Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving. It is my favorite holiday. No stress that Christmas brings, not super busy like Christmas is, it is just perfect. This year was no exectption. We got to have my whole family together this year...yes the whole family (minus Jakes little boy Mitchell) We have not had the entire family together in YEARS. It was so fun and so nice. All of Gaylens family was there, which is always such a treat, i love them all just as if we were all raised together in the same family. I have been blessed with an incredible family.

Here is the crew....a grad total of 46 people in our family!!

 Finn and Kyler enjoying some reading time with Grandma

 The whole family

 Kids table

 Ky wouldn't eat for us all day on Thanksgiving, but he sure did like his first ice cream cone!!! (funny side note is that he kept saying "ha, ha, ha" or hot hot hot while eating it. Also sad note is he threw that yummy icecream cone up that night while we were all downstairs enjoying a movie, not till we came up to bed did we smell that foul smell and found him sleeping in his own puke. Poor poor boy!)

My future piano player!! He absolutely loved loved loved that grand piano of my moms. He could not leave it alone. He was the only grandkid out of i think 19 or something that even bothers that piano, and he cannot get enough of it! I told him he couldn't pound the keys and showed him how to plunk the keys with one finger, yup he listened to his mommy like a good boy, and plunked those keys all 3 days we were there.

An Update and Some Thoughts

Update:
So i havent updated for a while, and that is ususally unlike me. Especially cause i havent even done Kylers 18month pictures or update for his book. Why is this, oh cause we cannot seem to be healthy around here. Not so much me (although i have a cold, but all pregnancy sickness has finally subsided) not really Brandon(although he did have a nasty 24 hour flu yuckyness yesterday), but my poor darling best bud, he is the sick one around here, and its killing me.
I think i mentioned in a post before that Ky was sick with diahreah. That is an understatement. He has been so super sick, not eating, not gaining weight, and honestly a holy terror at throwing fits, which is so out of the norm for my little angel boy. He has had diareah for about a month and a half (feel bad for the pregnant woman for changing that many nasty diapers please, and feel bad for our pocket book that has had to buy more diapers than ever too) :)
Now 2 drs later, and waiting for a dr appointment with Primarys, we think we might have an idea of what it is. Dairy. We have cut all dairy out of the dairy loving little boys diet, and we got 2 good poops out of him before the next wave of unhealthyness took over his poor broke down body and spirit. He has a nasty cold, fevers that stay in the range of 100-103, little sleep, snotty nose, horrible cough, and even an eye infection. I honestly dont think this little boy of mine even knows what feeling good feels like.  So pray for this little man that he will get better from this ailement, so we can move back to the other and get it all good and squared away.

So with that all said now i am going to ranble cause that is what i feel like doing, if you want to read it, go for it, but it is likely it will not make sense. :)

Thoughts:
When we were trying to get pregnant with Kyler over that long misrable year i heard many moms pregnant with their second + child say things like, "oh ya, i am pregnant" or "I am so wound up in what my kids are doing i just dont even remember that i am pregngnt." Things like that used to bother me to no end. I was so jealous that they were even pregnant, i couldnt imagine how you could forget such a blessing (not to mention all the side effects of pregnancy). It bothered me even more when they would say it once i was pregngnt, becasue that was such a wonderful time for me and Brandon. That baby was the topic of 95% of all out converstaions. I could not fathum forgetting about that growing moving little babe in me.
Why do i mention all this, because with all the stress of Kyler's health, and with daycaring, i can honestly say i forget that i am pregnant, which in return breaks this moms heart over and over again. We had to fight to get this baby too, i cried tears of joy when i found out everything worked out for us again, so how can i forget about it. Dont know, it really bugs me. On the brighter side i guess all this business, and being preoccupied with all the kids i do have to love and hold, this pregnancy seems to be flying. I am officially out of my first trimester, which with Ky seemed like an eternity. I get to find out what it is on the 3rd of January which is something to look forward to. The baby is healthy and wiggling and rolling all over in me. I am grateful to have this baby to look forward to, i am so grateful for my little boy that i get to wake up to crying in the room next door for his mommy. I am grateful for an amazing husband and for all his support, and for good friends and family that keep me sane when, lets be honest, i am the furthest thing from sane these days! :)  Wow thanks for reading if you still are. I just sometimes need to vent so i can contiune on.
Look for a 18 month post soon...i just need ky to be healthy and happy enough to take some good pictures of him.

laughter

• At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.  ~Jean Houston

• Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.  ~Author Unknown

• What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.  ~Yiddish Proverb   

So i have been so frustrated tonight with my poor little boys diaper rash. He has had diahrea for a little over a month now, never producing bad enough diaper rash that i could heal with my miricle cream called Resinol. It has healed every diaper rash i have come across as a mom, or daycare provider. Its awesome stuff and have relied on it 100% for a really long time. BUT, about 3 days ago Ky started with a rash that wouldnt go away with it, never bleeding, but not going away, NOW it is bleeding, it is getting worse, and i am at the end of my rope, (this being mostly becuase i am waiting to see what exactly can be causing the bad diarea, and ever praying it is not Ciliac and is actually something that is cureable.) 
Back to my story and why laughter is key..... tonight i decided before bath i would let the little boy run around in his birthday suit while filling the bath tub and cleaning up dinner. I was a little worried, i have done it before and ended up with a puddle, but i, again am completely desperate, so we let him run free! He was free about 5-10 mintues when i went to get him for bath, and what did i find, a happy little boy watching himself pee on my floor, laughing saying "juice". I lost it and laughed myself. awww felt good to laugh and to not care that there was pee on my tile, atleast it wasnt on my carpet! :) 
I am blessed to be a mom, and blessed to have a darling little boy to worry over. How boring and stress free life would be if i didn't have my best little bud!

Cute T.R.O.U.B.L.E

Today i was bringing Ky and his cousin Hueston in from playing outside, i opened the door into the house and they walked in, but i got talking to Brandon outside and didnt think anything of it till i walked inside and it was super super quite....then that gut renching feeling came, like "what am i going to find" i was worried, i will be honest....but this is what i saw

the two of them had helped themselves to an apple out of the box in the laundry room on their way in, walked through the kitchen and into the living room settleing down on the coffee table against the wall...There they sat munching away happily on their apples. Brandon says, "now that might be the cutest thing i have ever seen." and i relized it was ok, they handent gotten into a bowl full of candy, or got into the flour bucket, and i giggled and agreed, it really was the cutest thing i have seen in a while.
Hueston looks like he has just been seriously busted and is worried, and Kyler thinks he is hilarious....both very common reactions from the two of them when they get caught doing something they know they shouldn't! :)