Friday, June 27, 2008

Game Night, I just love to see Kaid and Kent play games. Kent, in this second picture, was puzzled where to go, and Kaid offered a suggestion, by pointing up with his finger. How sweet these moments are. I am cherishing these special times just the three of us, soon there will be another one, and will be quite different, but a great joy and blessing to us all.







Monday, June 23, 2008

Another BOY!!

We went to the Doctors this morning to find out if we were having a boy or a girl. As soon as the Wand passed over my belly, and the doctor was able to focus in on the area, she said. " wow, well, there is no denying that, you guys are having a boy!" I am not going to lie, I was like, " what the crap!!" I am suppose to have a girl, is this a mistake?. Then Kent, said the sweetest thing, he said, " Andrea, you are the best mom I know, God wanted us to have another boy, this is the plan, we WILL have a girl, but now this little boy wanted to come to our family, Dre, this baby is going to be amazing!" I know, that it's all good, it's just.... for 5 years, All I know is boy's.. and how boy's get screwed out on cute clothes, ( sorry.. they just do..) then I thought.. this is going to be Perfect! Well.. I wanted to add this video clip, this is my Kaid, He LOVES his music, and LOUD music.. when we were driving in Utah with my sisters, he was jamming out to Usher! Thanks Kim, I think this is his Favorite song now! Got to love the dance!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Here's To you!


Well. our time has come, we are going home from our Amazing trip, visiting family. Thank you so much Kris and Buddy, for all your kindness. It's going to be great to go home, but sad to leave you all. I will call you for sure Monday Morning... I am crossing my fingers. we sure did have a fun time. Don't forget to dye kimbo's hair! Take pictures of that. Love to you all..

Bells, pls blog to me.. I would love to hear from you, and how your summer is going. MO.. I just love you..

Monday, June 16, 2008

Being a Mom


This post is a post of Frustration/wanting to vent. I am in Utah right now, I have been here for 3weeks. I so happy to be here! It's so nice for akid to be with his cousins, However I am noticing when I first arrived kaid went in to freak mode. I am not too sure what happened, change of scenery, people, no dad around. I was in for a long road. So then My friend Sarah sent me an e-mail about a little kindergarten boy ( Kicked out of his class for being autistic) So this got me thinking. Not that Kaid has more issues, but just I am not happy with the health care that I have been receiving for him. This launched me into research mode before I left, and still here. For all of us that are mom's, we will do anything for our kido's, I just had no Idea that this was going to entail telling the doctors what to do. So right before we left for Utah, I took kaid into the Dr's for his 5yr old check-up, and something told me, ( Andrea Do research, look to see what he needs) I looked on line at the down syndrome websites, and other one's that I know of, to see all the tests that he should have had and such. Well.. to my amazement.. there were SO many that he did not have, and were suppose to have been done 2-3 years prior. Well.. trying to be calm, I demanded this certain blood work and X-rays, for Kaid, Having only this paper that I printed out showing all I wanted the doctor looked over it, almost in question like why? I was strong though. That was So different for me, I just trusted.. so much that his health Care professionals would know what tests to give, and ask. So, needless to say.. the blood work came back positive, however this is just to everyone out there that maybe does not want to say something, or just goes in to the Dr. Visits regularly no problems, Ask away. These are our kids. How precious they are. This is not a slam to the Health Care providers by any means, Just for mom's to be aware, you never Know! Use your Heart, and your Stomach ( in my case. ) I just could not rest... I knew something was Majorly wrong, They just kept telling me everything was just fine. I am grateful that this opened my eye's up to be more proactive, not that I was not before, just more awake.

My Doll Boy





Howdy! Kaid and I are in Utah now, it's been So awesome! Last week we went to the park in bountiful, called Rocket Park ( now Tolman park) and we saw this little boy, ( maybe 7-8) carrying a doll with him. Ok.. I was a little worried at first, I am not going to lie, I was like what the fetch is this little dude doing. But, as I thought about how cute it was, you will understand why in my post. Isabella, moses and Kaid were all playing with this boy, when all of a sudden he said. " I will be back, I have to go change my baby!" Trying to fight back the laughter, I just kept watching all of them interact. So, Fast track to a few days later, me and my sister's took the kido's to I am a Child of God museum, downtown SLC. I was shown by this precious moment that Kaid is going to be just fine with our new addition to our family soon to come. There was this Baby doll area, Bella, his cousin that he LOVES, was rocking the baby, and then giving the doll a bath. Kaid saw this and did the same thing. I had never shown him how to be so gentle, or how to carefully wash the baby's hair. I was sitting back while my Sister, ( The Pro Photographer ) Snapped these priceless photos. I really feel that Kaid is going to be SUCH a Great BIG brother! Our new one comes End of October ( Actual date 11/8) but I was early with Kaid. Wanted to share this, anyone that knows kaid this is sweet to watch him be calm, cool and collected. Even if it was for only a few min. I love you Kaid!

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Best Buddys


What a Great day. We are in Utah for a while, and my sister had a photo shoot in
Temple Square, oh.. I just love this place. Kaid with his cousins, Isabella, and moses.
Just the simple captures of childhood, watching them interact is simply priceless.
Kaid is going to have a hard time leaving them, as well as I will.




Temple Square, waiting patiently..

Kaid Loves his cousin moses..
The funny thing too, I do not think that we told them to hug , they really love each other.

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Best Photo of all.. I love this, they really enjoyed looking at all the beauty.