round what?.......six I think.

Kourtney is back in the hospital. She has pneumonia. We ended up taking her into the ER yesterday morning because her oxygen levels were droping and her heart rate went up very high (221). I figured that they would run some test give her an antibiotic and then send us home - that's what usually happens, I was very wrong. And poor Kadrey was so worried about her yesterday before school but I told her that we would take her to the ER and Kourt would be home before Kadrey got home from school - k so wrong, my bad.

She is doing ok. Her doc tells me that she is doing a "smidge bit" better today then she was yesterday. Her heart rate and respiratory rate are both a little lower - ever thing else is about the same. She is a tough girl and if fighting her way through this. This by far is one of the biggest struggles she has faced yet. All I can do is pray that everything will be ok, and I have to believe that it will.

This is a picture of Kourt in the ER with her daddy. I never knew that you could email pictures to your computer from your phone - Thanks to Candi (Dans sister) we have learned this cool concept :) and were able to post this very precious picture.

Our night out (for a bit)

We have had a social worker that has come over a few times to help us figure out if their was anything we could do by way of find someone to help us watch Kourtney - there is 1 program available in our state and it has a waiting list that is 8 years long ( and they just had their funding cut so who know what happens next) It is just so frustrating to not be able to go anywhere with the family. It has always been that one of us has to stay home with Kourt while the other goes to the store or Chucky cheese (with the other two kids of course) or well you get the idea... Well she mentioned that our only real option was to ask some responsible young adults that we know if they would be willing to come to our house and learn all of the things that Kourtney needs. You see it is not really HARD to care for her only different and once it is learned it is really not that bad. So I thought I would ask a girl that was in Young Women's while I was a leader. She is just a sweet heart and always so willing to help out, she is so much fun and Dree and Jax both love her. She agreed to come and learn and spent a few days (a few hours each day) observing and then tonight Dan and I went to the mall with no kids. She stayed with Kourtney and then the other 2 went with Uncle Bubby and Aunt Lindsey ( and they had so much fun playing with Addi). It was amazing to be able to go out and even though it wasn't far or terribly exciting it was nice. Thank you Jessica for being so willing to help us out - you are wonderful.

Bowling

Jaxon's school went on a field trip this last week. They went bowling (Dan got to go with him). He had so much fun.I am glad that he was able to do something that he really does enjoy. The older two kids really do have to give up a lot of what they want to do, and it makes me happy when they are able to have a good time.

Some random pictures

I just love looking at pictures of the little ones, all the memories are great. I realize that you will have no memories of the pictures but I wanted to share them anyway - aren't they so cute?!

round two

So, I posted a while back about the kids and the fun dentist trip we took. We finally had our other appt. today. Now I know that we were supposed to do this a while ago but you know life just got kinda crazy for a while:
I am happy to announce that Jax had his cavity filled with a lot more cooperation on his part and a lot less frustration on the dentists. Kadrey had a harder time, her poor little teeth just really were not ready to come out (super long roots), and the numbing shots were almost more then she could handle. She really did not have that problem last time, but I can almost guarantee that she will no longer be happy to go to the dentist for any reason. But at least it is all taken care of now and she will have more room in her little mouth for all those teeth that want to grow in.

Kourtney has been doing better (no hospital trips lately). She has an ear infection and is a little congested, but she is hanging in there. Jaxon on the other hand has a sinus infection - that we cant get rid of because every time we give him his meds he throws them up- he also has infintigo (its a spotty, rashy thing on his face- the med for that is working- its a cream to rub in, nothing oral). Its seems that everyone in our house has been getting sick cold/flu and we just keep passing it around. Lucky for us it has not made its way to Kourtney (hopefully it never will), we try to stay away from her as best we can while we are feeling sick.