1-2-3 Imagine

These are just a few pictures from the past few months. I can't believe it is December already. Thanksgiving is here and gone and now next is Christmas. But we just went to see Sesame Street live with my sister and her husband and Kamryn part of her birthday present. What a grat time! The kids loved it and was so worth our money. The pictures did not turn out all that great due to it being dark in the room but you get the point. I hope to take Sawyer there when he is old enough if they are around here again. Our Chirstmas shopping is done and now we are broke but the kids are going to have a nice Christmas and that is important to me. Well that is all for now the kids are growing fast Sawyer is now on solids and loves them all really. He goes for his 6mnth check up soon and we will update then I am so far behind on this whole blogging thing so I am once again sorry. Well hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving and preparing for the birth of baby Jesus. Till again good night

carve it up

Today was a nice relaxing day. We watched football all day Go Pack Go!!! :) And then we carved the kids pumpkins. They turned out really nice. Kaden nor Sawyer were real interested but it is a tradition I want to keep going because I remember doing this with my dad as well. So that is what we did today. Yesterday we went on our date night that was alot of fun. We laughed and joked around without kids it was a nice time. We got Kaden his Halloween costume which is a fireman outfit and also just touched a little on Christmas shopping. The movie " Couples Retreat" was a good movie a kind of dumb ending but had some really good parts as well. It made me think of my marriage and look into things a bit and realize every marriage has its problems every couple has there issues and its ok. You need to keep working on your own marriage and remember why you said those vows and to keep them. It is so easy for some people to just give up for whatever reason but if you truly want it to work and want to work on it then it will work and be all that it can be but it takes 2 people to do it. So anyhow that is what I got out of it as well as good laughs. So I would recommend seeing it if not in a theater just rent it. Well that is all for now enjoy the pictures. Thanks Corey and Sheila for watching the boys we truly enjoyed our date night and want to do it more often!

flu

Hello, Just an update today was Sawyers 4 mnth check up and he is 18 lbs 1 ounce and 27 inches long. He is growing so fast we are going to start cereal followed by his veggies and fruit! Yeah!!!!! He also got a bunch of shots 3 actually he was only going to get 2 and a rotovirus drink but the nurse made a mistake and gave him a flu shot that was suppose to be for Kaden. Oops and Sawyer is to little for the flu shot should not be given until 6 months old the nurse felt terrible and I think she was crying but no real harm done he may run a higher fever tonight so we have to keep up on his tylenol for the night and he should be ok the doctor said. They were really good about this and explained what happened and what to do. I am a bit nervous on the long term affects but what can I do it is over with. Kaden then got his flu shot and did great he never even cried what a big boy! He will be going back later this month for his H1N1 shot his peditrician said he should get it, it going around like crazy already and I don't want to take the risk. So that is our news for the day no pictures from today. Corey and Sheila are watching the kids Saturday so Bill and I can go on a date for our wedding anniversary and his birthday. We are going to see "Couples Retreat" and then eat at Applebees maybe do a little shopping still looking for a halloween costume for Kaden. Well goodnight for now

time flys

So here I am again way behind on blogging. I uploaded some pictures that my sister in law Maria had been taking of the kids and she takes really nice pictures and so I put them on to view and see how the kids are growing so fast! SO a quick update both kids just got over dble ear infections and colds. We are getting ready for Halloween and trick or treating. Not sure what Kaden is going to be this year I am hoping for a elephant costume my sister found on ebay for only 15.oo much less than in stores! Up this week Tuesday is Bill's birthday and Thursday is our wedding anniversary 4 years! Sawyer has been fussy lately I think teeth are coming in or a tooth whatever it is making him unhappy! He goes for his 4 mnth check up this Friday with shots and I think I am getting Kaden a flu shot as well he is in day care part time now and I just don't want to take the risk of him getting something or me bringing something home from work and him getting it. Sawyer is to little else he would be getting one as well. We are getting birth to 3 program to come to our house and evaluate Sawyer since his head has a tendancy to always look right and they say that happens when babys are born big such as Sawyer 9 lbs and also breech as was Sawyer so we have a therapist coming in to evaluate him and get him some therapy to correct that before it gets worse and starts affecting him in other ways. So that had been our life thus far nothing real important going on. It has been really cold and snowing off and on sometimes which seems really early but whatever. I love fall just not the real cold temps and the snow. Being stuck inside with 2 kids is enough to drive you nuts you run out of things to do with them. So let me know what you think of the pictures and have a great day!

kaden and sawyer

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yeah!!!!

