Ali's 18 month WCC

Ali had her well child check yesterday. Yes she is almost 21 months but her doctor was on maternity leave and then it took forever to get her an appt. once she got back. She got 5 shots and cried but didn't scream. She's such a sweetie. She weighed in at 20 lbs even which puts her in the 1% for her age. I am a little concerned...so I'm going to try and fatten her up a little bit with milkshakes. She is just a tiny girl. Her height was 33.5 inches which put her in the 79% for her age and her head size was average. She just needs to work on the weight thing.

Karissa took this picture while we were at her appt. with her cell phone. I am really missing my camera since it is still in the shop getting fixed. I hope once I get it back I will be able to take lots of pictures to catch up on what I've been missing out on...

Ali has been saying so many words and she loves to point to all of the body parts and name them off. She even says her name now and it's so cute!! She isn't a baby anymore, but a toddler!! I am looking forward to having a newborn around soon!

*sWiNe FlU*

It seems like this whole year I've only written about how sick our family is...and once again I am writing about it...

Last Friday I had already had a cough for a couple days and Ethan was coughing with a Fever..as I posted earlier that week Ali had an ear infection so she had had fevers and cough as well...When I got back to Cheney Roger said we were going to the Dr. because they've been talking about swine flu so much at work he wanted to make sure we were all ok and that I wouldn't have to worry about the baby....well of course Ethan tested positive for swine flu..they tested me and I was negative but they said they didn't believe the results since I had all the symptoms but fever..let me tell you that body aches when you are pregnant is like a hundred times worse then when you aren't..my tailbone was even hurting. Ali didn't get tested because she was already on antibiotics for her ear and they figured she either had it or would get it so they just put her on tamiflu as well...since Roger didn't have any symptoms then they didn't put him on anything. While the rest of us were feeling like crap all conference weekend Roger was fine, but then Monday night he got a fever and a headache and went in and the doctor just put him on tamiflu because they didn't want him to get tested since it is pretty painful (they stick this nasty q-tip type thing up your nose until it hurts and move it around to get the gunk) and since I was pregnant they just wanted to prevent any more swine flu coming into the home. By Tuesday the three of us were done with the five day dose of tamiflu but my kids were still exhausted...you can get nausea and vomitting from the tamiflu and I was lucky to get it since I didn't have an appetite and it was supposed to be taken with food. I felt bad for Roger because the fever was bad and his chest hurt really bad. He always seems to get the worst of the symptoms no matter what kind of sickness he gets.

We are all doing a lot better...still a little cough..but feeling happy that the swine flu is gone..

On a happy note...my mom and I got to photograph Ellie O'Neill and Tyler Fredericksen's wedding and reception this weekend. She looked beautfiul....

My mom wanted to snap a picture of me pregnant since I don't have any from this pregnancy yet and supposedly I looked good last night so she got this while we were at the reception...THANKS MOM...

Although you can't see the outline of my belly I think you get the idea of how big I am...26 weeks..hopefully only 12 more if I get my way!! LOL

I hope the next post will be more uplifting!!!

Sick again...oh no Ali

Okay so Ali is sick again..She has had this awful cough for the past two weeks..started when I was sick, but on Saturday she started getting diarrhea and then Monday night started getting fevers!! I'm so sick of this little girl who is so tiny getting sick!! We have been alternating tylenol and motrin every three hours and it is keeping it down to sometime 99.9, but won't go down any further and won't stay down. She got her ears checked by my dad last night and has an ear infection but the antibiotics aren't helping with the fever either so once again we are headed to the ER as soon as my mom gets home (other clinics suggested I just go there with her symptoms in case of swine flu, but I'm guessing it's another UTI) to help me in case they want to do x-rays because I can't go back there when I'm pregnant. I was supposed to go back to Cheney after my maternity appointment earlier, but am thinking I might want to stay here until she's feeling completely up to it. She's been shaking with chills and her eyes are watery and she won't eat or drink much...saddest ever!!

While I was at my appt. Rob took this picture of her cuddled up asleep with Blaze. She doesn't normally fall asleep anywhere besides her crib. We haven't taken her in yet in hopes the second dose of antibiotics will help. If not we'll head to the ER in the morning.

YAY!!! It's a

BOY!!!

I was so right and it feels good to know that I was right...so everyone that guessed boy needs to leave a comment with their address so I can send them a gift!! Yay!! Roger and I are so excited and can't wait to welcome Benjamin Cache, who will go by "Cache" into the world in January!!

Today is the day...

that I find out if I am having a

BOY or GIRL!!!

I have tallied 4 votes for boy and 7 votes for a girl!!! At 1pm I will be finding out!!! Yay!

Guessing Game

Okay so we have people that are completely split in our family about whether they think it's a boy or a girl...so I think we'll do a poll and whoever is right will get a prize...so you better guess!!!

8 days until we find out!!!

Roger and I are convinced it's a boy....but because Ethan tells us it's a baby girl we don't know what to think. He does call it "baby Cache" (because if it is a boy our plans are to name him Benjamin Cache and call him Cache.) but when we ask if it's a boy or girl...everytime he says baby girl. My mom thinks it's a girl...and so does my sister...and I heard that all of my girl cousins are hoping for another girl...typical girls right? So...

Boy or Girl?

Waites Family Reunion=Saturday at Roylance Pond outside Othello

I'm not one to say I like all of the pictures of me because I'm starting to show...most of you might just think I look fat..you could say that too I guess..HAHA...I think the pictures of Roger are funny. And I LOVE the pictures of my kids...and everyone else in the family just looks perfect!! It was a fun day!! Oh I forgot to mention..the dress up pictures are because we played a getting to know you game and if we guessed wrong someone had to put something on us. I of course had to wear a ton of stuff.