Today was the first day of school for Baylie and Kylie. Kylie will be going to middle school and Baylie will be going to high school. I can't believe how fast they have grown. They looked so beautiful! I am a proud momma!

So tired of my kids being sick!!

I am soo frustrated and starting to feel like I am just a horrible mom! It seems like my kids are always sick! Especially Zander! Ever since August it seems like he constantly has a cold. He will have about two weeks of feeling better and than he is sick again! I do not know what I am doing wrong... I make sure he eats either fruits or vegetables with every meal and he definitely gets plenty to eat. I always dress him warm and when we go out he always wears a coat and hat. When he gets over a cold I wash all of his bedding, sanitize all of his toys and everything he may have touched and still he gets sick over and over again! This last time he was better for 5 days and now his nose is way yucky again. Any one have any advice?? It's so weird.. for the first 10 months of his life he was hardly ever sick and now he spends more time sick than healthy. Thank goodness he is not prone to ear infections or we would really be in trouble!

Baylie's first competition

Saturday Baylie had her first competition. They did so awesome! They took first place in their division!! I was so proud of her and the rest of the angels!!

It's been awhile!

I can't believe how long it has been since I have posted!!! Here are some updated on the Fam... Zander turned one on the 6th of this month (can you believe it?) He has been walking since September and has become a real pro at it. He is still as cute as ever and has such a funny little personality. Baylie was made cheer captian and is pretty excited about that. She just got her performance outfit and it only cost us $320.00 (gag, choke!!) Kylie is getting pretty excited for Halloween and is going to be a fairy princess, Zander is going to be a turtle :) I will post some pictures! Not much else exciting going on around here, sorry we are pretty boring.

Crawling!!!

Well, Zander is now mobile! He started crawling last week. He was pretty spastic there for a couple of days but now he has the hang of it and is zooming around the house. His favorite thing to do is chase his big bouncy ball around the kitchen floor, it is so cute. He is alot more self-entertaining now too since he no longer has to depend on us to get him from point A to point B. He sure is growing fast, he will be 8 months old on Saturday. And best news of all..... He is sleeping through the night consistently....we are on 11 nights in a row now. He has woken up a couple times in the night but we just leave him and with 5 min. or less he is back to sleep. It has been heaven!!

So boring!

I have been a terrible blogger lately! There just isn't anything exciting going on these days. We had a little set back with Zander and the sleeping through the night thing. He did so good for about 2 weeks then he started waking up around 1 or 2 and would NOT go back to sleep. We would get him out and rock him and he would just fight us the whole time so we would tell him night, night and put him back in his crib and walk out and he would scream for 1-2 hours. So I decided that I wasn't even going to get him out of his bed, I was just going to walk in, pat him on the back and say "Go back to sleep, I love you." and walk back out. The first time I did this he cried for 15 min. and went back to sleep until 6:45, (yeah! I have to say I did not expect that) and the next night he slept through the night. Than last night he woke up at 5, I patted his back and walked out and he cried for 40 min, than fell asleep until 8. I hate letting him cry! But I know that if I keep giving in I will never get any sleep. I hope one of these days he will start sleeping through the night consistantly, I never know what to expect from him when I go to bed at night. Baylie was really sick all last week, she had a really bad cough and would cough through the night. Every time she coughed I would just cringe and hope that Zander didn't get woken up. She is all better now thank goodness. She missed a whole week of school and wouldn't you know it was the week they did core testing so now she has lots to make up! Poor kid.