Things are going good in the Ray household. I'm staying very busy chasing Corbin around the house lately----he is a VERY buys little boy!!! Cason is doing GREAT with his potty training. I think this is his 4th straight week of wearing underwear! He has had less than 5 accidents total so I would say that it has been a success! Once he needs to do to the potty, he can't hold it long so you need to get to one ASAP! I know he will get better at this as time goes on.
I haven't posted in a while so I am doing a June picture dump. I am going to give links to my Facebook pictures because it would take forever to upload them all on here. Enjoy :)
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Father's Day video we made for Scott (the end is the best)
Video of Corbin when he first started clapping
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
10 Months Old
Corbin, you are 10 months old already! What have you been up to this month?
*You are wearing 6-9 month clothing.
*You wear a size 3 diaper.
*You nurse 2 times a day and get 2 bottles a day. I am in the process of weaning you.
*You eat your solids great and we give them to you 3 times a day. You love to snack on Mum Mum crackers and Puffs.
*You have finally settled into a good 2 nap schedule instead of 2 some days and 3 on others. If you aren't having a great nap day, then you just go to bed extra early that night. You sleep at least 12 hours at night.
*You are crawling very fast now and you pull up on EVERYTHING. You can stand and cruise along furniture holding on with your hands. You are a very busy little boy!
*You've been clapping your hands for a couple of weeks now nonstop. At first you clapped with one open hand and one fisted hand but now you have the hang of it. You love to clap so much that you will crawl a few feet, then stop and sit up to clap and then you crawl another few feet and repeat the process again.
*You comfort yourself by sucking on your first two fingers of one hand and curling your hair with your fingers of the other hand---so cute!
*You're still a tummy sleeper.
*Everything you touch goes directly into your mouth and you are drooling a lot so you might be working on getting some more teeth soon.
*You babble some and still say dada but you aren't much of a talker lately. Maybe it's because you are too busy crawling around :)
*You are such a laid back, VERY HAPPY baby! We love you bunches Corbin Ray!
Loves to clap :)
*You are wearing 6-9 month clothing.
*You wear a size 3 diaper.
*You nurse 2 times a day and get 2 bottles a day. I am in the process of weaning you.
*You eat your solids great and we give them to you 3 times a day. You love to snack on Mum Mum crackers and Puffs.
*You have finally settled into a good 2 nap schedule instead of 2 some days and 3 on others. If you aren't having a great nap day, then you just go to bed extra early that night. You sleep at least 12 hours at night.
*You are crawling very fast now and you pull up on EVERYTHING. You can stand and cruise along furniture holding on with your hands. You are a very busy little boy!
*You've been clapping your hands for a couple of weeks now nonstop. At first you clapped with one open hand and one fisted hand but now you have the hang of it. You love to clap so much that you will crawl a few feet, then stop and sit up to clap and then you crawl another few feet and repeat the process again.
*You comfort yourself by sucking on your first two fingers of one hand and curling your hair with your fingers of the other hand---so cute!
*You're still a tummy sleeper.
*Everything you touch goes directly into your mouth and you are drooling a lot so you might be working on getting some more teeth soon.
*You babble some and still say dada but you aren't much of a talker lately. Maybe it's because you are too busy crawling around :)
*You are such a laid back, VERY HAPPY baby! We love you bunches Corbin Ray!
Monday, June 11, 2012
Catching Up
This week Cason is going to Vacation Bible School for the first time and I hope he has a great time. Thankfully, he will have his very first MDO teacher as his VBS teacher. We both love her dearly!
Corbin has been crawling everywhere and he just gets faster and faster everyday. He pulls up on EVERYTHING so I've been very busy around here to say the least. With Cason, we didn't have small toys laying around or a busy toddler running all over the place so it was pretty easy to keep him safe. But with Corbin we are constantly on the move keeping small toys out of reach, keeping him from climbing on unsafe objects, and keeping Cason from knocking him over---ha! I was looking back at pictures of Cason from 9 1/2 months and he was standing and taking steps. Corbin definitely isn't there yet so I'm thinking he will walk later than Cason which is just fine with me :)
I need to take some pictures of bath time because I give the boys a bath together every night now. They are so cute together in the tub BUT I have to keep one hand near Corbin at all times to keep him from falling and trying to climb. And water is constantly splashing around between the two of them so a camera is not usually an option but I will try.
