Sunday, March 25, 2012

Happy Birthday Risa!!!!

I can't believe Risa is 1!!!  The time has gone by way too fast.  It really does seem like just yesterday I had her. 





about ready to pop! 
Just arrived



so precious
She came really fast and in all honesty one of the easiest things that I have had to do was to give birth to Risa.  I felt no pain even leading up to the epidural, nothing.  It was a breeze.  And then she was here!



We have loved getting to know this beautiful baby girl who has brought so much happiness to our lives.  She is happy, friendly, crazy, stubborn, silly, mischievous and always ready to party:)  We love our Risa!



always has a smile for us

wakes up every morning like this



her spiky hair! Stood up like a Mohawk 

was caught going up the stairs and by look on her face, she knew she wasn't suppose to be doing this.


I have no idea where this crazy blue eyed girl came from, but she is definitely one of the loves of my life!

Oh wait... I guess she's just like this guy!




Happy Birthday Baby Risa!

Birthday pictures to come:)

Sunday, March 18, 2012

So yesterday was St. Patrick's day, and well I kinda forgot and we didn't "celebrate" at all. So today we made a St. Patrick's day breakfast for dinner.
We made green eggs

Green waffles. And yes they are in the shape of hearts, we just told Jaxon that it was extra luck b/c it  is a 5 leaf clover.
The kids plates.  Jaxon's on the left, Risa's on right and she will only eat her eggs with cheese and ketchup on them.  A girl after my own heart:) 

Enjoying their meals!



Considering this was last minute, it was not too bad if I do say so myself.  Happy late St. Patrick's day:)



Saturday, March 10, 2012

Reflection

This last week while I was at Winco (a grocery store here in Oregon), an elderly  lady came up to me and said that she is jealous of me.  At first I didn't understand why and then she proceeded to tell me that she was jealous of the fact that I had two little babies still and that her youngest was in their 50's.
It made me realize that even after a somewhat harder week with the kids being sick and whiny, I am very grateful for the two of them and what they have brought to my life, which is more joy and happiness than I could have ever imagined.  And that without a doubt when I am 85, I will feel like that lady at Winco, who is jealous of that girl in the grocery store with her babies.

and let's face it who wouldn't be jealous of this!






Friday, March 9, 2012

I have finally joined the blog world and we will see how long I last.  I love to look at other peoples and see what they are up to, so I might as well do one too:)

To start, I guess I will go over the last couple of weeks in the Champion house.  Let's see where do I begin!  Let's just say my children will live in a bubble forever and never leave the house!  I guess that's not practical, but in some ways I kinda wish it was.  
Risa got croup and the poor thing couldn't even "talk". She was all raspy and couldn't eat; it was so sad to watch her try.  She finally got the steroid needed to make her feel better and let me tell you it was after one too many visits to the doctor for that to happen.  Anyways, then we were fine for about a week and our poor Jaxon started with a cough!!!  And then it progressed to not sleeping and then coughing so hard he made himself sick.  After about three days of no sleep  I finally made the appt. at the doctors and off we went. I will just take you through my journey to just get into the doctors office.  We arrive, both kids are sound asleep.  Oh how I don't want to wake them up but I have to in order to get them in. I start the process with the oldest thinking I will give him time to wake up while I get Risa out of her car seat.  That didn't go over so well.  He cried and refused to walk.  I, feeling bad for him, carry him to the other side of the car to get his sister, who by the way can not walk on her own and must be carried.  I put him on the floor of the car (still crying). I get Risa out and then I realize that no one can or will walk and I have to not only carry two kids in but a bag as well.  So I pick up both kids and grab the bag and walk towards the doctor's office, with not one but both children crying at this time.  I make it to the doors and then I realize that there are two sets of doors that I have to open while holding a two year old and an almost one year old and a bag.  We make it through, I go to the desk to check in, they ask me for my ID to prove that I am their parent, I pull it out of bra, that's right my bra because I had thought about this earlier and I thought it would be the best place for it, you know for convenience sake.  The lady looked at me like I was crazy but took it and scanned anyways.  And then I think to myself, we made it.  We can all sit and relax now.  
We get called back and are asked the usual doctor questions and poking and prodding to find out whats wrong.  The kids are pulling  hair (Risa) while the other yells for them to stop (Jaxon), while both are trying to sit on my lap. Then the doctor says Jaxon has ear infections in both ears.  At this point I start to cry and say "I feel like such a bad mom." to the doctor, who looks at me and has no idea what to say but that "you are a good mom." I think my reaction might be from lack of sleep or just wiped out with dealing with two little kids who aren't feeling well.  Needless to say I felt like such a loser for losing it in the doctors office.We made it through the rest of the appt. with no other problems got the meds and were on our way to being happy again.  Then Risa got even more sick and well, we're back at the doctors a few days later and she too had ear infections.  So I hope we are on the home stretch of this, because next time they have to go to the doctors I vote for Bob to take them:)
Starting to play together again

Superhero Jax

All smiles again!

Risa getting her drops

Jaxon getting his meds