Happy New Year 2012

I will do a post on our Christmas later. I took lots of pictures, and since we are all sick again...yes I said we were sick again..I have not had time to upload the pictures. To top it off Kaylee is teething so she is CRABBY! We Are looking forward to what 2012 brings in the Clark house. Hopefully it wont be as full as 2011. With in January last year I lost my sweet Grandma Boeer, and found out about our great surprise Kaylee! We got to witness 4 wonderful weddings of friends and family, and I lost my job 3 weeks before Kaylee was born. It was a year filled with a lot of trials and tribulations. We are very excited on what God has in store for us in 2012! I am hoping we can start the year off with going back to church. I am also hoping we are going into 2012 with a better health record than this December. I don't like to make resolutioms, because I am not good at keeping them. I am just going to call them aspirations. Here is my aspirations for 2012: I want to lose 40 pounds I want to start running and exersising regularly I want to get more involved in the church I want to be a great roll model and Mom for Kaylee Trigger HATES New Years and the 4th because of the fireworks. He is seriously the worst bird dog ever. Right now he is wedged in between me and the recliner with his butt in the air, and his head under the chair. Scratch that he is now in my lap. Everyone have a Happy New Year. I need to go tend to this 3 ring circus in my house!

Happy 3 Months to Kaylee

Kaylee was 3 months old yesterday.  She sure is showing her personality these days.  She can be a feisty little thing...I think she gets it from her Dad ;).  Sorry the pictures are blurry.  I didn't notice it till I downloaded them.  It was hard to take pictures of her this month.  She was either looking at her tutu, or the dogs playing "chew face" behind me.

She loves to talk!  She is very fussy when she is tired, hungry, or not getting her way!  Other than that she is a happy baby.  She is smiling all the time...expect when I take a picture of her.  I am still nursing her about every 3 hours, and she sleeps from 10pm-7am straight.

Diaper size: 1
Weight: She was almost 11 pounds when we went to the doctor a couple weeks ago when she was sick.
Clothes: 3 month

Happy 3 Months to Kaylee!!

Mommy Needs a Sick Day...

So Tuesday was going to be a very busy day for Kaylee and myself.  WAS...I got up before she did and was not feeling great.  My stomach was hurting bad, and I felt nauseous.  Almost like I was pregnant again...good think I wasn't..haha.  I took a shower and got ready before she got up.  Hoping this "feeling" would just shake off and go away.  Right after Kaylee got up it hit me.  I was sick...very sick.  I put my sweats on and got in the bed.  Having food poisoning with a 3 month old is rough.  I have to say I looked really good for being sick.  I put on make up, and even washed and fixed my hair!  My busy day was soon put to a stop.  I had to call Dustin and ask him to come home.  I was in no shape to care for Kaylee.  She was just sitting on our bed in her boppy kicking and thrashing around.  Dustin came home and cared for the both of us.  When he got home his first words were "why do you have your hair fixed and makeup on?"...HA!  Good thing Daddy loves us both lots!!

Yesterday I was feeling a lot better, so I hit the ground running.  I got up and dressed, took Kaylee's 3 month pictures, and ran out the door.  I finished the Christmas shopping, went grocery shopping, helped Dustin take his deer to the processor, and wrapped presents.

Today is my cooking and baking day.  I am making homemade chicken and dumplings, 2 pies, and a homemade pizza for dinner.  I already finished my hen and broth, crust, and a load of laundry.  Kaylee is still sleeping so I figured I better get going on things, before Miss Thing gets up and its hell on wheels.

Fun at Mimi and Poppy's

This weekend my sister and her 2 boys came in from Odessa ( aka the middle of no where Texas). Dustin was hunting in South Texas, and my brother-in-law Charlie was in a blast and cast tournament. On Saturday Kaylee and I got dressed, and made the long 3 mile trip to my parents house. I had her dressed in this cute little reindeer outfit and matching bow Dustin's Aunts gave her.

 When my sister arrived we noticed that a local church was having a Polar Express event at the park by my Mom's. After we got the Reeve's settled, and we cleaned up Kaylee's blow out, we walked to the park to check out the event. Santa happened to be there for pictures.

Ryder had a blast. They had all kinds of activities for kids, and a train! He loved all of it, even story time with Mrs. Clause.

 Sunday we went back for lunch, and shopping. Bear is semi crawling, and he made his way over to talk to his cousin. Haha! He kept trying to touch Kaylee's hair. Ryder kept giving Kaylee kisses, and telling us "Kaylee is my cousin".

 After lunch we decided to venture out to shop. It's not easy shopping with 2 infants and a 3 year old. Only about 40 minutes in Kaylee was on the verge of a breakdown, and Dustin was close to being home.  We headed home to see Daddy's big South Texas buck!  It was a great weekend for everyone.

The Clark Family Christmas Home Tour

I love Christmas time!  Fellowship with family and friends, baking, and giving gifts.  I am so excited for Kaylee's first Christmas.  We are not getting her a whole lot of gifts....mostly cause she will not understand what is really going on.  Next year we will go all out! 

