Sick & Tired of being Sick & Tired

Not much of a productive week. Grayson started coughing last Tuesday and by Wednesday he had full blown croup. It was a rough week to say the least. Heath was commuting to Denver and Colorado Springs all week so was pretty much gone all day each day. Grayson had high temps and of course the worst cough that I have EVER heard. He sounded like a barking seal! This would in turn cause him to throw up every time he hit a coughing spell so that was fun to clean up every hour. The motrin would perk him up for a few hours but then he would poop out again pretty hard. By Thurs afternoon I new it was time for a doctor's visit. They gave me a prescription for two doses of steroids (the first of which he spit out most of). We definitely saw him starting to turn around by Friday afternoon however this is when the whining set it and hasn't ended since. ughhhh It is so hard when kids are sick. He slept with Heath and I all week which means of course we got NO sleep. So we eventually new that Lauren was next in line and sure enough by Saturday afternoon her temp had spiked and now she to is coughing and battling the same symptoms. It just sucks to see your kids sick. At one point last night we had both of them in bed with us - not fun. My night stand looked like a hospital room with humidifiers, medicine, vicks, sippy cups, etc. We opted out of church and all of Heath's meetings today and just relaxed, and now Heath is not feeling to hot. Braxton called from her mom's to say that she has been throwing up and has a fever as well. Man when this stuff goes around it really travels fast! I guess I would rather get it over with now then drag on for weeks. All I know is I pray that I don't get hit with it or this house will turn upside down! :) One funny thing that Grayson has done this week is introduce to us his new desire for showers. He wants to take one every morning and night! He calls them "shi shoies" - yea not sure where he got that from. Anyway, he comes up to us as soon as he wakes up in the morning and every evening and then walks us over to the gate to go down to the bathroom and said - momma shi shoies shi shoies - it's cute, but getting old. And he doesn't exactly take short showers! It's hysterical!

Heath was able to go to Darrian's basketball game Saturday and reported that for the first time they won (8 to 4) and Darri scored 2 points!!! yeahhhh! Braxton bowled in a little tournament later that day and did very well as well. The girls both love to bowl! We haven't been with them in ages, but plan on going again soon.

Last Friday Grayson's speech therapist was over and we were all sitting on the playroom floor. We were trying to go over a few basic words with Grayson wich happen to be number. Well Lauren about blew us all out of the water when she started to count! She had poured her cookie crisp cereal out of the bowl and was picking each one up putting it back in the bowl and counting - oneeeee, twoooooo, threeeee....well by the time she got to 5 I about fell over and thought - oh my word my baby just counted to 5!!!! Well she didn't stop there - the little stinker went all the way to flippin 10!!!!! I said 10!!!! I thought I was going to have a heartattack, had to run grab Heath, the video camera and of course catch all this on tape! Well sure enough she did it again - and again - and again! Let me just say....way to go Blues Clues! We work with the kids on their basic words read to them alot, etc but have never thought to start counting with them! We were so excited!!!

Well I will sign off with a huge Thank You to Gail Glenn and one anonymous person out there. Last wednesday night we had our doorbell rang and when we opened it there was a box with dinner for our family in it along with two heart balloons and note that says "somebody loves you". I had only talked to a couple of people that day who knew that we were having a rough time with Grayson being sick - so I have my suspicions as to who it could be - but nevertheless it was so nice to have someone think of us and go out of their way to make sure my family had a nice dinner that evening. Then as if that wasn't nice enough......there is the wonderful and totally awesome Gail Glenn . She and I are Activity Day leaders together - and I am a much better person for just knowing her!!!! Well she brought our family dinner on Saturday night. And can I just say in both cases Heath had JUST SAID so what are we having for dinner tonight.......and NO JOKE with in a minute both times - the doorbell rang with our food! We have great friends here and feel so fortunate to know that people care about us! Thanks again!!!!

Basketball and Karaoke anyone?

So I hope I spelled karaoke right...at least that's what the spell checker said it should be. Anyway, we had a good, long and very busy weekend as usual. The highlight of course had to be our little Darri and her bastketball game!! This by far was one of the BEST games. Darrian scored 2 points and made us so proud. Her first game basket ever. I had to jump out of my seat when she did it. These girls are a riot and there is no other way to say it. The entire game is intense and hysterical! You are constantly on the edge of your seat and I could watch these girls play all day. Darrian is getting more aggressive with her blocking skills, however she was blocking a girl at least 4 inches taller than her this game. It looked more like she was going to give her a hug everytime she tried to block her. Then let's talk about the precious little girl from the other team who's blocking tenique took the cake!!! We laughed soooo hard when we would witness the "fan". This little girl would get right up in Darrian's face - we're talking like and inch from her nose and take her hands and move them so fast back and forth right in front of Darrian's face you would have thought she was on fire and this girl was trying to cool her off. After a few more "fanning attempts" to block the Darrian, her coach had to tell her to back off a bit. Poor Darri was like what the heck is this girl doing to me. I am still sitting here laughing outloud at my computer thinking about it. It was the funniest thing ever! Anyway, here are a few snap shots from Darrian's big day.....my camera is not good with distance or motion shots - but you'll get the idea.

