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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

3 Months!

Holy cow! Has it really been 3 months since our perfect little beauty entered our lives!? Lizzi should still be this age right?

However it happened it happened... Miss McKenna is 3 months! Time goes by so fast! She is such a joy to our family! She is the perfect combination of sweetness and sass! She is just what our family needed and she's so perfect! We all adore her so much. I feel like my heart is just going to burst whenever I look at her beautiful little face.

In the last month she is discovering her voice more and more. She "talks" to mommy and sister all day long. She smiles like everything is the best thing ever. Lizzi is loving her more and more, she always wants to hold her, kiss her, burp her, change her diaper, throw the diaper away, and no one can get McKenna to smile like Lizzi can. I didn't think they would really start having a connection until McKenna was older but McKenna stares at her and just smiles whenever she sees her and it melts my heart. These two little girls have brought me more joy than I ever thought I could feel and more love than I knew my heart could hold. They complete me. McKenna is also starting to get the hang of this tummy time thing and boy is she strong when she applies herself. She still usually prefers to just hang out on her tummy. She has started to laugh some not enough because I could listen to that little giggle all day but she's starting to figure it out. She has also started looking over her shoulder when she's laying down and it looks like she might start thinking about rolling soon! I will never know how I got so lucky to have the most beautiful girls ever but I sure am thankful they are mine.  McKenna finally decided it was ok to fit into 0-3 months clothes! We tried when she was about 2 months and they drowned her! I am so glad she has finally moved up in clothes size I had so few newborn clothes because babies grow out of them so fast.. except McKenna apparently.
Twinners and Daddy

Oct 17 swimming in 0-3 month clothes
Upclose 3 month

This sleepy face melts my heart

Sorry for our toy mess in the background but look at how sweet!

Their faces haha

Look at the look McKenna is giving Lizzi

See she loves her sister


3 months

3 months

Scottie Dog jimmies from Grandma and Grandpa

She passed out in my arms 

Show off

early morning pictures!

This face :)

Look at that sweet smile

Twins!

I could eat this face up

Nov 7 yay 0-3 month clothes!

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Theodore

I have had people asking me about what happened with my horse. So as hard as it is to talk about I have decided to write a post about him to explain what we know. I apologize for any errors I am bawling as I write this and I can't read it well enough through my tears to correct it. Plus I relive it every time I read it so I can't proofread it.

Sunday October 18, morning feedings went normally and Teddy ate normal, Sunday night he seemed to be eating normally.

Monday October 19 morning he didn't finish his hay so we thought maybe we over fed him. So we just fed him a little bit Monday morning and decided we would feed less Monday night. I went out Monday night to feed and he hadn't touch his food at all. He was starting to look a little sad and droopy (obviously right? He wasn't eating).

Tuesday October 20 I went out to feed and he was laying down, not really a big deal horses lay down. The weird part for him is he usually plays catch me if you can for a few minutes before he lets you pet him. He didn't get up when I went up to him he just laid there and he looked bad. He only stood up after I lost my balance and scared him on accident. I called a vet to get him an appointment that afternoon. We took him to the vet at 2pm the vet said he had a slight fever and some congestion in his lungs. He figured it was just a cold, he gave him a long lasting antibiotic shot. He should start feeling better and get the second shot on Saturday to finish it off. He seemed to be perking up some and we got him home he was nibbling on the grass so we figured he got his appetite back. I went out to feed that night and he still hadn't eaten but he was up and walking around so I asked Curtis, to please check on him when he got off shift in the morning just to make sure he was doing ok.

