a little fun in the sun

he was so sick he would just lay there and watch his movie

I spent the last week in Arizona watching my sister's kids while she went with her husband to a conference in Montreal. My Mom and brother came to help me and to make the trip more fun. I was so glad they were there, I couldn't have done it without them! In the midst of all the kids and chaos we had tons of fun shopping, eating out and laughing and making fun of each other.

The night before we left Hayden had a fever of 103. I called his Dr. and after discussing his symptoms over the phone we decided not to take him in. I gave him motrin & tylenol and put him in bed for the night and he slept all night long. When he is sick he usually wakes up every few hours all night long. The next morning he acted fine but I gave him some tylenol throughout the day just to make sure. On the plane he could not get comfortable enough to sleep so he was not his happy self when we arrived. Good thing Aunt Teri had a sucker waiting for him when she picked us up. It made him happy for a while! I tried to give him some dinner but he didn't really want anything to do with it and he felt REALLY hot. I gave him a cool bath and checked his temperature. It was 104! I gave him some more motrin and tylenol and put him in bed to see if he could sleep and if the temp. would come down. After about an hour he woke up and his temp. was now 104.3! So my brother came with me to take Hayden to the pediatric urgent care. After $125 office visit they diagnosed him with an ear infection in his left ear. It was his first ever ear infection. After a few days of antibiotics he was feeling better.

The Littlest One

I went for an ultrasound the other day and everything looks great with baby #2. We are so glad. I was freaking out the night before the ultrasound thinking of all the things that they could or would tell me was wrong. There are no chromosomal abnormalities, no spina bifita, or anything else that they could tell was wrong. The heartbeat was great. He/She was measuring well. Everything was great! Knowing it was probably way too early to tell I asked the ultrasound tech if she could tell the sex. She said we'll take a look. When she looked she said she would guess girl. She followed that guess with "but I've been fooled before." We'll find out for sure on October 8. We really don't care if it is a boy or girl. It would be fun to have a girl with all the pink and bows and frills, but it would also be fun to have a boy so close to Hayden's age. Honestly though we are SO grateful that everything is going well and we're on track for a healthy baby.

I have been sick. Throwing up whenever day or night, peeing 200 times a day, and exhausted, but things seem to be getting better. The throwing up is getting fewer and farther between and the exhaustion is not quite so bad. I don't NEED to take a nap everyday, although I love naps.

I want to remember...

Hayden does some of the cutest & funniest things I just want to write it down so I don't forget.

the other day we were upstairs and there were a few of his little tonka trucks up there too. he drove them over to the stairs and pushed them off. then went down to where they landed and pushed them the rest of the way. When he got to the bottom he just started playing with them like he just wanted to get them downstairs and that was the best way he could think of. He cracks me up!

Ricks Family Photos

Jamison, Justin, Jordan

Jensen, Josh, Jayson, Joe

Jessica, Kandis, Denise, Carla

Kalee

Sherri, Tom

Kylah, Hayden, Malachi

the original clan

siblings

the girls

our little family


Josh & Me


Josh, Kandis, Hayden
{check out Hayden's expression...cracks me up!}

the grandkids

Grandma & Grandpa with the Grandkids

the family

{check out Hayden's cute little face!}

Precious

Josh & Kylah

Love this one!

Jordan, Josh, Jensen, Jamison, Jayson

Gotta LOVE this one!

Girls Night

My friend Melissa is having her second boy. She decided she didn't need to have a shower, but we decided we needed to do something before she has her baby. So the other night Natalie & I took her out to dinner. We had such a good time talking and hanging out just us.

Hayden

Hayden is at such a fun, but hard age. He is doing so many fun, cute things and he discovers new things and says new words all the time. It is a difficult age too because he understands more than he can communicate. He is mobile but can't do as much as he wants to on his own. We joke that he's lucky he's so cute because he can be a stinker! But honestly he's so cute and sweet most of the time and the moments that melt our heart are so precious that we can't help but love him!

Hayden has learned to:
Give Kisses
sign please
dance to any music...tv, movies, radio, toys
says GAGA for any drink
says NIGHT NIGHT ~ "NI NI"
says MORE ~ "MOA"
signs eat
says SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH ~ "Bash bahs Bahs"
copies everything we do...chewing gum (he pretends when he sees us doing it), putting on deoderant, pouring things, computer, putting keys in the door.
gives our dog Teton bones...Teton loves this and because it's so cute I don't really stop Hayden so some days Teton gets a lot of bones.
Hayden can now come down the stairs on his own...as of August 18 (which has been both a blessing and a curse)

says BOOK

says UH-OH

says OUTSIDE

signs bath

throws his food over the side of his tray and laughs when I tell him no or come over and stop him

loves watching elmo & the goo goo dolls on youtube

really likes baby einstein

Hayden got his first tooth right before his first birthday but he has since had three more come in:
Tooth #2 ~ right bottom front tooth...August 3
Tooth #3 ~ upper left molar...August 7
Tooth #4 ~ upper right molar... August 13

He is still not walking completley on his own. He walks in between Josh & me, and he walks really well when we hold one of his hands. Lately he has been taking 6 steps on his own then falling down and picking himself back up and walking 6 or 7 more steps. So he's getting better and I think within a month he'll be doing it all the time.

The other day I was emotional...ya know those pregnancy hormones...and Hayden came over to me and looked at my face seriously and then touched the tears in the corners of my eyes. SO precious!

this boy loves his monkey so his monkey got to sleep in his bed the other night

loves keys

watching elmo & the goo goo dolls

riding his new bike~ he's a little too short for it and hasn't quite figured it out but he love to sit on it and make noises and steer it

playing

since we've been home

We got Josh's board scores. He got an 81. We waited for the mailman everyday like it was Christmas and we were so excited when he left the score and it said PASSED!

playing with friends

Tyson, Hayden, Hugh

Hayden & Tyson

the boys

Hugh, Hayden, Tyson

the moms

Natalie, Me, Melissa

We discovered a little splash pool that Hayden LOVES.

walking & splashing in the water

sometimes he crashed face first in the water and needed some loves

Garret playing with Hayden

cute little Spencer

Hayden pulled the charger out of Josh's laptop and stuck that end in his mouth. It didn't work after that which didn't make us too happy, and it cost us $85 to replace it. I'm sure our parents would laugh at that because we both remember multiple mistakes we made that cost our parents way more than $85!

Hayden has been transitioning to one nap a day instead of two. He does pretty well most days if he doesn't decide to wake up too early and if he's not teething or sick. The transition was kind of hard because I wanted to keep him up as late as I could in the morning so he would be happier longer in the afternoon. He does better if we're out doing something so Josh and I went to the Clarance bike path and Josh rode his bike and Hayden and I walked. Hayden ended up falling asleep in his stroller during the last 10 min of the walk. This is the first time in his life that he has fallen asleep in the stroller. Maybe I waited a little too long for nap time that day!








School started for Josh again. This year doesn't seem too bad so far. He sees patients 3 times per week and has classes the other 2 days. He's way less stressed and doesn't have to spend this year in the lab.