He's Walking!!

("Oh Toodles," Joy is saying. She loves the Mickey Mouse Choo Choo Express)

He's walking...just kidding, but he is pulling himself up on everything!! He gets very angry when he can't pull himself up on things like a card board box, his sister, and the little rocking chair. He hasn't figured out that somethings move and he can't put his full weight on to it to get up. He also hasn't figured out that if his legs are not right under him he will fall to the side...good thing its not a far fall!

Here is a video of Joya singing to Timmy, she wanted to put on a little show for him. We are becoming very creative as we are quarantined at home with "hoof and mouth." We are doing better with that too, Joya has been without a fever for 24hours now, and her shots are looking better but not gone. Timmy's three spots on his face are almost gone, but he got a bunch on hes bottom yesterday, and they look painful!! Maybe a few more days and we can get out!!

Hoof and Mouth

"Hoof and Mouth" disease is what my father in-law calls Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease. And YES we have it...I don't, but both kiddos do! Joya was so sick on Friday she ran 102 while on Motrin and couldn't even swallow her throat hurt so bad. She was just letting her saliva run down her chin and had a nice wet ring around her collar. She looked a lot like Timmy, but she's not teething!

I called our doctor and my sister, they both said the same thing, its a "virus" and there is nothing you can do but make sure they stay hydrated! My sister also recommended equal parts of liquid Benadryl and liquid Maalox and paint Joya's tongue and throat with it and it will take the sting out of her throat for her to swallow. I did that and it works great, I can tell when it wears of, about every 2 hours and we do it again.

Today Joya had low grade fevers of 99-100 and had many more moments of being alive and able to play, not like yesterday all she wanted to do was lay on the couch and watch a "little show." Today she still has the little white pox marks in her throat, but she wasn't having the same trouble swallowing like yesterday. And thank the Lord she wasn't as whinny today either. I can tolerate quiet a bit, but I can not take much of the whinny talking and attitude. I know its different when she is sick, but I think she knows how to play it up now too!

Timmy woke up with one of the little boils/pox marks on his lip. He doesn't have any other symptoms other than that one mark...lets all pray right now that he stays healthy!!





Here is a picture of Timmy chewing on a duck, sorry to all our family and friends who are duck fans, but I think Timmy is choosing his allegiance early!

Timmy also decided that crawling is not challenging enough for him, so he started pulling himself up to a standing position today! It was fun to watch both my parents, Tim's parents and my sister were all in the room when he performed for us! So naturally we put him on the walking toy and he did great. We held on to the toy so it didn't slip out in front of him, but he took a few steps with it!! I think he might be cruising the couch next !!

It's Official!

It's official, Timmy is crawling. He is extremely slow and makes it around the family room floor just fine, but has not ventured outside of the family...which is fine with me!! We used our baby gates for the Toby outside at this house, so I will have to get new ones for inside. He also hasn't figured out the speed factor yet, but that again is only a matter of time! He has been doing the worm thing and been mobile, but now its on hands and knees and I got his first few steps on film!!

Timmy also was dedicated on Sunday. The whole family was up on stage and Joya was making Tim and I laugh through the whole time. We told her it was time to pray and so while the Pastor was praying she started praying too. She prayed for her carebears, carebear cousins, her Sunday school class, penguins that she didn't know their names, and named everyone names in our family. After she was done praying she said, "OK I'm done, lets go back to my class."

The dedication was presented by Pastor Andy Buchanan, and he did a great job! We had Joya dedicated also, but this one felt different and was more community based, I really liked it! So here are some pictures from that, I will post more when I get more from my sister, she has a better camera than us!

Happy Halloween!

These pictures are from Friday we went to the aquarium. We had a great time and got to see scuba divers with masks on in the shark tanks!

We had a great time last week, cousin Josh was here. Him and Joya had a great time together, they wore each other out, but had a fantastic time together. On Saturday we had a fun, but long day. We started the morning with the OSU fall carnival. It was a bunch of booths with ring toss, cakewalks, and a blow up bouncy obstacle course. Then the OSU football game started, I took Joya and Timmy home for a nap while Tim, Josh, Dan and Tim's parents went to the game. On our way home we stopped by a friends birthday party, but then went home for a good nap...for me too! When everyone came home from the game we all ate dinner and then went trick or treating. The kids were so cute, Josh was really into getting candy, Joya just liked telling each person at the door that she was a care bear! We took them around our five houses in our neighborhood, and then to my parents and sisters neighborhood, then we took the kids to see coach Riley and Mrs. Dee. Mrs. Dee had told Tim at the game that she really wanted to see Joya and that she missed her, we went to see them, Joya was so excited to see Mrs. Dee!