Gillette Castle

Glen's Mom came for a fun visit and we took a day trip to Gillette Castle, one of my favorite places in Connecticut. It is just amazingly beautiful. We brought a picnic and ate by a picturesque pond. My favorite pictures were of the kids, especially of Glen and Connor.

Meeting Spiderman

Rachel, our little princess, has a fascination with Spiderman. What can I say. She was Spiderman a couple of years ago for Halloween. You can imagine her excitement when Spiderman came to the grand opening of the new Toys R Us store. We also got to see Barbie and Funshine Bear. Barbie was not a priority for them. Funshine was more exciting because that is what Care Bear Aunt Katie is (family thing). The last picture is of Kate doing her yoga that she watches on early morning TV. I found it funny that she did her pose in front of the Wii Fit. Kate is still trying hard to convince us that we HAVE to have one.

The month at the doctor

This has been one crazy month. So much has happened and I haven't blogged once! The week of Father's Day Connor started wheezing a lot. We went to the doctor and she diagnosed Connor with acid reflux (which we thought he had already). She gave him prevacid and a nebulizer to help his lungs and scheduled a follow up visit. By our next visit Connor's wheezing had gotten much worse and he had retractive breathing, a very scary thing to see in an infant. We continued the nebulizer and added a steroid. Then a follow up (we were going almost every other day). The steroid never seemed to help and the wheezing worsened and added a cough. He was tested for the swine flu and phenomena, both negative. The wheezing and retractive breathing continued. A week later he developed a high fever and tested positive for swine flu. Connor didn't react well to the Tamiflu medicine. Poor baby. When the swine flu started to go away he developed bronchiolotis. As of today he is on a new steroid inhaler and it has controlled the wheezing. Thank goodness. Kate got the flu too. She had a high fever for a couple days and then it went away. I am so thankful for wonderful doctors and medicine that can help us. It was so hard to see our little boy so sick for so long but I can't imagine what it would be like feeling so helpless without the miracles of modern medicine! I am a very thankful mommy! We took a fun, quick trip to Palmyra this week. After I download my pictures I'll add some posts.

Connor's Laughing

Having a little baby at home is so wonderful! It is so hard to believe our little boy is 4 months old now! Yesterday he rolled over for the first time. He's been getting up on his side since he was a week old, but hadn't figured out how to get all the way over and get his arm out until yesterday. Once he did it he didn't like it. But what did he do? He rolled over and over again. It was very cute. He gave Glen lots of laughs, which we love. We recorded it for all to enjoy!

The job search

As many of you know, Glen lost his job as a teacher. As did many schools in Connecticut, Middletown had budget cuts. Despite this being a terrible time to lose a job, we think it will be a blessing. He has not been very happy teaching and looks at this as a great opportunity to try something new and better. That is where you come in! We know that networking is the key to finding a job. Right now he is willing to do anything, but would really be interested in training & development, inside sales, or anything that would use his Spanish. We'd love to live near family and friends, but are willing to go anywhere.

Any help or leads you can offer are greatly appreciated. You can contact me, or email Glen directly at glenhargan@yahoo.com. Thanks for the help!

What's for dinner?

Swimming lessons at the Y resumed last week. Kate and Rachel love their lessons. On the way home the questions about dinner started. Just for fun I told them we were having barfo bits (you can guess what that is). Kate's reply, "I don't think I've had that before." Rachel asked, "is that what we had for breakfast?"

The joy of early morning infomercials

Glen and I have been "blessed" with really early risers. I cherish good sleep and am thrilled when Kate sleeps until 6:30am. Unfortunately that rarely happens, but when it does, there is rejoicing. Since we only have basic cable, PBS is all we've got for kids shows and it doesn't start until 7am. A little to late for us! I told Kate I don't really like her watching TV at 5am because who knows what kind of programming is on and whether it is appropriate for a 5 1/2 year old (she says she is way older than 5 year olds since she is 5 1/2). Kate told me not to worry that there is a great stretching show she watches in the morning and it helps her get in her exercise. Only Kate.

Yesterday we were taking a stroll through Costco when Kate started jumping up and down with excitement. On the shelf was the Magic Bullet, see above. Yesterday when Kate woke up at dawn she watched the wonderful infomercial advertising the Magic Bullet. This was Kate...

"Mom! Look it is the Magic Bullet! This thing is amazing! It chops, grinds, everything! You can cook anything in 8 minutes or less! You can chop an onion Mom and never cry again! It even comes with the juicer express. You can make juice from anything! You can even put a watermelon, with the green on and make watermelon juice! You'll never need to buy anything ever again Mom and won't have to spend so much time in the kitchen. Really Mom, it is amazing. I'm telling the truth!"

Glen and I about died laughing. I had to take out a piece of paper and take notes as she was talking. I'm sure if they had Kate on their commercials they'd sell more. She was so excited to share all the benefits of it with us. I can't wait to have her home from school so I can hear all her funnies every day.