Time has flown by

So, everyone knows how much I love my little Rooster. She is a great little kid and she sure is cute. As you know if you read our blog, she is a jealous little thing. She has been trying to do tricks and stunts to get us to pay more attention to her. She has been SO cute as of late. We finally got grass in our back yard after our dog tore it up and I tore it out last fall. So she has been out in the back yard playing hard. It takes about 10 minutes for her to fall asleep every night and when she goes out, she is out hard. So, it is her 2 year birthday this Friday and I am entirely stumped as to what to get her. We are thinking about a trike since she loves to be outside so much. She gets all excited every time we go ride bikes.

We went to the park the other day and ate dinner for FHE. She is nearly fearless and goes down any slide or up any ladder. She came down one of the curvy slides face first. Hailee is getting so big, I have begun to think of her as a young lady. She is so responsible and helpful with everything. She has been trying to distance herself from the other kids, which I understand, because she just wants peace and quite. We are working on getting their bedroom moved downstairs so that they can have a bit of quite.

Abby's personality is sure changing lately too. She has always been a bit whiney and scared of LITERALLY EVERYTHING. She is scared of shots, bandades, the dark, men, male nurses (mainly cause she is a sexist and thinks all nurses should be female), doctors, the cracks under certain stairs, and anything that she can see through and walk on, just to name a few. She has turned a new leaf and barely cried for her last shot. She pulled her own tooth last week. She has been super helpful, and she has stopped crying as much. Amazing, I know, but these are not little things in our house.

Anyways, I just wanted to fill everyone in on the goings on in the Munn house. Thanks for listening.

I wish Conference was every weekend

I actually got lots of work done yesterday and it feels great that I don't have any real YM President type stuff to worry about. I feel awesome, even though I feel super lazy.

We have had the best two days of the year this weekend so yesterday was spent in cleaning the yard and getting some projects done that I have been putting off outside. I still have one sprinkler to fix, one to move and one to plug and I will not have to do anything for the rest of the summer.

Mia is finally starting to sleep and not be fussy. I think it was her poor little tummy. For those who care and can be there we are blessing her on May 3rd. If you have not been able to make one of the previous 3 blessings, this might be a great time to catch one since this is for sure the last one.

Till next time,
Mike

We will look back and laugh

A week ago it was quiet time in the Munn household and Abby decided to put my debit card and drivers license in a special place, but forgot where that special place is, so I am without any of my most important cards, and have been for a week. She feels bad but still frusterating.
The same day Natalie drank the whole bottle of Mia's gas drops so I had to call Poison Control. This was the second time in two weeks I have called Poison Control on Natalie. A few days before she got a hold of the tums and ate half the bottle thinking it was candy. Today Natalie managed to dump the whole white bucket of sugar all over the kitchen floor while I was upstairs feeding the baby. I forgot to mention she took her diaper off right before and was sitting in the sugar. She was sticky all over. The floor was sticky all over. What a headache. The mice we have in our house will love that sugary floor. Hopefully they are gone soon, thanks to the pest man who came yesterday.
Mia is fussy in the evening and not sleeping much at night so that doesn't help but add to the chaos. I took her to the doctor yesterday and she weighs 8 lbs. 6 oz., the doctor is having us switch her formula to hopefully cut down on the fussyness. Nothing has happened yet but we will give it time. Mike has a special armpit and Mia falls asleep everytime he puts her close to his armpit. We think she falls asleep, she might be passing out, but either way she does stop crying and settles down.
I did manage to get out of going to Hailee's parent teacher conference today because her teacher called yesterday and said she is doing so well we don't have anything to talk about. That is great. Hailee is doing very well in school and we are proud of her.
Mike has been a wonderful husband. He worked from home one day so I could sleep the whole day and he took care of the kids. I slept pretty much the whole day.
Mike has been busy at work. He thought he would lighten things up a bit by playing an April Fools joke on two of the ladies. Needless to say it has caused a LOT of problems. Hopefully he has learned his lesson, but I doubt it.
I hope next week things seem a little more under control. If not we will keep smiling.

Happy Birthday Hailee

We celebrated Hailee's 7th birthday. I cannot believe she is 7. She is such a joy in our family. We had pink cake with rainbow chip frosting. The best ever.

She got a digital camera for her birthday and she is learning how to use it. Here is her debut as a photographer.

Our family picture minus the rooster. Rooster is off to the side not cooperating.

Abby helping with Mia.

Hailee posing by the birthday cake blowup. Thanks Grandma Dree and Grandpa Todd.


Great Job Hailee.

Rooster is Jealous

I don't think that I have ever seen a more jealous child. Natalie is extremely on the needy side of things. I am sure that eventually it will get annoying but for now it is CUTE. She is trying her hardest to get in the way when we are holding the baby. She used to want to hang out with me but now she wants whomever happens to be holding the baby.

She's Home

We are so glad our little Mia is home. The girls have been big helpers so far, and we are just so glad our family is all together. You forget from child to child what it is like bringing a newborn home, and how much they sleep. She has been a good baby for the whole day and a half we have had her home so we hope that continues. Hailee loves to hold her for long periods of time, Abby wants to help me take care of her in any way she can, and Natalie is adjusting to not being the baby and it is a better adjustment than we actually thought it would be. Mike has been a SUPER DAD this week and I am so appreciative to him. We both spent some time at the hopital with Mia and he changed more diapers on Mia than he has with all the other three combined. She manages to need a change before, in the middle and at the end of her feedings. He had things under control at home when I was at the hospital and I think he is a better stay-at-home-dad than I am at being a stay-at-home-mom. The girls loved having him home for the week. He has been very patient with me, I am such a lucky woman. We feel very blessed to have 4 healthy girls.

I need to Vent

I cannot sleep because I feel like my baby is sitting in a hospital alone and that she needs me as her father to be there with her. I have been emotional all day. I know what the answer is, but am having a hard time accepting that answer. It isn't like this is a life threatening thing, at least we hope not, but I don't just want her to be alone. I already have this connection that I cannot explain. Yet I have maybe spent a couple of hours with her.

I want her to know that I love her and I cannot stop thinking about her. We have been praying a lot and we have given her a blessing. It is the same feeling that I get when one of our kids is sick. It is just amplified by the fact that we are home and she is somewhere else.

I want to be strong for my kids and wife and give them a shoulder to cry on and reassure them that things are okay. I find myself slipping away to cry because of the unknown. We have had doctors tell us that she is fine, that everything is precautionary and others act like she is dying. I am frustrated with the level of clear cut answers. I know that she is only a day old and that they cannot have immediate answers, but the unknown does not help my state of mind.

The latest is that they will find out tomorrow if it is an infection. One doctor that Kim talked to tonight said that he heard a murmur in her heart which most likely means that she has a valve that isn't closing all the way yet. He said that generally that means 7 days for monitoring and by then it usually corrects itself. All said, we still don't know. We just have to act like we are okay and answer everyone's calls when all I really want is for her to be healthy and home.