New Reflux Meds - Continued

So "A" has been on her reflux meds for over a week now and they seem to be helping quite a bit. She is sleeping better and seems to be feeling better. Although she does have another cold. Last night I tried swaddling her again and she slept 8 hours. She was sleeping really well a while ago but lately has not been doing so well. She hasn't been spitting up like she was either.

I would even go so far as to call it a success, thus far. Although I still do not like the idea of her being medicated and would love to find some other option so any ideas are welcome. I hope that once she starts solids it will help as well.

Pumpkin Carving

Sunday we spent the afternoon carving pumpkins with the kids. "D" and "C" had a blast and their pumpkins turned out very well. Hope you enjoy. It was still fairly early in the morning so please don't mind the PJ's and messy hair.

"A" really enjoyed watching them while sitting in her Bumbo. Despite the look on her face...

"D" is very proud of his pumpkin that hasn't even been carved yet.
"C" is scaring me with that knife. Thank goodness "A" isn't in her seat anymore.


Sometimes Daddy has to help get the top off.

It was pretty slimy but they both enjoyed it.

"D" used Starfall.com to design his pumpkin.
"C's" work in progress.
This is the final product!

Hyland's Recall

So as many of you may already know, at least I hope so, some of Hyland's teething tablets have been recalled. I have been using them for "A" and they seem to work fairly well. The ones that we have are included in the recall so I will be contacting the company on Monday to get either a replacement or a refund depending on what the problem was. From the website it doesn't say what the problem was so that will decide whether I ask for a refund or a replacement.

I really like the idea of natural instead of Orajel and the likes. So if anyone has any other ideas I would love to hear them. She isn't into teething rings or the likes yet so these really seemed to be our best option.

Here is the link regarding the recall.

"FARE MAM"

I am so proud of "D". He is doing a phenomenal job at school. He is absorbing so much and thriving. I am so glad that he is in a place that is helping him to grow and learn so much. I was very worried and hesitant to put him in public school, although we cannot afford private I was very scared. But he loves it! He was sitting at the table tonight after I left for school waiting to get in the bath and drew a picture. It was a picture of a fire truck and he wanted to write what it was, so that there would be no confusion. Anyways he sat there and sounded it out, it was very close. He ended up spelling "FARE MAM" instead of "Fire Man" but it is amazing. He has been so resistant to me helping to teach him these things and was resistant at Head Start too but he just loves it now. Maybe it is the approach or maybe it is the environment. I don't know, but I am thrilled with whatever it is. He is also counting like crazy. He can count by 1's, 5's (usually missing 15), 10's and 100's. I know that he is a genius. :)

He is also doing his first fund raiser for school. He has his eye on the prize. He is so excited and wants to win a pen that has gumballs in it. He has to sell 35 items to get it. I am sure he can do it. We are going to be going around this weekend hopefully to family and friends and showing them the catalog so that they can see if they are interested in anything. Wish us luck!

My baby is growing up into such a wonderful young man right before my eyes. I am so proud of him!

New Reflux Meds

So we finally got the new meds for "A's reflux. I was really worried that it would taste worse than her Zantac did, yes I tasted it. But it actually reminded me of the taste of Amoxicilin. Which by the way I loved but am now allergic to. She took it like a champ and even waited the 3o minutes after to eat, although she wasn't exactly thrilled to do so, she did. It has to be given at least 1 hour after she eats and 3o minutes before she eats.

I sure hope that this will make her feel better. I hate seeing her screaming in pain. I especially hate it when she is in a deep sleep and she just starts screaming and is inconsolable. I feel so helpless and it breaks my heart.

Flats and Daddy

I am so proud of Carl! He is such an awesome daddy and he has taken to cloth diapering like it is nothing. He mainly uses prefolds and covers, instead of the pockets and AIO/AI2 that I bought mainly for him to use. But it is all okay as we still use those for out of the house and at night. Anyways, after I bought my Green Mountain Diapers prefolds and flats many of the flats were defective. They were uneven and basically unusable in the folds that I know how to do. So Green Mountain Diapers sent me a whole new dozen and these are perfect. So now I have over a dozen size large flats for "A" to use now and be able to use for a long time. Anyways, Carl decided that he wanted to try his hand at using flats and this is how it turned out.....

(Please don't mind her chunky legs, nothing is hanging out, just her chunkiness...)

Pictures

So I finally found my camera. It looks like we were enjoying ourselves to much to bother with taking pictures much. So here are a few of what we have. They are all of "D"

Here he is, on the train. He sure loves trains!

Here he is playing on the fire truck. He loves them too!

"D" sure loves his trucks! I am sad that I didn't take more pictures. I was too busy enjoying myself... There aren't even any of "A".