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When it rains it pours.....

Have you ever felt like that????
Thursday Sept. 17th-
Brennen has been regressing in his bathroom habits the last couple of weeks (middle child syndrome?), so we make him clean up his own messes. So last Thursday night, he was doing such a thing, when all of a sudden I hear a flush and an anguished cry and then sobbing. I knew immediately what had happened, the underwear went done the toilet. Not just any underwear, "my favorite Scooby Doo". Addie was also crying because I was in the middle of changing her bum. I had to hurry into the kid's bathroom to shut the tank water off so it wouldn't overflow. While doing this, I told Ash to call papa and tell him we need help with the toilet. She called him and said we have a toilet emergency, but he only heard emergency. I think the parents were here in about 4 minutes!!! They had thought that Brennen had been seriously hurt.
We called Handyman Hank (a.k.a. Jeff Hankins) to come to our rescue...

Jeff was laughing so hard on the phone when I called him... it was so funny.

The underwear (which ended up being Lighting McQueen underwear) were stuck between the tank and the pipe, so the toilet had to be upended.



Also the flush mechanism was breaking and wouldn't work!! Here's to another adventure Brennen Style.

On Friday, our computer fried. Luckily we were able to save the hard drive, and got $80 for the recycled parts.

On Saturday, while Brennen was taking a shower, the water gage broke, and wouldn't turn off all the way. At the same time Addie threw up all over us and my bed (9:45pm) and I stubbed 3 toes on my right foot really bad (bruised them pretty bad, and it was very painful to walk) while trying to take care of everything.

If the Odds of Winning the Lottery were the same, I would buy a ticket!!:)

Here we go again!
Since Ash was two months old, we have known that each of our children would have a 33% chance of having the genetic defect she did that caused her bilateral urine reflux. Well, we hit the genetic gene pool just right, and Addie also has it. We were truly blessed when Ashlynn was diagnosed from an early age, because a lot of times children are misdiagnosed for years with just bladder infections and by the time they are finally diagnosed, they are in Kidney failure. (And most everyone knows what a nightmare Ash's first few months were.) Because of our family history, the kids are tested at six weeks of age. Well, yesterday it was Addie's turn...and she has it. She's only a 3 (not as bad as Ash with a 5, which is the highest the scale goes). Today, she'll start her maintenance meds, to help discourage infections, and in the next few days have a Kidney scan to make sure they are working properly. So in the last two weeks she has had an ultrasound and a barium swallow to see if she had Pilloricstanouses or Gastro reflux (she doesn't), A VCUG-the test that checks for the urine reflux, and a hip ultrasound to make sure there wasn't any damage from being breech (and initial peek looked good). I need to hit the lottery just to pay for all these medical bills (If only I ever played).

On Saturday, we had Ash's birthday party. Because it was her golden birthday (becoming the age of the day you were born), we allowed her to have a "friend" birthday party. All the others have just been family. Originally the party was going to be at the Rec. Center and then go to the park and have pizza, but we found out that it was closed for maintenance that weekend... so we were going to postpone it. But LeAnne found out, and insisted that we use her pool. So, at the last minute we changed plans again (its a good thing, I don't think I could have listened to Ash go on about her party for another two weeks!!!!!!!) The kids had a blast. They went through the pizza faster than I thought we would. :( And a good time was had by all.
The only casualty, is that I didn't catch that Brennen wasn't wearing his T-shirt until it was to late, and he is burnt pretty badly across his shoulders and back.







We also went to Art in the Park. Man what a lot of walking. I payed for it... My incision still hurts.
Happy Birthday MOM!!! Love You!

Pictures!!!!!@##$%^#$$@#%#^&#$ I Give Up!!!

The only way I've been able to post pictures is by adding them to slider... Well I can't even get that to work right now!!!!
So the tons of Pictures( a months worth of baby pics, and kid happenings) I have, I can't post.

4 weeks- Time Flies

The last month of pregnancy dragged on and on, but the last 4 weeks since Addie was born have flown by. Like the other two, Addie was "labeled" failure to thrive, since she wasn't gaining weight. She actually had dropped down below what she left the hospital at. She now weighs a whopping 6 lbs 5 oz. She's a keeper!!


Thursday and Friday I over did it a bit, so yesterday and today I've been paying for it. I'm still pretty sore!!!

Ash is so excited for school to start on Tuesday. Since her school closed, we enrolled her at our neighborhood school, which happens to be Greenhurst (where mom taught for 13 years.). It happens to be their 20 anniversary this year. I can't believe how time flies!!! I started 7th grade the year Greenhurst opened. I was ticked that mom, Steve and Aimee didn't have to go to school for a whole week after I did, because the school wasn't ready to start due to construction delays. Ashlynn's teacher ends up being a friend of our families, and she also was one of Kirsten's 4th grade teachers!!!
Ash is really excited because 2 of her friends from church are in the same class. I hope they don't talk to much!!!
Hope everyone has a good week.

Brenn has been telling everyone that he is starting Kindergarten, which isn't true... He misses the cut off for this year. And with ILC closing, I don't have any place else to put him!!!