Wednesday October 21 Curtis got home and checked on Teddy, he was laying down and didn't get up to move away from Curtis which he usually does. Curtis was always picking on him ;) so he was temperamental when Curtis came around. Curtis had to use grain to coax him enough to stand. I went out to feed in the morning and Teddy was still standing so I thought it was a good sign. Except he still hadn't eaten anything and seemed even more sad. So I was going to walk him over to my neighbors property where we had the round pen set up so that he would have grass readily available and not have to walk to food. He would take a couple of steps and stop huffing and puffing like I had just run him at a full gallop for an hour. It took us 15 minutes to walk about 15-20 feet over to the round pen. I called the vet to see if he was supposed to get worse before he got better, they said he should have made great improvements. We got an appointment to be seen again that afternoon, Curtis was in town doing some errands so I was getting the horse trailer ready to take Teddy to the vet. Later when the girls were napping I went out to scrub animals water tanks, Teddy hadn't really eaten much and was just standing there, head droopy. I was scrubbing when I heard a thud and groaning... I looked over and Teddy was laying on his side breathing terribly. I literally dropped what I was doing and ran over to him. I was stroking his neck while he struggled to breathe, he would try to get up but would fall back over because he didn't have enough strength to actually stand. I called Curtis crying because I was sure Teddy was dying. I told him what was happening and I put him on speaker so he could hear Teddy. I then called the vet and told them what was happening and they asked if we could bring him in sooner than our appointment time. I told them that I couldn't get him to stand up; they had one vet in surgery and the other was already out on a farm call. They said they could get the vet over as soon as possible. I called Curtis and told him he said he was leaving everything and coming home. The vet called him about 15 minutes later saying he was coming from Lewiston which is about 15 minutes from Clarkston. I text my neighbor while I was waiting for Curtis and the vet to arrive to ask if she was home and could help me. I told her Teddy was dying and McKenna was going to be up from her nap soon to eat and could she please feed her for me. She said anything that I needed, she asked what was wrong and I told her I didn;t know but he sounded terrible and couldn't stand. She said maybe I should leave and she would stay with him for me. I told her I couldn't, I felt like he needed me. She said she understood, he's my baby and she was right there with her horse when she died too. Curtis arrived home about 10 minutes before the vet which were the longest 10 minutes of my life. I had gotten Teddy to stand shortly before Curtis got there and I was petting his nose and just hugging his neck. His nose went cold.... the vet arrived and got the thermometer to take his temp to see what had changed from yesterday. He said his lungs sounded the same but now he was colicky and he wasn't sure how that happened since he wasn't eating anything. There was no movement on the left side of his intestines but the right side sounded ok. His eyes were bloodshot and his gums were grey. He said that his temperature was subnormal which is really bad news for a horse, which explained his cold nose. The vet needed to get an IV with fluids into him asap he was also going to give him pain medication to help relax him a little. He laid back down while the vet was working on finding a vein in his neck to get the IV into. He couldn't find one... Teddy's blood pressure was so low that he couldn't find a vein... He tried 5x, he tried both sides of his neck, he finally thought he had a spot but blood wasn't filling the port like it should. Teddy decided he had strength again and stood up. (He tried to crush the vet more than once the little sass.) The port filled with blood and the vet gave him pain meds, took some blood for sample work and started the IV fluids. Teddy was shaking and so unsteady on his feet he was swaying. He fell over and of course fell on the side with the IV just like the vet didn't want him to do. But thankfully the port stayed in and he didn't lay on the cord badly enough that the vet could reach the other port in the cord to give him anti-shock medication. The vet gave me a bucket with somethings he asked me to fill the bucket with as hot of water as I could get. I went inside updated my neighbor and checked on my girls. I headed back out and Curt and the Vet were standing over Teddy. I asked where they needed the bucket and the vet said it didn't matter. Curt turned to me and said Honey we're too late. I walked over and Teddy was lifeless.  I had lost my baby boy. After I went inside he tried to stand up but couldn't, fell again rolled over and pulled the IV out of his neck. The vet said that was it he was leaving us... and Teddy stopped breathing... The vet was strongly recommending getting a necropsy done so we could figure out what happened because he was perplexed. It was $150 to do this but I wanted to know what was happening... this was the 4 animal I had lost in about 2 years. I needed to know if we were doing something or if there was something on our property that was killing them. So we agreed to have it done and took Teddy to the University to have the testing done. The vet said he would call us that night to let us know what the general findings were but it would take over a week to get the full results. It was so sad and hard to try explaining to Lizzi about Teddy she loved him. We told her that Teddy had been sick so he needed to go to the doctor but the doctor was going to keep Teddy....He wouldn't come back home with us. She saw him loaded up when were leaving and laughed and said Teddy! Thankfully she is too young that she didn't process anything about it. But it still broke my heart a little.

The vet called that night and said that there was fluid in Teddy's thorax and abdomen, the pathologist said this usually happens as a result of heart or liver failure but Teddy's were in great condition. He was perplexed as well. They said there was a chance it was Salmonella and would do further testing to rule that out or not. We got a call Monday from the vet saying they had the results about Teddy. This was sooner than expected but I was glad to know. He said that he had a migrating parasite in his intestine that he had had from birth and the wormers were only keeping it in submission but it was leaving blood clots on the intestinal wall. When they broke off they killed a 6 inch section of his intestine and that was what caused the fluid back up. There was nothing we could have done for him it was only a matter of time. He was 3 1/2.... too young to be taken so soon from me, from us. It was a hard night for Curtis and me both. He stayed home from work that night so we could comfort each other. We are going to wait a few years before we get another horse... my heart needs time to heal before I can let another horse in.... We immediately wormed all of our goats and our dogs. I refuse to let a parasite take any more of my babies from me.


