Why don't dogs get married?

Today we were outside after school enjoying the beautiful weather and Cailee asked, "Do dogs get married?" (Seeing our neighbors cute dog)

Me: "No, not really."

Cailee: "Then how do they have puppies."

Me: "Dogs are kind of tricky that way."

Great response I know. Right at that moment I was wishing that dogs did get married so that I would have a better response. I'm so glad that she understands she needs to be married before she has kids, but not so glad that she's curious about how dogs have puppies. Oh how I love the curiousity of my children.

A few of my favorite things

Madie's favorite things to do:

SMILE AND STICK OUT HER TONGUE!

I LOVE you my baby Girl!

Massive Catch Up Time

We finally have a computer that works!! I am so excited to be able to get back to blogging. I've had things to blog about and now that I can, I can't remember everything, but I still have plenty. January has already come and gone and we are already half way through February...CRAZY. This will be a bit long, so enjoy the pictures if you don't want to read or enjoy it all if you do!

Update: Cailee...after many trips to the lab to pee in a cup, we've discovered that the Rituxan IV treatments DID NOT work.We of course are really disappointed and frustrated, but we now need to try and focus our efforts on the things we can control. She will continue to be on her high blood pressure meds and will most likely always be. Thank goodness it's just part of the daily routine by now. We'll get more blood work done next week to see what her current kidney function is and see her pediatrician in about a month to check her blood pressure, ect. Cailee's nephrologist wants her to get blood drawn every 3 months to keep a close eye on her kidney function. When more symptoms start popping up then they want to try the prednisone or Rituxan one more time to see if now that she's had the one treatment series of Rituxan if she would respond to either one of those. (Not looking forward to either, but if they worked it would be worth it.) But we won't try that until more symptoms of the NS start occurring. We'll probably be taking a trip to Denver to see her nephrologist sometime in April or May when the roads are better. But in the meantime, we are going to enjoy less visits to the doctor (hopefully-as long as she stays as healthy as she can) and try to let her be a little girl. It's now in Heavenly Father's hands. He knows better than we do what Cailee's plan is and we have to trust and have faith.

Cailee LOVES to hold Madie...she's such a big helper!

Abby: Is finally over the croup. We've had a fun spell of sicknesses in the Crossley house and glad that Abby is getting much better. She is enjoying Joy School and happy to be back going since she had to miss a couple times from being sick! She had her Valentines party this past Thursday at school and loved picking out Princess valentines for each of the kids. She is going to be turning four soon and is excited about having a birthday party.

Our little Picasso! Abby decided to make a person out of her piece of bread at dinner!

Brandon: Is most definitely in the terrible two's stage and having fun playing the little brother role. We hear a lot of "Abby did it" these days as he blames her for almost everything...even if she's not in the same room. He cracks me up these days with his "dance" moves he tries out. I think he's trying out new break dance moves! Brandon got his first bloody nose the other day. He's been sick with a nasty cough and gross nose and woke up one morning with a bloody nose. It was smeared all over his face and when Blake saw the blood on his hand and face he panicked until he realized it was a bloody nose...yuck.

Madie: Is going to be three months old on Tuesday! I can't believe how fast time has gone by. She's smiling all the time now and cooing sometimes. She loves to stick out her tongue, which is so adorable. She sits up quiet well and loves to be able to see what's going on with everyone. She LOVES her brother and sisters to talk to her and play with her. She had her two month check up a couple weeks ago (I know it's a little late, but better than never:) and she is now twelve and a half pounds! She got three shots and did not like them one bit. It always breaks my heart when they have to get shots. But she's now back to smiling and sticking out her tongue!!

The hat says it all!

Valentine's Day Parties: This past Wednesday at music class Abby and Brandon (Cailee was at school) got to pass out valentines there to all the kids. They had so much fun. Brandon picked out cars valentines that had cars pencils with them and of course Abby's were princess valentines. They love music class, especially Abby. She always participates and loves to sing! She is so much fun to watch. After music class Abby and Brandon were invited to a card making/cookie decorating party and a friends house. They had a blast! Thanks M for a great time! Cailee had her class party on Thursday. I was able to go and help out, which is always so much fun. She was so cute as were all the kids when they got to open their valentines. One of the boys said, "This is the best day ever!" They had ice cream sundae's so I was the ice cream scooper:)

Abby and Brandon at music class...pass the bean bag (today the marshmallows)!

Brandon showing me his heart...love ya bud!

Abby's in the red...they were doing actions to a song.

Abby and Brandon decorating cookies at a friends house!

Blake and I: I've kept Blake pretty busy these days with all my crazy ideas. I decided to change rooms with the girls to give them a little more space to play since the crib is in their room. So this past Saturday was spent taking apart bunk beds, crib, ect and then putting them back together in another room! I'm so glad I still have my husband after all was said and done.

Other than that, life has been the normal crazy bits of the Crossley's! Busy and crazy as ever!!