Carson's 2nd Birthday!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

A day at the beach

We packed up the family on Sunday and went for a drive down to Half Moon Bay. The heat wave had not quite made it out to the coast and it was pretty chilly. Carson enjoyed watching the surfers in the waves with Daddy. Katelynn enjoyed being bundled up warm with Mommy.

Zoo sounds

Carson has been practicing his animal noises. He is so silly and loves to make people laugh, so he enjoys making his noises. The elephant is his favorite (probably because it makes the biggest mess.)

What a weekend!

First of all, I am happy to say that Katelynn is happy and healthy and back at home with us. Last friday she started spitting up, I thought she just had an air bubble or something and continued to try and "burp her". She took a nap and woke up w/ spit up around her. I picked her up and she started to vomit bile. I was pretty worried, but tried to feed her a little while later, but she threw that up too. I called Paul to come home from work and called our new MD. Since we had not been to the MD in Oakland yet, they could not tell us anything but the nurse said it wouldn't be a bad idea to take her to Children's Oakland ER. We headed in about 6pm and they said she was dehydrated and they would probably need to admit her overnight. By this time she had vomited bile about 5-7 times. They tested her upper and lower intestine by xray and both came back negative for twisted intestine or flipped stomach. The tested her urine and drew blood and started an IV to give her fluids. Katelynn and I stayed in the hospital overnight and she still continued to throw up (although not as frequent). Paul's mom and my mom (otherwise now known as Thelma & Louise) drove up from San Diego on Saturday afternoon. The doctors said that it was just a virus and we had to wait it out. She started to get better on Saturday afternoon, but they wanted to be safe and kept her in the hospital until Sunday night. She is home now and still a bit tired. We went for her follow up visit yesterday and she is doing well. This horrible stomach virus has now hit all of us. Carson started it last week and was only sick through one night, I got it on Sunday am, Paul on Sunday pm, and the visiting Grandma Nannies got sick on Tuesday night! I am tired of this sickness, but SO thankful it is only a yucky virus that everyone will recover from. I thank God for our beautiful healthy children!

Rockin' and Rollin'

Katelynn has been practicing for a couple of weeks and yesterday all of her hard work paid off....she rolled over! She's not quite sure what to do when she gets to her tummy, but she keeps flipping over!

Living next to the tracks...

Finally, afer 3 weeks apart, the Mitchell family is back under one roof together. We are in a 2 bedroom apartment, corporate housing, in Emeryville, CA. We can see the SF Bay off to the left, but the main attraction for Carson is that we live less than a block from the train tracks! I am not sure who would rent an apartment this close to the noisy trains, other than a toddler. Everytime he hears a trian, he runs over to the window and climbs up in the chair to watch it go by, saying "Choo-choo!"

I have a confession

I love baby girl swimsuits! Katelynn has never been in any water but the bathtub or sink, yet she owns at least 3 swimsuits. The silly part is, I have to stop myself from buying more, because they are always so cute!

Crazy kiddo

Carson is a firecracker! He is always full of energy and loves an audience that he can entertain. He loves to laugh and make others laugh too. He plays hard and stays up as late as his little body can handle, then he crashes hard too into a deep sleep.

Happy baby

We have been blessed with such a sweet baby girl. She wants to go to sleep at night and lie down in a quiet, dark room at about 7:30pm. The best part is, not only does she sleep through the night, she wakes up with a beautiful, happy smile on her face.

Fun with the fridge

Carson found the water dispenser on Nana & Grandpa Tom's refrigerator. It was 45 minutes of cold, wet, messy fun!

First trip to Disneyland

We went to Disneyland on friday the 16th. Carson loved meeting Mickey Mouse and Katelynn slept through meeting Minnie Mouse. Carson enjoyed the Teacups and tried to help Daddy spin the cup around. Katelynn was not very excited about the 100 degree heat and spent her time in the shade with Grandma Nan while Mommy, Daddy and Carson went on Dumbo. We all enjoyed the dark, cool surroundings of the Pirates of the Carribean ride. It was a long, exciting and fun day!

Traveling to San Diego

We stayed with Jon & Sheree our last night in Seattle and littered their home with our luggage. We flew to San Diego on Thursday the 15th and checked in with 11 pieces of luggage, including
2 carseats, 2 strollers, a couple of duffle bags, 4 suitcases and a bunch of carry-on. Katelynn did a great job on her first flight. Carson is a great traveler with lots of flying experience for his age. He watched an Elmo movie and took a nap. We arrived in sunny San Diego, ready to thaw out from our chilly Seattle spring.

Moving day

Well, since I am new at this "blogging thing" I figured I better catch up a bit. Movers came and started packing our house at 7:15am on Tuesday, May 13th. They were supposed to arrive between 8 & 10am, so we were a bit surprised to be woken up by them just after 7am. The kids did a great job with all the commotion and change. Katelynn slept soundly in her bassinet while the mover packed up the kitchen around her. He kept saying "She is the best baby ever!", while he taped up boxes and clinked around dishes, she slept. The "packers" finally finished up at 7:30pm! Yes, that is 12 hours of packing up our home. We stayed in our house for the last night and had a slumber party in our room, since most of Carson's & Katelynn's things were packed. The next morning, the movers arrived at 8:30am. The truck driver decided that he didn't want to park on our street (the truck was too tall and would have broken tree branches...silly Seattle tree huggers!) Anyhow, so they decided to "shuttle" our things. This means that they parked the huge moving truck about a mile away in a parking lot and used a small U-Haul that they loaded and then drove to the big truck, unloaded and reloaded! Yes, a lot of extra work if you ask me. By 8:30pm, as they were slowly finishing getting the last items out of our home, I think the movers were feeling the "extra work" too.