Rollie Pollie!

Our little Jade has learned to rollover. This is such a great milestone for her. The video is a little bit dark but you can still see what she is doing. Go JADE!!

Cute Kids

Here are some random pics I took today of my cute kids.

It is almost impossible to get both kids to smile at the same time so I added one extra of Jade to show what a happy baby she is.

Below is Jade's new toy. She absolutely loves it. What a good work-out for her.

Medical Update

I thought I would give a quick medical update on Cody and Jade. Jade first because honestly she is just cruising along. She now weighs 17 lbs. 4 oz. at 7 1/2 months old. Not bad considering her brother was 17 lbs. even when he was 1 year old. The good news about her weight is that they let me slightly decrease her milk intake and increase her baby food. Hopefully that is a good step in the direction of having her feeding tube out. By the end of the month she will start having physical therapy once a week. With this increase hopefully her motor skills will start to show even more improvement. But overall, she is doing wonderfully. It is fun to see her start to come into her own personality and really just be a happy baby.
Cody also had some medical stuff this month. He had some blood work done that showed he was insufficiantly producing his growth hormone, hence his short stature. Anyway, before he can be treated they had to give him a MRI to rule out a brain tumor. So yesturday we headed to The Children's Specialty Hospital in New Brunswick for the MRI. I think the staff thought we were weird for taking pictures, but I did it anyway.

Here is Cody waiting to be taken in.

To administer the anesthesia they were going to use this mask, so they let Cody play with it for a minute so he wouldn't be scared of it. Cody loved it because it smelt like bubble gum.

I held him while he "fell asleep". He was such a good kid. All the technicians kept telling me he was their best patient of the day.

Into the big machine.

This is what he looked like when we got him back.

Overall, he did really well. When he first came out of the anesthesia he was very out of it. He was thrashing and kicking all over and screaming and crying. He almost fell of the bed a few times too. But he was not really awake and quickly fell back asleep again. Then when he woke up the second time he was more like my sweet little guy and didn't remember anything that happened. Hopefully this is our last experience with anesthesia

Tag, you're it!

This is my first tag. I wasn't officially tagged, but I found this on a friends blog and thought it was a cute idea.

Here are the directions:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses...

Let's here it for our Country!

So on the whole Scott usually posts and updates, but my poor husband is crazy busy with his quarter end at work. So you get to hear from me, the wife and mom, instead. So not much happend between our last post and the holiday weekend, so let's jump to there.

We started our celebrating a little bit early by going to the fireworks they had at Veteren's Park on Thursday night. They had a live band playing mostly motown with lots of different venders and such. At dark the fireworks started. We had prime seating that made it seem like you could just reach up in the sky and grab them. Cody loved the lights and colors, but wasn't a big fan of the loud bangs. Jade on the other hand didn't seem to be bothered by the sounds and just sat there amazed by the lights.

Then on the 4th we were invited over to a friend's house with some other family's to have a breakfast celebration. The food was great and so was the company. Cody especially enjoyed the large amount of kids he had to play with. They don't have any good parades around here so my friend Marla came up with a great idea for the kids to do instead. They all brought their bikes to the party and decorated them. Then they "paraded" around the culdesac.

Here is everyone at the start. There was even great music for them to ride with.

Cody on his way!

Cody didn't quite make it around and wanted some assistance.

Jade is having a good time!

Cody chowin' down on some watermelon. YUM!

The Forth of July is one of Scott's favorite holidays so of course this was not the end of the day. After the great parade we stopped at home for a quick nap to re-energize and then it was off to my parents house for an evening BBQ. More great food and great company. Scott is the BBQ king so he was in his eliment cooking up the hot dogs and hamburgers. It wouldn't be the forth without those. Luckily we got all of our outside stuff done before the rain.

My sister stayed over at my parents house so we spent some of our Saturday with them. It was a bit cloudy, but hot outside so Scott and Cody went out to play in the water. Here is the result.
What you don't see is that Scott gave Cody the hose to fill the pool first. Cody thought it would be funny to get mom wet, so I am soaked to the bone thanks to my son. I usually think to bring a change of clothes for Cody and Jade, but didn't think that Scott and I would need one too.

We ended our fun-filled weekend by going to the Freedom Fest at Mercer County Park that night. They had lots of food, music and fun things for Cody. Of course my favorite thing was the funnel cake. I am a sucker for carnival food. Cody's favorite was bouncing on the tiger belly.

In true Scott fashion, my parting shot is a video of my kids from today. They are having a cute laugh together.

Summer Swimmin

Well, Everything has been going really great lately. My new job is fantastic! I am an accountant at Integra LifeSciences which has it's Corporate headquarters in Plainsboro, New Jersey. I work on Intercompany reconciliations. Other than my new job, it has been a pretty quiet summer so far. It has been nice and relaxing just like summer is meant to be. We have actually speant quite a bit of time swimming in the pool at our apartment complex. We are definitely going to miss that if we ever move out of Ravens Crest. The crazy thing is that there is hardly ever anyone there. We go there about 3 - 4 times a week at least. It has been a lot of fun. Cody has taken to it like a fish. I'm sure he'll be swimming in no time. We put those floaty things on his arms and he just swims around the whole pool by himself. He is kind of hyperactive in the pool, kicking his feet like a maniac to get around.

