Land of the Weird

Strange happenings at the Stephens household today...

Scout started drooling last night. I'm pretty sure it has to do with some teeth that are trying to come in. I picked her up from daycare today and her shirt was soaking wet. I asked if she had spilled something on her shirt and they said no, it was drool. Well, I didn't believe them. I thought maybe she spilled something when they weren't looking. I took the shirt off of her when we got home and within 5 minutes, she was wet down to her pants! Weird!

Silly girl


Michael noticed a tiny pile of dirt yesterday in a doorway and mentioned it. Today, I noticed 4 or 5 ants crawling around a now bigger pile of dirt - they were trying to build a mound in our house!!! Weird!

Bear pictures

I've been taking a picture of Dylan next to the same care bear every month to show how much she's grown. Here's the pic from 1 month, 3 months, and 6 for comparison. :-)

1 month


3 months


6 months

6 months ago

6 months ago I was waiting to be told that I could get out of bed to go see my precious new baby in NICU. She was so tiny and fought for every breath that she took. I spent the whole day (and several weeks after) praying that she would grow strong and healthy. My prayers were answered! Just look at my sweetie pie now...

then




now




Scout has grown up so much in that time, too! She wasn't even walking when Dylan was born. Where does the time go?

then




now




As always, thanks for looking!

Cleaning House

Well, the summer is coming to an end and that means things are about to get crazy busy in the Stephens household. The girls will be going back to daycare and we will be going back to work. So, in this last week before we go back, we're cleaning house! There are some organization projects we're working on, too. All of this must be done by Thursday when my parents arrive for a visit with the girls. That's right. I know they're coming to visit the girls and not me, and I'm just fine with that! They've offered to babysit while they're here to let us go out one evening or go shopping or something. We haven't decided what to do yet.

Yesterday Michael tackled the living room and I cleaned out the fridge. Today, I did the upstairs bathrooms and he rearranged the kitchen shelves/ drawers. I sorted through Scout's toys in the living room and rearranged them a little bit. Michael came into the living room and said, "Take a picture, because you know it won't last!" So I did, and it didn't.

All played out

Scout has been waking up earlier and earlier (think 4:30AM!) lately. We think it has something to do with her molars that are coming in, but she also doesn't get much exercise. So, we decided to play all day yesterday! We went to Jacob and Melissa's house and played there with Noa and all of her toys. Then we all went to the Galleria Mall and played on their play area. The girls had a blast. Scout climbed and slid and crawled and ran... Then we went to Chucky Cheese's! Where they ate pizza, climbed, slid, crawled and ran. Both of our girls fell asleep on the way home and didn't wake up until 7:30 this morning! Here are a couple of pictures from the day







We also got a video of Dylan rolling over but I can't figure out how to post it... it's uploaded onto photobucket but when I try to put it in here, it says "tag is not closed" Can anyone help me with that???

Dylan's surgery

To make a very long story short, we found out last Thursday that Dylan needed to have surgery to remove a part of her hymen that was blocking her urethra. Apparently, this is a common problem in premature babies and although it hasn't caused any problems yet, it could in the future. We had to take care of this before we could test her for the urinary reflux problem so, surgery it was. Things went fine and we all survived. They took care of Dylan's problem and checked her out... she does have the reflux, but not as severe as Scout's. The doctor wants to keep her on antibiotics and recheck her in 6-8 months to see if she has improved any.

That being said, here are a few pictures from the day

In pre-op... she got a monkey from the surgery center


Hanging out waiting for surgery


Fell asleep while we were waiting... the surgery was 1 1/2 hours later than scheduled and she was tired and hungry


Post-op and post-nursing :-)


On the way home


She has been hungry and sleepy since we got home but we're all okay. Thanks for reading!

My big girl

Here are some pictures of my big girl walking around outside! She looked so grown up to me today, so when we went outside to play with the cats and walk around some I brought the camera. I spent a lot of time trying to keep rocks from the driveway out of her mouth... my attempts were not always successful!

Pretty sure she was trying to be a kitty here


Eating cat food


Dress is swish-swishing!


dancing!


she looks so grown up here!


leading the kitties on an adventure


kitty kisses


eating rocks


found another one


Sweetheart!


I also posted these on a pregnancy/parenting forum, which is the reason for the watermarkings. "Big S" Stands for Big Sis or Big Scout or Big Stephens... take your pick! There have been some weirdos there who copy people's pictures and claim them as their own, so the watermark is an attempt to stop that! If you ever see them again, you'll know why they're there.