I got Sawyer to nap in his crib!!! He has been in his swing but is getting to big for that so as hard as this was I let him cry it out for nap and off to sleep he went! Yeah!!!! I LOVE YOU PEANUT!!!!!

its a crazy life but it is our life!

So life has been a little crazy here at the Krapfl house. As you can tell I have not been blogging nearly as much as I should but lots going on. The Dodge County fair has come and gone and my sister and Kam came down for that and that was a good time. Kaden loved it of course seeing all the animals and tractors. The food was good as always I had cotton candy of course and a cheeseburger and my very first funnel cake I know I know I lead a boring life! So these are the pictures from the fair and some odds and ends of Kaden and Sawyer as well. So that was a good time. Now I am back to work and keeping busy with that. I work Tuesday and Wednesday nights and Thursday Friday days 9=2 and my 1 full Sat. a month 9-5. The kids will be going to my sister-in-laws for the days I work and that will be nice to get them with other kids. We also took Sawyer down to Childrens Hospital in Milwaukee to get a second look at his breathing problem and the doctors and nurses are just wonderful and they do think he indeed has Larynomalacia or tracheamalacia both there is nothing to do except wait it out and he will grow out of this my 18mnths which seems forever away! But I know he is fine and will not die from this so that is good to know. He is not the only kid that has that. It could be alot worse. My only concern is with cold and flu season around the corner and doctor did say that if he gets a cold that could be hard on him so we will be real cautious as far as taking him out with crowds for the season as hard as that will be I need to keep him safe as possible that could be life threating if he gets a cold to block his airways even more. So that is all for now. Take care and will try to write again soon!

Bound to Happen

So today was my first day back to work since Sawyer and it was a great day I was really looking foward to going back and getting into the swing of things again. When I got home however Kaden ran into the corner of the bathroom door which required a trip to the emergency room for stiches. However they did not do stiches thank goodness they were able to glue the wound together it is spack in the middle of his forehead as you can see from my sideways picture. But he was such a brave little boy and did not cry at the hospital at all! How brave and he got a sucker and some stickers for being so brave. Then we went to my uncles retirement party and stayed for a little while and now are at home and hopefullty have a safer rest of the weekend we need a helmet for Kaden way to many close calls. Well that is all for now good night

last few

Well it has been awhile since the last time again time just gets away from me. We had Sawyers baptism that went really well he slep through the entire service until pictures then woke up for them which was really nice of him:) So here are some pictures of that. Also I went up by my sister Wednesday night and stayed till Thursday afternoon which was fun as always. Sawyers first sleep over at Auntie Jen and Uncle Ken which he did not really like a new enviroment and just did not sleep well but he also has dble ear infection so that may have played a role in everything as well. But all is going much better now with medicine and all. He did really good today slept alot and overall just a happier baby today which was nice to see. I hope all the medicine will help get him back to his happy self that I have not seen in awhile. This weekend we have not a thing planned which is great. I want to catch up on some cleaning and just relax as a family. Next week I am having a play date Wednesday at the FDL park and then Friday I need to take my mom to the eye doctor she needs to get her eyes dilated and then can't drive after that so that is my week in a neut shell. We had corn on the cob tonight for supper and so I took a picture of Kaden eating it outside due to the mess and he LOVED IT! Yummy!!!! Very good this time I had it earlier this week and it was not good this time I went to Gordy Neitzels stand downtown Mayville and it was EXCELLENT!!! Well that is it time to get the kids tubby and off to bed Kaden only slept maybe 1/2 hour for nap and it is starting to show! Oh dear! Good night

I'm from road island witch!

