Janaya's Preschool/ Well baby check-up

Wow do children ever grow fast! Janaya had her physical on Friday with Dr. Beecher! She is 39 1/2 inches (75th percentile) and 47.2 pounds ( >95th percentile). She asked her if she follows everything her brothers do and she gladly replied "yes"! She said her wait is something to keep an eye on for now but not to worry too much!! She asked Janaya a variety of question's to see what she knows and can and can't do! She answered her very well and accurately too. When she asked her if she can kick a ball Naya said..."yes but only by myself". LOL. Naya told her her favorite color is purple and she can dress herself, oh yeah and she can hear everything mom and dad say!! She had to get one shot, the chicken pox one! She didn't even cry at all! I can't believe how big she is getting and especially that she is gonna go to school!

Today we went down to check out crazy days and watched the Firemans water fight! The kid's like the grab bags and the jumping castle. That gave mom some time to look for some school clothes. I must say that it used to be much more and Madison definitely needs more for shopping!! I found a few shirts for the kids and a few for Brit but I think most of my school shopping will be in Brookings or Siouxfalls! After that we came home and the kids enjoyed the afternoon in the pool. For supper we grabbed some Taco's and went to the park and that was loads of fun!

Julia is feeling much better now that she has been on the oral antibiotic. She still has some draining but no pain!!! She even went to gymnastics this week!!! I am thinking she will be like me and need to wear ear plugs for swimming or this is gonna continue to happen.

I think tomorrow we might try the public pool for some afternoon fun. One more week till we go to the Omaha Zoo, we are all getting excited now! I just need some "Fun" before school starts which is just around the corner....too soon if you ask me!! Hope you all had a good weekend!!

Ear Infections....

Does anyone else here totally hate ear infections?? Of all the illness my kids have had the most trouble with this is it!! 3 of my 4 children have had PE Tubes in, Julia actually twice! Jordon has maybe had 3 his whole life....lucky him! This is something I have actually dealt with my whole life too and still get them at least every year! Julia did really well after her first set of tubes and then Dr. Todd put them back in when she had her tonsils removed in May of 2006. She got water in her ears a few weeks back and now has this horrible infection. I took her in today and they gave her Ciprodex drops to cure it. Janaya used them at least 3 times and they worked so I am hopeful they work. But today has been pure hell ( sorry) with her. She is in so much pain, running a temp and just plain miserable. She just cries and cries I hate that when you can't make your child's pain go away!! She is so drugged up right now too and is acting almost like she is hallucinating, weird I know! She is on Tylenol with Codiene and taking like Dimetapp to help with the fluid in her ears, she is snowed and I hate that to happen to kids!

Wow I am really fired up on that one!! Anyway on to more exciting news. We had planned on going to Brit's family cabin up in Door County Wisconsin for our big summer vacation but plans have changed and that is not possible now!! BUMMER!! But I mentioned the Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo to Brit we checked it out and agreed it would be good! I found good motel rates and we booked it so on Aug 3-5 we will do that! We will go up Friday and swim that night and then hit the Zoo all day on Sat and take in an IMAX theater show. Sunday we will come home and I think the kids will Love it! I am also gonna take Lydia (Jill's daughter ) with so that should be fun nor the kids too!! I think I am more excited than anyone right now but I think they are thinking like Sioux Falls Zoo. Not that that zoo is bad but there are bigger and better.

I have been trying to think about what Brit and I could do for our weekend with out the kids for our Anniversary, which is August 21st. They will be gone the 26th &27th of Aug so if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them. I do know that I need to go somewhere where there is an Olive Garden because that is way over do....YUMMY!! Guess that is all for now have a good day!!

Weekend

Wow I can't believe I haven't posted for a whole week. I guess you can tell then that not much went on.
This weekend we went to Parkston to visit my brother Kenny and his wife Jill. My dad went along as well. There Mud Racing there and we thought the kids more so the boys would enjoy that so we tried it. They liked it but it was pretty warm so that made for some irritation to start with. Also between races they dig out the track and water it so it made for lots of sitting time and they would get restless and start to wander!! The kids had lots of fun with the misting tent and the fire truck that would spray the kids too. They got a flag, lots of candy and autographs from the winners. It was a good time all in all. They even offered to take the kids the weekend around our anniversary to we can have sometime together, I don't even know what that would be like a weekend with no kids!! But I am looking forward to it anyway! We stayed the night and got home this afternoon.

Don't have much planned this week. Julia has an ear infection and it's draining, those tubes are good for ears but when they do get an infection its really kindof gross! Hopefully the drops help and it clears soon. Well better get back to laundry everyone have a good week!!

Weekend news...

