We all made it!

Kade had a great doctors appointment this week. We saw the heart specialist, it was a different partner than we usually see. Kade did not enjoy the echo, he did not want any part of laying up on that bed for 20 mins....much less laying still! But we finally got it and they said he is still in the mild category with a slight improvement. She said that with his physical growth, it made some improvement. She explained to me that they will continue to check him yearly. She doesn't see any issues that would stop him from doing any activities or sports that he wants. She said that sometimes they may see things change in his teen years or in later adult years and then again, it may keep where it is at forever!

With Kade's hair cut you can see his goose egg better. Just think it is a week old in this pic!

This was our big week. We started school, daycare and it was back to work for mom. The first day I ended up leaving some things at home. These were very important things that dad had to end up going back for ...of course I did not remember them all at once, so he had to make a couple trips home for me. I had forgotten the "horns" to my pump as well as the days supply of milk for Katelyn. The second day I got up 15 minutes earlier so that I would not feel as rushed and still ended up forgetting a bottle. This was a hug deal, because Linda (our babysitter) was gone for a funeral and Lynne did not have a bottle. So I ended up calling Linda before she left to get hers, saving me a trip back home. I hope next week goes a little better!

First day of school



The girls were so excited about starting school! They have had a lot of fun so far. Friday they had a school wide assembly to get the kids started selling their fundraiser items. Haleigh volunteered to go up on stage and be the magician assistant. So much for my shy little Haleigh! She was so excited and proud of herself for doing it.... it was great to see. Then we went to Family Fun night, to kick off the school year. Grandma took Katelyn home with her so that the big kids could play games. Kade had some troubles with the the waiting in line and giving the items back. He really wanted to keep the putter from the Hole in one game! Maybe next year will be better!
Then we met up with dad and went to the Trappers Celebration. It was fun, but abnormally cool for this time of year so they kids grew cold and tired fast.

It has been a fun week!

My new challenge is to get a photo of all four kids looking the same way

and its a bonus if they are smiling.

We started the week off last Sunday night with a heck of a wind storm that came out of no where. It was bad enough that it took out a sub station and pole...leaving is without power for several hours. The lights went out around 4:30 or so. After all the questions about why we could not watch T.V. or listen to music and why the light inside the refrigerator wasn't working we played outside until close to bedtime. It was about 83 or so outside and 80 inside. With no clue when power would be restored it was time for a long cool bath to help everyone cool down. Then dad brought a small generator up to the house so that we could keep Katelyn's milk supply good. It was also able to run 2 fans. So made a giant sleeping bag with comforters off the girls beds and we all slept in the were the fans kept the air moving. The power came back around midnight and so did the AC! By morning Hanna and Haleigh were telling me how cold the house was at 70!

Here is that big smile that I was telling you about!

Then on Tuesday Hanna and Haleigh went school shopping with mom and dad. We went to Wichita and got most of the needed things. I must say that I don't like the way Wal-mart did there back to school this year. Things are spread all over and I could not find half of the supplies they needed on their list including plain wooden pencils! So I need to stop by Target when we go to the final doctor appointments on Wed and finish things up. I don't understand why the 2 stores in this town don't get the supply list for the local school ahead of time to make sure they have all the items on there either!

Friday evening I took Hanna, Haleigh and Kade to the movies. It was the first movie that Kade had ever been to. We went to see G Force and it was in 3D. It was so cute to watch Kade with those big glasses on. He would get startled and jump back in his set as things were coming toward us and say things like "Oh gosh" or "mom!" He did not keep them on the whole time, but he did pretty well. On Friday, Kade also fell off a broom that he was trying to ride with Hanna and MaKenna and fell off hitting his forehead on the concrete leaving a huge black goose on his forehead!

On Saturday we celebrated Haleigh's 5th birthday. She had a "horse" birthday party. She said it was the best birthday ever, she usually says that every birthday but it still makes ya feel good. She was excited with all the things she got.

A nice loving moment between sister. Haleigh loved the horse jacket Hanna gave her!

Haleigh with horse cake. We made Frog cupcake for Blake, since they share a birthday.

Then we headed to church and had Katelyn baptized following that. She did pretty well through the whole thing even though she was hungry. She has been sleeping pretty well. She is up to 5- 7 hours at night. She is now smiling and cooing all the time. Kade and her have a special relationship. He can always get her to talking. He thinks she is pretty special as well, he has started calling her K K.

One event down and two more to go!

We had our pool party on Sunday this and it turned out great. Okay, it could have been a little warmer! But never the less the kids had a lot of fun, until their lips turned purple!

When Kade wasn't hanging out in the crab float, he enjoyed the

kiddie pool....it was so much warmer

Haleigh's lips were actually purple in this picture. She was so cold she decided to come over to the smaller pool to warm up.

