Kids on the run

Literally, these kids never stop!! 

At their last appointment Nate was 30.5 inches and 23.14 pounds, and Juliet was 39 inches and 35 pounds.  Growing up so quick!

Juliet starts Pre-K on the 27th and Nate will move to the Toddler class on that day. 

Nate will throw his arms around you for a hug, he loves climbing in and out of the cozy coups and loves the little wagon on the pink car.  He is getting 5 teeth in at once so he is super cranky all the time.  His new favorite toys are the toilets and the trash cans, so watch yours! O-Yeah and he likes to open drawers and pull everything out of them.

Juliet loves brother but doesn't want him touching her toys.  She loves playing dresssup and is becoming a serious girly girl with the heavy on the princess dresses.  She now sleeps so much better since her tonsils have been taken out.  She does not move around much at all. 

These kiddos are so sweet, I love them!!  Sorry so short, gotta run after them!

Talker - Nate's word list

Sister- 10/27/12
Hi
All done - 10/1/2012
Cookie - 8/5/2012 - When I put Nate in his chair he would say cookie
Moma - 8/1/2012 - Apparently I only wanted him to say this as he repeated it over and over.
Daddy - 7/19/2012 - Nate came around the corner tonight and saw Jon and said dah-dy - Calling it!  1st word!!

This will be an updated post!!

Tonsil-less

Juliet is now tonsil-less!!  Thank you God for a successful tonsil surgery.  We had awesome doctors who came up with an anesthesia plan that worked beautifully!   We are now on the road to recovery.  She has been such a trooper today!!  The doctor told us she now had a throat, not just tonsils, if that tells you how bad they were.  Thank you Dr. Duncan and Dr. Shaw for working so closely with us to make today a success!!  Thank you all for your prayers!!
-Laura

Happy Birthday Nathaniel

Happy birthday to my buddy bear. Today you are 1 year old!

You are such a sweet little guy, even if you are really cranky sometimes!
One year ago today you surprised us by arriving a little early but captured our hearts all the same. You were so eager to join us and haven't slowed down any!
You are walking, you know you have a voice and like to yell. You haven't started talking yet, but you babble a lot. You love the fridge and make a beeline for it whenever it is open. You are fast getting to what you don't need to have. Sissy's toys are the best and you want them most. Anything and everything on a counter must be pulled off and thrown You are a snuggle bunny who all the sudden thinks you need to go to sleep on mommy. By the way buddy bear, the toilet is not a play area, that's just gross. Your face lights up when you see sissy or daddy. You loved your cupcake for your birthday. You are our little man and we love you bunches! Happy Birthday Nathaniel jack!

First Steps

Nathaniel took his first steps today to daddy. Being fathers day that made it extra special. As I type he took 3 steps to daddy and Juliet. He is really getting it. Good job buddy bear!

In our lives right now

Instead of a paragraph blog, it's going to be more of a list of what the kids are doing!

Nate, on top of having pink eye today,
Can climb on the blow up mattress
He climbs all over you if you are laying down
Will eat anything that doesn't eat him first
He still wants to go head first off anything to get something on the ground.
He has found a duck gramma and granddad brought from Canada. He loves it. He also found a little pooh bear in Juliet's room that he will hug on. It is really precious.
He reaches for who he wants and if you don't take him he will try to jump to you.
He loves his sissy. Wherever she is he has to be.
Into everything he can get his hands on.
Tries to walk but gets scared but will walk along the furniture and behind the walker and the shopping cart.
Everything goes in the mouth.
Loves the loudest toys he can find.
Has tooth #5 in
Learned how to make the walker go fast!
Juliet
has endured a seizure, a night in the hospital, a cat scan, a MRI, and an EEG. I hope this clears everything up so we can get her tonsils out on August 1st.
She is officially a My Little Pony Friendship is Magic fan.
She has found out that she loves to play Angry Birds. She even has a shirt!
We bought a new rod for her closet so she can get her clothes down by herself that she wants to wear for the day. (Still in the package)
Will start a new dance class, in addition to her one at school
Tells everyone on Wednesdays that she is going to cubbies, even though it doesn't start till August.
Dresses herself
Knows her basic colors in Spanish
Knows my phone number and Mamas
Has a wonderful imagination
Loves to paint, write her name, draw smiley faces, read, take pictures, dance, twirl, and tell Nate no!

They both:
love riding in the cart at the store
love daddy big time and get jealous if the other one is around him.
give big hugs and the biggest smiles.
Are professionals at looking away when you want to take a picture
Are the biggest joys in our lives!

So many things going on with them. I am so sorry for not posting sooner, time flies!

Went in to have tonsils removed, still have them...

Monday morning we arrived at Texas Children's Hospital to have Juliet's tonsils removed at 9:00 am.  We got checked in got situated to wait for our 11:15 time.  At 10:30 they started the surgery, yea for early.  At 10:50 we got a huge shock.  Dr. Duncan came in to tell us that they had to abort the surgery due to Juliet having a seizure on the operating table.  It was a very mild seizure that lasted between 10-15 seconds.  It apparently happened shortly after they started the anesthesia.  It is unknown what caused the seizure since she has been put under before.  He wanted to admit her to the hospital overnight for observation.  Well I guess if you are going to have to be in a hospital, why not be in one of the best right?  We finally got into a room around 4:30 pm and daddy came home to relieve Meme of Nate.  Thank you Meme and Poppa for keeping Nate so we could focus on Juliet.  Dr. Ori arrived around 6:30 and helped get her CT Scan expedited.  At 9:30 we went down and had that done, we were done in about 5 minutes.  My brave little girl did awesome!  She finally went to sleep around 11 and of course they came in at midnight to do blood pressure and temp. I am unsure how anyone recovers in a hospital as many times as they disturb you.  Dr. Duncan came in early this morning and told us blood work and CT Scan were good and we could go home.  We were home by 9 am.  What a whirlwind 24 hours.  She was very tired today but otherwise seems like her normal self. 
I had some rough moments yesterday.  I spent alot of time in prayer, asking God what was going on and why did this happen.  I felt like the answer came to me last night in the form of, "I let this happen during this elective surgery so you know there is a problem and not during a life or death situation."  It has helped me know he did not leave us, he was there the entire time watching over her.