It has been awhile since I have blogged and I am sorry just tied up with both kids now and my time is so limited when I do have free time I like to catch up on sleep! :) So anyhow today we went to the Milwaukee zoo with some friends of ours and we had a really good time. The weather was GREAT! This was Sawyers first big outing and of course first trip to the zoo! And guess what he slept the entire time except to get up to eat. So skip ahead a bit to the title of my blog we went on a train ride and there were some kids on the train just screaming and acting well like kids and one of the families did not care for all the noise and when the ride was over made it clear to the parents of the noisy kids that she did not care for the noise and the parent of the noisy kids yelled at her well I am from road island you little witch or something like that so Corey and I found that very funny because it means nothing who cares you are from road island but whatever so that was funny. ok so Kaden rode a horse and saw elephants and lions and bears oh my! He did so well just until the very end when it was a long enough day and we were all tired and ready to go I wanted to see the special bird exhibt but we passed on that since Kaden was acting up and Sawyer was hot and sweaty but both kids did so well! What a great time! We had a picnic lunch with sandwich spread sandwiches for me which brings back memories when my sister and I went to the zoo with my aunt Judi and uncle ron we always packed a lunch of that so that was kind of neat. There was so much that we saw and did that I could go on and on but I won't we just had a really good time and Kaden got to pick out whatever he wanted from the gift shop on Grandma nd Grandpa they gave him some money to spend and do whatever he wanted and I think he did everything he wanted and got what he wanted as well I got Kamryn a t-shirt and a sucker from the gift shop I hope she likes it. I bet her mommy and daddy won't like the sucker I got but I am the aunt and I can spoil her if I want to and I will! Well that will do it here. All is going well aside from the zoo we are adjusting well and Kaden is a wonderful big brother and a great mommy;s helper we have been truly blessed to have 2 healthy wonderful boys and could not ask for more except maybe more sleep but that will come in time. My wonderful husband did baby duty all night last night so I got a full nights sleep and it felt great! So he is now sleeping on the couch maybe preparing for another night of baby duty! That would be GREAT! He has off the next 2 weeks for shut down at work so extra help from him at night would be great I can catch up on 2 weeks of sleep and then maybe by then Sawyer will be sleeping maybe 6 hour stretches and give me a bit more solid sleep! :) Well till next time not sure when that will be but I am trying to keep up! Bye

Final Day

Well today is the last day being pregnant. The last day for Kaden to be the only little one around the house getting all the attention and all the love. It is a sad day for me I am having some hard times thinking that Kaden was our little baby and now he is getting to be so big and now there is a new baby coming and wondering what he is thinking and praying he does not hate us for bringing another baby home to love and cherish just as much as we have done with him for the past 2 1/2 years. Yet I know he will grow to love him/her and hope they grow up to be best friends like me and my sister. Today I have my final doctors appointment and a funeral and I hope I can get some rest tonight. Kaden is staying by my parents tonight which he is very excited about! My sister and Kamryn are coming down so Jen is here when the baby comes. So Kaden can play with Kamryn this weekend while mommy is in the hospital. Bill is going to try to keep the same routine as normal and spend some extra special time with Kaden to make sure he is ok and feels special still. I got Kaden some tractors that we picked up at Fleet Farm the other day to give him when he comes to viist as a little something special for him to open. I am not sure how well he will take seeing mommy in the hospital and ivs and so on so I hope the little gift will help distract him for a little while. So I have been busy getting some last minute things cleaned around the house and getting grocerys for Bill and Kaden for the weekend and just trying to stay calm and not think to much about Friday. I just can't wait for this to all be over and I can just work on recovery and getting back to a somewhat of a routine with the newest bundle of joy! So you won't hear from me for while as I am sure I will be busy and sleep deprived for a little while but I will try to get on as much as I can and post pictures often! Till next time good bye!

