Aja is 3 months old!!

Here is the cutest little girl in all her glory!! She is doing so well, it amazes me every day. She has the sweetest smile ever, I love it! She is very much a fan of her mom. Whenever I pick her up, she grabs a little bit of my hair and holds on tight; she doesn't pull so that is good. She sleeps with me as well, and whenever I hear her squirming I just grab her little hand and she calms right down, LOVE IT!! She's attempting to roll over, but can't quite get over that little shoulder. She also loves to wrestle her blankets, it's really funny. I just put a blanket over her and she rocks back and forth and squeals.

Here is Aja with her SECOND favorite person, her dad. I love men who baby wear, it's so cute. Obviously, she loves to suck on the front.


A bit of tummy time. She usually hates it, but I guess I caught her in a good mood.


Here is another one..More drool..it never ends.


She is such a tiny thing. I think in the last two months she's gained maybe a pound. My grandparent's were up this week and they kept commenting on how "petite" she is. Most definitely NOT like her big sister!! LOL!

So Thankful..

Yesterday Mitch got a call from Primary Children's Medical Center saying that an anonymous donor paid off 2 of Aja's CT scans and her hospital stay bills for us!!

Whoever it was, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. Medical bills are hard, especially when you didn't "budget" them in. We had saved for Aja's birth, but had NOTHING left for what was to come afterwards and we have been stressing ever since. This has taken such a load off you have no idea. We have had so much help from family and friends with bringing in meals, taking the kids so they can have a good time, buying them clothes, and just plain being there for us when we need to talk and vent. Now this!! I'm amazed at the generosity we have experienced through this whole journey.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Yes, I'm trying to lose weight.

As you can see I've got myself a little ticker at the top. I've been putting off starting to exercise hard because I didn't want it to affect my milk supply, but since things seem stable, I've decided to dive right in.

Pretty much, I no longer want to be in a contest for the biggest butt with this person:


So, I've commited to lose weight. I'm really going out on a limb telling you all how much I've got to lose. I weight 139 right now; 140 when I started this whole thing (whoohoo I've lost a pound!). I don't plan on going carb-free as, according to Zach, I don't want to get the shredded rectum. So I do my elliptical 3 times a week and strength 3 times a week. HOPEFULLY, by Christmas I will be close to my goal of 115.

So from now on I'm going to be sweatin' to this...leg-warmers and all.

UPDATE ON THE EEG!

The doc called me this afternoon and we DO NOT have a seizure disorder!! I am so happy! I really don't think I could have handled a seizure disorder on top of everything else. Just thought you all would appreciate the update.

Here is my happy dance:

So, he has autism..

Well, it has been confirmed. We went to the developmental pediatrician today and sat there for 2 hours and answered questions. Oy...My brain is fried.

To add a cherry to the top of the chocolatey sundae that is my life, Cohen goes in tomorrow morning for an EEG (electroencephalogram) to see if he might have a seizure disorder. Apparently, the flexing of all of his muscles when he gets up from sleep is an indicator that something more might be going on. I'm hoping we get the results tomorrow afternoon.

Anyway, we got ourselves a whole bunch of handouts, get the EEG, go see a geneticist (sorry if I spelled that wrong), get into a communication clinic, and FINALLY get into an autism clinic as well..All of which have a waiting list. I hate waiting.

The good news is he is not severe autistic, which makes me a bit happier because that means he can function at SOME level when he gets older, what level that is we won't know until he goes in for his clinical and communicative clinics and we see what is going on in his little brain too.

Here is the little man I love so much with a funny look on his face.

Our Last Hurrah of the Summer!

This summer has been kind of crappy for the kids with everything that has been going on with Aja and Cohen. So Mitch and I took the kids up to Bear Lake for the day for one last Hurrah! before school started. They had so much fun! Anessa is a blast to take to anywhere with water because she jumps right in! Peyton, he will get in for minutes at a time, but mostly thought it was too cold, so he played in the sand. Cohen is Cohen and sat there in the water not doing anything really but watching the mud drip through his fingers.

Every time a wave would hit Cohen in the face he would sit there and lick the water. It was so gross! I couldn't get him to stop!


Peyton shooting water at Cohen. You can tell how cold he is by how much he's bunching his body!


O fearless one. I swear she has no cold sensation in her unless it's 100 degrees outside, then..she's cold. P.S. Nice look on her face, huh!


Mitch is going to kill me for posting this picture. It's a pic of his HAWT bum, and white body! It's not so white now is it hunny?? He didn't put sunscreen on his back, but made sure to wear a hat on his head, and got FRIED! I swear his skin is about purple..He's been suffering..heehee..

Our first ABC Session-P.L.A.Y.

Today, Mitch and I attended Cohen's first P.L.A.Y. session (Play and Language for Autistic Youngsters). It was a big gym filled with a lot of different playground like toys. There were about 5 other kids in there with him, and what it did was give the therapists a chance to get Cohen to engage play with other kids. We didn't watch him because we went into another room with a few other parents and a social worker and talked. It was nice to hear that I'm not alone, and that I'm not crazy. All of the kids there acted just like Cohen and a lot of the parent's had the same frustrations that I do, so it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who gets SUPER frustrated all the time. It was also nice to hear that I'm not the only one who has mourned this whole thing. It's hard. It's been hard to not hear his little voice, it's been hard to see him off by himself not interacting with other kids, it's been hard to think that for the rest of his life he will have difficulty in just about everything he does, that the littlest thing can set him off and trying to figure out what it is is like trying to solve the hardest puzzle ever.

They have a neat library there that is filled with all sorts of books on every type of neurological disorder you could think of. You can bet I'm going to be in there checking out what I can. They even had a book on Hydrocephalus that I'm very interested in reading. It will be nice to have that resource helpful when we find out where Cohen falls in regards to the spectrum, which will be on the 26th.