So the girls have a Karaoke machine in their bedroom. The mic doesn't work anymore but they still love using it anyway. The twins have been spending a little more time in the girls room lately, which was previously off limits. I walked into their room to find Lauren singing into the mic and of course shortly there after Grayson had to have his turn. I have no idea what they were saying but they were definitely singing!!! A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E. While Grayson was deciding which song he was going to sing next, Lauren wanted to do a little ring aorund the rosie with her sisters.

So our week was pretty good - the girls had Thurs and Friday off because of parent teacher conferences so it was nice that they were around to play with their cousins and spend time with Grammie & Grampie Morby. Last week however Heath's iPod shut down on the way to the gym and we could not get it to come back on for anything. Anyway after calling the Apple store (in Boulder about 45 min from here) I found out that they would exchange it for free since it was w/in the one year warrenty. So I load up 4 kids and drive 45 min, unload in 30 degree weather, hike thru and outdoor mall only to find out that the stinkin thing just needed to be reset! ughhhhhh Don't ya think that would have been the first thing the little Apple tech would have asked me over the phone!!!! Especially knowing I was looking at almost a two hour round trip to go to the stupid store. Anyway, I was at least happy to know that it wasn't broke yet irritated that I had to make the trek to BOULDER to find out! Anyway, it did end up paying off anyway. My doctor's office is in between here and there and I had been putting off going to get my annual blood work done. Back in Dec when they did my cardiology check up the Dr. determined that my heart function had actually decreased by 5 - 10%. Nothing to alarm them but reaffirmed the need for me to stay in my medicine. ughhhhh Each year I hope that I will go in and they will say - Mrs. Morby you are cured - no more meds! Yea no! Not going to happen any time soon apparently. So they need to check my kidney funtion and magnesium levels. Whatever. Anyway, well that is enough for now. Sunday evening and time to go relax. My in-laws spent the evening with us and we had a nice dinner. They will be leaving for Idaho tomorrow.

Until next time........

My baby girl pooped!

On the potty - yes she did! We have been letting her wear big girl undies around the house a couple of hours a day. She proved to us this past weekend she was capable of a little tinkle in the potty. Well today she ran up w/o her diaper on saying "mommy mommy" holding her bottom....I said do you have to go pee pee....she said no "poopy mommy"! And sure enough she did. Man this is great! Never thought I would get excited when my kids went to the bathroom.....but I guess it's those little things as a parents hit our soft spots. We of cousre made a huuuuuge production out of it. And for the next 10 minutes she was running around the house jumping up and down clapping saying "yeap mommy poopy poopy mommy". HYSTERICAL! Wish I could bottle this stuff up and save it in a jar!


As for Grayson......we are on day two of him dressing himself. Well we were a bit more lenient today - well very as you can see. We had his clothes all picked out....and when he saw his big sisters bike helmut and of cousre his FAVORITE dress shoes.....it was all over. This is seriously what he wore today - I am not joking.



So my in laws came into town yesterday (Monday). We always enjoy when they come over. We especially enjoy their free babysitting services. :) Grayson is FINALLY starting to warm up to grampie - they look like twins anyway so it shouldn't be that difficult. He was handing out kisses tonight to everyone. It was adorable! It will be nice to spend the next few days with them especially since the girls have two days off school this week. They love hanging out with their grammie and grampie and cousins.



And one last thing.....I was introduced to a blog that my friends cousin created called blogs2books. You can find a link to their website (software) at the bottom of the ride side of my blog. What this program does is allow you to save and print all your blog postings. I had been thinking that I wished there was a program out there like this that would allow me to print off all of my entries so that I could put them in a binder. Well this is it. blogs2books does just that and is free! It is very easy software to install and use. I plan on printing out my posts about every 3 months and then filing them chronologically in a binder so that the kids have them to look back on someday. Heath's grandpa Deschamps was natorious for writing short stories or having his kids/grandkids write a letter to him and then filed them all in binders. Now that he is no longer with us and of course years have past....it's really neet to go through these binders when we visit Heath's parents in Malad. I can barely remember what I did last week let alone years ago. So anyway I just wanted to put a plug in for blogs2books if there is any other bloggers out there that would be interested.


Well time to get the kiddos in the bath! Hope everyone has a great Valentine's Day. And for those of you married out there - hopefully your spouse didn't ask you to pick our your own Valentine's Day card like mine did! haa :)

I'm going back to Cali......

I am so excited....I am going to Sacramento next month! I have been thinking about going for a long time but it just seems there is never a good time to leave home. And since of course it is a 4 day round trip drive you always want to make the stay worth your while. We have a crazy month ahead of us and quite a few church obligations through the beginning of March......but then after that I have made myself clear for take off! Heath will drive me and the twins out over Easter weekend and then he will fly back. He has been so busy with his new job that a couple weeks to himeself with the girls will probably do him some good. He is also going back to Atlanta for training for the beginning of April. So needless to say I will be setting up shop for a while at the grandparents house! I can't wait to see them!!!! I love living here but miss the frick out of my grandparents. It will be good for the twins to be able to play with their cousins also and spend some time with our CA family. My grandma Marlene may be flying out to Sac while we are there as well. Should be good times!

