I took the kids to take some pictures at some point during July. It was a total fail because I have this precious little girl that absolutely refuses to take pcitures…she hates when someone tries to touch her (put their arm around her, hold her hand, etc.) and she runs like shes never been outside…which isn’t true because she is outside daily!
That photo shoot lasted about five minutes and then we had to go…it was HOTT!
Miss Larkin turned 18 months on July 6th. This is so hard for me to believe. HOW can time be going by so fast??? I NEED it to slow down. After the fever virus that I spoke about in the last post, we had to take larkin in to be checked to make sure that it was just a virus and nothing else…and for her 18 month check up. She had just been in a week before for something else. So, in ONE week, Larkin had lost 2 pounds from that stupid virus. Dr. Slusher panicked. She had dropped way down on her growth chart…down to the 3rd percentile for weight. Dr. Slusher told me that we had to whatever we could to get that weight back up. I was still nursing and she told me to definitely NOT stop that and to make sure that I was eating a high calorie diet (haha)…and we had to start pumping her with whole milk/chocolate milk with carnation instant breakfast stirred in. And then had to go back to dr. after a month for a weight recheck.
I can not tell you how many french fries, shakes, etc that I shoved into her mouth. She doesn’t really like to eat so it was a daily struggle. I know that sounds ridiculous but it really was stressful. She would flat out refuse to eat. Like to the point that I was making shakes for her breakfast…like mint chocolate chip shakes. Which she got all excited about and drank about five sips and was done. IM TELLING YOU …STRUGGLE!!!!!! She still isn’t a good eater but we had her weight rechecked at 19 months and dr slusher was SHOCKED. She had gained her weight back…and was right where she was supposed to be on her growth chart. Glad my persistence paid off! 
20 lbs 4 oz. and 31.75 inches long
We didn’t spend the fourth of july quite like we had planned. We had invited a few couples to come over to hang out and let the kids play on the water slide…just hang out…and eat. I was sooo looking forward to it. Well, wouldn’t you know that one of my children (larkin) decided to start running fever….actually, she had been running fever all week and I was sure that it wouldn’t last an entire week…I was WRONG. She had about 5 days of HIGH fever. Like 102.9-103.7 temps. HIGH! So we had to cancel. I was really sad. We did have some fun with our little family of five though.
Larkin even felt good enough (while the motrin was in her good) to play in the water for a little bit. I know that probably seems wrong to let my child go outside in the heat and play when she had been running fever but this was the happiest she had been all week!
These pictures are all out of order but I just don’t have it in me to fix them. The week prior to July 4th, I had campbell paint a flag. I LOVE how it turned out! I wish I had had him paint in on canvas so I couldve hung it in his room!
Soooo…it was not what I expected BUT ended up being a great day!
After the peach festival parade was over, we ran to get larkin a pair of cowboy boots. I don’t think that’s actually what we went into pattons for but that’s what we came out with! Precious little girl needed herself some boots.
We also decided to go to the rodeo this year. I will not going to a whole spill about it because time has passed and im over it. but, I will say that I am not sure if we will go back next year. it was MISERABLY hot and VERY SLOW! 
Out of the three, Campbell was the most content to watch. Trigger kept asking when we were going to go home and go to bed. Larkin kept trying to strip off clothes because she was so hot….her whole head was wet from sweat.
We can check that off…we have done the parade!
Like every year, we attended the Ruston Peach Festival Parade in June. It was fun…hot, but fun!