I love to decorate our little home at Christmas time.  This year we put our stuff out the week before Thanksgiving.  I know its not really what you are suppose to do, and this was our first time to do it.  I have to say I am so glad we did.  We travel so much during Thanksgiving seeing family that when we get home on Sunday we are all wore out.  It was nice to come home and just relax.  Here is what the Clark family home looks like this Christmas:

The living room

Family Stockings: the one thing I regret not doing when we built our home is not putting in a fireplace. This is the only time of year I miss having a fireplace. But we do live in Houston, and its only cold a hand full of times. I will just have to make do with our stockings on the window seal.


My Bookshelf's:

 

 The reason for the season:

The Tree:

I have been going back and forth on what I wanted to do as far as Kaylee's ornament.  My Mom started a collection for each of us kids, and I wanted to do the same.  I think I am going to do mine a little different.  I am going to frame a picture in an ornament frame every year with the year and her age.  I have not done her first one yet, because I want it to be the picture of her on Christmas day.

Kitchen:

Dining Room:

 The rest of the house:

 Christmas card tree with nutcrackers: I love looking at every ones cards!

 ...and the best Christmas gift of all!!!

Merry Christmas to all!
From: The Clark's

Go Away RSV

So Dustin's upper respiratory that I spoke about in the last post, you know the NON contagious one???? Yep it was super contagious and was RSV!! Guess who got it...

You got it...Kaylee and myself started to feel bad that Tuesday.  We both immediately went to the doctor.  My doctor gave me a z-pack.  Since I am nursing I am limited on what I can take.  So just in case it turned into a sinus infection, she gave me a z-pack.  Kaylee got checked out, but they told me to just let them know if she runs fever, had upper chest congestion, or quits eating.  Friday when she got up she was super congested.  We called the doctor and they said to sit in the bathroom with the shower running on hot in the steam.  The picture above is when we were hanging out in the "steam room".  We did this about 3 times a day, and I would sing Christmas songs to keep her entertained....or was it to keep me entertained :).  Dustin left after work to go to Lufkin to go hunting.  Later that day Kaylee and I both started to feel worse.  She started to weez, so at 5pm they had me rush her back up to the doctor.  A nurse and doctor from her practice stayed late so they could check her out.  They hooked her up to machines and her oxygen level was at 100%, and after evaluation they sent us back home.  The doctor said if she got worse to call immediately, because she thought she had RSV.  Saturday morning she was coughing and could not catch her breath.  She was breathing really heavy, and threw up everything right after she nursed.  I called again, and they had me bring her in right away.  I was a nervous freaking wreck.  My Mom came over right away to drive me to Texas Children's.  I asked my Mom on the way to the hospital how she always stays so calm.  She is such a strong woman.  She told me that when my brother Brent was born with Spina Bifida that there was no time to freak out.  She would just say to herself "OK what is the next step to fix the problem", and to put your trust in God.  I need to take this advice more often.  It is so true!!  They took us back and hooked her back up to the machines.  Her oxygen was down to 95%, and after she coughed went back up to 100%.  While we were waiting on the doctor the nurse said to go ahead and feed her.  As I was nursing her she started a coughing fit.  This time her face was turning bright red, she was not breathing, and she was choking on flem.  My Mom flew out of the room to get someone.  The nurse flew in and took Kaylee.  She started hitting her back, and she threw up a ton of mucus.  At this point I was HYSTERICALLY crying and freaking out...not good.  Dustin was driving back from Lufkin to meet us at the hospital.  He made it back in record time from the deer stand.  The doctor came in and decided to see how she did with a breathing treatment.  The breathing treatment went extremely well, and really helped her pass the flem.  He told us that she did have RSV, but because I was nursing and she was not running fever that he thought we would do fine from home.  Saturday was rough.  She threw up almost everything she ate from having coughing fits.  She even started running a mild fever.  Sunday was a much better day.  We are defiantly on the down hill side of it.  I am so happy that my little girl is feeling better.  That was super scary.  It makes me feel extremely blessed to have a healthy child.  It also breaks my heart for those parents who have terminally ill children, or children with extreme problems.  They are true hero's.  Although she still hates her breathing treatments, and fights everyone...she is doing much better!

After fighting Mommy for 10 minutes we finally took our treatment and passed out!  We are on the mend!!

Santa

We went to Bass Pro the weekend before last to get Kaylee's first picture with Santa. Dustin was not feeling well that Thursday, so he went to the doctor to find out he had an upper respiratory infection. His doctor said he was not contagious, which we found out was WRONG. I will do another post on that later. By Saturday he said he was up to going to get her pictures, and do a little Christmas shopping. I got Kaylee all dressed up in her "I love Santa" outfit my Mom got her. How cute does she look???

We went to Bass Pro first, and the line was not to long. Kaylee really does not care who holds her, so to her Santa was just another person.  I know next year will be a different story.  I have never seen a child around a year old who was not screaming bloody murder in their Santa photo.  To me those are the best pictures! She was pretty chill, and just chewed on her hand. Ha.

The Santa at Bass Pro was EXTRA jolly. After we left Bass Pro we ran a couple other errands to get Christmas gifts for our families. We we got home Dustin was feeling bad again. He went from bad to worse by the end of the night, and now he was running fever. I wrapped gifts, and hung out with Kaylee for the rest of the night. That Sunday Dustin was still running fever and feeling bad.