So it's been a long weekend. Seems like we had a thousand committments. Darrian had another basketball game Saturday. I am very proud to annouce that they actually scored this game. For some reason every single girl on the other team just towered over our girls. They had some tall girls! Anyway, Darrian was the most aggressive that I have ever seen her, but I will still never understand why she dribbles with both hands (she is right handed). Here is a cute pic of her after the game. Final score 25 to 8 (Darrian's team 8). Here is pic of the twins at the game. They typically set up shop on the bleachers with their note pads. Maybe their trying to keep score, who knows. :)

So I went ahead and decided to buy sissy some big girl underwear with "My Little Pony" on them - or her "woes woes" as she calls them. She is far from potty training but I thought we would kick start the process a bit. I put them on here Sat night and the first thing she did was say "mommy pee pee" - well wouldn't ya know it....after about 10 minutes of playing on the potty chair......she actually went! I was so stinkin excited. I also bought buddy a pair of boxer briefs (adorable) and he wanted nothing to do with them. Baby steps I guess. Here is sissy modeling her new undies.

Grayson is still running the show. We made waffles for breakfeast the other morning and he insisted on having his own knife and "big people" fork. It is so cute to see him want to try these things on his own and so frustrating at the same time because he is so head strong and of course ends up making a huge mess. It's his way or no way!

And as for this morning.....well Grayson is going through yet another phase. For the last couple of weeks we have been lucky to keep socks on him let alone clothes. So we thought if we let him start to pick out his own clothes in the morning (with some gentle persuasion on our part so he doesn't look like a total clown) then at least he will get dressed. Well today we found out that this may not be the route to go afterall. He picked out ALL his clothes (down to the shoes and socks) and this is what he came up with. Let's start first with the shirt that is on backwards......the camo pants that are size 18 months and 3 inches too short and the church sweater. Then we had to top it all off with the blue socks and the black penny loafers for church. He was so proud of himself. Here are some snapshots.

Just another week

Well things are going good - nothing too exciting to report. We have been busy as usual but I did take on a new project this week. Last weekend the girls and I went to a friends house for a girls night out and she had decorated her daughters room in the most adorable bedding decor ever! Of cousre I fell in love with it so much I had to run right out to Target and buy it for the Braxton and Darrian. We spent most of the weekend gutting their room and organizing alllllll of the clothes and toys. Alot of work but sure felt good when we were done! Anyway, I made new curtains for their room in black w/white polkadot fabric to match the black poladot ribbon the bedspread (the pic of the valance looks really bad because it's so dark) and then repainted a bunch of knick knacks around their room to tie in with the new color scheme. Here is a pic of their new bedding. What you don't see is a dresser that we moved back into their room from the spare room and I made a cute message board and some other fun stuff for their walls. They did have those cute mesh netting things that went over their beds but they decided that they were just getting in their way. I still plan on making them some cute throw pillows with the fabric I had left over from the curtains.

Heath went to Denver for meeting on Monday but has been home the rest of the week working. It is so nice to have him here but still an adjustment because I'm just use to him being gone everyday. It's great though because if I have to run a quick errand or go pick the girls up from school then I don't have to load up the twins to do it or interupt their nap schedule. Grayson is doing great with his speech therapy. He has added "lella" (which is short for Cinderella) to his vocab, along with "Eka" (short for Erica) and "fiffy" (short for fishy). It's been great watching his development. Grandma Marlene recently sent the kids a little package for Valentines Day and included the new Cinderella II movie. Now all Lauren says is - "momma watch Lella 2" It's adorable!

Darrian had her second basketball game last Saturday. It is such a riot to see these little girls try so hard to make these baskets and block each other. After the first 5 minutes the coach called a timeout and she askes them who wants to be rotated out, ALL THE GIRLS said they wanted out! haaa I thought that was so funny. She said well the entire team can't sit out. But I am proud to say that our little Darrian stayed in for most of the game. We had a couple of minor injuries and of course girls running down court in the wrong direction, but it is still great to watch and awesome for these girls to be participating in! Final score - 20 - 0 (Darrian's team zero!)

Well I will sign off with these pics of the twins eating applesauce the other night. I left the room and came back to this! What was I thinking?!?!?!

A Tribute to our Wonderful Prophet

As many of you may know, our beloved Prophet President Gordon B. Hinckley passed away last Sunday Jan 27th. His service is being aired today, Saturday Feb 2nd, on the BYU channel. Here is a a video tribute to President Hinckley that my friend Michelle had on her blog. I loved it so much I had to include it on mine. REMEMBER: PAUSE my music player before you hit "play" on the video so you can hear it! Enjoy!

Jim Gaffigan and Hot Pockets

So my mom gave Heath a video for his birthday of comdedian Jim Gaffigan. I had never heard of him before but she had seen him on tv and said it was hysterical and clean. We watched it and he was! I found this particular clip of his take on "hot pockets" and had to post it. It was one of the funniest parts of his DVD and to this day we crack ourselves up over flippin hot pockets! It's only a few minutes but worth it! Don't forget to PAUSE my music player before playing the video! Enjoy.