a week of help

Since my cousins daughter, Sarah, has been here to help me all week we have managed to work with Zacheus our miniature horse. Kayla rode him around the backyard once and decided that was enough riding and doesn't want to get on again : ). Thats ok she'll have plenty of opportunity for horses in her life I'm sure. Sarah has been a great help this week with the kids too. She has been getting the worst of the worst and has now learned to keep a burp rag with her at all times and we won't even talk about the diaper leaking moments.
Eric is almost 2 months old now and is still growing well however he does have some issues to deal with. He will be having therapy with Physical and occupational therapists multiple times per month for a while. He is a little weak and needs to build strength so he can eat better. We'll update as we know more about his struggles right now we are really just trying to sort it all out. We are thankful that he is growing so well. He has an amazing focus and communicates with his eyes incredibly well for a tiny baby. He loves to be talked to and singing calms him down instantly most of the time (in conjuction with a full belly and being held).
Tonight was full of adventure when we (all 5 of us) piled into the truck and towed the horse trailer with Zach the pony out to the property to trade horses to keep here at the house. Greg needed to do more work on plumbing on our new house but when we arrived we found there had been a water leak and our new house was flooded! All of the linoleum was a couple inches deep in water and the water had been draining through the floor vents and underneath the double wide was flooded but thankfully it didn't seem to go far onto the carpet and dried quickly once the water was turned off. When we got in the truck to come home loaded with a different horse the truck wouldn't run well and we lurched and jumped as the truck sputtered and choked all the way home but at least we made it. Greg and I returned to the new house to clean up the water on the floors and found them to be almost dry Praise the Lord. I don't think we'll have any floor damage at least I hope not.
Well that is our update I keep thinking I'll update more but it doesn't seem to be happening. I'll try to get more pics of this week up with Sarah and the horses and kids.

yardsale

I am finally getting around to posting here. Last week we focused on gathering junk for a yardsale. We held our yardsale saturday even though we didn't get an ad in the paper. We brought in a few hundred dollars which was very helpful since we are currently without reg. income. We sold our tables and chairs so now we are using TV trays until we move to our new house where we have a table with chairs that are just too big to fit in our current dining room. We sold the table and chairs we have for more than we bought the ones for our new house for so I am calling our yardsale a success. We also cleared a lot of junk out that we didn't want to move and we survived the hot July day.

Eric has gained weight and is becoming a little chunk. Today he weighed 9lb 5oz so that is a 2lb gain since his birth weight and he is now 6 weeks old. Kayla is growing up and talking more and more everyday. She is both undressing herself and dressing herself now. This morning she was wearing coral colored shorts with a yellow shirt and two pink socks but not matching ones and green sandals! She always likes to find shoes to wear to bed and we usually find her wearing mismatched shoes and socks in the morning when we wake up. Her big accomplishment for the week is that she is sleeping in her toddler bed with no gate on her bedroom door to contain her. She is doing a great job. The picture of her I'm posting is from the 4th of July carnival, she loved the bean bag toss. You can see in the picture of Eric how much he has grown.

fun in the sun

Kayla stole the hearts of all who watched the kids parade at the park on July 4th. With her daddy's help she took her car (decorated by mommy) through the parade with loud squeels saying "Wheeeee". She even made the evening news. You can watch the news clip at http://www.myvictoriaonline.com/content/view/979483/7/







Eric weighed 8lb 5oz at his weekly checkup! This was a big gain from last weeks weight check. He is eating well and doing fantastic in every way. Now maybe he'll grow into some of his clothes!

No blood clot

Well, after lots of running around yesterday between the hospital and the Dr. clinic I learned that I do not have a blood clot! Yay, I'm glad that is over. I do not have to continue to give myself shots and just have to check back in at the Dr. office today if I still have symptoms and thurs if my symptoms dissappear today. What an annoyance this whole thing has turned out to be.
Eric appears to be going through a growth spurt and seems to be doing really well. He has now decided he wants to eat all the time and is eating lots! This is a good thing for him but is wearing me out!
Kayla spent most of yesterday playing with Grandma Johnson. She has taken on a new favorite activity of putting puzzles together and is very good at it. We are enjoying watching her sort out puzzle pieces when there are a few puzzles all combined. She has no trouble with it and does the puzzles over and over again. Her other favorite activity right now is to draw and you can't trick her by giving her a pen that doesn't work either : )
I'm hoping for a day of normalcy today so we'll see how it goes.