Mama called the doctor and the doctor said...

all 3 kids are healthy!

okay so i didn't call her but we (myself & Nanaw) took the boys in for pooks' 18mos check up and peanuts 1 month check-up. can you even believe that peanut is a month old already!? crazy, i know but true. bubba did not have a check up but obviously he went with us and i had questions about him too.

firstoff: peanut.

my cute little peanut is slowly turning into peanut butter---still technically a peanut but a little chunky! at birth he weighed 6lbs 13oz and today *drum roll please* he weighed a whopping 9lbs 2oz! he also grew an entire inch in length. overall he's a growing boy and looks great! his skin color looks great so there is no threat of jaundice, he uses both sides of his body, he has a great startle reflex and awesome neck/head control. he is a bit congested so we need to keep an eye on that, using a bulb syringe as needed and bringing him back if starts to have trouble breathing or eating. he goes back in a month for another check up and first round of shots.

on to....pooks:

pooks is 19mos old but this was his 18mos check up since one month ago i was having a baby. the first thing i have to say is that pooks does NOT weigh more than bubba-- contrary to popular belief. he was 31.5 inches tall and weighed 25.4lbs (which is 2 lbs less than bubba). developmentally he looks great. he uses plenty of words: mama, dada, hi, bye, go, car, hotdog, please, no, yes, snow, Elmo--just to name a few. he can stack blocks, he knows a few body parts, he understands commands (understands, not follows!) and he's a stinker which is completely normal for an almost 2 year old :) he did get one shot but he did quite well once he got his balloon. he comes back for another check up at 2 yrs old.

and finally:bubba

i had questions for Dr. S about getting him tested for allergies. while i think its quite obvious that he has either a wheat sensitivity or allergy i want to be positive. we've noticed great changes since we cut out wheat from his diet. we've slowly been adding it back in and some days there are no changes and other days he has meltdowns and belly aches. the other night he had pizza and was fine but for lunch yesterday he had macaroni and cheese and the afternoon was horrible. i just want answers.

i also wanted to make sure that there is anything else that may be contributing to his asthma. mainly i want to make sure he's not allergic to our dogs. while i don't think he would be (no one in our family is allergic to dogs) i also don't want to be unknowingly exposing him to something that's making him sick. nanaw, uncle matt and myself are all allergic to cats and nanaw is allergic to rabbits so its not that far fetched. anyways, he had to have blood drawn (thanks nanaw for holding him!) and we have an appt with the allergist on Jan 14th to go over the results. hopefully we find something out!

whew! the whole appt took well over an hour. weighing, measuring and checking 2 kiddos takes awhile, talking about everything took longer, and doing all of this after waking them from their nap then getting shots/giving blood--ugh--made it almost unbearable! needless to say it was a long day and i'm ready for bed!

it's Christmas time

i know i know, i haven't posted in days...i've just been super busy! the boys keep me crazy busy all day, especially since it snowed and we haven't left the house. they are going a bit stir-crazy. today, despite the fact that the high is 27 degrees, we're going to go to the store just so they can get out of the house for a little bit. let them burn off all this excess energy so that we can nap today ;)

when the boys are asleep i've been busy with Christmas projects/baking/wrapping. i finally have all the presents wrapped-woo hoo! it was bugging me that there were no presents underneath the tree and my laundry room that was full of shopping bags was bugging B, so that was a priority. then last night i made 2 batches of Chex mix and made a dozen chocolate dipped mint oreos (yes, they are to die for). today i'm hoping to get the puppy chow and the rest of the oreos finished. maybe i'll even get started on the pretzel candies...who knows! yesterday morning the boys and i made a crafty/art project for the grandparents. i just love the holidays!

Here comes Santa Claus,,,

today we fought the cold air to take the boys to see Santa. bubba was ready to tell him that he wanted ''car cars'' for christmas and that his brother wanted ''go-gos" (aka backyardigans). pooks himself wasn't so sure of Mr. Claus...actually pooks wouldn't' go near Santa. so i have pictures of bubba and santa, bubba with peanut and Santa and zero pics of pooks with Santa. oh well, you win some and lose some i guess! here they are...

bubba was very excited!

peanut was equally excited...LOL

and pooks was completely content eating the cookie that Santa's helper gave him after he refused to sit near the jolly old guy.

and because they are so damn funny, here are the out-takes...

bubba less than thrilled at having to smile again

and the final sign that we are done taking pictures...the infamous eye roll.
i swear he is 2 going on 16!

bedtime update...

i posted earlier today about pooks' new car bed and i was unsure of how he would do when it was time to actually sleep in it but he did great!

nap time this afternoon was a bit rough. pooks loved the bed but he loved climbing into and out of the bed even more. first he "needed" a book, then he "needed" a stuffed bear, etc. i gave him a kiss and told him to go night-night...then i hid in the hallway to watch. it took 3 or 4 times of reminding him to lay down and stay laying down, before he got it. the whole ordeal took about 10 minutes which overall i didn't think was too bad.

bedtime was even better. we did our normal story/book thing, bedtime kisses and i shut off the light. pooks' didn't get up at all. he curled right up and has been that way for over an hour-so far.
i just hope that if he wakes up tonight, he's able to fall back asleep on his own. as is i'm awake at midnight and then 3:30am with peanut and as much as i love pooks, i'd love him even more if he continues to sleep all night!

its been a busy busy morning!

it's not even noon yet and it has been hectic at the tic tac house this morning!

firstoff, bubba woke up screaming--coughing, wheezing and completely uncomfortable. i called the doctor to get him in...i was pretty sure it was his asthma but wanted to double check especially since its the weekend and this asthma thing is new to us. well by 8:30 when the office opened he was fussy, crying, wheezing and we had to suction mucous out of his nose. they said they could see him at 10:45am so i started a breathing treatment on his nebulizer. while doing that, i missed a call on my cell; of course it was the doctors office wanting to know if i could be there in 10 minutes?! um, okay. so B stayed with peanut and pooks while myself and bubba (still in his pj's) jumped in the car.

he officially has full blown asthma. he now has to have breathing treatments every morning and night-EVERY DAY, not just when he's sick. then when he is sick he has to have them every 4 hours until he's wheezing subsides. if his wheezing doesn't subside, then we have to do an oral steriod on top of the breathing treatments.

*sigh*

just when i finally get a morning routine down for all three kiddos, i gotta work something else into the mix! i just hope bubba starts to feel better soon...its so hard seeing him sick!

speaking of new routines, we're going to have an interesting night tonight because we got pooks' his race car bed! b picked it up last night but it stayed downstairs as they were already asleep. first thing this morning he carried it upstairs and started taking down the crib. (which pooks climbed out of again last night!) the boys had a blast! i made sure to take a lot of pics:

well this is new!

watching Daddy take down his crib
(yes, he cried!)

trying it out with his new pillow...seems to like it!

and their room now that I rearranged it. we obviously couldn't have pooks' bed right next to the toy bins, lol.

view from the door

view to the right

view to the left

bubba's bed

pooks' bed...we plan on getting him a "Cars" poster to go over it too!

i can't wait to see their room all finished after Christmas! knowing what we got them and what nanaw got them--its going to be so so cute!