I have taken quite the hiatus this summer, and needless to say this has been one of the busiest and most epic yet! Staying busy is the name of our game and we wouldn't have it any other way, however, our cup is running over.
Harper was diagnosed with ectopic atrial tachycardia in May, which came as a blessing in disguise. We never knew she had any kind of issue with her heart and by chance it was caught by a pediatrician at
A.I. She was there for a brief stay for a kidney infection and before discharge he noticed something just wasn't quite right. To put it in simpler words, Harper's heart rate stayed at a constant rate. It stayed between 155-175 whether she was running, playing, sleeping or eating. She was put on medicine for the summer and we had to change the dose several times before her cardiologist determined it just wasn't doing the job. He soon called and said she would need to go ahead and have the surgery done. It was a long 5 1/2 hours for mom and dad, putting your baby in the hands of someone else. She had a lot of people praying for her and we knew she would make out great, and that's exactly what she did! It's truly amazing the things they can do and how quickly kids can recover! We are so blessed to live in a place and time that they are able to take care of this so quickly and efficiently. Harper is one of the loves of our lives and we are so incredibly thankful that she is back to her old self and we can out this small bump behind us. She will continue to have regular check ups with her cardiology team and we are confident she will continue to thrive.
We spent most our summer days at a pool or beach and we have quite the water babies on our hands. They both love to swim so much! Harper is doing so well and will swim a little by herself with no swimmies, she goes under water and is jumping off the sides all by herself!
Crew continues to be the sweetest little boy around. I honestly can't believe I'm writing this let alone that it was over a month ago but our angel boy turned one! That had to be one of the fastest years ever! He is so happy, silly, and chill all the time. He is definitely our go with the flow baby and is always behaved as long as his belly is full of chicken nuggets and french fries and he has his "blank blank" along for the ride. He had a surf themed birthday party to go along with his custom board that we had made for his big day. He loved every minute but by far his favorite part was eating his cupcakes. We now are proud owners of lots and lots of boy toys which both Crew and Russ are pretty thrilled about. It's pretty hilarious that no matter where we go Crew can spot a tractor, truck or animal. He is our boys boy and makes every single day better. He now says mama, dada, nana, more, barper aka Harper, and can make dog sounds and chicken sounds. His eyes light up around his barper and they are best buddies.
We thought we had a pretty action filled summer..until we got a pretty awesome surprise..baby #3 is making HIS appearance in December! We are thrilled and so happy to have another sweet boy in our lives. While it was quite the shock it's going to be perfect timing for he and Crew to be best buddies for life. We thought we would videotape Harper when we told her the news and just knew she would be thrilled because she always asks for more and more babies and she loves Crew to death (literally sometimes, her love can be rough). Once the camera was rolling and we pulled out the sonogram for her to see the tears stared rolling, we kept asking "what's the matter? You don't want a new baby at our house?" The sweetest thing came rolling off those three year old lips next..."I love Crew Crew he is my baby brother I don't want to get rid of him." Our hearts basically melted right there. We quickly reassured her that Crew
is our baby and we would 100% not be getting rid of him, getting a new baby would just mean adding another person not eliminating anyone! Much to her relief she was thrilled then and quickly dried her tears to being hysterically happy. We all can't wait for our early Christmas present to arrive, we are all waiting so eagerly!!
Since clearly all of that isn't enough we added building a new house to our daily to do! We love our house but we are out of room and need to spread out for all these kiddos. We are super excited and every day we go out to see the progress. We are lucky enough to build next to our best friends and our kids are only going to grow up closer since they will be friends and neighbors. It's also really nice to know that we can send all the kids out to play together in a nice, safe area. Building a house it a busy, busy task and an exciting one at the same time. We are looking to move it right after baby boo number three arrives. New house, new baby right?
Harper has officially started back to school and we are trying to get ourselves into the swing of all things fall since our summer has come to a quick halt. If only we could get a couple days that weren't 90-100 we would be feeling a little more fallish.