Miss Katelyn is changing everyday! She has a big beautiful smile that is a little hard to caught on with my camera. This may be because I enjoy seeing it so much, by the time I get the camera out she is done. She is also is working on pushing herself up during her tummy time. She prefers tummy time on her boppy pillow.... she can see much more this way. We have also caught her talking a little. Maybe we can record that soon and share with you too.

Here she is holding herself up

a quick grin

And the big smile!

The fair was also in town this week. The kids really enjoyed the rides. We also spent a little longer looking at the animals and projects this year, so Hanna can decide if that is something she wants to do next year. Grandpa would really like to see Hanna in the show ring next year. Although mom would rather her start with something a little smaller like a bucket calf. The only thing that Hanna came out of the cattle show knowing for sure is that she would like to have a belt with "big diamond" on it like of those girls! So only time will tell what she will do!

So this is the last full week before we all go back to our regular schedules. Time has flown by this summer and all of the kids have changed so much. I had to change their pictures on the side of the page because they are looking so much different as well.

We have a few more things to complete before school starts and I go back to work. The girls have found out who their teachers are and what all they need for school, so we are going shopping tomorrow. Haleigh turns five this weekend so we will have a family get together to celebrate. Katelyn is also getting baptized this weekend. And there is all the things that I had hoped to get done while on maternity leave like clean and organized house, meals all fixed up and froze...you know the things that would make my life easier when I have less time! I hope I can get at least a little of that done.

Starting the count down!

This week has flown by. But I guess that it is really no different than the rest of the summer. Looking at the calendar and trying to get prepared for our up coming events I realized that in 3 weeks the girls start school, I go back to work and Katelyn will start day care. Then we will have to figure out how to rebalance things.

Katelyn has had a big week. She is now sharing her beautiful smile with everyone. I haven't yet caught a good one with the camera, but when I do I will make sure to post it! She has been trying to talk to us as well! She has also been building up her neck strength following everyone around the room. She is so alert, just watching everything that goes on. It won't be long and she will be right down there in the middle of it. She is already trying to "stand up" when you hold her.

Kade has had a tough week. Well, maybe I should say he is giving everyone else a hard time. Terrible Two's? Pearson Stubbornness? I don't know who to give all the credit to but I can tell you that he wears me out. But on the other hand he is not always in that mood! Like earlier in the week he was playing with his "track phone"... you know the one that we got for Nana to fly home with from Georgia. When I called to activate it they told me that it would not work in Kansas. So I was a little frustrated with the phone company, since the phone wasn't going to do us any good. I decided to give it to Kade, since he loved cell phone. What could it hurt ... right?
Well, apparently the phone can get service in Kansas and we know this because Kade was playing with his phone when we heard someone talking to him on the other end... he had dialed so random number and it worked! Good thing it only came with 10 mins.

Hanna finished up her swimming lessons this week. She did a great job; she even jumped off the diving board and swam to the side on her own. She also went to a sleep over where they were camping out. But weather got in the way, so they weren't able to spend much time in the tent before moving inside.

Haleigh has been counting down the days until the pool party. She can't wait to show dad and grandma what she learned at her swimming lessons. She has also started talking about school. I think she has heard the bigger kids talking about school and she is trying to figure out what that means for her.

This week I have tried to cut back on my naps... you know so I can get ready to go back to the real world of work. :) Actually I have been spending most of my time trying to get Katelyn switched over to taking in most her meals by bottles and buliding up a back up supply of milk for when I go back to work. So its an endless cycle of feeding, pumping and washing everything up to starting all over again. But she is worth all of it, they all are!

Back to Normal?

Well, we are home now and things are starting to get back to normal...if there is such a thing.

Katelyn is trying to figure out a schedule. It only took a day for her to figure out that she was not going to always be on the move or being held now that we are home. She settled into a start of a schedule and then we took off on Thursday to go see Nana. So now she is trying to figure things out again. Sooner or later she will figure out that this is our life... always on the go!

Hanna started her swimming lessons. She said she is having a good time, but she had a lot more fun with Taylor, before we went to Pratt!

Haleigh went to a Pirate Party this past week. She had a great time. She got to hunt for buried treasure and make her own treasure box. Here's our little Pirate!

The kids and I went to Pratt for a couple days to help Nana out. She is now in a cast. They are going to try that and see how works before deciding if there will be a need for surgery. Nana is getting a little bit better with her crutches, which is a good thing.

On the way home we stopped by Wichita for Spencer's cousin's wedding. We learned something on that trip....not a great idea for mom to take all the kids to Babiesrus on a Saturday, by herself. Katelyn got tired of being in her car seat so I was holding her. Hanna thought she would steer the cart. But the place was filled with pregnant ladies registering! Most of which have not experienced the joy of their child trying to act like an adult and steer the cart, only to run into whatever is in front of them. After surviving Babiesrus, it was off to Wal-Mart. We had gotten much better by then!

