Sleep Study

Last night Kelsey had her sleep study to determine whether or not she has sleep apnea. For over a year Chuck and I have noticed her gasping for air when sleeping (a common symptom of apnea). She also has many other common symptoms such as waking up extremely sweaty, low weight gain, and snoring. It was horrible to watch (and help) my little girl get hooked up to at least 20 wires screaming at the top of her lungs the whole time. But she was very brave and left everything alone once it was on. She actually slept most of the night only waking up a couple of times.

I'm torn on if I want the results to come back as positive or negative. I'm hoping for positive just so I didn't put her through this experience for nothing. But I'm hoping for negative so we don't have to do any corrective surgery or use a c-pap machine. Either way we have to wait a month before we get results.

As a distraction tactic I told Kelsey we'd document our "fun" sleep study with our cameras. Here are a few pictures from our adventure.


Off we go!


Coloring in the waiting room


Documenting changing into PJs


All dressed and ready to get wired up


The end result - I don't know how anyone can sleep with this on but she was asleep within 15 minutes of this picture.


Hooray! All done!


A special Starbucks treat for the very brave girl!


Sound asleep by 10:30am - usually its a fight to get her to nap before 1pm :)

Daddy's Girl

Josie has been practicing "talking" a lot lately. She's really hard to catch on camera though. The second you pull it out she either squeals with delight because she's trying to take the camera from you - or she starts fussing. Luckily I caught a tiny bit this morning. Her favorite word is dada and sometimes she says baba or lala. Hopefully her next one is mama ;)

The Park

With our house on the market we've typically been going for drives when people come over for a showing. But this particular day it was quite warm so we took Kona for a walk over to the park. Both girls had a grand time on the swings! And Kelsey learned firsthand that its always safer to push from behind ;)

Zoo Outing

It had been a while since we'd utilized our zoo membership so we invited our friends Tessa, Matt and Alivia to come on an outing with us. I was most impressed by Kelsey! She is typically afraid of most of the animals and we end up leaving after maybe an hour. This time around she wanted to see a majority of the animals (as long as they weren't making "scary noises"). Josie seemed fascinated with everything too and didn't nap the entire time!


All bundled up and ready to go!


Kelsey loved this elephant and surprisingly Matt was scared of it - usually its the other way around!


As you can see in this picture the orangutang came up for a closer look at the kids. Matt is taking off running and Kelsey is just pushing away from the window. It was a little too close for their liking!


Hey - where did they go?


Of course both kids didn't seem to mind the HUGE snake at all...go figure :)

Firestation Field Trip

In January Kelsey's preschool went on a field trip to the Redmond Firestation. Most of the kids loved it - Kelsey was not one of those kids :) So I wasn't able to get many pictures due to the clinging toddler around my neck. But overall we still had a good time and got a fun firehat and coloring book out of the deal.

Six Months!?!

Where has the time gone? Our little baby is already six months old! Its amazing how much Josie has done over the past couple of months. She's sitting great, starting to roll her way around a room and even tries to scoot a little. She's a jumper just like her sister and loves to play with Kelsey as best she can. While her sleep habits are all over the board (12 hours one night, up every couple of hours the next), she's a very happy baby and adapts to our busy schedule well. We can't wait to see what the next six months bring!






First peas - she ate nearly the whole jar on her first time and didn't spit any out!


Not quite as big of a fan of carrots but she seems to like them better with rice cereal mixed in.

Christmas Celebrations

We had a busy but wonderful Christmas week. We started on Tuesday celebrating as a family. Then on Wednesday we celebrated with Nana and Papa. On Thursday we did Nana's side of the family and then drove down to Grandma and Grandpa's house to celebrate all over again. On Friday we headed to Papa's side of the family. Phew! Kelsey keeps asking if we can open more presents. I think she wants every day to be Christmas!

While we took a ton of pictures I just pulled out a few of my favorites.


Cuties in their pjs


I love how sweet Kelsey is being in this picture helping Josie with her present. Of course she immediately laid claim to it once it was open ;)


With Nana and Papa


With Grammy and Great Papa


Cousins


This picture cracks me up in that Kelsey is playing with Josie's toy and Josie is playing with the box. So typical :)

Santa Train

For the third year in a row we did the Santa Train with the Worsleys, Hoveys and Sextons. We had such a fun time! Can't wait for next year! (Doehnes - we missed you! Hope you're all feeling better!)


Off we go!


Josie's first train ride - she loved it!


The Worsleys - thanks for always organizing and hosting!


Waiting in line for Santa - can you sense the excitement? ;)




The cookie and hot chocolate reward




The babies got a treat too ;)




Very excited to be heading home!


Intently watching "Curious George - A Very Monkey Christmas"


All the little monkeys

Santa Claus

Kelsey is not a fan of Santa so we like to take her to Artis Photography as they're able to photoshop her in. This year she didn't even want to sit on the sleigh by herself so she was actually on my lap. You'd never know it! Josie was ok with Santa for one photo before she started crying. Maybe next year we'll get one with both girls happily on Santa's lap. A mom can dream right? :)

Preschool Holiday Party

We all had a fun time at Kelsey's preschool holiday party this year. Kelsey still wanted nothing to do with Santa but she did enjoy the crafts and puppet show.


Showing off her cookie (decorated by mom...directed by Kelsey)


At least someone sat with Santa this year!


My girls


Santa and Frosty