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I took Keziah to a new dr for her 2 month check up. I really like her. She is giving us Diflucan for the thrush (her other dr said no to that), which means hopefully we will be over that in a week or two. Yeah! Anyway, here are her stats. 2 months Height - 23" - 55% (So she is finally back up to her birth length!) Weight - 12 lbs 1 oz - 65% So, she is bigger then Raquelle was, but smaller then Titus...just like I predicted. Oh, and last night, she slept through the night for the first time!

I can't believe Keziah is already 2 months old! Where has the time gone? She is a very smiley, happy baby most of the time, but we are still waiting for that first laugh. She is starting to notice her toys! That means she is entertained for longer stretches on her play mats. I would post what her height and weight, but her check up isn't until tomorrow. I guess that gives me something to blog about tomorrow. My guess is that she is bigger then Raquelle and smaller then Titus at this age. I'm thinking maybe 12.5 lbs? She is quite chunky! She has major fat rolls on her thighs and cute little chipmonk cheeks. She is alreay wearing (and outgrowing some) 3 to 6 month clothes! Anyway...enough chat, here are some pictures I took tonight.

Don't come back another day!!! I'm sure everyone else in Salem is thrilled about the foot or so of snow we now have, but I'm ready for it to be gone. As much as I love the snow, I'm tired of being stuck home because we need chains to get out of the driveway, and I'd really like Thad to be able to go to work! Maybe I would enjoy the snow a little more if it wasn't making Thad have to miss work when he is out of paid time off. Since he has an outdoor job, when it snows like this, there is hardly any work. He missed two days last week, and there was no work for him today. Things aren't looking promising for tomorrow either. On Friday, he was one of only two people who got to work for 5+ counties! Aside from the snow having a negative effect on our income, things are now up in the air as to what is happening for Christmas. We were going to try to go to my parents house...that isn't happening now. Now they are going to try to come down...so we are pr...

I thought it would be fun to compare baby pictures! Here are all three kids at 6 weeks old. I think Keziah is looking more like Titus then like Raquelle. Raquelle Keziah Titus And here they all are today!

Thad ended up staying home from work today. Due to the weather most of his co-workers didn't work either. So we enjoyed a nice snow day today. We took the dog for a walk on the ice. Titus likes just walking in the snow. I have not seen him try to touch it yet, he just likes to walk on it. Raquelle was much happier today since we found her mittens. She kept picking up the snow and eating it. Thad kept reminding her that "we only eat white snow, we don't eat the yellow snow!" After playing in the snow, Kezzy was wiped out and decided it was a good time for a nap. I LOVE our fireplace! It has been such a great source of heat for us and also a great source of entertainment. We didn't stock up on marshmallows, so we had to find another use for the fire today. Thad cooked dinner tonight and the kids absolutely loved it! They both had seconds. In case you can't see it in the picture, he has a hot dog (actually a polish dog) on a coat hanger in the fire.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Everywhere I go... :) The view from our front porch this evening Our lovely house After watching the snow out the window most of the day, this evening there was finally enough to play in. So, after about 10 or 15 min of putting 2 pairs of socks on the kids, leggings, pants, sweatshirts, coats, hats, and finding shoes that would go over an extra pair of socks, we finally headed outside to play. Playing didn't last very long. As soon as Raquelle touched the snow, she started crying that her hands were cold. So, all that bundling up for about 2 min of "playing" in the snow. We are going to find her some gloves and try again tomorrow afternoon. The weather report says that we can expect 4 inches by morning (though I think we may already have that much). It is suppose to stay cold and not melt all week and we are suppose to get more snow on Wed, Thu, and Friday. Then it will warm up to about 40 for the weekend and snow M...

I just realized it has been a couple weeks since I have posted anything. I can't believe Keziah will be 6 weeks old tomorrow already! Time sure is going by fast! Here are some pictures for everyone who we haven't seen recently. Our new favorite family activity in the evenings. The kids can't wait for daddy to get home from work so we can cook "white candies" in the fire! Raquelle playing with her favorite new toy and her favorite doll...I mean sister. I tried and tried to get a picture of Keziah smiling, but our camera has a delay from when you push the button to when it clicks, so all I got was the left over smile in her eyes. And for all the people back in Montana who hold puppet team so dear, Titus says "MOOO!"

This is my dads great grandmas table. Apparently, my sister painted it a long time ago to be used as a craft table in her room. It was a very artistic paint job, fit for a craft room. This is what the table looked like when it was given to us about a month ago. Thads dad started with paint stripper. That took a bunch of the paint off. Then he sanded what he could off with the sander. Then he and Thad (and me too) took a flat screw driver to chisle the remaining paint out of the grooves in the table legs. Here is the table with half of its first coat of stain. And here is the almost finished product! It is absolutely beautiful! I think I over heard something about it getting one more coat of finish in the morning, and then it will be done! Thanks mom and dad for handing down this table for us! We plan to take good care of it!

Raquelle and Kezzy napping together...except Kezzy is awake. Titus playing with his baby sister. He calls her "baby Key" And this is what happens when you tell a 2 yr old to go change her clothes.

Sister we shall never part, Friends forever from the start! If Kezzy is awake, Raquelle hardly leaves her side! If she is in her infant seat, Raquelle will drag her seat over to sit by her. If she is on a play mat, Raquelle tries to climb on it with her. If she is having tummy time, Raquelle lays down on her tummy next to her and talks to her and makes faces. If I am burping her, Raquelle tries to help. So today I let Raquelle feed Kezzy a bottle for the first time. She was pretty much in heaven feeding a real baby a real bottle instead of her doll!