Wow the hot is back...uuggh!! Pretty soon we'll be saying it's too cold and want the hot...lol! This weekend has been great family time. We hung out Friday here at home and just took it easy! Saturday night we met Papa, Grandma and Grt Grandma Hoeke at the lake for some fishing. They caught quite a few "little" fish but had an awesome time and it's such good practice. Papa got a pole fixed up for Julia so she had a blast!! Janaya is still learning that you can't run around screaming and jumping if you want to catch fish...hehehe! With Brit and the grandparents helping the kids I got to have my own pole and fish for myself for the first time and I caught one...YAY mommy!! It was so much fun!
Sunday we cleaned in the am and then late afternoon headed back out to the lake (grandparents were camping) to do some more fishing along with grilling, swimming and of coarse smores...mmm..good!! They had such a good day and I love seeing all the smiles! Brit got in some good bonding time with the older kids and they love that! It was the first time Great Grandma Hoeke got to fish with the kids too!! I love wonderful weekends like this...Hope all had a good one too!!

Just Some Info!!

We looked at 2 houses tonight, the one by the lake is an absolute no go!! You couldn't pay me to live there let alone me pay to buy the place! The house on SW 1st was definitely a good one but we are having a hard time buying something with a higher price then the house we really want and it being less in quality! It was a nice house and it would work but what are you to do when your heart and eye's can only see your dream. Our other option is to wait for this house and the earliest we would be able to take possession of it would be October. I really hate to stay here that long but on the other hand we are always gonna wonder about the house we wanted and I really don't want to live with that!! So the plan as of now is to wait the 3-4 months for the house we want. Jeff told us that it should be 3-4 months before it's done and that we will still have the same deal as we did now! As hard as this is for me the thought of not having that house is worse! Such hard a decision this has turned out to be! I never thought buying a house would be this way. It just seemed easy the bank gives you a loan, you pick out a house and boom its done...WRONG! The problem is finding a house you like and that all the other ducks fall into place at the same time. I guess this is part of growing up and making responsible decisions in life, maybe you keep growing up as you get older and it's not something you reach and have it for life. I don't mean to bore anyone here or confuse you, if I did I apologize, I am just putting my thoughts in writing!

Ok on to other news....Jackson and Janaya appear to have foot and mouth disease. If you don't know what that is you can get sores (like little blisters) in your mouth and throat and on your hands and feet. Right now they both just have them in there mouths and Janaya's are worse then his but he handles pain way worse then she does. Julia had this when she was 2 and it was BAD she actually ended up in the hospital for a few days with a feeding tube, now that was rough!! Hopefully they won't get much worse and will clear soon!

Also I got a myspace page now and my sister in law has designed it really nice for me if you want to check it out the address is....http://www.myspace.com/barbboe

Guess that is all for today Have a great day!!

Now What?

Ok this is got to be one of the worst Monday's in along time! I talked with Jeff this am and the sellers have decided to build! Well the bad part is they are not gonna sell the house till theirs is ready which won't be till closer to winter at least!! So they told him we can either wait or find another house and that we are not bound to our offer anymore!! I am so devastated about this!! So we are looking again and have an appointment tomorrow night to look at 2 houses! I hope it goes better this time and if we don't find one I guess we know it will be for sale someday!

The rest of the weekend was nice on Sat night Brit and I went over to Flandreau to celebrate Lesli's b-day and it was fun! A good day to go to the casino...7 7 7....lol! On Sunday we headed back to Brooking's to pick up a few things for the van and a POOL for the kids! All in all in was a nice weekend!! I will post again after we look at these two houses!

July 4th....

I realized that I haven't posted since like Monday...YIKES! I have not been feeling so well at all this week! I think Tuesday I left the couch 3 times tops!! We went and bought the kids some fireworks on Tues night and then waited "patiently" for it to get dark. When it finally did we went out to the lake and the boys along with daddy did the little ones and then daddy put on quite the show of Artillery Shells for us...good show daddy it was fun!! Wednesday we headed over to my mom's as my step brother Jason was in town and we don't get to see him much. That brought Steph and Cody home as well! It was a very fun day with lots of family, water fights and some "fun snaps". We grilled out and then headed home to rest and bathe before the firework show, the kids loved it!!! This year was nice because Janaya is finally old enough to not scream the entire time!!

Not much else went on this week, today we battled the heat and headed to Walmart for some groceries and such! With the heat this weekend I don't know that we'll so much maybe the lake! Brit and I have plans to go out with my dad and step mom for her b-day tomorrow night so I am looking forward to that! I hope this bug or whatever I got passes by me soon, it could just be the heat anyway ....Have a good weekend!!

Music!

Ok ladies and gents I have been making a play list for me to use for many different uses! I ended up making 2 lists so they wouldn't take so long to load and to make error's less probable. Now I split them and posted both of them to the blog! HA now when you come into my blog 2 different song's will start to play, YIKES not cool and very annoying!! Until I figure this out pick the song of either list u wanna hear and it will stop the other ...LOL!

I pick most of my song's for a reason whether it be personal, life experience or just because I like it! I think you can tell alot about a person from the type of music they listen to! So if you ever want to know about a song I have chosen don't be afraid to ask....this could start a whole other realm of Barb....