Wednesday

Playing with pictures. I know there aren't any pictures of Gavin, he was napping at the time.

I'm trying to play catch on here. Kai seems to be doing better, but he's still not 100%. Today I got relicensed for daycare. I'm glad that is all done now. It is some weight lifted off my shoulders.

I'm going to try to post pictures on flickr instead posting so many on the blog. So go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/37554218@N07/?saved=1 to view pictures

Kai is 6 months

Can't believe that Kai is 6 months already! He had his 6 month appointment on April 17th. He weighed 13 lbs, 11 ozs and was 25 inches long. Very much on the small side. He also had an ENT appointment that day. He will be having ear tubes put in on May 20th. At that time they will cutting his frenulum and running another ABR test on him. It sounds like he will be getting hearing aides. She said she wants to wait to get all the fluid out of his ears and the ABR test.

Kai is still working on sitting up and rolling. He is started to grab at toys now as well. He loves to chew on his fingers also.

Kai and his sickness

As some of you may know that Kai was at Children's Hospital for a few days. He came home Tuesday and is doing much better. Kai started his sickness Easter morning and wasn't getting better. He had an upper respiratory infection and also ended up with an ear infection. He was put on antibiotics. He ended up with having excessive diarrhea. He was crying pretty much all day long for about a week straight and wasn't tolerating regular feedings. After being to the doctor 4 times in one week and talking to the clinic on the phone a couple times on top of that, we decided that we would just take up to Children's. We knew that something just wasn't right. Levi called the nurse line at Children's Sunday night and she said that he should probably be seen. So we headed up there that night. They ran a bunch of test and everything turned out fine. Basically they think he got a nasty stomach bug. They were explaining that sometimes with a stomach bug, that it can do things to the lining of the stomach I believe is what they said. And that in turn can make one lactose intolerant. Plus with him being on so much antibiotics in such a short period of time. So they have temporarily switched him to a special kind of formula, taken him off of antibiotics and he is on some probiotics. He seems to be doing better. We have to go for a follow up appt with the GI doctor up there in about 2 months. I'm glad that we decided to take him in. We just didn't seem like we were getting anywhere down here. I really believe that a mom has to follow her instincts ;) Kai is doing much better. He is full of his smiles today. So far today has not really had any diarrhea. He even went to Therapy this morning for about an hour! It is so great that he is feeling much better.

Easter 2009

We had a weekend of fun planned for Easter weekend. Good Friday we headed up to the Grand Hinckley Inn. Saturday we went to my sister, Melissa's. The boys played on the 4 wheelers. Gavin and Jace had a great time playing with their cousins. Then we went swimming at the hotel. They were having fun but seemed a little out of sorts. All three boys had developed an icky cough. That evening Gavin started running a fever with shakes. So I brought him into ER. Of course since we were way up in Hinckley, the closest ER was Mora. So after 3 hours of being there, we found out that Gavin had pneumonia. After getting back to the hotel and just trying to settle into bed, Jace woke up screaming. Our first thought was ear infection, gave him some Motrin and then he finally fell asleep. After that was Kai's cough attack. Needless to say...I did not get any sleep that night. Easter morning, Kai started vomiting at the hotel. So we decided to skip Easter at my sister Tina's and just head back home to take Jace and Kai into ER. On the way home, Jace's ear started to drain. He definitely had an ear infection. We got home early afternoon and headed to ER in Mankato. We confirmed Jace's ear infection and they found nothing wrong with Kai (upper respiratory infection basically). They did a chest x-ray and a RSV test on him and those came back fine. So that is how we spent our Easter.

Beginning of April

At the beginning of April, Kai ended up with pink eye. I was so hoping that he was going to get it, but he did. At least it's pretty easy to treat and goes away quickly.

Gavin's 4!

Gavin wiped out at the end of the night of his party

Gavin opening presents

Blowing out candles

Happy 4th Birthday Gavin!

We had Gavin's birthday party the day after the Owatonna water park fun. He was officially 4 now. He didn't want to be 4 on his actual birthday because there was no cake! Apparently you have to have cake in order to have a birthday. So once he had his cake and party he was fine with being 4 years old.

Owatonna water park

Gavin coming down the water slide...he loved it!

Levi and the boys

Me and Kai

Jace and Gavin in the hotel room

The last Friday in March we had gone to the indoor water park in Owatonna with our friends, Angie and Eric and their kids. It was a great time. The boys really enjoyed the water park. This was Kai's first time in a pool. He didn't seem to mind it at all. He got a little shaken up when he would get splashed by water.

Wow!

Wow! It's been awhile since I have posted on here. Now I need to play catch up. Well since the last post. Gavin did end up with pink eye. Jace's pink eye got worse and had spread down his face. He was then put on some antibiotics as well. On March 25th, Gavin turned 4! I can't believe he is 4 years old already!