Christmas & Birthdays

I hope everyone has had a great Christmas! We sure have! Christmas is ALWAYS an extremely busy time of year for us...partly because of how big my family is and the number of get togethers each "little part" has and partly because it's mine and Logan's birthday on Christmas too! We had our first Christmas on the 20th (with my family) and then started up again for Santa Christmas morning (and Logan's b-day that night), then Roger's family on the 26th, my Mom's family yesterday, and my Dad's family today (and his 50th b-day too!). Tomorrow we have decided will be a day of JUST staying home!!! Here are some of the pictures from Christmas day...I can post more later!

Austin & Logan on Christmas Eve after opening their one present for the night (always their matching Christmas PJ's!)...Logan seems to be intently listening as Austin is telling him ALL about what's going to be happening tonight! I thought the two of them would never GO to sleep!

Out in the front yard putting out the reindeer food! You can see Austin giggling at Logan because Logan thought he was just supposed to set out the whole bag until Austin showed him to sprinkle it around.

We thought Logan had outgrown playing in the boxes, but guess we were wrong!He thought he was funny!

Austin finally got his Moon Shoes from Santa (among LOTS of other things!!!)!

Happy Birthday to Logan...I can't believe our "baby" is FOUR already! My goodness time is flying by! It's actually kind of sad! He picked to have an Army themed party, and he, of course, had to help decorate the cupcakes he wanted! We are taking him to his favorite place to eat on Wednesday ("the place with the fire on the table" as he calls it)!

Austin trying out his new Air Soft Guns from Santa! He was very excited to get them!I was proud of how well he was listening about the safety and rules! He actually shot them pretty well too! He loved hitting the targets! He's getting big too!!!

Logan was also VERY excited about his big brother's guns! He got mad that he couldn't shoot it by himself, but Santa brought him his Marshmallow Shooter he asked for! He had no problems shooting that thing by himself, but he won't stay still to shoot it. He runs around the yard like crazy! Good thing the "ammo" in that is extra soft!

New Family Photo

Can I just say that Picture People's does a really good job??? We went this past week to do a "whole family" photo with Roger's family (all 10 of us), and EVERY picture turned out fabulous! The photo session itself lasted only twenty minutes, but deciding on what to order took almost an hour! Here's one of our family photos for now...I'm heading down to wrap while I am "childless!"Logan (almost 4 years old) and Austin (8 years old)

A Week of Daily Doctor Visits and Tests at the Hospital...UGH!

Here are a few pitiful picture of our little man... :(

(And these were taken during days when he hasn't been at his worst)

You can see Chick Fila beside him and a cookie in his hand. We tried some of his favorites to entice him to eat. No luck with the nuggets, but he did eat the cookie!

Giving me thumbs up during a breathing treatment (wearing his "elephant nose"). He's trying to be a "Trooper!"

Okay, so tis the season to be jolly...or so it should be, but Logan has somehow sent the message out that his season is the season to be sick. Poor fella! It all started LAST Sunday with just a fever and throwing up. We thought, "No big deal, just a stomach bug." But once his fever spiked up to 103.8 (on Tylenol and Motrin rotation) and wouldn't go down (and he couldn't keep anything down) we realized that our little man had something else. What is it he has???

That seems to be the question of the week. The worst day so far was when we had to give him only a tsp. of Pedialyte every 15 minutes, and then every 30 minutes through the night (we needed to keep him from dehydrating, but couldn't put enough in his stomach to come back up). Worse than having a newborn...as far as sleep goes! We've been going to our doctor everyday, and today's tests at the hospital made that the second trip there this week. Nothing major is showing up (which is good!), but also "stumping!" His fever isn't that high anymore, and he actually "tricked" us on Friday by having his fever go away...only to return on Saturday along with a nasty cough. So, now we are on breathing treatments & antibiotics for that. Logan is still sleeping a TON (more than a newborn) which is one of the things making us all worry. He's sleeping for about 2 hours then waking up for about 15 minutes, then he goes back to sleep. He is NOT usually a napper, and normally he wakes up early.

And, he still hasn't eaten much either. We are waiting to hear back from our doctor (which we LOVE!!!) in the morning when she gets the tests results back. She's trying to treat him out patient and keep him out of the hospital because his immune system is weakened and she doesn't want him to pick anything else up.We hope to know how to help him get better very soon!

All of our family and friends have been very supportive and great through all of this! Don't know what we'd do without them!?! Austin has been a super big brother through all of this too. He's given Logan pretty much everything he wants to try to help him fell better. He even let him play his DS (which is a rare occasion) to try to help him perk up! Keep him in your prayers, and hopefully we'll have answers very soon!