moving stool

Everett started grabbing at things about 2 weeks ago. If you dangled a toy in front of him he would eventually get his hands to it. You could tell it was very hard work and he had to try very hard to do it. Tonight we were all up in the girl's room putting them to bed. I laid Everett down on the carpet to tuck the girls in. As I was going to turn off the light I noticed the plastic stool right next to him was moving. He had grabbed it and was moving it and lifting it up. He also brought his other hand over and was using that too. I said, "girls look what Everett is doing." They laughed and laughed. It was a pretty funny sight to see the stool being moved by him. Very cute. They have no idea that soon he will be doing more than just something cute to look at. Soon enough they will have another playmate!!

boogers, boogers and more boogers

Oh my, if these cold germs and boogers do not leave my house I may just have to!!! I'm so over it. In Dec it all started with Av. She had a cough for weeks and it finally got bad enough that I took her in. They gave her that lovely pink stuff and on our way we went. Last week Camille started so off to the doctors I took her. She had a cold and the start of a double ear infection so she got some of the lovely pink stuff. She is pretty much better but Av started again. UGH!! So back to the doctors we went. I of course had to take all 3 and that in itself is another blog post but the doctors office is the last place you want to be when you are trying to get rid of germs. After using antibacterial stuff like 30 times we finally got out of there. Yes Av needed more meds so we got the white stuff this time. Hope it helps her fast and the girls finally get over this but then the most tragic thing happened. Everett started coughing. Hearing a sweet innocent 3 month old cough is probably one of the saddest things ever. It is pitiful. Last night you could just tell he felt awful but he still tried to be the happy boy he always is. At one point John said, "he just smile-coughed." The poor boy is so congested he cannot even attempt to breath out of his nose so that it is making nursing impossible. After a good amount of saline drops and the blue booger sucker we finally got him able to nose breath long enough so he could have a good morning feeding. Now him and John are sound asleep up in our bed while I deal with some girl boogers. Lucky me. Don't worry Kleenex the Hoekstras are keeping you in business!!!

snow day 5

Well we have hit snow day #5 now. It's really getting pretty silly. It stopped snowing around 7 pm last night and they still called off school for today last night!! I just really can't get over it. We only got about 4 inches of show. CRAZY Yesterday they let the kids out of school at noon and hbr was cancelled too because of the snow. That was understandable. It started snowing around then and snowed non-stop till 7. John got home early and we all went out and played in it for awhile. We had fun!!

silly girls

Avery and Camille being silly at G&PP's house!!

Speech

Av started another speech. Aquatic therapy. It's pretty cool. To her it's just playing in the pool but here is the thought process behind it.

The water provides sustained compression to support diaphragmatic movement, ribcage and lung expansion with more midline control as the extremities can move easier with the voice projecting louder with more forceful voicing and clearer articulation. The water also serves to support the head for better positioning to provide trunk, neck, jaw, tongue support for more intelligible articulation.

daddy Av day

John took Avery to a U of L basketball game on Saturday. They both had a blast! It was a very sweet daddy big girl day.

my family

This picture totally captures my family right now. Av is back in a dress-up phase. She is loving her dress-up clothes. She is naked and re-dressed SEVERAL times a day. A dress with a tutu on it that her Great Aunt Susie got her (not really just a dress up dress in the summer she will wear it for real) is her current fav. She pairs it with a sweater and another tutu that Shelly got her. In this pic she added her halloween snowwhite headband and snowwhite glasses and she is all ready to go. What you can's see is she has a pair of Spartan sweatpants on as well. Very cute.

Camille has been sick and a total GRUMPSTER!!!! Oh my goodness I can't take her whining anymore.

Everett still has his mohawk and no I do not do that at all. It is all natural and looks like that all the time. Notice the top of his sleeper is soaked it. It has started. The drooling is bad, and his sleeves are always soaked too from his hand obsession.

And finally the VERY proud daddy!!!! As cute as he was when he really was 21! Although I didn't know him then he will always be the hot guy I met at the bar on sixth street in Austin!!!

I love these peeps more than they will ever know, or at least till they have kids of their own!!