Juicy

The past two weeks have been so busy.  It's a good thing Lucy has me trained to function (somewhat) on minimal sleep because between our YW fundraiser, Valentine's Day, buying a car, a trip to the ER, and New Beginnings there wasn't much time for sleeping.

So, yep, we bought a new car.  I AM SO RELIEVED.  I know it sounds dumb that a car can bring such happiness, but seriously, we have been a much happier family since buying it.  I never thought I could love a minivan so much.  No more kids touching each other or kicking our seats, no more stroller crushing Shelby at every turn, and no more fighting with opening doors while trying to get Joey in while holding a car seat.  It is amazing.  Plus, we can watch Princess and the Popstar in the front right along with Joey in the back while we wait in the car line to get Shelby.  Haha!

So Lucy, or "Juicy" as Joey likes to call her, had some...intestinal issues last week.  Not to get too much into it but we basically had to check her diapers all week.  That's always fun.  Then Sunday morning she was running a low fever and she was very lethargic all day.  I could barely wake her up to nurse her and when she did it was only about 5 minutes before she was out again.  Around 9 pm I took her temp again and it was at 101.4.  I called the pediatrician and he told me to bring her in to the ER.  They ran all kinds of tests - urine sample (via catheter), blood tests (via IV), and a spinal tap.  They had to hold her in the same crouching position you have to get in when you have an epidural.  It was so hard to watch but I knew it was necessary to find out what was going on.  It ended up that she has a UTI.  So now she has to have a Voiding Cystourethrogram (VCUG) in a couple weeks.  Basically it is when they insert dye and do an x-ray to make sure all the parts are connected and functioning properly.  I am worried that the tech that did Lucy's ultrasound after she was born missed something and that there actually is something wrong with her kidneys.  So we are doing lots of praying that she is ok.

Sick baby snuggles

Knocked out after being poked and prodded

5 weeks old today and starting to feel better

Aside from all that we are trying to take advantage of my time off and are trying to spend some QT with Joey during the day.  Jeremy had a few lunches reschedule on him this week, so we hopped in the car and had lunch with him those days.  I think Joey felt special since Lucy was asleep, Shelby was at school, and all the attention was on her.

Speaking of Shelby, I love that she is learning how to write.  She spends most of her free time at home writing songs or notes to us.  Here is a song Jeremy found in her room:

 

"I love you and you love me.

We were in love, but now we are not,

so we don't know where this is going."

 



 

And here is a note she wrote to me the other day:

 

 

"I love you but you are my best mom ever.  Best.

You smell like a blossom and you are my mom.

I love you."

 



Lovey

We had a great Valentine's Day this year.  I have been slightly busy and didn't make any super cute Valentine's for Shelby to take to school like I wanted.  In fact, we didn't even make it to the store to buy Valentine's until Wednesday.  No worries, though.  There were still plenty of generic cartoon themed Valentine's to choose from.  Shelby scoured the isle and chose a Brave themed card.  When we got home she excitedly wrote the names of her classmates on each of the cards. 

At midnight Shelby came down from bed.  I was sitting on the couch and felt someone standing behind me.  I looked back to find Shelby standing there with a goofy grin.  I asked her what she was doing and she exclaimed, "I'm just so excited!  I want to go to school right now!".  Hahaha!  She is too funny.

I was able to make it to Shelby's school for her party.  I love kindergartners.  They are all so funny and random.  The little boys in her class were cracking me up.  They would say things like, "You look pretty, Shelby's mom", or "Shelby's mom, did you have a baby?".  I loved getting to help out and to be there to see the kids open each of their Valentine's and read them. 

 

When Shelby got home from school we let the girls open their presents.  We actually only got them some activity books and some cake pops that we ordered from the YW.  Aunt Alex got them the Ken doll and Barbie car for Christmas.  But since she had already bought them the Barbie dream house for Christmas we just hid the other stuff in the closet and waited til now to give it to them.  So thank you for the Christmas AND Valentine's Day presents, Alex!  Lol.

 

 



For dinner we had our traditional Valentine's Day fondue.  Not quite the melting pot, but it was good.  The girls liked their "love potion" (strawberry milk) until I told Shelby it was Cupid's pee.  She did not think that was funny at all.

 

 



AND, yesterday Lucy turned FOUR weeks old!  Isn't it funny how time flies so fast yet it still feels like I JUST came home from the hospital with her?  I tried to get some pictures of her but I am terrible at trying to get any decent newborn/infant shots.  Oh well.

 

 

Fun Stuff

It has been a long week full of church stuff and the girls were getting kind of sick of it.  So to help them cope with the fact that I was going to be gone all night for a third night in a row Jeremy took them on a daddy/daughter date at the bowling alley.  I am pretty sure they forgot all about me once they walked inside the doors.  Jeremy said they had a great time and took some video of each of them. 

Shelby made me laugh because Fred Flinstone's it and runs and then throws the ball.  I also loved how she got on the floor to watch her ball, then celebrated with a booty dance.

 

 

Joey makes me laugh because Jeremy said her ball would go sooooo slowly down the lane that she would get bored and either sit down or lay down and watch it.  Too funny.

 

Joey has been begging us every day for the past month or so to take her to the zoo, but it has been too cold, and then we had a baby.  Last Saturday we had gorgeous weather, but I was exhausted and couldn't even get myself ready before 2 pm, so it didn't happen.  I felt so bad all week because I really wanted them to be able to get out of the house and do something fun.  So today, even though it was cold, gray, and there was a chance of rain, we went to the zoo anyway.  We had to bundle up, but it was great that there were no crowds and we could let Joey out of the stroller to run without fear of her getting lost in a crowd.  Lucy slept peacefully in the stroller the whole time. 

 

 

This gorilla made me so sad.  He was sitting with his hand on the door, just waiting to be let out.  We were literally face-to-face with him in the glass and he just stared into our eyes with this sad expression. 

I have been trying to get more pictures of Lucy when she is awake, but photographing newborns is hard!!

So I got this really blurry shot of Lucy and realized how much it looks like me in these (also blurry) pictures from 1982.

 

 

 

 

 

Three Weeks

I really have no real update.  I have been busy with church stuff this week (tonight will be the third night in a row of being out til late at the church) which means Lucy comes with me and just hangs out (sleeps), which in turn means she wakes up as soon as I get home and then wants to be awake (not crying, but just awake) til 2 am.  Sigh.  At least she is cute!

Shelby's 100th Day of School shirt

Sisters!

Lucy is the only one of the three that has taken a paci.