for your enjoyment!

Jenna loves to read already!Itchy nose!
I'm going to miss this huge, cleft smile! Yep...he's completely rotten!
Check-out the long lashes!

schedule, sooner start, and blah-blah-blah

Okay, so I need to figure-out how to get more sleep. I think I'm starting to really amaze myself with how dumb I can be when tired! Need an example? Well, I don't have one at the moment because I can't remember! My brain is mush. I think I need a personal assistant!

On to more interesting things...

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the RN who will be helping with Jenna through Sooner Start. Her name is Sandy and she's super sweet. She's really excited to help with Jenna :-) She's even offered to come along to her important doctor's appointments to be an extra set of ears and to help me remember to ask the important questions I may not be thinking about while keeping Joshua out of trash cans. Speaking of Sooner Start, Joshua's speech therapy starts tomorrow. I'm really curious to see what takes place. The speech pathologist, Jana, is great too. Sooner Start has already been a God-send and we've only just begun!

Okay, I'm going to upload some recent pictures.

batten down the hatches

Okay. I've really got to figure out how to cook and shop with healthy and cheap in mind. Money's really tight and it's time to let the OCD in me to shine! Yes, I did just say that. The OCD in me is totally stoked about saving money! Why haven't I done this sooner? Well, I guess it's taken being in a financial strain to finally get it into my brain that it's crucial! Time to whip open Microsoft Excel and go crazy! Woo!! Yes, I'm being sincerely genuine :-) Okay, so I have tried to save money in the past by buying only store brand items (except chips and ice cream have to be name brand...the taste difference is totally obvious). I've got to do more. Time to pick recipes that fit the pocket book and lighten-up on eating spaghetti more often. Yeah, artichoke dip is expensive, and I about passed-out at the price of capers...almost $3!!! Okay, I'm gonna start surfin' my favorite recipe sites. Allrecipes.com has over 600 crockpot recipes and it's that time of year when I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE smellin' something simmering all day long :-)

prayer request update

Please continue to pray for my friend's son. He has really had a rough couple of days. Mom is having to make tough decisions and take care of the kids while hubby is away for a work-related reasons.

house painting

Tomorrow, our church family is having a mission project day in celebration of our church's 2 year anniversary. What a way to celebrate! They have selected numerous projects within the community and our house is one of them! Yet another blessing we have to be so thankful for :-) I will make sure to take pictures and post them asap. Our trim is going from tacky green to clean white. Ahhhh! Like getting out a nasty grass stain in your favorite white shirt ;-)

Thank you God for blessing us AGAIN!

prayer request

A family very dear to me in our church has two sweet children. Their youngest is 8. He's such an incredible little guy! He has been battling so many health issues literally from the day he was born. I visited with them last night and mom explained to me that it has been quite a while since he has had a reasonable sized stretch of good health; here lately, he has really been struggling. Please pray for them. They're the sweetest family you will ever meet. Their love for the Lord is evident in everything they do. For example, despite their own circumstances, they came to see Jenna in the hospital, have brought us food, gave a very generous love offering, and constantly encourage us. Their selfless blessings are priceless and their friendship is the same.

I didn't ask permission to put their name out in cyberspace or to share any details, so I'm going to leave them anonymous.

oops! behind again ;-)

I'm sitting here trying to get my fingers to move and it's difficult. I'm so tired that every inch of me hurts! I must conger up some energy for BUNCO tonight ;-) The theme is breakfast food (my favorite). My stomach is already growling for my SIL's pecan cinnamon rolls *drool* I may need to bring one of Jenna's bibs *haha*

Tuesday night was quite an experience. I went in to check on Jenna and do her meds during our normal midnight slot. I usually just operate by the light on her feeding pump so that I don't disturb her and so that I can easily go back to bed without seeing spots. I reached down to grab her feeding-tube extension and the back of my hand felt the sopping wet crib mattress. Argh! My first thought was, "I just changed her diaper a couple of hours ago, how could it have soaked through like this?" Well, it wasn't her diaper, but her feeding-tube! Ahhhhh!! The Y-port (where I can clamp off the feeding to administer medication) had popped-open somehow. Poor Jenna. I had to get her out of the crib, clean her up, change her, change her crib sheet, and check her blood sugar. There was no way to determine how long the formula had been pouring out of her tube instead of reaching her tummy. I tested her sugar and I thought it read "10," so I start freaking-out! When she gets a low reading (below 60), I have to re-test to be sure and then if it is confirmed to be low, I have to call the emergency number for her Endocrine doctor. Well, I looked at the glucometer again, and it actually read 103 *whew* That means she hadn't gone that long without food. What a relief!! I was so worried about it happening again that I found myself jerking awake out of bed and running into her room to check it. Thankfully, it didn't happen again that night.

I think we must have a defective extension set because when we were at the park yesterday, it happened again! A lady was sitting not to far from the stroller and was like, "Ummm...something's leaking." I looked, and sure enough, it had popped open again. I noticed that the consistency of the formula looked rather mucousy, so I'm wondering if she's straining and forcing formula back out of her stomach? I'm not sure, but that's what it appears to be. I'm going to see if this happens with a new extension set (once we get them), and if it does, I'm going to call the GI doctor because I don't think that's suppose to happen!

Well, I need to get to cleaning. You should see my house. Looks like Hurricane Ike hit it! If only you could see Joshua right now. He's standing right behind me and trying his best to name the letters on the back of my t-shirt. He actually knows several letters already and can identify them. Isn't that awesome? Oh! Almost forgot...can't believe I almost forgot this! Joshua walked-up to me told me (without me saying anything first) Wednesday morning, "ah luh loo." Which translates, "I love you." We tell him all the time and he has really picked-up on copying what we say. I called Nick right away, of course, to brag that he told me first ;-)

Okay, okay. I have to do something about this house *gag*