Potty training: Cason is doing so good---I won't go as far as to say he is completely potty trained because I know if I say that things will surely change but he is pretty close. He has been wearing underwear for a week now. We started out last Monday wearing underwear just to see how things would go and he only had one accident that day. So we tried again on Tuesday and again only one accident. And we haven't had any accidents since then while wearing underwear. I put him in pull ups the first few times we went out in public but he kept going to the bathroom in his pull up so I decided that we needed to just be brave and keep the underwear on even out in public and he's done great. We even took him to the zoo yesterday and he had no accidents. He wears a pull up during the night but that's it---the rest of the day he wears underwear even during his nap. The pull up is usually wet in the mornings but that's no big deal. We don't plan on taking those away at night time for a very long time anyway. He even wore underwear to VBS today and he stayed dry the whole time!!! Cason wearing underwear will surely be a big change for us when we are out in public from now on. I don't like public restrooms to begin with and the fact that I also have Corbin to take care of at the same time will be interesting I'm sure. I know I will be in the middle of grocery shopping with both kids when Cason tells me he had his first big accident---LOL. I was afraid of just putting him in underwear and quitting the pull ups but it really hasn't been bad at all---I'm so proud of him!
Corbin has been crawling everywhere and he just gets faster and faster everyday. He pulls up on EVERYTHING so I've been very busy around here to say the least. With Cason, we didn't have small toys laying around or a busy toddler running all over the place so it was pretty easy to keep him safe. But with Corbin we are constantly on the move keeping small toys out of reach, keeping him from climbing on unsafe objects, and keeping Cason from knocking him over---ha! I was looking back at pictures of Cason from 9 1/2 months and he was standing and taking steps. Corbin definitely isn't there yet so I'm thinking he will walk later than Cason which is just fine with me :)
I need to take some pictures of bath time because I give the boys a bath together every night now. They are so cute together in the tub BUT I have to keep one hand near Corbin at all times to keep him from falling and trying to climb. And water is constantly splashing around between the two of them so a camera is not usually an option but I will try.
Potty training: Cason is doing so good---I won't go as far as to say he is completely potty trained because I know if I say that things will surely change but he is pretty close. He has been wearing underwear for a week now. We started out last Monday wearing underwear just to see how things would go and he only had one accident that day. So we tried again on Tuesday and again only one accident. And we haven't had any accidents since then while wearing underwear. I put him in pull ups the first few times we went out in public but he kept going to the bathroom in his pull up so I decided that we needed to just be brave and keep the underwear on even out in public and he's done great. We even took him to the zoo yesterday and he had no accidents. He wears a pull up during the night but that's it---the rest of the day he wears underwear even during his nap. The pull up is usually wet in the mornings but that's no big deal. We don't plan on taking those away at night time for a very long time anyway. He even wore underwear to VBS today and he stayed dry the whole time!!! Cason wearing underwear will surely be a big change for us when we are out in public from now on. I don't like public restrooms to begin with and the fact that I also have Corbin to take care of at the same time will be interesting I'm sure. I know I will be in the middle of grocery shopping with both kids when Cason tells me he had his first big accident---LOL. I was afraid of just putting him in underwear and quitting the pull ups but it really hasn't been bad at all---I'm so proud of him!
Happy Birthday Lily
We had fun helping Lily celebrate her 1st birthday last weekend---she is such a cutie and Cason LOVES her. He keeps asking me when we can go back to Lily's birthday party
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Water Fun
The boys have enjoying playing outside in the water lately---especially Cason.
