prayer request

just asking those who follow my blog to please pray for my son. his blood pressure is up a little so the cardiologist wants to monitor this for the next few weeks and see if this high is where gage 'normally hangs out' at or if he was just high from playing or something that day. i updated his caring bridge site tonight with a little more information at www.caringbridge.org/visit/mittelstaedt

thanks!

also, i talked to another mom today who is expecting a little girl in august who is diagnosed with having the same heart defect as gage, truncus arteriosis. please keep them in prayer as it's very stressful and nerve wrecking and beyond emotional to be preparing for the greatest gift to be born, but with so much unknown and to put your little one under the knife for open heart surgery in hopes to save their life. i was blessed to be able to talk to this mom and try to answer her questions b/c i would have loved this, but at the same time, it's hard going down memory lane. so please lift them up during this time and the baby, who is doing well right now, but her stomach is measuring a few weeks smaller than the rest of her body.

again, thanks!

we had malia's 3 month pictures taken today, so, i thought before i turn in for the night that i would share a few of them. it was a very long and stressful time getting pictures, but we finally have some! i have been very busy decorating my bedroom. so as soon as i get it done, then i'll take some pictures to post! i just love decorating with my cricut machine! i wish i had more rooms...i'm thinking of more ideas that i'd love to do! ha! maybe my husband will have to finish our basement just so i have something to decorate! lol truthfully, we really need the room. we like our little house, but we have outgrown it very fast! alright, that's another story...night!

our trip!

hello! well, we are back from our family vacation! we went to go visit my dad and his side of the family in washington and oregon! as always we had a super great time and it was too short! we spent all but three days camping near the oregon coast with some family and friends!
we cousin got married the first weekend we were there so we drove over to her beautiful outside wedding for the day and visited with my granny. it was so cool to watch my dad and gage's relationship totally bloom on this trip. my dad is not a big kid person and didnt' want grandkids, so, it was so awesome to see my dad so in love with him! he talked and held malia a little, about what he did the first time gage was out, so, i think once she is talking and moving, he'll be more into her as well! it was hard to leave though. it was the saddest i've seen my dad since my brother and i were little! i think he loves those grandbabies more than he thought he would! =)

gage was so good on our trip. he was such a little charmer and impressed everyone with his manners and knowing the alphabet and recognizing his letters! he had tons of fun playing in the sand and was a great little camper! my dad told him that just like in baseball there is no crying in camping. lol he must have listened b/c he was such a good boy! it was a blessing and a joy to have the best behaved kid out of the other kids and it be the one in the 'terrible twos'!

lol gage is in his crib down for a nap and just yelled out, "mommy, i'm not sleeping!" lol he's so stinking cute!
malia was a little doll as well. she loved the west coast. as soon as we got there she started sleeping until 6-7 am instead of 4 am for her first feeding! then she'd go back to sleep until 9! the second week we were there she started to wake up more during the day. she had still been a rather sleepy girl. she was rather content most of the time and loved being held! she has started to really look at you more rather than a blank look. and smiling. i love it. she's looking right at you and starting to coo back to you and then gets a big grin! so adorable!

since we've been home it has for the most part been relaxing, which is so nice! i did a major cleaning job before we left and what i didn't get done my sweet mom came and did for me! it was such a surprise to come home and for it to be done! what a treat it was! so the house has been staying clean, i'm trying to stay on top of it better. it just makes me more relaxed and i spend more time with the kids than cleaning every time they don't 'need' me. so it's been a blessing!
my granny is come from oregon next week to visit us! so that is another good reason to stay on top of my cleaning! lol

i just wanted to get a lil post up while i had some time. i am doing another craft in malia's room and one outside for the backyard, so while both kids are sleeping, well, gage is still telling me he's not sleeping, but he's in his bed and will eventually crash, i'm going to go work on those projects!
have a great god-given day!
chantae