10-1-11 - Happy 1st Birthday to Shea & Wes

Today is Shea and Wes's first birthday.  We celebrated the day with the Turner Side.  We had all the immediate family plus Uncle Bill and Aunt Nancy and Jack & Trish.  We were again blessed with beautiful weather.  I am not going to lie, it makes me sad that my babies are 1.  It has gone by way to fast.

Here are some things about each of them.

Shea:  She hates to be confined and always has to face out.  I wish she would snuggle with me more :(.   She always has such a serious face and her mind is always working to figure things out and you can see it on her face.  On the opposite side of that when she laughs (and she will if you work hard at it) she has the cutest and funniest laugh ever!!  She loves greek yogurt, french toast sticks, blueberry pancakes, grilled cheeses, cheese, puffs, and bananas to just name a few things.  She is sleeping thru the night!!  She loves to play with Wes.  She never gets hurt and if she falls over she kinda looks around to see if anyone noticed it.

Wes:  He will snuggle with his momma, dad, or anyone else for that matter - love my big guy!!  He laughs at everything and is such a ham!!  He loves food - everything and shovels it in so fast that Rob & I don't think he even chews it.  He will cry every time he gets "hurt" he is such a drama king!!  He is climbing everything and I have to keep my eye on him all the time.  He started taking steps this week (10-10-11) - I think he will be walking soon!!

They are two of the best babies ever.  I don't know what we ever did without them and I am looking forward to all the years and memories to come!!!

Shea and Wes's First "1st Birthday" Celebration - 9/24/11 with the Weber Side

On 9/24/11 one week before Shea and Wes's actual first birthday, we celebrated the day with my side of the family.  Shea and Wes were very fortunate to have Great Grandma Weber and Great Grandma & Grandpa Haefeker at their party.  We also had Grandma and Grandpa Weber, Uncle Chris, Uncle Steve and Aunt Jenny along with Cousins Tyler, Nikki, Joey and Matty along with Great Aunts Cheri, Sue, and Tammy and Second Cousin Jackie!!!  The weather was absolutely perfect and we have included pictures that illustrate the day better than words could!! 

Great Grandma Weber 

Great Grandpa & Great Grandma Haefeker

9-12-11 - Wes is sick, Our first night away from Shea and Wes and , We have a Walker

Wes is sick:

The last week has been pretty eventful at the Turner House.  Wes got sick the day before labor day so I took him to an emergacare on Labor Day (our first time at one) - he had a virus and an ear infection.  He continued to run a fever all week until Thursday.  He slept about 20 hours per day and didn't have any energy at all.  They spent all week with us at home (thanks to Aunt Laura and Grandma Bonnie helping us out).  He would not eat any food and would barely drink any formula (maybe 10 oz's a day) although he would drink water.  On Thursday Grandma Bonnie came over and I took Shea back in to have her ears looked at (she had an ear infection before but it is cleared up) and Wes in to be looked at again.  When we got there they took his temp and it was 105.3 - the nurse said OMG and I knew something wasn't good.  So they wanted to take some blood to see if it was a virus or not (the Dr thought it was still, it just held on for quite awhile).  So the gal came in to take the blood and I held Wes down - Definitely the hardest thing I have ever done in my life :(   She missed his vein and continued to move it around trying to get it for about 3 minutes.  She then told us someone else would have to come in to do.  I told grandma Bonnie, she could take a turn at holding Wes down :).  They then came back in a little later and Dr. Betsy asked me if I heard what had happened - nope.  I guess the gal who took Wes's blood had poked herself with Wes's needle after she left the room so Wes would need to have an HIV and Hepatitis Test and we would need to go somewhere else to have it done.  Once we got there, they had me set in a chair like I was giving blood with Wes on my lap.  They then sprayed some numbing stuff on it and got the blood right away.  We will always go there from now on to give blood!!  It was a much better experience and everything came back just fine with Wes's blood.  And Friday morning Wes woke up fever free!!!

Our first night away:

On 9/9/11 Rob and I left Shea and Wes for the first time overnight.  The Ekborgs came over to our house and we then left around 8 p.m. to head to Des Moines to stay with Uncle Andy, Aunt Krista, and cousin Sage to go to the Iowa State vs Iowa game on Saturday.  Shea and Wes did awesome and we missed them immensely but know that they were in good hands with the Ekborgs!!

Shea is walking:

On 9/12/11 Shea took her first steps - she went from me to the Ottoman - and I had her repeat it many times.  And yes it was only a couple steps but now she is trying to walk everywhere.  Her longest adventure so far was walking across the living room trying to get Rob's beer can :)


I can't believe we are having their first of two "First" Birthday parties this Saturday!!!