Trying harder!

I have been a really bad, horrible blogger! I need to try and blog at least once a week to keep everyone updated!! Not really sure where to begin....

Chris and I have started playing co-ed volleyball every Friday night, it is fun but would probably be a little more fun if we could start winning!! I blame it all on the guys!

Chris threw my a surprise 30th birthday party, and it was a success, I had no idea at all!! Thank you to everyone that came to help me celebrate, especially to all my friends and family that came from out of town.

Riley is doing awesome, school is great and keeps getting very good report cards! He started basketball about a month ago and has a BIG tournament the last Sunday in February....schools from the cities are coming down for this so it is a pretty big deal to Riley and his coach (his dad).

Keegan.....well, he is another story! He is talking up a storm and his vocabulary is getting to be so good. Potty training. What's that? We are going no where on it, and I am okay with it. He will get it. Eventually. He knows when he has to go, and will take the time to go as long as he has nothing else going on that second. He is still a sick little boy, in the last 3 1/2 months he was been sick 4 times from anywhere to 5-7 days. 105 temps, vomiting and diarrhea. I took him in about a month ago and was in tears, telling the Dr. that I have had it. He finally ran a bunch of tests, blood work, X-Rays and everything. I got a call that night saying he had an enlarged liver and needed to come back ASAP for ultrasounds. We went back the next morning and got ultrasounds done...I cried for two days. Of course I googled it, even though I know I shouldn't of...but I did. I called my sister up.... probably not a good idea either!! She already had a benefit set up in her head and told me she would give KG part of her liver. Well, we got results back two days later saying it looked fine so there were no worries!! Now Summer can keep her liver!! The Dr. referred us to a specialist from the University Of Minnesota, so we see her next Thursday and to be honest, I can not wait!!

Other then that...all is good in the Hulke house!

Mr. 3rd grader!

School started on Tuesday and Riley could have not been more excited!! Hard to believe he is already in third grade. Time flies by so quickly. He has changed so much in the last year, it is amazing to watch. Keegan on the other hand was not so excited about Riley going to school, he cried. Last weekend Riley went camping with a friend and when they drove off with Riley in the car, Keegan screamed and started chasing after the vehicle. Chris and I then went and bought a new mattress and gave Riley our old queen and Keegan got moved from his toddler bed to Riley's old twin bed. When we brought the twin into Keegan's room, he flipped out yelling "NOOO, RILEY'S BED" and crying. When I finally explained to him that we are not getting rid of Riley and that he got a new bed, he was fine!! Riley and Keegan have there moments with one another, but for the most part Riley is an amazing older bother and is over protective of his little brother. Riley, I wish you all the luck in the world this year in thrid grade and we are so proud of you! I know you will shine. We love you to the moon and back!!

Where do I start?!?

It has been way to long, there has been too much stuff going on to even post about!! We had a fun April celebrating lots of fun things!! We had Keegan's 2nd birthday party and Riley's 8th birthday party on the same day, almost all of the family came and the boys had a blast! Its hard to believe that Riley is 8 already and almost in the 3rd grade!! I am thinking that 8 years old comes with attitude though :)
Riley is getting ready for Mayba this Summer again. He will be playing in Mankato on Monday and Wednesday evenings, that always gives us something to look forward too!! He just finished up basketball about a month ago, he played every Sat for about three months! I hate to brag, but mannnnn was he good!! We had the coach tell us so many times how great Riley was and that he had really good skills!! A coach down in Iowa saw him play too and was real surprised that he was only in second grade!!
And then there is Keegan...his name fits him to a T! "Little fierce one" that is all Keegan! He is always on the go and always causing some sort of trouble!! He used the potty chair last night, only because Riley helped him...but he still did it! He has been in a big boy bed for over a month now, it was really hard at first but he is finally used to it!! He had learned to crawl out of his crib so we had no choice :(
Chris and I both have different jobs now, our schedules are a little different and don't allow us much time together but in the end it will be work it!! Chris is the finance manager at KIA in Mankato!! And I just recently accepted a position as a Support Living Coordinator/Supervisor with the Harry Meyering Center, I no longer have to work NIGHTS, WEEKENDS OR HOLIDAYS!! YAY!!!! And I get to chose my own hours which is really nice, I don't think you can get any better then that!!
I will try and post some new pictures soon!!

2, 3, 5.....

Happy 2nd Birthday to our baby!! I can't believe how fast time has gone! If you ask Keegan how old he is, he will say three... we then say, no two! He yells back...NO FIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! So we leave it at that ;) I will post some pictures later on today!