Cason kept drinking the water....LOL
He found Cason's bucket of toys :)
Cason kept drinking the water....LOL
He found Cason's bucket of toys :)
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Sicklings Update
Well one of my little sicklings is much better. Cason finally stopped running a fever on Monday afternoon and he is feeling better, eating better, and has gotten his energy back. They called us yesterday afternoon to let us know that Cason's strep culture came back negative. So his VERY high fever was from a viral infection, not from strep. They want us to keep him on the antibiotics anyway since he was exposed to strep that way he can stay well.
Poor Corbin has had a rough weekend. First, he had shots on Friday, then strep throat/scarlet fever on Saturday, Sunday his rash was gone and he was feeling a little better, and then on Monday he caught big brother's virus and started running a fever. Corbin ran a fever most of Monday and then Tuesday morning around 3:00 am he woke up with a fever of 103---poor baby! He's been very fussy and running a high fever so we took him to our regular doctor's office this morning. They said it looks like he caught big brother's virus and then on top of that his left ear is very infected. Dr. G told us that Corbin had fluid in his ears on Friday when we were there but they weren't infected yet and he didn't want to put him on antibiotics unless he had to because of what happened last time with the penicillin. When we were at the after hours place on Saturday, the doctor told us there was still fluid in his ears and that his left ear was very red and starting to get infected. She said the antibiotics that she was putting him on for the strep would clear up his ears as well. Well apparently the antibiotics they put us on are very effective for strep but sometimes not effective on ear infections and in Corbin's case they didn't help his ear infection at all so it continued to get worse. So they switched our antibiotic today and hopefully this one will clear up his ears and continue to clear up the strep-----AND we pray that he does not have an allergic reaction to it. Poor baby feels awful!!!
Oh and both sicklings have upset tummies from their antibiotics---it's a real party over at our house---LOL
Please pray for healing and comfort for these precious babies
Poor Corbin has had a rough weekend. First, he had shots on Friday, then strep throat/scarlet fever on Saturday, Sunday his rash was gone and he was feeling a little better, and then on Monday he caught big brother's virus and started running a fever. Corbin ran a fever most of Monday and then Tuesday morning around 3:00 am he woke up with a fever of 103---poor baby! He's been very fussy and running a high fever so we took him to our regular doctor's office this morning. They said it looks like he caught big brother's virus and then on top of that his left ear is very infected. Dr. G told us that Corbin had fluid in his ears on Friday when we were there but they weren't infected yet and he didn't want to put him on antibiotics unless he had to because of what happened last time with the penicillin. When we were at the after hours place on Saturday, the doctor told us there was still fluid in his ears and that his left ear was very red and starting to get infected. She said the antibiotics that she was putting him on for the strep would clear up his ears as well. Well apparently the antibiotics they put us on are very effective for strep but sometimes not effective on ear infections and in Corbin's case they didn't help his ear infection at all so it continued to get worse. So they switched our antibiotic today and hopefully this one will clear up his ears and continue to clear up the strep-----AND we pray that he does not have an allergic reaction to it. Poor baby feels awful!!!
Oh and both sicklings have upset tummies from their antibiotics---it's a real party over at our house---LOL
Please pray for healing and comfort for these precious babies
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Strep Throat
We are currently experiencing our first bout with strep throat in our house (for the kids). We went to our well visits on Friday and both kids were in perfect health. By Saturday mid-morning things began to change quickly. Cason started running a fever around 10:00 am and acting like he felt horrible. He just wanted to be held constantly which is VERY unlike him. We gave him some Tylenol and figured he just picked up something viral while we were at the doctor's office on Friday. That would be our luck to go in for a well visit and come out sick!!!
Shortly after Cason started running a fever, we noticed Corbin was breaking out in a rash all over. After his penicillin reaction, we didn't want to waste any time getting him seen. We thought he was having a reaction to his shot he got the day before or from the new formula. The doctor had us switch his one bottle a day of formula to soy because he thinks he is sensitive to dairy. So Cason stayed home with Scott and I took Corbin to the pediatric after hours place. Turns out that he wasn't having an allergic reaction all all (the rash didn't look like his hives did after the penicillin). The rash was scarlet fever---which is a rash you get most often when you have strep throat. She did a strep test and sure enough it was positive.
