Our Family – Page 132 – Andelin Adventures

Bedroom Make-Over

All winter long, Kyle says “We need to get some flannel winter sheets.” And this summer he has said over and over “We need to get some summer sheets.” So we found a bedding set that has some silky sheets, and it’s a solid color so it shouldn’t be too hard to find matching flannel sheets, and our room has been transformed.

Our bed as it was:

This is one of Chewy’s favorite places to be, curled up on our pillows, basking in the warm sun:

And this is our bed as it is now:

I love that Kyle and I both love purple! 🙂 And now it’s time to be looking out for purple flannel sheets!

Happy 28th

I turned 28! I am now half as old as my dad is. 🙂 (He texted me last night to point that out to me.) This year’s birthday was much better than last year’s (last year we spent my birthday searching the neighborhood for Dinah remember?).

Saturday Kyle took the kids out shopping to get mommy a present.

School Pictures

Ethan and Tyra’s school pictures for this year have come!

Ethan-2nd grade:

Tyra-1st grade:

Aren’t they cute? Tyra’s hair was cuter when she left the house that morning. When I was in school, on picture day I remember there being someone right there on the scene that would run a comb through your hair and get it all fixed up right before the picture was taken (not hair styling, but touch ups) I guess they don’t do that anymore??? She’s cute anyways. 😛 And Ethan actually had a good smile, last year he kind of had a goofy smile. 🙂

Coming Spring 2011…

BABY # SIX!

Back in August I was awaiting my monthly cycle and when I felt like it was late I mentioned to Kyle that I was tempted to make a run to the store to get a test. Kyle looked me in the eyes and said “You are NOT pregnant”. I said “Fine but if I haven’t started by the time you get off work Monday will you get me a test?” He said he would, but he made me promise that I wouldn’t wake up in the middle of the night and take the test, he told me I had to wait until Tuesday morning. Fine!

So Monday still no cycle and Kyle got me a test and I woke up early Tuesday morning and took the test and it was POSITIVE! I went to wake Kyle up to tell him to take a shower and get ready for work, and then I said “And by the way, I took the test” and he said “And?” I said “It’s positive”. He sat up and had this look on his face like he was trying to figure out if he was still dreaming or if what I just said was reality. He was just SHOCKED.

Now I find that really funny because for the past few months before this we have been in a state of not trying to get pregnant, but we had also decided there was no reason to avoid a pregnancy either. I’m young, my body handles pregnancy and delivery very well. And financially we are doing better now than we’ve ever been at the time of conception. So either way having 5 kids was fine but there was no reason to be afraid of having another. He KNEW that we weren’t avoiding pregnancy so you’d think that he would have realized that that meant a pregnancy would be very likely, but he was still in complete shock. 😛

So now I’m 12 weeks along. Morning sickness is yucky, and I think it has hit harder this time than in past pregnancies. There have actually been a few days where I just could not get up to do anything, but had to get up to at least make sure the kids didn’t do anything dangerous. However I feel very lucky that even though I FEEL like throwing up, I never actually do throw up, so that is something to be happy about. And I’m getting to the point where morning sickness should be going away soon anyways, thankfully. My poor house (which was cluttered before getting pregnant) is just messy now because I haven’t been able to keep up with the daily messes. So when I say goodbye to morning sickness, I’ll be saying hello to getting the house back in order!

So excited to be having another baby. I have always enjoyed being pregnant. My due date is May 6th, so I’m hoping this one comes about 2 weeks early like the last 3 have, so that it will be born in April instead. 🙂

Chicken Pox :(

Well we’ve made it 7 1/2 years as parents and have never had to deal with chicken pox before (aside from when we had it as children of course). Ethan came to me after putting pajamas on a couple of weeks ago saying “Mom, I have a whole bunch of bug bites that weren’t there this morning. They happened while I was at school.” My first thought was WHY would a bug be crawling all over just YOU at school? So I asked him to show me. When I saw them I instantly thought “Chicken pox!” Now the last time that I had ANY exposure to chicken pox was more than 17 years ago, I’m no expert at what they look like or diagnosing it, but really that was the only way that I could explain so many spots appearing in such a short time. I called the after hours doctor, and spoke to a nurse. She told me that based on my description of the spots that they didn’t sound like chicken pox and there really wasn’t anything they could do about them. OK FINE!

The next morning, Saturday, I had Kyle inspect the spots as well and I insisted that Ethan go to the urgent care to have a doctor actually look at them and tell me what they are. Well they WERE chicken pox. Ethan has had both the chicken pox vaccine and the booster shot so his case was very mild. We missed stake conference, Sunday then he missed school Monday, but all of his spots had broken and were scabbed over by Tuesday morning so he was good to go back to school. Then life was good. Or so we thought…..

This past Saturday we were at Granny’s house, and while Kyle was holding Chloe, Granny pointed out a spot on the side of her head and said “oh she’s got a zit”. One spot no big deal, it could have been a zit, or a bug bite….

Sunday morning Kyle went to get Chloe out of bed and brought her into our room saying “I wonder why she’s breaking out.” She had more spots on her face, then he unzipped her jammies to change her diaper and there were other spots on the rest of her body too. Dang it! It’s gotta be chicken pox! Only thing though, is that Chloe has NOT had the vaccine! Her doctor was being lame and I decided not to go back there and I haven’t made an appointment with another doctor yet to take her in for her vaccines that she should have got at 12 months (Bad mommy! I know!). The varicella vaccine would have been one of those shots. Chloe has been coming up with new spots every day since. It makes me feel horrible to see her like this, knowing full well that had I actually just taken her in she wouldn’t have a full blown case of the chicken pox. 🙁

But in a way I guess it’s good that I got to see the difference between chicken pox with the vaccine and chicken pox with out….. Ethan only had a few patches on his belly, his back and neck, a few spots on his face and a few on his arms and legs. Chloe has them everywhere! All over her face and scalp, and all over her body and arms and legs and all over her bum. 🙁 SO SAD!

Washing her face and hands after a meal is so hard. Normally if there is a bump on her face it’s food that is stuck there and I get to pick it off. Right now I have to be careful about what I’m picking off her face.

At least I know that if any of the other kids get it, they’ve all had the vaccine so they won’t get it this bad. Thankfully.