Christmas 09

Sorry it has been two months since I have posted...... we have been without a computer so I have not been able to do anything!! We finally bought a new laptop a couple weeks ago!! Here is a picture of the boys I took the beginning of December for our family pictures.... the picture turned out really well!! I surprised we got one with everyone looking at the camera!
The boys had a wonderful christmas, I am glad it is all over with though!! My Mom came the Wednesday before Christmas eve and spent the night. Riley had his Church program on Christmas eve, after that we came home and ate the WONDERFUL meal that my mom and Chris made....it was awesome!! Mom got stranding another night, we all had fun and enjoyed her company for three days!!! Christmas Day morning she got out and was able to make it back to Fairmont, we spent the day next door for the Hulke Christmas!! It was nice, and was better that we just had to walk across the yard!! Both boys were so fun to watch, Riley was thankful for everything and Keegan would open his presents and gasp at each gift he got...so cute!!!

Sleeping it off?

Keegan, who is still sick went to bed last night at 7pm.....it is now 11:15 am and he is still sound asleep. I keep going in there every 15 minutes to check on him. Whatever he has, has really hit him hard and hopefully this 16 + hours of sleep will do him good and he is sleeping off all of his sickness.......

This little boy......

Has had a bad month :( He has been sick for a month now..... He started out with Roseola, he had a temp of 104 and when it finally broke his little tummy and back broke out in a rash. His temp continued on and off throughout the next couple weeks and along with that came spots on his body....he had all together about 15 throughout his whole body. Started out looking like pimples and then turned into scab looking things. On Friday he developed a cough and his temp spiked back up that night. I told Chris I thought he had the Croup. On Saturday afternoon his temp was at 102, so I decided to take him to Urgent Care at the clinic. Bad idea. I always walk out of there with no answers.... They told me it was probably just viral...go figure. I worked Saturday night and on Sunday morning when I come home Chris said he was up all night coughing. Gave him some meds and just let him be lazy all day. Keegan and I fell asleep on the couch late afternoon, and when I woke up, Keegan was on fire..... his temp was 103, I came upstairs to get him some meds and Chris started yelling at me to come and check out Keegan, he was having a really hard time breathing....kind of struggling actually. The look on Chris and Rileys face made me panic. Chris was so worried and Riley was crying because he thought his little brother was going to die.... I threw him in the car and off the the E.R. we went. Sure enough, just like I diagnosed....THE CROUP and possible chicken pox. The gave him some steroids to open up his throat and airway to help him breath and monitored him for about an hour. He came home and he went right to bed....I came home from work on Monday morning and went to get Keegan and his was as white as a ghost and freezing cold, I am not sure what that was about but it sure scared me.....and now this morning, temp of 102. He is napping at the moment, but I am praying that he gets better soon. I disinfected the whole house today! Hoping it works. My poor baby.

Halloween pictures

Just a few pictures of A. Peterson and the little bear!! It started out nice, but towards the end Riley was begging me to go home, his hands were ice cold......

Pumpkins!!

A couple days before Halloween we carved pumpkins!! It was fun, minus Keegan crying the whole time!! He tried eating the pumpkins, so we finally gave him a popsicle...that seemed to work great!! Riley had fun and won the award for 'best pumpkin!!"

18 months!

Keegan had his 18 month check up today!! So glad to hear that he is all done with shots until his is in Kindergarten!! YAY.......
He did really well and of course Dr. Knudson says he is "Perfect" with quit the sense of humor!! He has labeled him as "Right brained" we were talking about his vocabulary. Keegan can say about 15 words.

1. Daddy
2. Hi
3. Uh-oh
4. Brother
5. Riley
6. Mama
7. Grandpa (Bapo)
8. Night, night
9. No, no
10. Whats that
11. Love you
12. Makes puppy noises all the time, even though he is deathly afraid of dogs!
13. Tree
14. Brrrrrrrrr.............

But he only uses Hi, Uh-oh and Daddy consistently. Dr. K said that children that are 'Right Brained' say a bunch of words but do not use them, that he is taking everything in and around age 2 to 2 1/2 they generally start just using sentences. He also said that 'Right Brained' people usually are very humorous and comical (Which I have been saying for the last 6 months) they are very artistic and they love music and love to dance!! All signs point to Keegan with what he described!! I would definitely say Riley would be 'Left Brained' it is all actually really interesting to learn about!!

Weight: 26 pounds and 4 ounces- 60%
Height: 33 inches- 75% (We have our basketball player!)
Head: 19 1/4 inches- 80%

Go Raiders!!!