Farming is not for the faint of heart, and it is hard on the heart of an avid animal lover. I love my lifestyle and I wouldn't give it up for anything but I also wish animals stuck around longer.






Sunday, November 8, 2015

18 Months!

Yes 18 months! Lizzi is a year and a half already! Time seriously flies! She is so much fun!! She is so smart too, I'm sure all parents feel this way but she seriously amazes me. She talks a lot!! She has quite the vocabulary for an 18 month old and has turned into a little echo and copies almost everything we say. We won't have a check up until January. The pediatrician is on a humanitarian trip and will not be back for a little bit. But she eats like a horse and is growing like a weed. She flipped a switch when she turned 18 months old and now she LOVES her sister and wants to help with everything. It is endearing but also a little unnerving because she still isn't totally used to being careful with sister... we'll get there. She loves puzzles and putting anything that has a place in that place. She LOVES bath time and wants one multiple times a day (we just settle for a wash cloth most of the day haha). She has recently started trying to jump and it is hilarious to watch! She is a monkey and climbs all over everything and everyone that is in her way. She loves being outside as she has most all of her life. She loves helping mommy and daddy feed the animals. She likes leading music whenever she hears singing and shouting amen whenever she hears others say it. She will sit on her little bench or on other toys and pretend she is saying her prayers and it is so darling! I cannot believe the blessing she is in our lives and how lucky we are to have her! She is just what I needed and I cannot imagine my life with out her. Since I have been able to be home for 12 weeks after having McKenna Lizzi has decided mommy is not all bad and we are finally becoming little buddies, it's been all about daddy her whole life but she is finally warming up to me. I love her sweet hugs and kisses and hearing her giggles and little voice all day. I love being a mom!!!! We have our hard days for sure but there isn't anywhere I would rather be. Being a mom is truly a blessing, gift, and the best job ever! The pictures I have attached are from between her first birthday and now so there are a few and she will looks different in them given the time difference.
Lizzi likes the goats

Wearing mommy's apron from when she was little

Daddy says starting her off right. Don't worry not opened

One of Curt's sisters kept the flower girl dress from when we got married we put Lizzi in it once :)

That hair though

When she got a puppy (long story hopefully another post)

Lizzi and Daisy (day-dee) she loves this pup

We like to wear daddy's hats

Saying prayers

Cute dress my best friend made

I don't look good but that pose just kills me! She loves selfies

She puts keys in that purse and waves bye bye to me

Sisters are great

Loves to mow the lawn with daddy

Encouraging sisters "push ups"

Playing peek a boo with sister

Daddy was riding the horse so she wanted to ride hers

I have a toddler bed!

I love this little sweetie

This is what happens when you decide you want to empty dresser drawers and undress during nap time instead of taking a nap. This was 5:15pm

She loves Teddy

New definition of sitting on the pot. (This is her "cheese" pose she yells cheese and does this for pictures)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Two Months!


Miss McKenna turned two months old on Oct 14. I can hardly believe how fast time is going she looks more and more grown up everyday. She is just a petite little girl! Her two month check up was today and she is 10lbs 2oz and 21.5 inches long. She still fits in newborn sized clothes, I've tried 0-3 months and they just drown her. 

She still has all her dark hair, chubby chubby cheeks, and isn't sure what color she wants her eyes to be. She still likes to look around while being burped but just likes to lay there and chill during tummy time. She is cooing like a little dove and I love to hear it. She has started her lovely little smiles for mommy and they just melt my heart. She opens her mouth so big and squints her little eyes, it is the best thing ever. 

She was not happy about her shot one bit :( she cried and screamed and was so mad. Then tonight we gave her a warm bath and massaged them so they wouldn't hurt as bad tomorrow and it took 20 minutes to calm her down again she was so upset and cried so hard she almost threw up. Hopefully Tylenol will help tonight so she can sleep and be happy tomorrow. I love this little petite nugget and I am loving watching her change and grow up.
this little face makes me happy

my mouth' so small....

Zonked

Tummy Time is chill time

Learning to smile

I love these dainty fingers and her crooked pinkies

This dress was crocheted by my great grandmother

The day Lizzi decided McKenna isn't so bad

Awe that look!

Lizzi thinks McKenna is funny!

Encouraging the "push ups" tummy time

Enjoying Conference with Daddy

Hi mommy

Hi smiles! And clogged duct that refuses to leave

Two Months!

Two months!

Two months!

Twinners!