oh jonathan...

isn't it so cute. a little bunny playing a guitar. so fun. i guess the winter starts to get to everybody..... even someone from cold dark sweden.

more park pics.

read next post...evie is such a happy little thing.

our little buddy...evie!

here is the girl's little buddy evie. she is such a cute little thing and she is exactly in the middle of my two girls. it is fun now, but i know as they get older there will be many a slumber parties. Evie and Elly M. like to ride in the swing together. i am so glad those swings are made that way. it makes swinging much more entertaining. this was on our 70 degree day last week, but today as i look outside there is 3 inches of snow. crazy crazy weather in memphis.

Random candids...

here are some random photos from the last couple of weeks. i didn't want to download anymore pictures to our iphoto because everytime i opened it, it caused the computer to shut down, so we ordered a external hard drive from ebay and now i have no fear when opening iphoto that i will lost my precious pictures of my precious children. so i am back to normal now for the blogging world.

The next step.....

here we be...the next step of little ruthie's little life and one more thing accomplished. She is now pulling herself up. it is so crazy how fast babies learn things. she is such a strong little thing too. i feel like every time she gets dressed, every time i change a diaper... we are wrestling... and i mean literal wrestling.

Upswing!!!

The morning was pretty sad, but elly m. came around this afternoon and ate some crackers and drank a sufficient amount of juice to bring herself a step closer to her normal self. it is so scary with little ones when they are sick. i couldn't make her do anything. and when i did, it came right back up. but now i just hope little miss ruthie doesn't get it. or me or jonathan for that matter. but anyhow.. elly m. is on the upswing and i am happy about that. and i got like 11 hours of sleep last night, that really helps.

Dr. appt.

Well, they told me the same thing the e.r. told me. it is a virus. wait it out. give her teaspoonfuls of water until she can keep it down. she has lost quite a bit of weight...eek. they said that sometimes it just takes a long time to fight these things off. she did drink a little and eat a cracker on the way there and then puke it up in the dr. office. if she pukes some more bring her back tomorrow. poor little elly m. is sleeping right now....keep you updated... but it is just a virus i think she will be alright.. i am just a worried momma bear as jonathan or the e.r. nurses would say.

Elly Märta is SICK, SICK, Sick

Elly M. got sick on Saturday night... threw her guts up sat. night and sunday and monday. i took her to the e.r. on monday evening due to dehydration. They gave her an i.v. with fluids and tested her for any infections.i am having a very difficult time getting her to drink anything. i am giving her like a teaspoon at a time and she is even having a difficult time keeping that down. She has also had watery poops. i would say her system is clear, but it is wednesday and everything i got her to drink last night came back up again. i am taking her to the doctor today at 11, i am just not sure what to do with her. she does not want to drink or eat. Just wanted to let everyone know about this, especially those across the ocean in sweden. please pray for little elly m. she is so sick. i'll put an update after the dr. appt. today. they told me in the e.r. it was a virus. these viruses are frustrating.. because you just have to live through them. eeekla.. anyways.

Wow... what a weekend

filled with romance and love and oodles of kisses and hugs.. or i mean filled with dr. appt's., rashes, high fevers, puke, runny poop and no stinkin' sleep. wow.. for those of you out there dreaming of having children and thinking it won't change life much.. think again. it changes everything. but usually in a good way. but to our dismay this was as i would define it.. "a rough weekend". it started friday with an appt. to get elly m.'s but looked at. she had a pretty gross looking rash on her butt and then it moved into sat. ruthie waking up with a swollen face on saturday.. and going to bed that night with elly m. throwing up all over the place... three loads of laundry later.. we were tucked in tight to an all night throw up session. i am sure i have ti coming soon, but miserable. i have yet to see elly m. sleep this much her entire life. she is exhausted. so also on sunday.. ruthie's eyes were pretty swollen, so i took her to urgent care. extremely dry skin causes eyes to swell.....who would of known???? my goodness i am so thankful to have jonathan.. i couldn't of done this weekend without him. he is such a help when stuff like this comes up... so today is monday and we start all over again.. apply cream three or 5 times daily and clean up puke as it happens... maybe this next weekend will be better.

6 months old....

Ruthie is officially six months old last week... it has been a pretty chaotic week at the Schmit household. I am not usually a freak about taking my kids to the doctor, but this week i felt like it. I took ruthie a day before her 6th month appt. because she started to pull and itch her ears a lot and she just seemed over all unhappy. but no ear infection thankfully. but why is she scratching so much is the thought i though to myself in the middle of the night awake with her over and over and over again. and as the days progressed a rash begin to show up all over her face and head underneath her hair and the itching continued. and i am kind of freaking here. i have to quit looking stuff up on the internet. it really just gets me in trouble. anyways. i took her to a friend of ours deborah and she declared that she had extremely dry skin. so the soaking in moisturizer began saturday afternoon, but so did elly m's puking binges. back to ruthie... she weighs...21 lbs. 4 oz. and is 25 inches long. not to compare, but to compare.. to her older sister.. at 18 months.. weighs 24 lbs. and is 34 inches long. huh.. it seems as though elly m. right now might have the better genes in the family, but ruthie is still little and just started crawling so she may or should start slowing down on the weight gain. her accomplishments thus far in life include being able to get around the house on her belly and trying to crawl the right way most of the time. she does have a big sister to keep up with. she has three teeth offically today, but not the middle top one.. one over from the middle top one. the girl can't do anything normally. reminds me of some people i know.. maybe her mom and dad. must run in the genes...anyways.. there is the low down on little miss ruthie britches... so cute.. SO ACTIVE...and so fun.