This week was homecoming!! Who doesn't love homecoming??? Riley had a blast dressing up this week, we didn't do Monday because Riley was sick last Thursday and Friday so we weren't sure what the day was....it was crazy hair day!! Tuesday was nerd day....I worried over that one, I just wasn't sure how to dress Riley as a nerd, since I am pretty hip and cool...but then I thought back to high school and I remembered what my sisters looked like every morning so then it was pretty easy. I went to grab my camera and wouldn't you know...it wasn't working. Go figure. Welcome to my world. Wednesday was PJ day, man do I love that day. It cuts 15 minutes off our time in the morning!! Thursday was class color day, of course the 2nd graders had to be WHITE....agh, I was pretty sure he wouldn't come home that color!! And today was Raider day, I went and got blue hair color for Riley's hair and black paint to paint #12 (Shawn Murhpy) and #7 (Jordan Rudenick) on his cheeks, I went to get a picture and guess what..my camera worked!! But now of course I cant get it to download. So there will be pictures shortly!!!

Saturday night fun!!

Saturday night I took the boys to McDonald's in St. Peter for supper and to play in play land!! We had a blast. I told Chris we need to do that once a month, the kids had so much fun!! We were there for a couple hours, an hour of that was Keegan eating!! :) I noticed that they had to be three to play, but I figured with Riley's help, Keegan would do fine!!! The first time going up Keegan had a lot of trouble and there was a line forming behind him, so Riley just pulled him!! HA, it was cute!! After that Keegan did just fine by himself. Riley made five friends in those two short hours!! As we were leaving all of them were high fiving each other and saying goodbye using first names!! Who knew you could have so much fun at McDonald's!?!?

Martin County West thats our name!!!

My wonderful, WONDERFUL mother decided that she would bring up a BIG tub of all my high school things to my house for me to keep so she could get rid of it. Now I just have more crap to put in storage. Riley and I were going through everything, and I will have to say that some of it was neat to see again!! Anyways, we were looking at all my sport stuff and decided Riley would look really cool if he wore all of my buttons from 7th grade on up, and he was sporting my softball hat too!! I always new he would pick the better school......MCW!!

Please don't click on any of the pictures to make them bigger, you will notice in some that I have HUGE glasses, braces and slicked back hair. Really Mom??? Did you really think I looked cute???? How embarrassing.

My little painter

Whos needs paper when you can paint on yourself???

And.....the clothes are off!

Recently Keegan has learned how to take his shirt off, its great! Not really. We went for a walk the other day and when we got home I looked at him and he had his shirt half off!! So, when you are driving through town and you happen to see a half naked 1 1/2 year old, don't be afraid, its just my boy. And YES, I do realize it is getting colder and he continues to run around with his clothes off.....if you don't like it, close your eyes. This boy is ALL HULKE.....I think he has been watching his Grandpa Rick one too many times. Lets keep the clothes on boys!!!

Fall Fun!

The other day Riley and I noticed a FEW leaves in our yard.....so we decided to rake them and jump in them!! It was fun, even though there were hardly any to jump in (we only have one tree in our yard) but the boys enjoyed themselve!!

Daycare!

A little late on posting this....BUT, daycare went great last week!! When Chris and I went to drop him off on Monday he just stood there with his blanket and stared at us and everything around him! He got hit in the cheek on his first day...but other then that it went ok. Tuesday-Thursday were a little different, he cried and screamed when we got into the door :( They said after five minutes after I left he was fine. It is funny to walk in there and pick him up and see him sitting at a table and a chair eating taco salad. I still picture him as a 'baby' it breaks my heart!!! He has school pictures next week..HA!! They are kind of expensive for this age, or for all ages...it is actually kind of a joke, but how can you say no??! You can't.
I will post pictures later!!!

Forgot to mention....

A HUGE thank you to AJ for the wonderful outfit that Riley wore on his first day of school. He wouldn't of been as cute if it wasn't for you!! Thank you
(How was that AJ?)

my little 2nd grader

Riley had a great day in 2nd grade!! He told me that he would love school so much more if he could have Mr. Murphy be his teacher until he graduates!!! He has so many stories to tell about him already and we are only on day 3!! Excited to see what the year will bring!

Riley had decided that he wanted pancakes and bacon for his first day, so I made him just that. I even made the pancakes the shape of an "R" and a "2" I was so proud of them that I decided I would take a picture of Riley with his pancakes......only to find out that the camera was DEAD. :(

So I could not get any of him that morning. Chris and I always take him to his classroom on the first day of school too and get a picture by his locker......guess not this year. When he got home from school he had a completely different outfit...so I had him change real quick so I could get some pictures, he wasn't too happy with me (What is new?)

He was so tired and crabby when he got home, it was hilarious!!! As you can tell from the first picture!! HA.

Riley, I hope you have a fabulous year!! I know you will do amazing. We love you!

I can do it...I can do it!!

We bought Keegan a potty chair yesterday and thought we would try it out!!! I have no intentions of starting to potty train, but just thought I would put it out so he becomes familiar with it!! He does let me know after he goes in his diaper, so that is why we bought it too!!! I am sure we will have this out for another two years!!!!