In the meantime Cason is at home getting worse and even got so worked up at one point that he vomited all over the carpet in his bedroom (we had to go out and buy a steam cleaner last night). The doctor told me I needed bring Cason in to get him tested as well. So I headed home and traded children with Scott. He took Corbin and I took Cason back to the after hours place. Cason still had fever and he throat was very red and swollen. The strep test didn't come back positive but she said that she was 99% sure that was what it was. She said sometimes it takes up to 48 hours to show up on a strep test. So they sent a culture off for Cason and we should get the results on Tuesday since Monday is a holiday. She said that his throat was red and swollen, he had fever, and vomiting and those are all symptoms of strep (plus Corbin tested positive) so they went ahead and gave us a prescription for antibiotics for Cason as well.
We gave both kids Motrin before bed and Cason woke up about 1:00. When I went in there he was burning up so I took his temperature and it was 103.5!!! After lots of coaxing, I finally got him to take some more medicine and we gave him a luke warm bath. An hour later it was 103.7 so we were very worried! Thankfully it started coming down after that and we were able put him back to bed. He woke up at 7:00 this morning. with 103.5 again! He didn't want to take any medicine but I finally got it down him and he immediately threw it back up---all over me. After some bribery, we got him to take his medicine and drink some liquids. It hasn't gotten that high again but he has had a fever all day. He has just felt HORRIBLE for the past two days. Corbin doesn't act like he feels as bad as Cason but neither child is eating hardly anything at all (we can't even get Cason to eat a popsicle). Hopefully the antibiotics will help them feel better VERY SOON.
Prayers for the boys are greatly appreciated
Here is Cason on the way to the doctor's office yesterday---he NEVER sleeps in the car...
Shortly after Cason started running a fever, we noticed Corbin was breaking out in a rash all over. After his penicillin reaction, we didn't want to waste any time getting him seen. We thought he was having a reaction to his shot he got the day before or from the new formula. The doctor had us switch his one bottle a day of formula to soy because he thinks he is sensitive to dairy. So Cason stayed home with Scott and I took Corbin to the pediatric after hours place. Turns out that he wasn't having an allergic reaction all all (the rash didn't look like his hives did after the penicillin). The rash was scarlet fever---which is a rash you get most often when you have strep throat. She did a strep test and sure enough it was positive.
In the meantime Cason is at home getting worse and even got so worked up at one point that he vomited all over the carpet in his bedroom (we had to go out and buy a steam cleaner last night). The doctor told me I needed bring Cason in to get him tested as well. So I headed home and traded children with Scott. He took Corbin and I took Cason back to the after hours place. Cason still had fever and he throat was very red and swollen. The strep test didn't come back positive but she said that she was 99% sure that was what it was. She said sometimes it takes up to 48 hours to show up on a strep test. So they sent a culture off for Cason and we should get the results on Tuesday since Monday is a holiday. She said that his throat was red and swollen, he had fever, and vomiting and those are all symptoms of strep (plus Corbin tested positive) so they went ahead and gave us a prescription for antibiotics for Cason as well.
We gave both kids Motrin before bed and Cason woke up about 1:00. When I went in there he was burning up so I took his temperature and it was 103.5!!! After lots of coaxing, I finally got him to take some more medicine and we gave him a luke warm bath. An hour later it was 103.7 so we were very worried! Thankfully it started coming down after that and we were able put him back to bed. He woke up at 7:00 this morning. with 103.5 again! He didn't want to take any medicine but I finally got it down him and he immediately threw it back up---all over me. After some bribery, we got him to take his medicine and drink some liquids. It hasn't gotten that high again but he has had a fever all day. He has just felt HORRIBLE for the past two days. Corbin doesn't act like he feels as bad as Cason but neither child is eating hardly anything at all (we can't even get Cason to eat a popsicle). Hopefully the antibiotics will help them feel better VERY SOON.
Prayers for the boys are greatly appreciated
Here is Cason on the way to the doctor's office yesterday---he NEVER sleeps in the car...
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