Bringing in the new year!

Happy New Year!!

We aren't making any plans for the evening, just to relax and enjoy each others company. I keep praying that 2011 will be a much healthier year for the Scott family. I just read on a friends blog that her little boy has MPV and is in PICU for the second time. This is what Maddox had in Feb/March of this past year. I'm hoping for no repeats. I'm praying for a fast recovery for her little boy too.

I don't have much time to blog today because it's nap time and Drew wants desperately wants to play puzzles. So I have to run, but we wish everyone a Happy New Year!!

Love and Hugs!

AGAIN??

I feel Deja Vu! Not many of you know this but when Drew was a baby we went through a rough period of time where he had chronic vomiting and diahrrea for weeks. It happened at 8 months of age then again shortly after he turned 1. I fear that Emma has it too. She's been sick for about 2 weeks now. No one else has been sick like she has and she is following with the same symptoms that Drew had. I took her to the pediatrician today and they said she looks fine (as did Drew when I first took him in) and to keep up with what we've been doing. They are going to run stool samples and see if anything turns up. As of right now the pedi is thinking she is still reacting badly to an antibiotic she had about a month ago and it's causing an infection. We will see. After weeks of consulting with our regular Dr for Drew I finally took him to Riley Children's Hospital; they never found anything but a bad reaction to him drinking juice and a high alkphosphatase level. I've already called to get Emma in at Riley, but she doesn't drink juice. I'm beginning to wonder if it's genetic?? I will ask if they don't find anything with Emma. There is most definitely something going on. Drew still has mini episodes of this and I am one frustrated Mama!

Other than our poopy drama, we are all good. Waiting to see what Santa is going to leave under our tree! Hope I made the nice list....

Merry Christmas everyone!
Love to all.

More Birthday Fun!!

Wow! It's almost Christmas....Santa is getting ready to head to the Scott house. Cookies are made, the tree is up and we all made the nice list this year. Well, so far. Some days are questionable. :) I shouldn't complain...my Christmas tree is still standing. YAY!

It's been interesting the last few weeks. Now that we have 4 crawlers and everyone is beginning to pull up and get into things it's total craziness. Maybe more like a big wrestling arena. I feel like I'm constantly calming someone.

Drew had his third birthday party. He had a blast. So did the quads. We went swimming with family and friends. It was great to see them all. Drew got a big boy bike, a mobigo, and more. His favorite thing seems to be the snow outside. If only it didn't take 30 minutes to get everyone dressed and out the door just to play in some frozen water!! We did go out a few days ago. The babies loved it. Well, until Emma face planted in the snow. It's ok...no harm done! She was fine after a good brushing off and some kisses.

If I'm not able to post again before Christmas, everyone have a safe and very Merry Christmas.

Love to all!!

Happy Birthday!

Well, the quads are now 1! They enjoyed their first birthday by eating Thanksgiving feast. Plates were emptied and then they enjoyed cake. What a yummy mess! They had a small party with just close family. We decided to have a bigger party with friends and distance family with Drew and the quads together.

We planned the party at the aquatic center. All the babies(except Jack) and Drew love the water. Jack likes water, but isn't as enthusiastic about it as the others. He would rather love on you! They had a blast. Drew is like a fish...he put on a life jacket and swam his way out to the 5 ft deep part of the pool. The babies sat in the zero depth part of the pool and splashed like no tomorrow! What a blast we all had.

We put up the Christmas tree and it's still standing!! Yay. We've had a few minor issues....Parker and Maddox! Parker is drawn to a big red sparkly ornament and Maddox likes the silver one next to it.

We've been busy swapping out infant toys with some 12 month toys. The babies are starting to pull up on things so it's time to get big toys out. It's been great telling them things and they correctly follow directions. My babies are GENIUS!!

I believe nap is over....I hear babies!

Hugs!

Brian won this battle!

Never in my life has our Christmas tree been up before Thanksgiving. This year we put it up the week before. With Brian and I working crazy hours to get around paying for daycare our time was limited. He will be working holiday hours and with family coming and holiday events this was about the only time we had to get our stuff out.

I did manage to muster up the energy to take a few pictures of the kids with the tree yesterday. They didn't do too bad. I would still like to play with the pictures a little before making Christmas cards. Maybe that will be my late night project tonight. Drew is going to spend the night at Aunt Stacy's house. I think they are going to camp out in the living room. You know, when you put sheets or blankets up across the counch and the tables or between the chairs and get inside! Brings back lots of fun childhood memories!!

My other late night project is to wrap presents. Boy has my wrapping workload quadrupled!! hehehe. I just hope it goes smoothly and then I'll just need to find a good hiding spot.

I'm gearing up for the babies 1st birthday this week. I'm slowly coming to terms that they will be a year old. I don't feel like they are that old. Either way, I still think they are the cutest and sweetest babies ever. I am one lucky mommy.
Birthday pictures will post soon!

Hugs to all, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Time to catch up.

Woopsies! I didn't realize it had been almost a month since I've posted. I guess I've been too busy. :(

Well, we had a fabulous Halloween. We participated in our neighborhood's Halloween parade with the fire dept. located just up the street. I took them to their first Halloween party at one of my friends house and then we Trick-or-Treated! They loved it.

We've been getting ready for birthday's and the upcoming holidays already. Can you believe the quads will be one in less than two weeks?? YIKES! They are learning so much, so fast. Jack and Emma are crawling, Maddox and Parker are starting to figure it out. The try to scoot forward, so that's progres! They love pancakes. The weather has been so nice out lately. Yesterday was 74 degrees, so we went to the zoo. Yes, I took all 5 kids to the zoo by myself. They are so well behaved that it really isn't hard. We had a blast. Drew loved the cheetahs. We didn't get to see them last time we were there because they were hiding. Yesterday there were three laying about 50 feet from us. I was surprised at how small they really are. I was thinking they were as big as the tigers.

I'm really excited for Christmas. Not so much about the presents and the shopping but about getting really cute pictures. I know, such a MOM THING TO SAY! Hahahaha. I know the babies will be into the tree like crazy, but it's going to be fun. They were all still in the NICU last year. It will be nice to spend our holidays here at home (our new home) as a family. :)

Hugs to all!

All Patched Up!

The quads made their first trip to the pumpkin patch. They did so well. There was so much to see! Drew had a blast too. We went with our good friends; the Farleys. Yes, Drew took the love of his life, Kiersten Mae! They climbed a straw mountain, rode a pony, took the hayride out to the pumpkin patch and ran around together.

We are just waiting to carve them with Grandma and Papa. They will be arriving Thursday! That means lots of cuddles coming and Emma's new dresser. It's not brand new, but new to her. It belonged to my great Grandma, and was passed onto my mother as a child. It had been at my grandparents house until now. My aunt and mom thought it would be nice for Emma to have. I'm really excited about having it for her.

No new developments in the house. Just maybe thinking about some furniture rearranging. I'm about to get rid of all our baby swings and some of the bouncy seats. It will make a little more crawling and rolling space. I guess a little more Toy Story space too...we have the entire set and more. Buzz and Woody are everywhere!

XOXO