Our first 911 call (hopefully last!)

This morning I was dropping off my kids at my moms to go to the gym when we had a little drama. Blair was eating her bottle before I left when she started choking. She was crying and breathing but it was really obvious she was having a difficult time. At first my mom and I thought we could help her but she started turning blue. I asked my mom if we should call 911 and she said hold on. She would be fine for a second and it would start all over again. She got to the point where she was turning really blue and my mom said you better dial 911. I was seriously in tears at this point. It was so scary. However, by the time the ambulance got there she was fine. They checked her airways and waited with us for a bit and we had the all clear. I had no idea if she had gotten something earlier and put it in her mouth and I didn't know and it got lodged when she drank her milk. I had no idea if Lukas gave her something. I was seriously panicking. We still aren't quite sure exactly what happened but we think the milk just went down the wrong tube. The ambulance crew was so nice. They made sure we were okay and kept saying how cute my kids were. One of them even colored with Lukas. I just was so grateful that they were so sweet and that Blair was fine. I hope that I NEVER have to call 911 again.

As you can see Blair was totally fine. This was after she had a nap and you wouldn't even know she had been choking earlier that day.

The ambulance crew gave this bear to Lukas and Blair. Lukas named him fuzzy.

Fun FHE up the canyon

Tonight for Family Home Evening it was the annual fall picnic up the canyon with Dans side of the family. Fall is such a good time to go up the canyon it is so beautiful. It was a little chilly tonight but we all still had a great time. Lukas especially loved playing with all his cousins.

Blair hung out in the stroller a lot at first because I didn't want her crawling all over the ground. I love this cute shirt on her. She looks adorable in it.

Blair and her cute cousin.

The boys had so much fun throwing rocks off of this rock wall into the river. Lukas seriously has a ball playing with all his cousins. He is lucky to have so many cute great ones.

A few things

This has been an exciting fun busy week. Play dates, music and movement and story time at the library, my moms bday ect. Also Blair is officially on the move and is crawling all over the place. We also moved her from her infant car seat to her big girl convertable car seat. She peed through her diaper at the store and I needed to go somewhere before her car seat cover would be washed and dry. Since I she was getting a little tall for her infant seat and I was planning on moving her soon anyway we just put the seat in the car and she loves it and is so good in it.

Her last infant car seat picture.

Here she is in her big cozy new big girl car seat! She looks tiny in it.

We made my mom a cake and hung out with her on her bday. Lukas loved making the cake. As you can see her put the sprinkles on all by himself :) He was so excited to give it to grandma and kept asking her where the candles were so they could put them on it and sing happy bday. He of course loved helping blow out the candles too.

Blair crawling all over the place. It is crazy too see my little girl just cruising around.

Now that she crawls she crawls to funny places and starts doing funny things. She played with this chair for forever!

Let me just say this little girl is CRAZY! She is pulling herself up on anything she can get her hands on. Me the couch cushions ( they were off the couch because I was taking off the covers to wash them) Dan and I. She tries to pull herself up on the actual couch and tables but she just isn't quite tall enough. We think she will be walking or close to it by Christmas. We sure do love her even if she is loosing her baby qualities.

My future photographer or maybe model

Lately Lukas has been obssessed with the camera. He has been "taking" pictures with an old film camera that we don't use anymore (the batteries are dead and there isn't any film in it he is pretending.) He always tells me to say cheese and proceeds to take pictures of me. He likes to go on walks and take pictures of the trees and sky and cars ect. He told me when he grows up he wants to take pictures of people like Nately. If he isn't taking pretend pictures he is asking me to take pictures of him doing various things.

Take a picture of me taking a picture of you mommy.

Take a picture of me sticking out my tongue mommy.

Take a picture of me eating my trix mommy.

Silly kid, I think that he would make a great photographer or model. I think this little boy will be getting the V tech kidizoom preschool digital camera for Christmas so he can take some actual pictures.

Almost crawling.

Blair is about to take off crawling any day now. She is on her hands and knees the majority of the time she is on the floor. She crawls backwards a TON to get places but can't seem to grasp the forward crawl yet. She starts to go and face plants. It is so sad. She does however get from a crawling position to a sitting position. So she just gives up and pushes herself up to sitting to play. She also will push herself off and push off with her feet like she is trying to stand in the middle of the floor. Her butt is clear up in the air. It is so funny but Dan and I think we are in trouble and will have an early walker.

There has been a lot of this out of frustration. She gets so mad that she can't do it and starts crying. Even though I am not ready for my baby to crawl I wish she just would now, because I am sick of the fussiness.

Any day now she will just take off.

The other night I went to check on her before bed and this is how Blair was sleeping. I thought it was adorable. I guess she just wanted something to hold onto. She has gotten stuck in the slats a few times and I have had to rescue her. I wish I could keep the bumper pads on but since she somehow unties them it just wouldn't be safe.

Stats

Today was Blairs six month check up. Seriously, I can't believe I am saying that she shouldn't be six months yet. She is growing great.
Weight: 16 pounds 1 ounce 52 percentile. (she weighs more then Lukas did he weighed 15 pounds 7 ounces)
Height: 26.3 inches 70 percentile
It must be all those night time feedings because she is chubbing out! I did talk to the Dr. about her sleep issues and we both agree she is one weird baby with the not so great naps. Especially since she is so happy. He did say she should be sleeping better and it was up to me but he says it won't hurt her for me to feed her or it won't hurt her to cry for a while at night either. He said do what was best for me but she doesn't need the night time feedings. He did say that my goal should be eight hours with her since she is so horrible of a sleeper instead of the 10 or 11 most babies start sleeping straight at this time. I am fine with her sleeping from 8-4 I think that would be heavan sent. Especially considering she woke twice last night once at 12:30 and again at 3:45. When she woke at 3:45 I fed her and she played in the pack and play for an hour and a half before going back to sleep! I think next weekend we are going to try to get her sleeping better. He was impressed with her milestones. Hey she learns a lot since she is awake all the time. HA HA. She did so well with her shots and only cried for a minute. He said I could start feeding her more table food if I wanted but to stay away from Honey (of course), dairy and citrus fruits. So when she starts begging we may just give her a taste.

These were Blairs faces at Lukas
Because he was doing this!

Attempted

Let me just say that we really did "attempt" potty training to the fullest. Day one of course didn't go so well but I wasn't expecting it too. We had a few accidents yet I was still optomisstic because it was only day one of course. I kept my patience and it was nice. Day two was fantastic I really emphasized that we needed to keep our underwear dry. We set the timer and he went every time. We had one tiny accident and that was it. I was even impressed when Lukas woke up from his nap completly dry. It was great. Lukas was so excited and told me he liked his big boy underwear because it was comfortable. Day three was so disastrous that I stuck him back in diapers because I believe he isn't fully ready. He seriously peed and pooped in his underwear at every chance he got. I think before 12:30 he had had about six or more accidents and not just little ones. I was wiping pee off of my chairs and floor. I would think if he was ready we wouldn't be having such a disastrous day three. It boggles my mind though how you can go from almost no accidents to constant accidents. We will be trying again in a few months. Hopefully it won't be as bad because I am so so ready for him to be potty trained. I am ready for any and all advice sent my way.


I have to admit he looked cute in his big boy underwear.