Visitors!

Right now we are having a good time! We have lots of family in town and soon to be more (my Dad, Step-Mom, and brothers are on their way from Michigan right now)! Seth's sister Angie, her husband Joel, and their kids Sam, Alex, Emma, and JoJo are all in town from Switzerland! (I haven't gotten any pictures even though I purposely have been carrying my camera around! I forget so much when I have two kids to distract me!) My brother Ryan, his wife Emily, and their kids Cassie, and Clark just got in town from Boise. It was so funny when they pulled up Doran was bouncing and screaming CASSIE over and over! He absolutely loves her. All night he kept talking to her, giving her toys, and even kissing her. When she left he kept saying, 'Bye Bye Cassie.' It is so fun to see how excited he gets about seeing her. It makes me laugh!

Here is my sweet little Brock with his uncle Ryan. Seth and I are both VERY strict about not giving sugar and stuff until our kids are one, especially with all Brock's problems! So Ryan was holding Brock and next thing I know he is letting him suck on a juice bar! I about died! He however kept grunting and doing everything he could to try to get it back!
Her is Emily and Doran's best little buddy Cassie! I think he was kind of overwhelming her, she was just wanting to do her own thing!
Here is 2 month old little Clark. I am disappointed because this picture doesn't show how amazing his eyes are! I have never ever seen eyes as beautiful as his are! I hope they don't change.
Doran overseeing Cassie. You can't see in this picture, but he loaded the side of the chair up with toys for her. He is so funny.
On a different subject... I just love this picture of my Poppy, Doran and Brock's Great grandpa with Brock. Ever since Brooks was a baby he has always held the little babies and sings hush little baby and pats their back. He is so sweet and I am so greatful Doran and Brock have them in their lives. We are really so blessed. We have so much family all right here by us. We have Seth's Mom and Dad and his two sisters and their families (so six cousins!), my Mom and Step-Dad, my sister and her family, my Grandparents, and lots of aunts, uncles, and cousins!

I love these boys!

This morning when I woke up I propped Brock up on the couch so I could start Speed Racer for Doran. I turned around and found Doran had climber up and was sitting as close to Brock as he could and they were both so happy to be by each other! They are both so stinking cute!

Brock Rodney

When Brock was born he weighed 9 lbs 15 oz and he quickly gained weight. At one month he was just shy of 13 lbs! Then he got RSV lost a pound and a half and gained it back slower. He got acid reflux at the same time and has been a fussy eater ever since. He was in the 94%ile for weight at 2 weeks, in the 80th at two months, 70th at 4, and at his six month check up last week he was right at the 50th. (He is still really long though. He has always been around 95%ile for length!) This concerned me so bad! I explained to the Doctor how hard he is to feed and how I pretty much force everything down his throat and it is still nowhere near enough! She said he has something called Food Refusal. She said his acid reflux could be causing it and upped his dose of his medication and told me to slightly concentrate his bottles. He is going to be weighed again in a couple of weeks and see if it helped at all. I still am not seeing a big difference in his eating and feel helpless about it. If any of you have ever dealt with anything even close to this please give me some tips or advice! I just want him to be healthy more than anything.
...but you can't say he isn't dang good looking! All he is does is smile! The first thing he does when he wakes up is smile at me and he is still smiling when I lay him down. I love my boys!

Brock's First Tooth!!!

Ok so you can't really see it, but I swear it is there! I took this picture with my cell phone so it is a little foggy but you can see it on my phone! He just turned six months yesterday and the tooth was through this morning. Doran didn't have his first tooth until he was like 8 1/2 months so this seemed so fast! He wasn't even grumpy last night! Slept just as good as ever, he is an angel.

Tubes

Poor little Brock got tubes today. He is doing ok now, but when they brought him back into the room I thought he was going to burst blood vessels he was crying so hard! He cried for about thirty minutes and had a hard time opening his eyes all because of the anesthisia. Finally they let us go and he fell asleep the second I started driving! He has been grumpy off and on all day, but over all if this takes care of the ear infections then I think today will be worth it to both of us!
Doran got babysat by my mom and PaPa K during all this and he was so excited when he saw them pull up in a black convertible porsche. He started saying, "Mommy cool car!" They drove him around with the top down and my mom said he was laughing and saying vroom vroom! The boy loves cars. Speaking of his new favorite movie has changed from Cars to Speed Racer! He walks aroung singing go go racer go go, it is really cute.

And last but not least only 29 days until Breaking Dawn is released! I can't wait! I will tell you all now though, if Bella doesn't marry Edward and go vampire I am burning every copy of the books that I see! I will be furious. I have a theory though: Bella hates the smell of blood right? So maybe when she becomes a vampire (she better) that will carry on as well! What do you think? Maybe?