there you have it my favorite things are my children and they bring me so much Joy.

He's Gone

My brain hurts from crying and my heart hurts from mourning. I am so very sad.

As the worker took Tyler from my arms today, tears ran down my face and hers. We both sobbed as she carried him to the car. It was precious to see his siblings hug his little body and say goodbye to their brother. I could not watch the car drive away with my son so I went to my bedroom curled up on my bed and sobbed. Jennedy came in, she is my shadow after all, and said in her little two year old voice. "I miss Tyler" I know honey I miss him too. Then she crawled on my lap and we hugged as tears streamed down my face. She then cupped my head in her tiny hands and looked me in the eyes and gave me the biggest grin you ever saw. She did not know what to say but she knows that her happy makes me happy. I smiled too and encouraged her to go play with her sister downstairs. She trotted off with a smile on her face.

Life goes on doesn't it. When something devastating happens you kind of expect the world to stop, but it doesn't it just keeps going. There are still kids to feed and diapers to change and joy to have with the children that remain.

Last night as we spent our final time with Tyler each child got a chance to hold him and get a picture. I watched as my sweet husband put Tyler to bed for the last time and felt so much sorrow for us, for him.






I lay in bed crying last night falling asleep in my husbands sweet arms, clinging to each other for comfort. I am so happy to have him, he is there for me, to hold me when I cry. He has been through this journey with me, through the ups and downs and now the end. He has been my rock and I love him so much. We of course will get through this. Life goes on and we will be happy.

Friends and families have offered to help by letting me take some time away, babysit, or to come over to support us. I am grateful for that but what I want right now is to be with my family, to hold each of my children close, to keep them as close to me as I can with no distractions but us, our family. I want to just be with them. Pull and unite us together through this sadness, so that we can come out of this a stronger family.

So this is it, it is done, I am ready to talk and write about something new, something that does not hurt my heart so much and make me cry. The next post will be happy and about the ones I hold most dear, my sweet children.

Sad Sad Day coming up

Tomorrow will be the last day my son Tyler will be with us. No he is not dying, thank heavens. But he is leaving.When we started the foster care Journey 3 yrs ago, we never knew that we would go from 1 to five kids in less than two years, we just thought we would get one child who would leave, then another and so on, but that was not what happened. Heavenly father had different plans for us.

He sent us Jacqueline, a happy, bubbly two year old who could talk your ear off. Her birth mother was pregnant and after much deliberation we decided that Jennedy would come into our home too, then I got pregnant and Trenton came along. We adopted the girls out of foster care and they became ours forever.

When we were asked to take Tyler, just 11 months ago, because our girls birth mom was pregnant again, we were not sure if it was what we should do. We had such young children, Trenton was only 8 months and taking on another infant sounded like a lot of work. After much discussion with Joe we decided that Tyler should stay with his siblings and we were told by the state that we would most likely get to adopt him sooner than later.

Well that planned changed.

We instead, were taken on a journey of faith. The birth mother did well, not perfect, but well enough that they will let her have him back. So now he is going back to her.

I wonder what I will say someday to Tyler when he is with us again, (which could very well happen.) When he asks why he did not get to live in a nice home, out of poverty and homelessness. Why he did not get to grow up with a father in his home. Why his sisters got to have a blessed life, raised in the gospel and he didn't.

I understand that his leaving is not my fault, I just hope that he does. If he blames anyone it should be his birth mother who took all of that away from him.

I love him, tonight will be our last night, and it hurts to think about. He is 11 months old, we have had him his whole life, why does he have to leave. It is just so hard. I am crying, my loss is great.

I have spent endless hours feeding him, sleepless nights up comforting him, hours of playing, teaching, loving and now he is leaving. OH It is just not fair!!!!!

Life is unfair! I want him to stay, I worry about the life that he will live, and the trials he will have, I will pray for him everyday as his mother, because I will always be his mother. Always!

OK, I am done rambling.


Tyler Honey,

Mommy loves you. She fought for you. Mommy and Daddy wanted you to stay with us, we hope you come back to us someday and that you can stay with us forever and be sealed to us for all eternity. We will miss, we will try our hardest to see you often and help you when ever you need help. If there was anything we could have done to keep you, we would have, but your birth mother loves you, she really has worked hard to get you back. I know that she will try as hard as she can to be a good mother, but if you ever need me I will always, always be here for you. I will always be your mother too, forever and ever you will be my son.

Love Mommy

My Guy

So Joe and his best friend have been working on a food storage unit for cans. They have been having lots of fun and designing this amazing unit. They have been working on it forever, at least if feels like it to me. So it looks like tonight they may finally finish. Here is the (almost) final product. You load up with cans on the top shelf that rolls to the bottom and so its a can rotation system.
I know there are places that you can buy a unit like this but they are uber expensive. With supplies it cost them about 80 dollars. They will build another for Mike next and get better at it and maybe you can order one two. Who knows how much they would charge for making it but it is pretty cool and I know you want one too. There is even a space for number cans. Oh and they put wheels on the bottom so it can roll where you want to put it, even with it loaded with food.

They are such clever men.

Oh Great

This is a way to common occurrence at our house these days.

The joys of two yr olds

Conversation just now...
Mom-Go brush your teeth
Jen- I need help
Jerika- I'll help you
Jen- no, I no need help
Jerika- ok... that is a cute outfit you have on
Jen- NO! me no outfit
Jerika- I'm saying its cute
Jen- NO! mom! Jerika say me in outfit.
Mom- You are in a an outfit, it means she thinks the clothes you have on are cute
Jen- Me no cute!
Jerika- come on lets go brush our teeth.
Off they go....

I am amazed at how patient Jerika was and how defiant Jennedy was. So fun huh?