Birthday Pictures

Here is Andrew trying out his new camera. The boys loves to take pictures. Thanks grandma & grandpa.

Opening some presents.

Blowing out the candles. Can you see the spit stream coming out of his mouth? Yeah, the cake was extra yummy!!!

Climbing at the beach.

Making sand castles.

Jake did not like the beach so much.

Everyone checking out the ocean as Jake runs for his life. The loud crashing ways scared him.

Happy 3rd Birthday Andrew!!!

Happy birthday my dear sweet son. I can not believe that 3 years ago I got to see you come into this world and you have been then center of it ever since. 3 years, so hard for me to believe. You are an amazing boy. So full of life and energy. Very inquisitive and brilliant (I am not bias at all). You are a lefty, we were unsure for so long but it is obvious now. Now that your binky has been gone for a few months now you talk like crazy and I love to hear the way you pronounce so many words. Soooooo adorable. You are wearing a size 5T and 10 in shoes. Such a big boy. Also you are incredibly coordinated and love sports. Baseball & football are your favorites. I love you so much and feel incredibly blessed to be your mother. Thank you for being my son and

I will post again later when I download pictures and give details of all the birthday fun.

Park Fun

Warning!!! Lots of cute pictures of my boys. We went to the park on Saturday. It has finally cooled off enough that we can do that. October and some days we are still hitting triple digits but last weekend cooled down to the 80's. It was so nice. Anyway, the boys had a blast running and playing. As you can see Jacob is able to hold his own at the park now too. It takes Kyle and I both to keep up with the 2 kids. So enjoy the pictures.

Hair Cuts

The boys got hair cuts today. Aren't they just handsome? It sure takes a lot of work to get them to let us cut their hair but I love it when it is done. There is a lot of tears & bribery involved. The joys of parenthood.

J-E-T-S

Jets! Jets! Jets! Well football season is here and we are loving it. The Jets have Brett Favre as QB - how cool is that? It is hard to be fans of a NY team when you live on the west coast. We don't get to see many games. But now that we have Brett they might show a few more. Here are a few pictures of cute Jets boys. Also BYU is awesome so far this year. Let's hope they continue winning and we can make burst a BCS bubble. I loved how they destroyed UCLA today 59 - 0. Yup that score is right. Here is to a great football season.

Andrew Update

Well Andrew is doing much better. He fought the fever for a couple of days but it is gone and he is back to his normal wild self. We are so happy for this. The pediatrician said it was probably a virus that caused the fever and pretty much told us the same stuff as the ER doc. We will be watching and treating fevers much more aggressively now but other than that life continues on.

But of course now Jacob is sick. He has a pretty good cold. His fever got up over 101 today and we were right on it. Poor kid is so stuffed up and snotty. Hopefully it will pass quickly and they can both head back to day care on Tuesday.

Febrile Seizure

So we had a scare of a lifetime last night. After daycare Andrew seemed tired and clingy but we just thought he was tired from starting back to day care full time. Then about 8:30 pm he was burning up. We took his temp and it was 102.3. So Kyle headed to the other room to get some medicine and I finished getting him ready for bed. Which took about a minute and then he started having a seizure. I freaked out and started yelling for Kyle to call 911 because this had never happened before and I was scared to death. Luckily the police dept. & fire dept. are right around the corner and were here so fast. They said it was a febrile seizure. That is a seizure that is caused by a fever spiking really high really fast. I rode in the ambulance down to the hospital while Kyle found someone to come stay with Jake (thanks Maude) and then came down with us. Kyle parents also drove the hour and a half to be here. They came to see Andrew first and then headed to the house to take over for Maude and stayed with Jake until we got home. The doctor thought Andrew had an infection that cause the fever which caused the seizure but they never found an infection. Poor kid had chest x-rays, 2 rectal temps. taken, suppository Tylenol, and a catheter. Let's just say he was not a happy camper but he was a trooper. We finally got sent home about 1:00 am with the instructions to alternate Tylenol and Motrin every 4 hours. Of course we were paranoid about him sleeping and didn't really get much sleep because we just wanted to monitor him to make sure it didn't happen again. Kyle has been with him all day and his temp. has been up and down with the medicine. Tomorrow we have an appointment with his pediatrician and we'll see what he has to say.


Apparently these febrile seizures are common and normal in children 6 months to 6 years old. Well I can tell you there is nothing common or normal about watching your child go through this. I am still scared to death to take my eyes off him. I just pray it never happens again but if it does at least I will be a little more prepared. I am sure just as scared but more prepared.