We are getting busy for the girl's pool party. It is this weekend and they are getting excited to hang out and swim with their friends. Hanna is also pretty excited about a party that we was invited to...they are going to camp out. She thought that it sounds pretty fun, but then she started to wonder how they would get their food and where they would go to the bathroom! She had a lot of questions she wanted answered before she was ready to RSVP.

Next on the horizon: Haleigh's birthday, Katelyn's baptism, check up with the heart dr, mom goes back to work, the girls start school, and Katelyn starts daycare! Normal !?!......RIGHT?

What a trip!

For those of you who are not aware we just got home from Georgia... well it has been a week now! What a trip it was! We had planned a surprise for my Granny. The kids and I were going to arrive in Georgia where my dad's side of the family was vacationing and surprise them. Well Granny was the one who gave us a surprise. She ended up going in for an unexpected surgery on Monday. So all the plans changed. We needed up leaving Tues evening and arrived in Nashville on Thursday. Granny pulled through things great and we all needed up going to Georgia on Saturday. We got to see some beautiful country, visit with family and do a lot of fun things.

A beautiful waterfall we got to see up close!



The girls did not realize the they had so much family! There were 10 great grand kids ranging in ages 9 to 1 month and they all had a lot of fun. There were times the noise level was a little high, but they are still talking about all the kids and things they go to do so it was well worth it. They went tubing down the river, rode on a train, horse back riding, visit to Cabbage Patch Hospital, visit a local fair, and go on a horse and carriage ride.
Here they are with Kylee visiting the Cabbage Patch Hospital.


Mid way through the week, my mom decided that it had not been adventurous enough and fell down the stairs backwards. So the next morning we got to experience the ER in the local town. We found out it was not a simple sprain, but she had broken her heel. Later we would learned of another pain medication that she is allergic to. We also decided that she wasn't going to be every comfortable riding back in the car so we made arrangements to fly her home. Spencer was able to fly in to Atlanta to help me drive home. He did not get to see much, but we did make him pose for a few pictures!
Here is a photo with Nana and the kids before her "trip" down the stairs! They are standing on the state line. Kade is in one state and the girls in another.

The drive was about 18 hours. That is before figuring in 4 children, one of which is 5 weeks old and eats every three hours. The kids were troopers! Thank God for DVD players! It was a good trip and there were lots of memories made....but we are all glad to be home.

Not too much going on here at The Pearson's :

Haleigh finished up her swimming lessons. She had a lot of fun with Taylor and really enjoyed it this year. Having someone one on one with her seemed to make all the difference. Last year she refused to get her shoulders wet and this year she is floating and jumping in by herself. She is excited for us all to go to the pool so she can show us all the things she learned.

Hanna has her final T-ball game tomorrow! I am more excited about that than she is. She has made a lot of improvement this summer. Last week she even hit off the pitch, it went foul; but she is making progress. Hanna spent some time with Taylor at the pool this week as well. She had a lot of fun and is wanting to go back some more.

Kade got his hair cut this week. We had to get him in before he goes back to the ear specialist, which is next week. Once he goes to the ear doctor than he won't let anyone close to his ears for a good month. We are pretty sure that his left tube is blocked, so I don't think he is going to like his next appt. I think that we have talked dad into going with us, which will be great....we can use another set of hands to hold Kade down....but we won't tell him that ahead of time !

Katelyn got her pictures taken this week. She did great and I can't wait to see them. Other than pictures she has been busy eating and sleeping. She is doing more eating than sleeping it feels like. She has gotten into a pattern of needing to sleep on or with mom. Which then leads her to think since she is so close to mom she might as well eat while she is here! This all can make for a very tired mom! She goes for her one month check up this week as well so we will see how much is has grown. Hope all this eating is for a good cause!

Not much else is going on. We are trying to get a few things planned and scheduled before too much time gets away from us. We are having our 2nd annual pool party for the girls birthdays that we are trying to plan. I am a little nervous about inviting just kids, not knowing their swimming skills. But now that both the girls have friends from school the invite list is getting a little too long to invite everyones whole family. So that is why the party is still in planning stages. Then we will have Haleigh's actual birthday and Katelyn's baptism that we will need to get done before school starts and mom has to go back to work! Hopefully we can get all that accomplished the first part of this month. I think that July may be a bit calmer than last month. The girls have decided not to do dance or gymnastics this month...mostly in part to scheduling conflicts; but that clears up most of our Tuesdays.

Well, like I said not too much going on just day to day things for now.