Jade is more of a chiller. She just lays in her little yellow floaty tube and chills. (She must take after Becs, because Cody and I are never that calm.) I hope you enjoy some of the pictures. I intentionally didn't put any swimming pictures of me up because I didn't want you all to go blind from Awesomeness and Attractiveness! (Actually I didn't want you to go blind from the glare off of my white body. I guess that's what I get for having a desk job where I am inside all day.)

Let's see what else has gone on since I last posted. Rebecca had her birthday on June 6. She turned 6. Well, at least that is how many candles I put on her cake. I am sure putting the right number of candles on the cake would have violated some sort of fire safety code. Besides it probably would have melted the cake. (It was a Chocolate Resses Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cake). We actually had a great time on Becca's birthday and hopefully she enjoyed it too.

How about a little Cody and Jade update:

Lets start with Cody. For those of you who didn't know Cody is very short and skinny. (Not that Becs and I are Shaquille O'Neal or anything.) Anyway, we have been taking him to specialists for a while now. We finally found out this last week why he is so small. His body doesn't produce enough growth hormone. The next step is to rule out any abnormal causes of this such as tumors. They are going to do an MRI on him in July. If everything turns out ok, then they will start giving him growth hormone to help his growth.

Jade continues to progress. Ironically, the doctors don't think she needs growth hormone yet because her growth is doing well. She is eating some solid foods now, so we are pleased with that. She is also starting to roll over a little bit. Her main problem is that she doesn't have enough support of her neck. So when she rolls over it is just the rest of her body, while her head stays still. Her physical therapists and other doctors are pleased with her progression though. In October she goes to a Physiatrist. There are only four of these in the state of New Jersey. They are going to hook her up to some special equipment to help start teaching her how to stand and how to walk. In other news we were finally able to get all of her blood drawn after only going to four different hospitals to get it drawn. She did well though, a lot better then I would've. (I nearly passed out when I gave blood as a freshman in college, but that is a story for another time)

Let me see, what else have we done since I last posted? I've been kayaking a few times. Yesterday I headed over to the Delaware River. I kayaked up the canal starting from the Scudder's Falls Bridge up to Washington's crossing, and then kayaked back down the Deleware river. At the Scudder's Falls Bridge area there is a great play wave that I was able to playboat in for a while also. It was awesome. I didn't get any pictures of me doing it, but my parting shot below is someone else doing some playboating on the same wave at Scudder's Falls that I play at.

Catch up

So, now that we have a nice new computer I figured I would do a little bit of catch up on stuff that has happened. Becs has already talked about most the stuff, so I'll just touch on a few things. Becs already mentioned that we went camping. I just wanted to say how much fun we had there. We went to a nice little lake in the mountains in Pennsylvania. We brought my kayak and did some kayaking and hiking and stuff. Below is a picture of Cody looking for Salamanders. We actually were able to find quite a few. We also found a stick poking out of the water that Cody thought resembled a shark. So if you ask him about the camping trip he might tell you we found salamander's and sharks.
We also did some hiking while we were there. Cody loved it. We were following a river the whole time and he kept telling me he wanted to find where it started. Below is a video of Cody running ahead of us because he thought we were going to slow. That's kind of a miracle for Cody, because normally he is the slowest walker on earth. I guess he like's hiking.

One thing Becca didn't mention was about us going to the zoo. We decided to get a membership to the Philadelphia zoo, and we took Cody and Jade down there on the Saturday before Memorial day. Cody did really good. He even got to ride a camel.

Here are pictures of my two little monkeys. That reminds me of a funny story. When I was younger my Mom took us all to the zoo. I remeber when we went by the monkey cage one of the monkey's was making a ton of noise hollering and shaking the cage and such. My mom didn't see the monkey and instead turned to my brother Mark and yelled at him to be quiet and stop making so much noise. Of course, it was actually the monkey making all of the noise and my brother actually hadn't said a word. I guess monkey must run in my family's blood.

Here is my cute Hoodie Family. If you didn't know already, I like Hoodies. OK, I guest that is a little bit of an understatement. I love hoodies. I probably own over 50 Hoodies. I always get mad at Becs if she tries to throw one away. So, since I like Hoodies, my family puts up with it and wears them also. We even got Jade this cute little pink Nike hoodie.

My parting shot today is Becs and my dream house. It has a really nice porch and sits on a beautiful piece of land surrounded by forest. It was awesome. Although I think the lady that lived there and saw us taking a picture of her house was kind of freaked out. She probably thought we were stalkers or something. Oh well.