Long time for no blogs

Ok. So we have not blogged in a long time and I have heard it from several people so I am going to break it up into several blogs so not to bore you to death with a super long blog. More to come!!

A not so great week

Here are pictures of Maddie and Addy on Memorial Day. They have matching outfits, Maddie in preemies and Addy in 6 months, amazing how fast they grow. The same day we had a little cousin, yes Johanna and Robby had their baby. Johanna made it to 39 weeks, the longest she has ever gone. It is a little boy, Asher Ezekiel, 7lbs and some ounces, all natural, no drugs. Way to go Johanna!! He is very healthy and doing great. Christian took to him right away, it took Eli about a week to acknowledge him but he likes him now.

This week was not so great for our family but it has gotten better. Kris had some major deadlines at work, Addy and I went to work after we got off and helped him for four hours on Tuesday. On Wednesday Kris and two out of the three co-workers in his office got violently sick to the point that the hospital shut down their office to be professionally cleaned and told them not to come back for three days which threw all his deadlines out the door. I came home and scrubbed the house down and thankfully Addy and I have not gotten sick. He is pretty much back to normal today. The same day Robby's store that he is a manager at got closed out of the blue, they offered him a severance package, or to move, or to take a demotion and work at Castleton (very scary when you have three kids). He worked out a deal and is getting about the same money and only has to work 40 hours a week, which is awesome b/c he usually works about 50-60. So it ended up being a blessing. Then Maddie was put in the NICU b/c she has been doing this coughing throw up stop breathing thing and they wanted to run tests and monitor her. Everything has come back fine so far. Last week Al and Sue sold their house, well this week the inspection came back with some stuff that a contractor had messed up and the potential buyers were almost backing out, but it sounds like it's going to get fixed and they will be moving to Indiana to live with us at the end of the month. And I had my first Algebra test, which if you haven't had algebra since high school it is a little nerve racking. So the week started bad but is ending better. I start Monday as the Kindergarten teacher at my school, I have a lot of work to do but it's going to be great, I'm excited.

The best thing about this week is Adyson rolled over twice!!!

12 weeks old

Addy is 12 weeks old today. 3 months!! I can't believe it. She has discovered her hands and feet and loves to watch them. She loves to chew her hands, she hasn't figured out how to get her feet into her mouth except for one time so far. It's amazing how flexible she is :-)

Weekend down in Vevay

Adyson

Adyson with Grandpa

Addy with Grandma

Chrissy and Jenny

Four Generations

Mama Rose, My mom, Chrissy, and Addy

Addy with her great great grandmother

Addy with her aunt Morgan

Addy

Adyson is doing well at school. She is getting used to all the sounds. She comes home and crashes still. She also has been sleeping thru the night for about 4 weeks now, which is wonderful. She will be three months this coming Tuesday.

Madeline

Here are some pictures of Madeline. She just went to the doctor and has gained 10 ounces so she is 4lbs 15 ounces now which is alot for almost two weeks.

Lots of updates

Chanda in the hospital






















Addy on her first day of school

















Johanna at the hospital



Madeline Claire Riegal was born at 7:13 pm on Sunday April 29th. She weighed 4 lbs and 5 ounces. She is currently in the NICU doing very well. Chanda is doing great. They went to the hospital around 1pm and she progressed from 2 to 10 by 7pm and only pushed for 13 minutes, which was around 8 pushes (lucky girl). We don't have any pictures of Maddie yet, we didn't take the camera into the NICU when we held her. She does have light brown hair and is tiny. She may come home this week if her blood oxygen level stays level. Al couldn't switch his flight so he went to Springfield MO as planned and hopped in a car, after like 27 hours on a plane, and drove here.

Adyson and I are now back to school. We started last week. It was a really hard week. I cried on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights and when I dropped her off the first day. She had her two month doctor's appointment on last Monday and she weighs 11 lbs and 1 ounce and is 23 inches long. She is doing great. She has been cranky yesterday and today at school. She is not use to the noise and is not sleeping very well during the day, so when we go home she eats, takes a nap, eats, then she crashes and sleeps thru the night.

Johanna had her doctor's appointment today. They did an ultrasound on the baby. The baby is 4 lbs and 15 ounces, which puts them in the 12th percentile which is good and she is 1-2 cm dilated. They want the baby to gain 1 to 1 1/2 pounds before they are born. She has 4 weeks till her due date. She really wants to go full term this pregnancy.