How did 4 years go by SO fast????

As much as it was against my will and no matter how much I tried to make time slow down February 24th came around again and it seems to come faster and faster every year!!! Our little Beanie Bear turned 4 years old yesterday!!! Why does it go by so fast and I ask myself that every time one of my girls have a birthday!! But we have to cherish the time while its here because before we know it we will be moving her into her dorm at college!! So with that said we made her 4th birthday super special!! We started the morning wake up with Mommy and Natalie signing Happy Birthday ( if you weren't 4 and knew what good singing sounds like then my singing might have scared you)!! Zoey jumped right out of bed and we got in the bath!! Zoey put on her new BIRTHDAY GIRL shirt and was surprised with a pretty ribbon and a birthday girl headband!!! She was beyond excited!! She made sure that I didnt call her Beanie Bear or Zoey for the day she was to be known as "Birthday Girl"!! She got many phone calls throughout that day but the most meaningful call had to have been from "her Poppie"!!!! The Russles bought her an AWESOME candy necklace maker and the Teany's surprised her with a BIG Elmo balloon!!! She asked for spaghetti and meatballs for dinner and she was surprised with a Tinkerbell Birthday Cake!! It seemed that the day went by so fast that we didn't even get to enjoy it since we had to get to bed for school the next morning!! While at 4 she loves HER Poppie and Onnie, she wants everything Tinkerbell and of course Blue!!! She loves hand sanitizer and her sisters!! Her best friends are Lainey and Kaden but she is in LOVE with Karie and Jenni!!! She will go anywhere her Daddy goes and will probably take her bottle to prom but that's our little Beanie Bear and wouldn't trade her for the world!!! Zoey has been an absolute blessing in our lives and we love her more than words could ever explain!! So with that I'm sure when February 24th rolls around again I will ask myself "Why does it go by so fast??" HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEANIE BEAR!!!

Lydia Lucille Kello-- "Lidi Lu"

I will first start out by saying that Lydia is by far the sweetest baby you will ever met!! There is not a day go by that she doesn't have a smile on her face!! Now to the trouble she gave us before we got to met her!! My pregnancy with Lydia was going just like all the other ones-- No problems!! At around my 28 week check up I had told the doctor that I didn't really feel her move often and I thought it was because I am so preoccupied with everything else after all I had 3 other little girls at home. She scheduled an ultrasound right away but never really seemed concerned! We went in at 30 weeks for the ultrasound and then to met with the doctor. As the doctor walked in the room I just knew that things weren't OK. She told me that my fluid around the baby was very low and that we needed to head up to St. V's for an emergency high def ultrasound. I didn't think that it was possible to love someone without even meeting them until you think that there might be chance that it might not go right! So off John and I went up to St. V's with me crying the whole way! After getting up there things seemed to not be as bad as they thought but it was something that defiantly had to be watched so with that said I had to have a high risk ultrasound every other week and they started steroid shots to make sure that Lydia's lungs were developed. As time got closer to meeting Lydia the harder things got-- I could not keep anything down to the point that I was in the hospital a few times to have fluid ran through an IV. At 33 weeks I had to have NST's done every other day and a regular ultrasound once a week(also Lydia was still doing flips and turns and was never head down 2 times in a row). The doctor wanted me to make it to 35 weeks so that she could still delivery Lydia Hendricks!! And we made it to exactly 35 weeks and I went in on a Sunday night and they start cervidel and pitocin was scheduled for the morning! I had a great night sleep and was well rested when I woke up the next morning!! John and I were ready to met our little baby! Everything seemed to be going right on track-- I had dilated with the cervidal and the pitocin was working and they gave me my epidural right away!! Another doc had come in to break my water when she realized that there was something obstructing her path to break my water!! She said to me " We are going to prep you for an emergency C-section because we are losing her heartbeat and it is NOT her head that I am feeling!!" John and I had many what if talks about a C-section and he didn't want to be in the room! When they said that I asked him what he was going to do and he said I'M GOING!! I honestly had never ever been so scared in my life so I was glad that he was going to go!! So off we went RUNNING down the hall and hopefully to met my doctor in the OR!! When we go there they checked me again and Lydia had moved AGAIN and she was head down! So we didn't have to have a c-section after all!! They took my back to my room and I delivered little Lydia at 1:41 p.m. and she weighed 5 lbs and 11 oz and was 19 inches long!! She was so tiny and beautiful!! And yes the reason we lost her heart beat and they felt something besides her head was because the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck!! Lydia is now the 8 months old and just a bundle of joy!! After all the trouble she gave us she has taken us by surprise!! She is crawling around everywhere, trying to pull herself up and has 2 little bottom teeth! We love our little Lidi Lu!!

Ava Danielle Kello-- our St. Patty's Day baby!!