Quick Update

Today I had my normal weekly appointment and found out that the baby is breech. Dr. scheduled an ultrasound right away instead of waiting another week and it confirmed his thoughts and the baby weighs 8 lbs 6 ounces give or take a pound of course for ultrasound error and all is well. Doctor gave me the option to do a c-section or try and rotate baby well I want so bad to have a vaginal birth I opted right away to try to move baby well doctor said fine tommorow morning be here at 8 am with your husband and that was that. I said how painful will this be he said to be honest it will hurt and also FYI incase baby goes into distress you may need to do an emergency c-section hence the reason your husband should be along. Well ok fine but the more I thought about it on the way home I called Bill and decided why put baby in any unnessecary danger or stress just because I am selfish and want a vaginal birth. So we have now opted out of turning baby and having a c-section next Friday at 7:30 AM. So please keep us in your thoughts and prayers this upcoming week and certainly on Friday! I am scared but know that this is best for the baby and that is all I want right now! Thats is all for now. Watch for updates and announcements by my sister Jen I would think and pictures!

few more

Here are a few more pictures that did not all fit on my last blog! How fun! Memeories that will last a life time!

Farm Living

Kaden got to experience a touch of farm living this past weekend. He has seen cows and the fair but nothing like this at a real farm with calves and dogs and cats and cow poop and the smell! How fun so Corey and Sheila are good friends of ours and Sheilas parents live on a farm and so we went over there for a visit and wanted to see what Kaden would do or think of it all. Well he loved it! He loved the calves most but they were a bit scared of Kaden and the big cows he was ok with as well they came up and licked him and sniffed him what a good time Kaden did not want to leave. He however does not like "Snickers" the saint bernard they have she was a bit fiesty for him and much bigger as well but Snickers sure did like Kaden. So we had a good time and will be back again I am sure to see them all again. Thanks Corey and Sheila for letting us come and visit! Now also I got a bunch of flowers from my parents for my upcoming birhtday and so we planted them on Sunday and I took pictures I really like how they turned out they look really nice I went with mostly perinanals that come up every year so it would not be so expensive for future years and then I can get bushes for the back of the house that we need to finish landscaping as well. My father in law also finished the baby's dresser so I took a picture of that so you can all see what that looks like it is still in the garage airing out until later this week we will bring it in and load it up but it still stinks a little of stain or whatever so it is airing out I do however like the smell a pregnancy thing I guess they tell me! :) So that is all I have going on I am done with work now until baby comes which feels nice I have more time to relax and get cleaning or nesting before the little comes and the pressure is off of me as well for what I all need to do yet. So that is a nice feeling we have everything we need to get started with the baby so money is ok now may get a little tighter since now 1 full time income is all we have for 12 weeks or so but we will make due I am sure we did with Kaden. So I think that brings you all up to date on the late breaking news. I hope you all enjoy the rest of the day it was suppose to rain today but I see that held off and it is a wonderful day! Good day!

A little scary

Yesterday I had a little scare I got blurry vision in my right eye and saw all these different lights flashing around really strange. It happened 2 times 1 before work and then once again at work lasting about 10 minutes or so. So I got home took some tylenol cause by now I have a headache and it went away and had a small headache this morning but I talked to my sister and she said just call the doctor to make sure so I did and they wanted to see me right away. So I call Jaime my sister in law across the street and said can you watch Kaden and she gets all excited why is the baby coming and I laughed and said no and blah blah blah well I went to the doctor and everything checked out fine but my doctor still does not like that it happened so he said if it happens again I want you in the office and take your blood pressure well silly me was at work last ngiht ( at the pharmacy) and did not take it then! DUH!!! So now all is good now and I feel better that all checked out ok today and I go for my next and final ultrasound June 11 and that is a weight check and if baby is measuring 10 lbs he wants to perform a c-section the next day June 12th a Friday. Well I am not all that convinced I am thinking maybe have him strip my membranes Friday and just let me go another week and see what happens and then if that following Friday nothing then go ahead with the c-section. That term freaks me out and I am really scared to have it done all together. I know people have them all the time and really like them more then going through the labor. But the pain after and staples and all that yucky scary stuff bothers me. So I have some time to think about it and go from there. I trust my doctor but I just wish he would not be so quick to the knife I understand he does not want me to have another 11 lb baby bless his heart neither do I. So if the ultrasound shows it is a 9 lb baby or less he will let me go since ultrasounds are give or take a pound or so. So maybe you all could weigh in on this and let me know what your thoughts are if you were in this situation would you just go with the flow and follow doctor or would you step in and say not just yet please. So that had been our day in a nut shell nothing much happened all that exciting. No pictures to share I just wanted to share this news our weekend was good goes by so fast and the baby's room is finally ready so I need to get the car seat installed and all should be good for the little one to come any day I hope!! Till next time I gotta go and save the cat from Kaden and get him down for a nap. Later

