The Manthey Blog

My Guitar

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:01:00 +0000

Ryan got a real guitar this year from uncle andrew and aunt katie. Here's some video and pics of the first time he held it and also a video from tonight of him singing "big rock candy mountain". He loves to sing and sway and strum his guitar, it's so cute!!

Ryan J Plays Guitar @ Yahoo! Video

Snow!!

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:40:00 +0000

we had a huge snowstorm over the weekend!! it was the biggest in many many years, it was so great!!

Note the snow is past the bottom rung of our fence. And Ryan is standing in these pictures.

Franklin Institute

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:30:00 +0000

We went to the franklin institute with the Branfords, thanks guys! It was tons of fun and Ryan LOVED the heart.

Boys Weekend

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:14:00 +0000

When i was away with naomi for the weekend christmas shopping, tim and ryan had a fun weekend together. They visited great gram and papa jay at garden spot, fixed the christmas tree lights, and made a gingerbread house!

Catching up

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:45:00 +0000

It been a long couple days here for us. Ryan had a stomach bug the last couple days and Naomi has been on an eating/nonsleeping spree. Things are finally looking up and Ryan is back to his chatty self and Naomi is sleeping right now! Praise the Lord that Tim was home this week!!!

So here's a couple posts of recent things i've been meaning to post about.

Hair

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:01:00 +0000

Naomi looks just like her Aunt Katie did at her age. So we had her "borrow" Aunt Katies hair to see what she'd look like :)

All dressed up and out to tea!

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:36:00 +0000

We went out to tea today and the kids were so good! Ryan got his own little spread, he was so excited, it was adorable!

Allergist

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:23:00 +0000

Ryan had his allergist appointment on thursday. He was very brave! They did all the pricks in one big jab, so it was over with quickly for the testing. Turns out he's allergic to..... NOTHING! So yay for that! Still no idea why the switch to 1% milk made such a huge difference.

World Series Game

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:36:00 +0000

Yes they lost the game, and then the whole series, but this was a once in a lifetime experience and we had a great time!!

Pumpkin Carving With Nana

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:04:00 +0000

Halloween Party...

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:07:00 +0000

Kiddo Updates

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:58:00 +0000

ryan had a GI appt today. i was so excited to talk to doc about how we switched from whole milk to 1% milk and it's made a big difference, he eats better, no runny nose anymore and no diaper rash. well, gi doc has no clue. he kept saying "i just don't know". he is sending us to an allergist. he did check for allergies before when he did the scope and didn't find anything. he also said definitely don't stop what you're doing cause it's obviously helping and ryan gained another pound and he was pleased with that!!

naomi has been having some fussy/rough times the last couple days. her spitup increased, she's fussier, she's not staying asleep very long during the day, eating little bits often throughout the day and she just cried out in her sleep which is the saddest thing! i was thinking it could be a growth spurt or i don't have enough milk or i should cut out something from my diet. but tonight i'm really thinking we should give some reflux meds a try for her as well, we'll see.

overall we are very very blessed and still feeling well rested and much better than we did at this point when ryan was an infant. thank you friends and family for all the meals, gifts, prayers and love!

Smiling

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:33:00 +0000

we are all doing great here! ryan is being a good big brother. he's gentle with her and plays by himself when i need him to. naomi sleeps and eats! which is so foreign to us! she's a very content baby! Praise God for a healthy happy family! here is a pic of Naomi smiling in her sleep tonight...

Naomi Faith Manthey

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:25:00 +0000

Welcome to the world Naomi!!

Fun at the pumpkin patch

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:53:00 +0000

It was a little cold and Ryan J was a little whiny and tired, but it was fun!

Sometime soon

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:35:00 +0000

The OB told us we're ok now so don't call until i'm really definitely in labor! Woohoo! The official due date is October 20, but I'm guessing/hoping we won't make it till then. So now we can tell Ryan to stop saying "Naomi stay in there!".

Ryan J Tells a Joke

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:40:00 +0000

Tonight at dinner Ryan made up a joke. We were all sitting there and he said, "what's down there?" so we asked him back and he said "a ladybug?" we said really?? long pause... he said "NO! ha ha ha ha!" we laughed pretty hard, it was totally out of the blue! he repeated this about 20 times! here's a couple times i caught on video, at the end of the second video he sees the camera and says "smile you!"

My Shadow

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:54:00 +0000

ps - i'm adding pictures daily to the september album in shutterfly
click on the link to the right "our online photo albums"

Happy Happy Happy ...

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:53:00 +0000

This is a busy week every year we have 3 big days in a row... Katie's birthday then mom and dads anniversary then today, Ryans birthday!! And i think this year ryan managed to get gifts every one of those days, and then some!

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY RYAN JAY!!!

Here's a LOT of pics, and this is just from the last couple days!

I love my Uncle Andrew

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:43:00 +0000

Ryan LOVES to go to Uncle Andrews gigs. He can't keep his eyes off of him. He spends at least half the time standing directly in front of Andrew dancing and staring at him.

Curtains

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:55:00 +0000

I finally made the curtains for our bedroom. I think I bought the fabric a year ago! I put a cover on our bed accent pillow too, probably could have done 3 more covers, I way overbought on that brown fabric, oh well, I only paid like 10-15 dollars total for all the fabric... the clearance section is great!!

Eww

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:12:00 +0000

yes, that's ryans toothbrush. and he decided after he did that he'd brush his teeth some more.

Keller - Behringer Announcement

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:48:00 +0000

From the daily local...

Allen and Karen Keller of Coatesville announce the engagement of their daughter, Katie Lynn, to Andrew Scott Behringer, son of Brian and Tracy Behringer of Coatesville.

Katie is a registered nurse in the neonatal ICU at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Andrew is a music teacher at Napoli School of Music in Ardmore and a singer/songwriter.

The wedding is planned for the first day of spring, March 20, 2010, at Olivet United Methodist Church, Coatesville, with a reception to follow at the Eden Resort in Lancaster.

Pictures Uploaded!

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:42:00 +0000

I had been a huge slacker in uploading pictures and I finally just uploaded everything from October of 2008 through now! So if you're bored go on http://jenbutjen.shutterfly.com and take a look at pics!

(PS, there's kitchen pics in the last couple months too!)

Women and Babies Triage... Again!

noreply@blogger.com (Jen) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:17:00 +0000

so here's what happened...

We went to the Victory "brewbq" where Andrew was playing yesterday. Well they said we could take the hayride to the field or walk. We chose walking because I'm crazy allergic to hay! Well they didn't tell us it was actually a 1 mile hike uphill to get there! And it was crazy hot. So of course contractions started on the walk/hike and didn't stop all afternoon. Tim panicked, as did Katie and Dad. Dad drove the car up there to bring us back. After dinner we went in to the hossy because ctx were still happening. The monitors at the hossy confirmed it and they gave me turbuteline right away which really calmed things down. They did an exam, fetal-fibroid-nectamy or something like that which tells you if you could go into labor in next 2 weeks. And they did u/s. U/S showed some change since last preterm scare (about month ago) but it stll wasn't too bad. Exam was fine, the FFN thing took about 3 hours to get results. (Once again, poor Tim sleeping in a really uncomfortable chair in a cold room!) But the results came back neg and so they sent me home (woohoo!) and told me to do bedrest sunday only. So unless my retarded uterus acts up again i don't have permanent bedrest (yet!)