Health scare

After I had Jeff I went back to the military health care system. When I was put back in they gave me a new doctor, whom drives me crazy by the way. The crazy doctor decided that my thyroid dosage was too high and dropped me to a dose way too low for me. He also had me get an echo of my heart, since being on a large dosage of thyroid can cause your heart muscles to thicken. Well back in November I went and had my Echo. It went wonderfully, or so I thought. In December I missed a phone call and it was the cardiology department calling to schedule an echo for me. I didn't call back since I had already had my echo. Then in the first few days in January I got a phone call from cardiology asking me to come in for an echo again. I politely told the woman on the phone that I had already had an echo and that she was confused. She apologized and hung up. Not even two minutes later she called me back explaining that the doctor had seen an anomaly while reviewing my previous echo and needed me to come back to do a special test called a pin hole/bubble test. It's to check to see if I have a hole in my heart! I think my heart stopped when she told me this. My mind began racing, how could I have a hole in my heart! Didn't sister Bowman die from a hole in her heart? What will I need to do to fix it? I sat there stunned and made the closest appointment I could January 31st. After I got off the phone i realized I forgot to ask if I could continue to exercise or if I needed to make any changes until I had the test. I called back and left a message, but never heard back from them, so I continued to exercise like nothing was wrong. It was hard the first few days since it was just looming in the back of my mind, but at the same time I knew that it was most likely a cautionary check. I very used to the military doctors not getting everything correct the first time around. This morning I went in and had the bubble test done. I am happy to report that none of the bubbles crossed over into the right chamber and I do not have a hole in my heart. I am hoping that my health scares are done for awhile. I have had enough in the last few months to last me a life time. I am though training for my first 5k. It is February 25th! I am running at least three days a week. I am running 3.2 miles in 45 minutes. I would really like to run it in 30! Wish me luck iny next journey!

The infamous bath towel pictures

We have taken a picture with each of the boys around 4 months old with this special towel. The towel has a car on its hood and it is now a piece of Bennett family tradition. We are thrilled to say we finally got some great pics of Jeff in the towel. Soon we will pick one and put it up on the wall. Once he's on the wall there is no returning him! Hahaha! We are thrilled with our littlest addition, we wouldn't return him even if we could!

Pictures of the older boys

James and Will are very busy every day. They are busy either playing with their friends or with each other. They are super into beyblades, which they don't have yet, so they are driving William and I nuts over, they also love ninjago, rugrats (the show), and their scooters. Will has lost two teeth and loves the tooth fairy, as she is helping h save money for the beyblades that he is so crazy for. James is getting better at writing his name and listening to his mommy. They are getting so big and so fun to play with. Here are some random pics of these sweeties and one of Jeff, who is always talking!

4 months old!

Jefferson is now four months old. He is so much fun! He loves to smile and gives the best belly laughs. He loves being the center of attention, which beleive me he definitely is. He has now discovered toys! If you put him down and don't give him toys he screams at you until you give him some. He usually sleeps about 10 hours at night until waking up to feed and go back to sleep again. He does not like tummy time, but I have been trying to get him to grow his muscles, so I make him keep to a daily regimen of 20 minutes of yummy time. Thanks to the tummy time he can now hold up his head and push himself up onto his forearms! He has yet to roll over but I hope with continued tummy time he will do it soon. He is learning to sit up on his own. Right now it looks like he'd folded himself up but he's getting there! His favorite time of the day is bath time! He loves being naked so getting ready for bath time and the bath itself is when he is his happiest. He loves to kick and splash in the bath. In fact he is so good at splashing us we are usually wet when he gets done with his bath. We also recently got out his jumperoo and he loves to jump in it while playing with its cool toys. Because of the jumperoo he loves to stand on your lap when we hold him now. We feel so lucky to have this sweet baby in our family!

New Years Eve!

This year we had a wonderful time celebrating New Years with some good friends, Kenny and Ronda Diehl. We all went bowling at the Santa Fe Station casino. They had a special New Years Eve cosmic bowling celebration. The Diehls are master bowlers who compete on bowling leagues, unlike us who have gone once with the kids in the last 8 years! Needless to say we all had the best time. To get ready for the night the boys took a great nap that late afternoon and were able stay up until after midnight. James did fall asleep on Williams shoulder while going back to the car. Even Jeff did amazing. I was afraid that all the noise may bother him, but he nursed and promptly fell asleep. He slept the rest of the night. We all had a wonderful night eating pizza and bowling. Then at midnight we all blew noise makers and toasted our cups of sprite. It was a magical night!