Go Fly a Kite!

Wow it has been awhile since I last blogged sorry about that. So we have been pretty busy around here getting ready for the baby and also our basement has flooded twice in the last 2-3 weeks so we or should I say Bill has been busy getting that all cleaned up we have a finished basement so it makes the clean up twice as hard this time we filed a claim with our insurance agency and now ripped out all the carpenting and vinyl in the bathroom downstairs so this has been a big job. So that has been our fun lately. Now Mothers day I will just hit the big events since it has been awhile not real sure what all went on the last few weeks. So Mothers day we spent with Bills family. Bill did not get me anything for Mothers day this year I told him all I wanted was a pedicure for Mothers Day before baby comes so my sister and I are doing that over Memorial Day weekend Saturday we are having a sisters day gettting our feet done and doing lunch and maybe a little shopping! I can't wait it will be fun and much deserved! Then last night we celebrated Mothers Day with my mom and family since Jen and Ken are down this weekend for turkey hunting and were not down last weekend which was fine with my mom and me as well not running all day on Mothers Day was nice. So we went out to eat at The Iron Ridge in which was really good I like the fish there! So we did that and came back to my parents hung out for a little while and came home. And as far as doctors appointments for me I just went this past Thursday again and I only gained 3 pounds in 2 weeks!!!! Yeah for me! Weight has been a concern of doctor as I sometimes gain 7 or so pounds in a short time so I am really trying to watch what I eat and it must be working it helps also that it has been nice out so I get outside with Kaden and run with him and take walks all that helps keep me going and the weight down! So I have my next ultrasound in about 4 weeks really close to my due date my doctor just wants a real good idea on the size of the baby since Kaden was so big. Which I really appreciate him doing! He says he does not think this one will be that big he says maybe not a 6 lb baby but not a 11lb baby either so I really hope he is right 9 lbs would be great!!!! So that is all about that. Today we went to FDL to get Bills haircut and do a little Walmart shopping and so we did that later morning and got home and since it was so windy out I decided we should get Kadens kite out from Auntie Jen from Easter and try that in the back yard so we did and Kaden laughed he thought it was pretty neat! He is pretty good at that all by himeself! So the rest of the weekend is relaxing and I need to clean the kitchen floor sometime this weekend maybe Sunday afternoon at Kadens nap. But that will do it. We really also need to get the baby's room all in order as well! We will see how much really is getting done this weekend if not next weekend is a long weekend maybe then. So enjoy the pictures from today and a few odds and ends of Kaden being well Kaden!!! Till again good day!@

