Today we went to the pediatrician for Peyton's 15 month check up and Mackenzie's 4 yr old check up. Everything went very well. Here are their stats:

Mackenzie:
weight: 42 lbs (80th percentile)
height: 42 1/2" (95th percentile)

Peyton:
weight: 24 lbs. (85th percentile)
height: 31 1/2" (80th percentile)

Peyton didn't grow a whole lot from her last appointment at 12 months. She is about a pound and an inch behind what Mackenzie was at her age. Mackenzie grew like 3 or 4 inches in the last year. She's growing like a weed! I think she's going to be tall and skinny! Dr. Kain said she's really tall for her age. Not surprising since her Grandpa Black is like 6'5"! Peyton also had to get 3 shots today which she cried the entire time, but big sis Mackenzie was right there by her side consoling her! It was so cute!!

One Crazy Week

I know I haven't been on our blog in such a long time. It has been the craziest week this week. It's hard to believe that last week was Thanksgiving. So let's start at the beginning.....last Thursday was Thanksgiving. We had a great day with our families, spending time laughing and talking. It was also somewhat of a sad day since that was the last time we got to see Shana and Jim before they set out to move to the sunshine state of Florida. We will miss them living so close to us and having all of our Sunday cook outs in the summer. Moving on to Saturday....Parker's Grandma Rosie passed away. What a sweet lady! And boy could she talk your ear off. She always had a story to tell or something to say. So then we had to work Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday brought in the cold, rainy weather and Grandma Rosie's viewing. Such a sad time and it didn't look like the Grandma Rosie we all remember. Thursday was the funeral and burial. Not exactly a good day to say the least. So today we decide we are going to run errands and then go get our Christmas tree. We always to go the Boy Scouts Christmas tree stand in Fishers at Marsh. Cheap live trees and the money goes to the Boy Scouts. So we get home, get it in the stand, and takes about an hour or so to decorate it. Then all of a sudden we hear a loud crash only to find out the tree had fallen over and ornaments were scattered onto the floor- some of them were broken. So we rig it back up and tie it to the window!! Dad would be so proud! There were so many trees when I was a kid that we had to do that to keep the tree up. I think Dad became a pro at keeping the tree standing. So, needless to say, I think next year we will have an artificial tree!!! Maybe tomorrow morning I will tackle redecorating it!

Halloween

The girls had fun trick or treating on Halloween. Or should I say...Mackenzie had fun on Halloween. Peyton didn't really care about Halloween. She just wanted out of her Elmo costume. It was soooo cute though!!

Diaper change

Mackenzie wanted to be a little mommy and help me out by changing Peyton's diaper. So, I let her just to see how she would do because she is so good at changing her baby's diapers. I wanted her to see that it isn't as easy changing a moving baby!! She actually did a pretty good job and Peyton just smiled and had a great time. Mackenzie is such a great helper!

Mackenzie's self haircut

Here's the nice new hairdo that Mackenzie gave herself last week. She decided to take it upon herself to cut her bangs. Isn't it so pretty?!!

I love you horse!!

Peyton kissing the rocking horse! She is such a funny little girl!

Here are some pics of our new knobs and pulls we put on our cabinets. It's so nice to have something to use to open the cabinets finally! We are in the process of finding some new curtains to replace those horrid vertical blinds on our sliding door and then painting the kitchen red. I can't wait until it's done. It will look so much better!

Mackenzie got her hair cut on Saturday. She did such a great job holding still. She got to watch Dora while getting her hair cut and got to sit in the princess jeep too! She was so excited about that! I think they cut off about 2-3 inches. She needed that much cut off. Her hair looks so much better!

For those of you who wanted an update on baby Abrahm, he is doing very well. He had open heart surgery the day after he was born. They left his chest open to make sure the swelling went down before they closed it. So they were going to close his chest a day or 2 after surgery. His mom got released from the hospital on Wednesday and was able to go and see him for the first time since delivery. She was obviously very excited to go be with him. He is still on a ventilator but they were expecting to take him off of it within the week since he was not requiring much assistance from it. Yay! He will stay in the hospital for a month before he is able to go home. The doctors say he will have no lasting effects from this. The only thing he will require is that he will see a cardiologist for the rest of his life and will need echocardiograms probably every year for the rest of his life. So, all around great news. Please continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers. The next month until he is able to go home will be a long one for them.

Mama & Dada

Peyton can say Mama and Dada. But, when you ask her to say Mama she will say Dada! She's such a mommy's girl. Since when did Dada become the thing to say!!! She's my little girl!

Rough Day

So today was a particularly sad day for me. One of my friends who is also one of my co-workers was being induced today to have her second baby at the hospital we work at. She delivered her baby boy this morning after only 4 1/2 hours of labor. Amazing! While we were all anxiously waiting on the news of the baby's arrival, we got an order for a chest xray on a baby in the nursery who just happened to be her brand new baby boy, Abrahm. Unfortunately that's how we got the news that the baby was born. So, I went up to the NICU to do the chest xray and was almost in tears when I saw how blue he looked feeling so sad for my friend. My heart was breaking for her as I listened to the doctors talk about what was wrong with the baby. He has what is called great vessel transposition. So the major vessels off the heart (aorta and pulmonary artery) are opposite of each other- meaning the aorta is where the pulmonary artery should be and vice versa. To make a long story short, Abrahm was transferred to Peyton Manning Children's Hospital where he under went a cardiac cath to put a hole in his heart to help the blood circulate better and will under go open heart surgery in the next day or 2 to correct the defect. While Abrahm is in good hands, it's all so shocking because they didn't know anything was wrong prior to delivery. It was sad for me to see my friends baby for the first time in the NICU with everyone working on him to figure out what was wrong. I guess when we think we have it bad or life has dealt us a blow, God always has a way to remind us that things aren't as bad as they could be. Please pray for baby Abrahm and his family!

Welcome to our blog

Welcome to the Black Family blog!! We have created this blog for everyone to stay in touch with the goings on in our family and to watch the kids grow. I know there are family and friends who don't get to see the kids often so this is a great way to keep up with what they are up to!