*still no pictures

Rogers' Girls Hair Day

Friday, August 14
Every girl needs a new hair cut once in a while. Especially if it is always in the way when your trying to feed a baby. A friend of ours that does hair, came to the parents to cut and color everyones hair. It was fun catching up with Alexis and hearing about her new guy. I'm the one missing 12+ inches!!!









That night when we were leaving the parents, Brenn was standing by our van (which was parked by one of dad's cars), when all of a sudden he starts screaming bloody murder and a wasp is buzzing around his head. It had stung him twice. Thus the picture of Brennen with meat tenderizer on his shoulder and neck (the Peds Dr told us to use it when the kids get stung, because the stinger has a protein in it, and the meat tenderizer breaks down protein quickly.)



***I tried for an hour to get pictures to upload!!! Aimee was even walking me throught it to see if she could get it to work!!!****
9/22/09 I got the pictures to work!!!!!!!! That's what a new computer and new card reader will do for ya.

"Addie's" Story

When your mentally set to have a baby, your ready to have a baby. That is how I was on Monday, July 20th. Ashlynn-Marie was sooooooooo excited she kept me up half the night before (2:30 am), and I was awake by 5:30. Paul and I made our little trek to the hospital at seven, and checked in. After being asked a million questions, getting hooked up to monitors and an IV (Which by the way was in my wrist, and hurt like the dickens!) we waited to be induced. The nurse assigned to me, checked to see how dialated I was (and I wasn't), but she was more concerned that the baby was still very high, and later to find out in a "Total Breech Presentation" (which she didn't tell us)!!!
My Dr. does his surgeries on Monday's and came up to see us in between one of them, bringing in with him an old, humongeous portable ultrasound machine. That is when we found out that the baby was sitting criss-cross applesauce in my tummy, and that to deliver I would have to have a C-Section. I freaked, litterally (I had a very good cry for about and hour)! I asked my Dr. if it were possible for the baby to flip, and he said it was, but asked what if it didn't. After a Blessing, we decided to go home and wait the week until my official due date to see if the baby would flip. I had a Dr's appointment on Tuesday the 21st and nothing had changed, but I had a good talk with my OB/GYN (I'm glad he is LDS, because it made it easier, because I knew he understood my need for guidance.) about my anxiety and concerns.
The week went on with nothing really happening. Wednesday morning I woke up at 3:30 due to some contractions, but they were more than five minutes apart, and went away by the time i fell back asleep at 5:30.
Saturday, we had a really layed back day. I didn't even take a shower until 5 o'clock when Paul told my his brother was coming over to see the kids and they were going to go to a movie. About 6:15 the "PAINS" started. Paul thought that I was pouting because he was going to a movie, but I told him I was having contractions- It didn't register in his brain that contractions=Labor!! He and Mark went to the movies and I timed contractions every 5 minutes, that lasted about a minute to a minute and a half each. It was coming up on 9 o'clock, and in less its a dire emergency I don't like to call people after 9. So I finally got the gumption up to call my Dr., and he said, "We'll then... what do you think you need to do?" I made him promise to do an ultrasound just to see how the baby was sitting. He agreed.
So as I'm rushing Ashlynn into the shower for her bath, I try calling the Parents house... NO Answer. I try mom's cell... NO Answer. I try dad's cell... No Answer. I try mom's cell again... NO Answer. I try Aimee's cell...No Answer. I try LeAnne's (a friend) cell... No Answer. By this time I'm bawling. Brennen and Ash are super excited that the baby is finally coming, and I can't get a hold of anybody. Mom calls on my cell, at the same time LeAnne does. Mom had run to Walmart to get a few things and dad didn't hear the phone ring up in the bedroom, because he wasn't feeling well. Dad came to get the kids; Brennen was so excited to have is very "first" sleep over at Papa's house. It made him feel like a big boy. Mom took me to the hospital, and I texted Paul to tell him that I would be there. When they got me situated in Labor triage, they checked the baby's heart rate, checked to see what I was dilated to (6), and we waited for the Dr. It didn't take long to decide they needed to stop the labor. Several nurses "checked" to see if they could tell if the baby had turned or not. They used the old monster ultrasound again. By the ultrasound, they could tell the baby was still breech, but couldn't find "it's" legs. The Dr. then used the ultrasound machine to see if he could deliver the baby breech or turn it. The machine was so grainy, they called down to the lab, to have a better machine brought up to check really quick. The baby was in the breech position that you can deliver the regular way, but he couldn't turn the baby, because I only had 3.1 % of the amniotic fluid left ( I don't even know when my water broke). So, we had to make a decision and fast. Mark and Paul had made it to the hospital by then (come to find out Aimee and Ryan had been in the same movie), and gave me another blessing. And we knew then that we had to go through with the C-Section. Because it was an emergency one, they had to call in a whole OR team from their homes to do it.
Dr. Freeman (you may recall a story earlier this year about a Brother at church that opened a door that Brenn ran into, Same Dr.) ended up being the ONCALL Peds, and most everyone else in the OR was LDS to, it was just funny. But the 8 attempts to get a Spinal were not.
Adelaide Tampas was born at 1:42 am on Sunday, July 26, 2009. She had a lot of fluid in her lungs, but Dr. Freeman was able to get it all out.
That surgery was a very weird experience. One that I hope not to endure again. We wouldn't trade our little Addie for anything.