Showers and Celebrations!

Last weekend was filled with fun times with our family. We spent the beginning of our weekend at Grammy and Pop's house so I could help host a baby shower for my sister, Missy. She is having her 4th and it's a GIRL! Brent was on baby duty while I attended the shower at Grammy and Pop's house. The shower was great and baby girl Miller got some really cute, girly things.
Here are some pictures of the newest Chambers grandbaby, Luke Payne, my sister Mandy's baby boy. He's such a sweetie!

Lukey!

Luke and his Mommy!

Luke and Aunt Susan

Luke with his Great-Mamaw
Me and my newest nephew

CJ showing off a gift for his "sissy" :)

Mackenzie's Maddie Puppy (all the grandchildren have one)

Sunday we got back to Waco in time to attend the 20th anniversary party for our NICU at Hillcrest Hospital in Waco. We asked Gran and Grandaddy to go with us and Grandaddy took all of these GREAT PICTURES! The party was held at the Cameron Park Zoo. We had a great time taking the girls around to see all of the animals and to see some of our fav NICU nurses and saying HI to Dr. Wheeler, our Neonatologist, again.

Some of Our favs: Lindsey, Candice, Nick and Kristi!

Dr. Wheeler

On our walk through the zoo, yes, a young woman actually said, "Hey lady, can I take a picture of your babies?" I said, "I'd rather you didn't, thanks."

On our way out, we added the girls' hand prints to the banner for the 20th Anniversary of the NICU.

A few pics from today...eatin bananas

Reagan

With her mouthful!

Addie, not wanting to smile for me...

No pictures mommy!

Cheeser Baylee! She's getting her first top tooth! You can't see it here though :)

Cutie pie

Mmmmmmm, bananas

Giving the remote control a bath today....Baylee's idea...she likes to put things where they don't belong :)

We LOVE IT when Daddy gets home!

Reagan lovin on Daddy

I'll stay right here, thank you!

The Past Few Weeks

I apologize to our blog followers for not blogging for so long. The weeks have just gotten away from me it seems. :) So here we go...what we've been up to lately...

I cried during a Toviaz commercial today. Toviaz-for overactive bladder. My spontaneous bawling had nothing to do with an overactive bladder. ;) The commercial had a Mom and Dad dropping their child off at college and as this commercial came on I was watching my girls play with kitchen bowls and spoons at the back windows while our dogs, Berkley and Sophie, ran back and forth across the porch. The girls were just giggling and bouncing up and down and I thought, "We will never get these moments back...and one day we will be dropping them off at college." Ugh....tears!

A pic of the girls finding the tupperware drawer

It has been a crazy couple of weeks. After the girls got over being sick, we went to Gunter for the weekend to celebrate Grammy's birthday. We had a great weekend at Grammy and Pop's house and then had a birthday lunch at Aunt Missy and Uncle Clark's house for Grammy. Missy made this amazing 3-layer cookie cake! Brent was talking about it for days. :)
Last week, Brent was working on building a fence across the backyard to keep the dogs away from the house. He will soon be working on repairing the damage they have done to our yard and back porch. So he has had some long, busy nights away from me and the girls, which means I have had some long, exhausting days.
This is how crazy I have been lately - I was rushing out the door one morning to take the girls on a walk and I ran into the bedroom to throw on some flip flops. I got all the way around our neighborhood before I realized I had two different flip flops on....one black and one brown.

Oops! Excuse my unmanicured toes...haven't had time for a pedi lately. :)
Oh! And amidst the chaos of our house, Addie has become a biter. I don't know where she got this but when she gets frustrated or jealous about something she will bite her sisters. She only has two bottom teeth, but still, it hurts! One day last week, Reagan became her victim TWICE! Once on the hand and once on the cheek! Ouch! Poor Reagan had the remains of two tiny tooth marks on her left cheek to prove it for a few days. I also don't know what to do to get her to stop. You can't explain to her what she is doing wrong because she doesn't understand. Stern words and pointing to Reagan's cheek just made Addie bawl her little heart out...not sure she understood why I was upset with her.

Sweet Addie sleeping on her Maddie puppy

Brent and I took the girls for a checkup last Friday to see if their ear infections had cleared up and to get the girls' their 12 month shots. They were perfectly healthy and all over their ear infections and they each had to get FIVE shots. Oh man! It is so hard to watch and have them looking at you like "Why are you letting this lady hurt me?!" Breaks my heart! The did recover really well and stopped crying very quickly. They haven't had any side effects from the shots, so far, so here's hoping it's smooth sailing.