Raquelle and Keziah no longer have their own names. They are now both referred to as "Kezelle". I don't know if I have heard Thad call either girl by their actual name since Kezzy is born. He is constantly calling Raquelle Kez and Keziah Kell. Then, he tried to catch himself mid word and ended up calling Raquelle Kezelle. I told him if he really wants to name a child Kezelle, he will have to wait until the next girl that we have. He blames sleep deprivation. Anyway, here are some cute pictures from today. Kezzy in her dress all ready for church. Kezzy modeling her first pair of my size newborn baby leggings! They were a little harder to make then bigger sizes because they are so small. And a nice close up of her pretty face. There is just a hint of purple left around her mouth if you look closely. Unfortunitely, the gention violet did not work and Kezzy and I both still have thrush. So, for now I have switched to pumping and bottle feeding. I am hoping that when...

Keziah is 2 weeks old today! Yeah! We had her 2 week check up this afternoon and spent way too much time there. The nurse was running behind, so although we only saw the dr for 10 min, we sat and waited for the nurse for about 40. It was very frustrating. Keziah weighed 7 lbs 14 oz and is 20.5 inches long. I still think it is funny that at birth the nurse who measured her said that she was 23 inches tall! Should I be concerned that she shrunk 2.5 inches in her first 2 weeks of life? (Kidding). Anyway, She is kind of slow growing, so we have to go back in 2 weeks again. They wanted her to be over 8 lbs today and she was a little short. She did grow, so we get to go in 2 weeks instead of 1. The Dr wants her to be 9 lbs by her next check up now. I personally think she is doing just fine and she is just petite. Anyway, her jaundice is all better. She has blocked tear ducts in both eyes...nothing to worry about, but it means she has goopy eyes until they open. And of course,...

I know I said I'd have an update up yesterday, but I've had 4 kids under 3 to take care of yesterday afternoon and evening and all day today. So, here is the promised update. At her dr apt on Tuesday she had gained 7 oz! They wanted her to gain at least 3 oz. She is still Jaundice, and of course still has thrush, but at least the jaundice is less. The dr said we could go to 3 hours in between feedings, unless she is hungry before then. At our visit with the lactation consultant we found that she is still taking just a little over 2 oz per feeding which is still short of what she should be taking. However, since she gained enough weight, they are allowing me to stop giving her bottles. They said that if she is fussy after eating instead of acting satisfied and content, then to give her a bottle and pump...otherwise, we can go to all nursing now. They also said that as long as she is getting at least 8 feedings ina 24 hour time period, we can let her sleep at night inst...

I thought I'd post some pictures that got missed in the middle of Keziah being born and such. Thad and Marjorie took Titus and Raquelle trick or treating. Thad would like to specify that Titus is a "boy bug", not a lady bug...as in the boy lady bug from a Bugs Life. On Halloween, Winco changed the price on all of their pumpkins to Free! So Thad got a couple. Here is Raquelle trying to eat her pumpkin with a plastic fork. Thad was home from work today, so this is how he occupied Titus and Raquelle for most of the morning. He gave them the big bowl of pumpkin goo and told them to find all the seeds and put them in their containers. Raquelle holding her baby sister Keziah is 1 week old today! And for anyone looking for an update on Keziah, her Bili levels were 10.9. The dr would like them to be less then 6, but 10.9 isn't too high yet. So for now, we are focusing on trying to get her to wake up often enough to eat so she can start gaining weight. He wanted her bac...

Kezzy had her first dr check up today. So far, she is still losing weight. I guess they expect a baby to lose 5 to 7% of it's body weight before they start gaining and they expect them to be back up to their birth weight by 7 to 10 days old. Any weight loss over 10% is a big red flag that something isn't right. Kezzy is 6 days old and currently has lost 11% of her body weight and has not started to gain yet. She is also jaundice and has thrush. So, from the dr office, we went to the hospital to have blood drawn to check her bili levels. I haven't heard back yet what they are but am hoping that she won't need to go back to the hospital. From there, we went to see the lactation consultant. Found that she is eating just over 2 oz in a feeding. That would be fine if we could get her to wake up to eat more often and if she would take that much every feeding. The jaundice is making her very sleepy though and it can be difficult to get her to take a full feeding. T...

We went in for an induction on Tuesday evening October 28 th . We checked into the hospital at 6 PM. To start with, my Cervix was so far posterior that my dr could not reach it to check me. So, based on my check up last week, we started with Cytotec. At 10 PM when it would have been time for the 2 nd dose, they put me on the monitors. The baby's heart rate was running between 180 and 190 and I was having some contractions. So they decided not to give me a 2 nd dose at that time and told us to try to get some sleep. At 5 AM, my nurse came in to put me on the monitor. I was having contractions every 3 min that were lasting 1 min long each and they were at a pain level where I was having to focus through them. The nurse checked and said she thought I was 2 ½ cm and 60% effaced! We went back to trying to sleep for a couple more hours. By 7:00, when they put me on the monitor again, ctx had spaced out to about 5 min apart and by 8 AM they had pretty much stopped. At 9:00, my dr came b...

Keziah Anne was born at 10:38 pm on Wednesday October 29th. She is 7 lbs 10 oz and has a great set of lungs! This is what she did for the first 3 hours or so of her life! We have another daddy's girl! Wide awake at 1 day old. They are so sweet when they are sleeping!