Woah Henry is 18 months old today!

Henry's Recent Milestone's;
- Cutting 4 Molers at once
- New words include; "please", "thank you", "milk", "bathtime", "all done", "love you", "Jack", "Truck", "Ball", "cold", "hot", "baby" and many many more but I can't keep track! He also knows most of these words in sign language too.
- He loves to show off his dancing abilities. I'm not joking, the kid can move!
- He loves to read books, circle time at daycare and watching morning cartoons with his big brother.

Soon we will have to take away his "nunny" (pacifier) from him. I've given it to him out of habit and not when he really could need it and thats caused a rather bad attachment to it now. I know its quite rediculous that he still has a nuk at this point but its going in the garbage very soon. Especially if we are going to start the potty training in the near future.

Worst Week! - Jacks trip to the ER..

Poor buddy after xray.


After the IV was put in, such a brave kid! :(

Saturday night right before Jack went to bed he had a mild fever so I gave him Advil before bed. He woke up at 3am with a 103.5 fever and vomiting :(. I called the doctors office and they said to give him a tablespoon of fluids every 15 minutes for an hour until he's keeping things down. The night went on, more vomiting, high temp and lots of uncertainty. He also complained of his eyes hurting and they were very swollen by Sunday. We continuously kept dosing him with Tylenol and Advil every 6 hours while he still continued to get sick throughout the day. The vomiting subsided on Monday and I called the doctor on Monday night to have him seen Tuesday to see what exactly was wrong.

Ben took him to the pediatrician as I had work. The peds office did a blood test and a chest x-ray and concluded that he had pneumonia and pink eye. Great we thought! Antibiotics and eye meds were prescribed and he started taking them. Later that day his fever plateaued at its highest to 104.1. Wednesday, I closed the daycare and stayed home with him. He complained all day that his tummy hurt and his eye were really swollen all day long. He was constantly crying and temp still between 103-104.

I decided I wanted more answers so Wednesday night we took him to the ER. Something wasn't right. He didn't act like he had pneumonia at all. There was zero coughing, wheezing and no runny nose at that time. His eyes were also swollen, not matted like you would see in pink eye. I wasn't buying what the pediatrician had diagnosed. The ER gave him an IV, took blood (not a fun experience when they can't find his tiny veins!), urine and abdominal xrays. They concluded without a doubt that he had a bladder/kidney infection, he was very distended (constipated) and that he needed to pass some gas from all that crying! They started him on antibiotic and told us to continue the one that he was prescribed for the pneumonia. We also gave him claritin for his eyes and that helped the swelling go down tons.

Anyway, today (Thursday) he's improved lots! Still a fever but up walking around and now more cold symptoms than anything. I am so glad I took him to the ER!!!! A mother's intuition is always best even if you think you are being over protective stick with your gut feeling!

Baby # 3!!

Lil Christensen #3
Well to make things even busier and crazier at my house, we are having baby #3! I am due, May 17th and we are super excited. I'm secretly hoping for a little girl this time, however, I love my boys and all I really could hope for is another healthy kid. I am 12 weeks along and have been feeling alot better that last couple of weeks. I can't believe the first trimester is over already. This ultrasound picture above is from my 8 week doctors appointment. We got to see the little babe and hear the heartbeat for the first time. I tell you, it never gets old! :)

Well I'm going back to school!

Over the last few months I have decided that I want to go back to school for Nursing. Since I have to fit it in my already busy life, I will have to go nights and weekends as I have the kids and a daycare to run! Starting in January, I am going to attend, North Hennepin Community College as they have a great Associate in Science Nursing program and they offer nights and weekend classes unlike lots of other schools. I am really excited to go back to school but know that it's going to be challenging to juggle everything! I will have a year of prerequisites to complete before I can even apply to the nursing program so it's going to take a while but am stoked to start something to better myself. :)

Ben's 31!

On Wednesday we celebrated Ben's 31st birthday. I cannot believe my husband is 31 already, I met him when he was 24! It's so weird to think that 7 1/2 years have gone by already. This year I got him a Kindle Fire and it's not out yet but we hope to get it by Thanksgiving. It's like the IPAD but more than half the cost!