First Blog Ever!

Welcome to the world of Blogs!  I hear this is so much easier than shooting emails back and forth to friends and family.  Now that I have two kids I don't have a lot of "me time."  Jack is always wanting to go to Disney.com or Kate is hungry...then there is always a dirty diaper to change or a load of laundry to fold.  So, here I am at 11:20 pm, everyone is sleeping so I am taking a minute to start my blog.  

Let's see, where to start?  We just got Kate out of the hospital a few days ago.  She spent 3 nights and 4 days at Children's Hospital with a serious case of RSV.  Both kids had it, but Jack is older and his body handled it better!  It is a respiratory virus that causes a nasty cough, a runny nose, and all that comes with a really bad cold.  During one of Kate's coughing jags she turned blue, so off we went to the hospital.  After great care we are home and very thankful to have two healthy kids!  Being in a Children's hospital really makes you count your blessings!  

Other than that the kids are great!  Jack is almost 2 and a half and Kate is 3 months.  Jack is all little boy and very very busy!  He loves anything on wheels, trucks, cars, motorcycles, and trains.  He is talking up a storm these days.  We laugh a lot.  Tonight he ran around the house being a scary bear for 20 minutes.  It was funny to us, I guess you had to be there.  Kate is growing so fast.  She is already 13 pounds.  She is our little chunk.  She smiles a ton and loves to eat eat eat!

John and I are good.  We are getting ready to go to Mexico in a few weeks.  We are going to Mayakoba, Mexico for 8 days.  It is near Cancun.  We are really looking forward to it.  This will be my first time away from Kate, so I have some anxiety about it.  John's parents are taking the kids while we are away.  It is a lot to ask and we are very thankful!  It will be nice to get away and have a full nights sleep.  Those of you with kids know the newborn phase makes for some long nights!