So happy...waiting for shots

Baylee

Addison

Reagan

Last weekend, Brent and I had a parents' weekend out. I spent Saturday shopping at Canton with my mom, Jill, and Jill's friend Tammy. Brent spent Saturday through Sunday on a canoe/camping trip with Jill's husband, Randy, and a few of his friends. I don't recommend a Canton trip on a Saturday, there were WAY too many people for my comfort level. :) Gran and Grandaddy came to our house for the weekend to watch the girls for us. We got a great report when we got back and the girls had been out around the neighborhood in the choo choo with Gran and Grandaddy.

We are looking forward to the baby shower in honor of our one and only neice! That will be our next trip and Brent's 10-year high school reunion is coming up on our calendar as well. Wow, we are getting OLD! :)

We Now Have A Toddler!

It's a strange mix of emotions when your baby starts walking. You are so excited! And so extremely sad at the same time. We have a toddler now...yeay! and *sobs*

Baylee Walking

(Scroll to the bottom of the blog screen and hit Pause on the music player before playing the video if you'd like to hear the audio on the video...really it's just me encouraging Baylee so if you'd rather hear the music, that's fine too!)

Are You Serious?

I felt like I was sitting in an episode of the Twilight Zone yesterday. And instead of hearing Oprah point to the girls and say, "You get a new car! And you get a new car! Everybody gets a new car!" It was our pediatrician saying, "You've got double ear infections! You've got double ear infections! You've got an ear infection! Everybody has ear infections!"
So after $75 in office co-pays and $100 in prescription meds...here's our final diagnosis.
All three girls have cough, congestion and really runny noses. Addison has double ear infections (she wasn't even acting fussy, we had no idea). Baylee has double ear infections (even if Baylee had wanted to warn us that she wasn't feeling well, I'm not sure we would have caught on because she is at a level 10 all the time). Reagan has one ear infection. We are now doing antibiotics twice a day, breathing treatments for Addison every four hours, sucking snot out of noses 3 times a day, we have cool mist humidifiers running in both bedrooms and we are dosing an antihistamine/decongestant prescription as needed. Whew!
I attribute the girls great sleep coaching early on to the fact that throughout all of this, they are still sleeping through the night. Gasp! Yes, they are. And yes, Baylee has had some issues at the beginning of the night and needs a little loving from Mommy and Daddy, but last night that only took about 30 minutes and then she was right to sleep.
We had our 12 month check-up during their appointment Thursday. The girls are starting to "slim down" mostly due to all of their mobility. Baylee remains smaller and shorter than Addison and Reagan. Here are their stats at 12 months and 2 weeks.
Addison - 23 lbs. 5 oz. and 29 1/4 inches
Reagan - 23 lbs. 6 oz. and 29 3/4 inches
Baylee - 21 lbs. 7 oz. and 28 1/2 inches
The girls continue to be great eaters. We have weaned them down to only one bottle, their nighttime bottle, and we are going to start weaning them off of that as soon as they are feeling better. They have tried all kinds of new foods and continue to love most anything. Zucchini..check! Broccoli...check! Squash...check! They also love scrambled eggs, waffles, chicken, peas, mashed potatoes and much more.
Baylee is walking much more. She is taking about 7 or 8 steps now before she falls down which is great! She is really going to be running around here very soon!
We are looking forward to a low-key weekend at home recovering from our sick week.

Visit to Grammy and Pop's and Sick...Again

Last weekend we took a trip to Gunter to stay with Grammy and Pop for the weekend. We had a great time seeing the new "grandkid" addition to their house all completed and the girls LOVED spending time playing in the new Media/Playroom with all of Grammy's great toys!

Reagan riding the rocking horse - Originally her cousin CJ's :)

Addie having a great time with Daddy!

Cutie Baylee Brynn

Grammy has TONS of toys collected over the now 7 grandchildren she has. Their playroom was a WRECK when we were finished with it.

This week, after our great trip to Gunter, everyone got SICK. I am really sick, finally got some meds today. The girls were majorly sick. I think they are starting to get a little better now, though. Everyone has a cold, major congestion, cough...the whole shebang! Brent got the least of it out of everyone. I had Sarah here to help me on Tuesday when things started to get the worst and then Brent took off today to stay home and help me with sick girls since I am sick too. It was so great having him here to help, I would have really been dragging and worn down if I hadn't had him here to help.

Daddy and his girls - SICK DAY!

Addie doesn't look like she is feeling bad but trust me, she was not this playful at all yesterday. She slept for almost FOUR HOURS yesterday afternoon, she was feeling so bad! Poor baby!