Monday, November 21, 2011

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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Kiptyn's 18 month stats

He is a big boy!

He weighs 28 pounds and 13 ounces! His height is 35.25 inches tall! He is doing well. We have had 3 speech therapy sessions so far and he is starting to talk more. He says please, coco, no, bubbles, puppets, mommy, daddy, sissy, doggie, pop, that, go and probably one or two others. He is doing well. He eats pretty much anything, but is pickier than Haley ever was. He loves fruits mostly.

We haven't taken any recent pictures, so I have nothing to post. Maybe this summer when I have some free time since we will be at home a LOT I can get some blogging done.

Happy 18 months Kiptyn and Kylie. Love you guys.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Haley is officially a big girl now!

It's hard to believe how much she has grown into such a little girl! She is not my baby girl anymore. It's kind of sad, but on the other hand it is wonderful! She is a great helper and independent! She has been wearing big girl undies for the past week now with only two accidents at the beginning of the week! Such a huge relief! Also a huge accomplishment for her. She fought it for the longest time and was just finally ready. Yippee!! We still wear one diaper a day for night time and that is about it. I can't complain about that. Good thing I get cheap diapers though! But today I was busy putting Kiptyn to nap and changing his diaper after we got home from mainly music and some errands and I came back downstairs to Haley telling me she pooped a rainbow! She was so excited too. She indeed pooped a rainbow! It was the first time that she went to the potty on her own without me asking her or making her go! So that was a big deal! It is the little things in life that we can be proud of and excited about. :)

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

3 year and 15 month check ups!

Yesterday, I took the kids to their check ups! We tried a different office only because Dr. W is only working part time, so they could only get us in at the other office. It was interesting. It was pouring rain, so I didn't get out the stroller. Which of course meant that Kiptyn was running around the office!

Haley's stats:
Height: 38.5 inches 75th percentile
Weight: 38 pounds 95th percentile

Kiptyn's stats:
Height: 33.5 inches 97th percentile
Weight: 27 pounds 80th percentile
Head: 55th percentile

They are some big kids! Kiptyn got two shots! They are both growing well and doing well!

Pictures to come soon hopefully!

Monday, February 28, 2011

Haley's birthday party!

For Haley's birthday party this year we went to Lifetime Fitness and went swimming! We ate pizza for the first hour and then went swimming for the second hour. It was fun. The only problem was they didn't let us take pictures during the swimming portion.

Haley was very shy when all the attention was on her, even during the whole party. I don't think she can handle that many people at the same time. But she did fine in the pool. It was a good time.

Of course I am posting these really late!

Daddy and Kiptyn

The first table!

The second table!

Kiptyn with a bow on his head!

Mr. McCabe and Kiptyn

Haley telling us how old she was and how many candles to put on her cake! She wanted 4 candles, so we had an extra for good luck!

Scott with Kiptyn and KB

Some of the kids swimming!

The Minnie Mouse cupcake cake that I made!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Ellie's birthday party

As you know, Ellie is Haley's best friend! She will even tell you that! They don't see each other as much anymore, but they still talk about each other! Ellie turned 3 five days before Haley and they went to JW Tumbles for her party. I was in NYC, so I was unable to go. I heard nothing but great things about the party though! Here are some pics from the wonderful time!


Haley loves climbing the ladder! She did this at her first gymnastics class.


Kiptyn with his buddies Colin and Charlie.

A cute pic of the two of them!

He loves to climb stairs!

And I guess he liked to come down a slide at the top of those stairs!

Haley walked around with her play doh for days after the party! She even slept with it!

Peek!


Time for pizza and cake!

Thank you Durham family for such a wonderful time! Happy Birthday Ellie!

Kiptyn's latest doc appts

Kiptyn had his milk test yesterday and he PASSED!!! It was a 3 hour appt in the office to monitor him if he has a reaction to the milk. It was a LONG morning! They started with 1 mL, then you wait 15 mins and then they go up to 2 mL and so on. The last one is 90 mL and then you have to wait 45 mins to see if there is any reaction. They also took his blood pressure every 15 mins to see if there were any spikes or dips. It was rough, but overall he did ok. He was just cranky cause he was so hungry!

This morning he had his first bowl of yogurt! It was so exciting to be able to feed the kids the same food! He of course loved it. He even has a cup of milk this morning. Of course he hasn't drank it, but he has taken some sips! It's so nice to not have to check the labels before giving him some food!

We also had a pulmonologist appt right after the allergy appt, so we were in the office for 4 hours! He didn't have too much to say other than he looks and sounds great! Which of course is great news! We have to keep doing the nebulizer treatments and start giving him nose spray before bed. We just have to keep his nose and airways clear and we should be all good! I really do like our new pulmonologist, he is much more helpful! He also called us cute yesterday! Talk about bonus points! ha. We will continue what we are doing and go back in two months.

Last week he had another swallow study and he doesn't aspirate anymore! He has some penetration, but it doesn't go into his airway. So we have started the sippy cup and he is on thin liquids! It has been an exciting week! Things are starting to look up!

We go for another synagis shot today, if of course we can get out of our driveway! It is a sheet of ice.

All for now, we see the GI doc on Friday for another follow up. We are doing well with that as well as we have been on miralax for about 2 weeks now and he has had solid poops since Sat! Like I said, we are getting there!

Yesterday he was 25 pounds and 4.4 ounces and just over 32 inches tall (which could be wrong as he was 32.5 at his 1 year checkup). You know how those measuring things go when they are small, not exactly accurate! We will see what they say on Friday!