Our trip to the Davis family reunion

We are back from our trip and finally getting caught up on our sleep. We had a fun but very busy trip. We arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas on Thursday, met at the airport by my mom Rosemary and step-dad Bill. Their house is a little bit of a drive from the airport, about 2 hours so we got our bags and headed for the house. We stayed at my grandma's empty house around the corner from mom's house, it's a cute little summer type cottage. Arkansas was it's usual steamy climate, hot and humid.

After getting to the house and unloading we headed to see my grandma and her husband. Grandma was very excited to meet Jenna. It's pretty cool that she got to meet her great-granddaughter. Friday morning David went for a walk and had quite an experience, he met some of the local dogs lets just say, give him a call and he can tell you all about it, it's pretty funny actually. After that we ran some errands and found a gym so David could work out.

In the evening we headed to Vian, Oklahoma for the Davis Ice Cream Social (picture to the left is Myra, Jenna, Me & Becca, Aunt Peggy in background, other picture is Grandpa Benson having trouble getting that picture to load, it will follow). There Jenna and Becca got to meet more relatives, Great-Grandpa Benson and several Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and many other family members. We had some yummy homemade ice cream and then went to Uncle Jim's for more homemade ice cream, French Vanilla and White Chocolate Raspberry, it was soooooo yummy.

Saturday we went to "The Rock Shop" (pictures above) and wondered around and Becca enjoyed looking at all the different rocks and marbles. Jenna even had a play in a rock pile. Jenna got to visit with her Great-Grandma some more.

We stopped for a yummy lunch at The Shack. On the way back we stopped at Nimrod Damn for a "Damn tour". David and Becca walked to the bottom of the river for a closer look and had a great time on their hike.

After we got back David and Becca went for a ride on the Quad and Becca had a blast, squealing at times from the speed, it was pretty funny. Saturday night we headed to Oklahoma again (2 hours away) to spend the night to prepare for the reunion. We went to Uncle Jim's again and had more ice cream (in case you haven't figured it out the Davis family is known for ice cream and eating) .

Sunday morning was the reunion and man o man was the line long (picture below) for lunch but there was as usual a big table of food. After everybody ate they began the usual introduction of family members. Grandpa Benson is one of 14 children (remaining brothers and sisters are pictured below) of the Davis family and several of his brothers and sisters had large families.

After the reunion was over we headed back to Arkansas so mom could make her famous BLT'S for David. Monday we woke up and headed back to my Grandma's house so we could say goodbye then headed back to the airport.

Father's Day

It appears that David had a nice Father's Day. He got to sleep in and for David, 7:30 was really sleeping in. The kids and I gave him a t-shirt custom embroidered that says "Daddy's team" that has a Chicago bear for each of the girls with their names below it and a gift certificate so he can get those big muscles massaged (he says he won't use it but hopefully he will, it wasn't cheap, wink, wink). I made him a yummy dinner of stuffed shells and garlic bread and even had enough to share with the neighbors.

School's out!

School is out for the summer for Kayla and Becca and they start the first two weeks with us. They have watched movies, swam and played on the slip-n-slide so far. There day is not all fun though, Kayla practices her viola for 30 minutes and Becca reads one book every day and practices about 5 spelling words a day.

Monday Kayla leaves for Camp for a week while Becca gets a special trip with David, Jenna and I to the Davis Family reunion in Vian, Oklahoma and also a visit to my parents and grandma in Plainview Arkansas. We fly out next Thursday for our trip which is followed up by a yummy ice cream social on Friday and reunion on Sunday.

This will be an exciting trip as Becca has never been to the reunion or met the Davis's (my step-dad's family) and Jenna will be introduced to the family as well as her Great Grandma for the first time.

Roll over

Our little Jenna is getting so big, today she rolled over for the first time, just to make sure it wasn't a fluke I put her on her back and she rolled over two more times after that. Not bad for being only 4 1/2 months old. She is also now holding her own bottle and starting to enjoy some cereal. Just wait until she gets her first taste of some vegetables.

Back to the doctor for little Jenna

Poor little Jenna woke up this morning sounding terrible. She has a stuffy nose, runny nose, cough and is sneezing. I called the doctor this morning and they were concerned about the congestion and cough so they wanted to see her again to make sure her lungs were clear. The doctor listened to her lungs but said they were OK. The doctor gave her some medicine for her cough and congestion and another antibiotic just in case she gets a fever again to start her on the antibiotics right away. She has been a little fussy but sounds better after having some nose spray. Keep your fingers crossed that this passes really soon.

One Sick baby

We had our first of two ER visits this weekend with Jenna she has an infection of sorts. They are not sure what it is of course because they just do not know what to do with infants still. So they drew blood, put a catheter in, and gave her shots of antibiotics that aren’t helping. Kayla and Becca had gone next door for a birthday celebration so they just brought their pajamas with in case (we have the best friend/neighbor EVER, and I’m not just saying this because I sent it to her too, she really is awesome and we would be lost without her). Becca of course didn’t want to stay so when we got home at about 12:30am, I had to go get her and bring her home. Kayla stayed. That was the first trip tonight.

Then about 3:45 am Missy had to take her back to the ER because her fever was over 101.5 again. They only gave her more Tylenol and changed the antibiotic. Gee whiz Olly, we could have done that from home. But anyway, she is not doing so well yet. She still has a high fever but is at least sleeping right now and is still eating about 1/3 of her normal intake but the important thing is she IS EATING. I had to stay home this trip of course because of our neurotic daughter Becca not wanting to be without us and Jenna (although annoying at times, Becca absolutely adores Jenna and won’t let her out of her sight…LITERALLY. Jenna has awesome sisters).

So that is where we are for now. No news. No updates other than Jenna is very sick with high fevers, lethargy, and screams of pain that cannot be identified, with the cause being a possible infection somewhere including her ear. They gave her Rocephin (info below), But I am a little concerned at the dosage of 300mg for a 4 month old, which was mixed with Lidocaine because the antibiotic burns. Indications appear to be for lower doses but I could be misinterpreting the data on no sleep.

If there are any updates, I will let you know.


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