Born on October 30, 2007, this blog documents our lives from the VERY beginning. Everyday -- typically multiple times a day -- we collectively or individually do something worthy of remembrance. So here begins our candid documentation (or mainly mine since I am older than Lily by 1 minute) rendering people to be simultaneously smitten, entertained, challenged and ultimately -- twice blessed. Welcome to our world!
Daddy finally got around to switching our car seats yesterday. Wow, is it cool to see out the front window instead of the back. We never realized there was so much going on in our world. We're so excited about facing forward now, that we woke up early today to go shopping on Black Friday. It was so much fun driving through the parking lots looking at all of the people and all of the stuff they were buying. Hopefully mommy and daddy fill their carts up too!
We started out our Thanksgiving eating our favorite breakfast, French toast, off our cool new plates. If you ask us, that's a good way to start the day, and we didn't think it could get any better. Boy were we wrong. In the afternoon we went over to Uncle Larry and Aunt Pam's for a Thanksgiving feast, and we literally mean feast. We're thankful for mommy and daddy and all, but today we were especially thankful for turkey, stuffin' muffins, green beans, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie. We loved everything and we ate enough to fill our bellies for days. Our friends, Jackson and Payton, helped us eat our pumpkin pie. Then after dinner we played with Braden until it was time to leave and go home to bed.
I have taken my first lead in the competition. I now lead Lily in number of teeth 6-5. While I was taking a bath this morning, mom saw that two more of my upper teeth had cut through during the night. All the better to eat my Thanksgiving dinner with!
Grandma Williams volunteered to babysit us this week since she is in town visiting. Her friends, the Eckerts, offered to help out too because everyone seemed to be worried that we might wear Grandma out!?! Why would they think such a thing? So far we've been really good for Grandma and stayed on schedule. Today we stayed busy by going for a walk, showing Grandma all of the ways to use our chairs, and playing in the backyard. Grandma is slowly learning that we climb everything, we are trying to learn how to share, and we are smarter than everyone thinks we are. We have one more day with Grandma and then mom and dad get to join us just in time for some holiday where we heard you get to eat tons of food. Sounds good to me!
My one year check-up went well. Dr. Mike said I am one healthy little boy, minus my diarrhea. I was sick last week, and it returned today, but Dr. Mike doesn't think it is related to what Lily has. Mom is hoping it has to do with the fact that I cut a tooth last night, but we'll see. The only thing he said mom and dad have to watch is my fluid intake to make sure I don't get dehydrated. I lucked out and didn't have to get my shots since I was sick, and Dr. Mike still wants to monitor me for croup. I did have a bit of a runny nose and a cough so he did prescribe steroids for me as a preventative measure. He hesitated in doing it, but since I was displaying some cold like symptoms and since I was obviously exposed to Lily, he felt it might be good just in case. Dr. Mike said my growth in terms of weight has slowed since I am so active, and mom can attest to that. As for my measurements here they are:
Weight: 24 pounds 15 ounces (76%)
Height: 31 inches (82%)
Dr. Mike said mommy and daddy can turn our car seats around if they want, but I don't think that is tops on their minds right now. We can also start drinking whole milk, but he recommended we wait until we are healthy before introducing something new. Lily and I have to go back and get our shots once we are feeling better, and Lily needs to get her measurements taken so we'll be back soon.
Last night Lily was admitted to the hospital after spiking a 105 degree fever and coming down with croup. She was having a lot of trouble breathing, and her cough sounded just like Wrigley barking. When I woke up this morning she was still gone, and mommy swears I was asking for "sister". Her temperature has now come down and the doctors gave her medicine to help open her airway. Hopefully she can come back home later today. Daddy said lots of little kids were at the ER with the same thing, and the nurses even commented on how many kids had croup. One of the twins at daycare even came down with it last night. Mommy is taking me to the doctor today for my one year check-up to make sure that I don't end up having to go to the ER too. I'll let you know how that goes later.
Hey guys, it's me, Lily. I'm home now (it's around 7:00 p.m.) so I wanted to update you on what is going on. The nurses kind of wanted me to stay one more night, but daddy and I agreed that it was time to go. I needed Ryan and mommy, and I was so happy to see them. I told Ryan all about what happened, and I shared some funny stuff with him like me using my elevated bed as a slide, and me setting off my pulse oximeter because I wouldn't sit down. He was laughing pretty hard, and I heard mommy say that he really cheered up once I got home. I think secretly he missed me, but he'll probably never admit it. As for my health, I still have a bit of the diarrhea, but daddy thinks it was also environmentally caused so hopefully it will go away now that I am home. My fever is lower now with it being around 97 degrees last time the nurse took it. It is fluctuating a bit, but mommy and daddy can give me medicine for that. My breathing is much better now, although I still have a cough. I have to use a nebulizer every night to help clear out my lungs. The hospital gave me a Margo Moo one which is kind of fun. It tickles my nose at first, but then I get bored sitting still for so long. I missed my one year check-up today with Dr. Mike so I'm supposed to check in with him soon to make sure I'm doing okay. I'll have all of my official measurements for you then, and hopefully I'll also get a clean bill of health.
The score is now 5-4. I am catching up to Lily now that my upper right front tooth cut through overnight. Mommy had the day off today so I got to stay home and color while daddy stayed at the hospital with Lily.
We went with mommy yesterday to pick up our professional portraits that were taken on our birthday. The pictures we posted are the ones that mommy ordered since we kind of cooperated for them. Trust me we didn't make it easy for mom and dad that day, but they somehow managed to get a few decent shots of us. All of that practice we had back in September must have helped a little because Ryan did smile for most of the pictures at least!
Daddy's out of town, so we got to go to a play date at Landen and Alyssa's house today. Our friends Abigail, Addyson, Lillie, and Emma were there too. We had fun climbing all over the play gym, riding Thomas the Train, playing with balloons, swinging, and going down the slides. Lily even got to go for a spin in the car. It was a fun morning and we must have played hard because we slept the whole way home and then went down for naps after we got home.
Mom had to pick us up early from daycare today because Ms. Christie's twins were sick. Since it was such a beautiful day we decided to play outside and mom broke out the finger paints. This was our first experience with finger paints, and I can't say they were my favorite. Lily loved rubbing the paint everywhere though, but the fun ended for her once she decided to see how the paint tasted. Yuck!
I'm getting a little competitive when it comes to this teeth thing, and I'm working really hard to stay ahead of Ryan. Mom said I'm lucky because I don't seem to be affected when a tooth comes in, unlike my brother who gets really grumpy. This morning I was being goofy on the couch with mom and dad when mom noticed something in my mouth, and when she checked it out, it was tooth number 5. You can't really see it in the picture but it is another upper tooth.