vacation

We just got back from our mini vacation and we had a great time! Thank you Matt and Jaime for inviting us. Friday night we got up to the dells around 5 ish and unpacked and ate supper spagetti and then got the kids to the pool. It was almost 8 by time we got in the pool and it closes at 9 for the kids so it was not a long time to be there and Kaden was NOT happy about having to leave that soon. But Saturday we went right after breakfeast and played till 1 and he was ready to go then no crying screaming or anything he was hungry and tired so we went back took a nap after lunch and then when we woke up from nap we got ready to go out to eat and a place called Monks and it was very tasty! I had a onion blossom and nachos and the nachos were great the onion blossom not so much not realy hot but good none the less. Well so back up a bit and during Kadens nap I tried to lay down my heart was beating 100 miles and hour and I felt light headed when I got up all the time so I am a little concered at the time for the baby and so I wait till Matt and Jaime get back from their mini shopping trip to town and asked Jaime what I should do and so we called out friend Nikki W from Leroy she is a nurse and she said try taking it and times that number by 4 and see what it is well it is beating so fast we can't get a good number so we call the front desk and ask for a nurse and they send one to the condo thank goodness and he looks at me and takes my pulse with out the cuff like I wanted and says go to the emergency room at the nearest hospital which is 7 miles away never told me what my pulse was or anything because I told him I want to call my ob first well he left and just kept saying God Bless you well I called my ob and he said it is common for pregnant women to have heart palapations and just take it easy for tonight keep taking your pulse and if it gets over 160 call me or go to the er but for now just keep drinking fluids and take it easy you and baby will be ok. So I took a shower and got ready to go eat and then we came back and everybody went swimming except me I just watched since I had started feeling better so I did not want to push it. I had played alot in the pool with Kaden going down the kiddi slide and all sorts of stuff so I may have over done it a little but over all we had a great time besides my little health scare! So I am feeling good now baby is still active and kicking away so all is ok. I see doctor on Thursday to see what it may have been. So now today we went to FDL when we got home to get the paint supplies for the baby's room because Bill is painting this weekend and I am helping my mom and sister with our rummage sale Thursday-Sunday getting ready and taking down so he will have nobody here to bug him Kaden is with me so I can't wait to see it when it is done! So that is all about our weekend vacation it was a great time! Crummy weather we had which stunk there would have been lots to do outside up there but Kaden just wanted to swim anyhow! Enjoy the pictures! I have to figure out how to add captions to explain the pictures I hope I can! Till next time good day!

not a little boy?

We have had a busy weekend. I worked Saturday and missed out on enjoying the nice weather for most of the day. But when I got home my husband really surprised me by what he all got done for me. He did the laundry and dishes and cleaned the garage and cleaned up the yard from winter it was really really nice of him since I am getting to be very uncomfortable and any little thing will just drain me. So his help was really appreciated! Thanks honey! Then Sunday I went out to eat at the Mineshaft in Hartford with a bunch of girls from work and then we went bowling after and what a great time! My lunch was fabulous I got a burrito and mozzerela sticks and then bowling was fun I tryed taking pictures but for some reason it kept taking fuzzy pictures so they did not turn out but fun none the less. I bowled 1 game and that hurt a little so I stopped and just watched which was fun as well and of course ate some more! I also put up some more uppercase living stuff I am addicted to that stuff I got Kaden a corn stalk that is a measuring thing to see how tall he is I am doing a tractor theme in his room so I thought the corn stalk was fitting for his room and it turned out real cute! So that is in the pictures and also some other pictures of Kaden and daddy golfing on the front lawn starting him young! He had a blast! So now the topic I picked is because Kaden has this stuffed animal an elephant that he calls tata and he took it to my parents this morning we had to wait for the pest guy to come and spray around my parents house for lady bugs and spiders ect... well I don't recall seeing it there but I think he took him there so I forgot it over there and locked up the house when I left and got home and can't find tata and it is nap time. So I layed Kaden down with another stuffed animal blankey thing and he did not cry or fuss and his sleeping now. So maybe the need for tata is gone which is good but sad that our little boy is growing up so fast! It makes me sad yet happy all at the same time. So that is all a busy week of cleaning and getting the oil changed in the jeep and we are off to a mini vacation this weekend to the dells a pre new baby family vacation that is much needed so I am really really looking forward to that Kaden got a new towel for the trip and all he says now is swim swim so I hope he has a good time and I hope we all get to do alot of relaxing and just enjoy our 1st family vaction!! Yippppieee.! Till next time take care and beware more snow on the way 1-3 inches!! I want spring or summer something warm soon!!!!!