It was 5:45 in the morning John was at work and I started shivering so hard!! I thought that something was seriously wrong with me! I decided to get up and take a shower! I kept telling myself that she cant come today we are going on a field trip at work that I had planned for the kids! John came home and I told him what was going on and he said that I COULD NOT go to work that I was in labor. Well the stubborn person that I am thought that there was no way that he was right. He didn't know- he had never had a baby before. So I proceeded to ask him to get the cooler out of the garage and he wouldn't because he was doing everything he could for me to stay home. So I went out to the garage myself, climbed up on the ladder and got the cooler. Mind you that I probably had had about 8 contractions while I was out there. They weren't painful so I didn't worry about them. I got the girls up and dressed and headed to my moms. I called work and told them that I was going to try and make it through the day but wasn't feeling very well. I dropped the girls off and looked at my mom and said "please keep your phone on you because I'm feeling weird." She just looked at me! I went to work and walked in the door and had to stop because my contractions where so bad on the way in. I walked back to my room and told Amber that I thought I was in labor. I will never ever forget the look on Mike ( now our best friends-who would have thought) faces. He had that "oh shit- what am I going to do look"!! I couldn't even get up from the table that I was sitting on! I decided I should probably call John and tell him that I was in labor and needed him to come and get me and yes he was STILL mad at me because I tried to go to work!! I guess I should have just listened to him! We when arrived at the doctor my contraction were about 6 minutes apart but weren't showing up on the monitor. The doctor said that I wasn't in active labor and they were going to send me home! John JUMPED up out of the chair and yelled "There is no way that I am taking her home." By this point I was crying and knew that today was the day! The nurse said that they would send me up to labor and delivery to "watch" me and would probably send me home! I got up to labor and delivery around noon and Ave entered this world 3:42 p.m. and weighed 6lbs 12 oz and was 20 inches long! Boy were they WRONG!!!! I kept thinking to myself if we would have went home like they told us that John would have delivered a baby on our living room floor but hey after all he knew that it was time so I'm sure he could have handled it!! Ava was another fantastic addition to our family!! She is such a sweet little girl and loves her Natnee and ZoZee SO much!!! She has definitely hit her terrible twos and has been able to scream this horrible high pitched scream since she was about 6 months old which so know irritates me to know end so she has it down to an art now!! She always lights up a room when she walks when with her beautiful little smile!! She will always be our little "Ava Baba"

Zoey Elise Kello a.k.a Zoey B or Beanie Bear

John and I were blessed with our second beautiful little girl Zoey on February 24th at 5:05 p.m. She weighed 6 lbs and 8 oz and 19 1/2 inches ( the exact same as Natalie) and had a head full of hair. She had so much hair that she was wearing barrette at a week old because it was in her eyes!! She was absolutely gorgeous!! She reminded me so much of my Grandma Hertenstein, which we shortly lost after Zoey was born. I always say that God gave us Zoey to fill my Grandma's space. Zoey was much different than Natalie as a baby. I knew from the moment that we brought her home that there was something wrong. It seemed as if she couldn't hear anything that was going on. She never would focus on us when we were talking or smiling at her but she would hear loud noises and would scream. We tried to avoid car trips since Zoey would scream all the way there and all the way back on most trips. Zoey was crawling around the room at 4 months old and was getting into everything by 6 months old!! She was just a "different' baby. She was in the hospital once at 2 weeks old and she spent her first birthday in the hospital with Rota virus-- we almost lost Zoey because she was SO sick with it. At about 1 1/2 Zoey was still not making any sounds or attempting to talk!! Our pediatrician at the time just didn't seem to have the "time" to take to find out was wrong. By 2 John and I decided that it was time to switch pediatrician and that is when we meet Dr. Hayford and he has been an absolute blessing to us!! He got Zoey enrolled in First Steps right away, scheduled a sleep study with in a month and would call and check on us at least once a week!! Once Zoey started first steps she saw 3 therapist a week and started talking in about 6 months and was diagnosed with Sensory Integration Dysfunction!! It was amazing to see the progress that Zoey had made in a year but the downfall was that when Zoey turned 3 she was no longer eligible for services through First Steps so once again we didn't know where to go! We tried to see if she still needed services by going without them for a month or 2 and it was obvious that she needed something and needed it fast! ( There were many days that I would have to call my mom or a friend to come and get her because I was going to lose it). We then ended up at Rylie for some more testing and hopefully for more extensive diagnosis. Rylie told John and I that there was nothing wrong with her and it was all behavioral issues. We knew that that was probably not the case but went with it to see what would happen ( We would take any help we could get). We started seeing a behavioral counselor every 3 weeks-- which was a joke because he was just telling us how to discipline Zoey and on top of that our insurance didn't cover the doctor and it was 89 dollars at least every 3 weeks. At this point I just was ready to give up. I felt that no one wanted to help and maybe I was just expecting to much of Zoey after all she was only 3. I did a lot of research and decided that we needed to have her tested for Autism-- she didn't fit everything for it but she was pretty close. This is when we got in touch with Damar Services and they re our second life saving next to First Steps!! After setting up and appointment they were out the next week and did an Autistic evaluation on Zoey and before they even left the lady looked at me and said " Honey she is definitely Autistic and we will be out next week to discuss where we go from here." I could feel my face getting red and trying so hard to fight back the tears. As soon as the door shut I whisked Zoey up and just sat and cried!! As much as we knew it, it was just so hard to swallow! I kept asking myself "how could God do this to such a sweet, beautiful little girl. She doesn't deserve this and neither do we." My mom kept telling me that "God, only gives us what we can handle and he knew that you could handle this!" So with that said, Zoey has made leaps and bounds and brings a smile to my face every single day!! She is now enrolled in Developmental Preschool and is loving it!! She loves riding the bus,cleaning things, the color blue, playing with her friends, and will be 4 in just a couple of weeks (she would love to skip 4 and go straight to5). I have to thank my family and my closest friends (you know who you are) for excepting Zoey and loving her to the fullest!