SOOO Exhausted

For the past 2 weeks I have been soooo exhausted. It's been to the extremee of not being able to do much but lie on the couch barely taking care of my children's basic needs. I feel like I did when I first found out I was pregnant with the twins which oddly enough was exactly a year ago. No, I am not pregnant...I know that's what you were thinking. It also is similar to when I was treated for dehydration...but not quite. Besides the extreme fatigue my body just aches like I have the flu. Something just wasn't right so I (more like Jake) decided I needed to visit the doctor. I saw the PA...and I really like her...she's nice..she listened...BUT...I got what pretty much everyone has been telling me..."you have twin babies and a 2 year old." I know this. But to ME there is a change. The boys are sleeping through the night. They were sleeping from about 9 to 4or 5. Now it's til about 7 or so. Also work has had less patients so we have been canceling nurses so I have actually had a couple days off. In any event something just isn't right. Soooo...we got some labs to rule out some things including anemia and hypothyroidism (my top suspicions), lupus, and rhematoid arthritis for all the achiness. Well, I have been waiting and waiting (ok, so it's been aa week but that's a long time when you think something has to be despirately wrong) and she finally called me today. Everything came back normal. What? Seriously. then she said, well, your calcium is high so I am going to order a test to check your parathyroid, but yeah, nothing else. It's probably some mild post partum depression and fatigue from the twins. OK. Really. I KNOW depression manifests in many ways...but I had it last time and this is NOTHING like that. So I was WAY disapointed. I know, I know, who WANTS something to be wrong with them? ME! She said I wasn't young anymore and just tired. Well...now I decided to look up hyperparathyroidism...I SOOOO have it! It's kind of rare but hypercalcemia is pretty much aa deciding factor that you have it. AND it causes a lot of the symptoms...headaches, extreme fatigue, bone soreness...that I have been complaining of. Now I can't wait to get the test to find out...despite the fact that the "cure" is surgery. I just want to feel normal again...and not be told I am old :)

Hope in a Box

Here is Elijah with his hope in a box. this picture, again, is a little old. I wanted to post it though bc we went to McDonalds yesterday. Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Rebecca got him a gift card to "Donalds" so he could get his "hope in a box" as part of his gift. Unfortunately to his dismay hope now comes in a bag. Elijah's reaction.."WHAT?" He still found it yummy and ate it "allll gooonnee". Lil' stinker.

Poor Elijah

We are finally getting back home from urgent care after he fell at church and hurt his hand. We had to drive way out to the Gateway area bc the urgent care by us was closed and we didn't want to go to the ER. After 4 hrs of waiting we found out it was not broken but the dr thinks he has an abnormal blood vessel. The radiologist will look at it tomorrow to be sure.Thankfully we were blessed to have Jake's Mom watch the boys while we went. There was a bunch of sickos with RSV which I would very much like to avoid this winter. Elijah was a trooper and was very cooperative even though it was so late at night.

Me...I don't know what's wrong. I am beyond tired and EVERYTHING aches. I have been sleeping just fine at night...the boys only wake up at maybe 4 usually 5or 6am. I feel like I can't even function...even get dizzy. Augh! I don't have time for this!

Big Brother

Elijah is a super duper big brother. He is constantly giving smooches and hugs and is always right there when they cry to try to calm them with one of his silly antics. He even likes to blow on their bellies. He helped Daddy change a diaper yesterday and will get things like diapers for us when we need them. Youmre awesome lil' dude! Keep up the good work!

The boys are 4 months and measurements are in. Jonah is 15lbs 11oz and 25 inches. Noah is 14lbs 14oz and 24inches. They both gained exactly 9lbs in 4 months. They have been super hungry today and woke up a couple times last night so I'm thinking growth spurt!

I looked back at a previous post and found that at 4 months Elijah was 17lbs and 26 inches so really the boys have grown even more considering they were 3 weeks early and smaller.

Anyway I best be getting to bed. I have been SO tired lately...even with them sleeping through the night. Just so much going on!

Christmas Eve

Ok, so I am a little behind. I have a lot of random pictures that I downloaded to my blog the other day and I am just waiting to post them a little at a time. I figure should probably get the remainder of the Christmas pictures out of the way and then we will go from there.

These are all from Christmas Eve. We have the tradition of going over to Jake's parents house to celebrate and thankfully this year I didn't have to work so I was able to stay the entire time.

Jonah and Me...he doesn't look too happy though.

Check out all the presents...you can tell Elijah's tearing into one right now..spoiled little man!

I think Mom is shocked. Check out the bag. Dad went to Jared! He actually picked out some very pretty earrings for Mom.

Surprise!

Elijah tearing into presents. Games! YEAH!!!

Gotta love it!