Climbing

William is getting more advanced and daring in his climbing.  Today he pushed a chair up to tthe counter top, climb up said chair, stand on said chair, climb up onto the counter top, army crawl across the counter, grab a banana, reverse crawl back to the edge, down to the chair where he sat and proceeded to peel and eat the whole banana.  Boy am I glad that dad was there to watch.  and yet I wish he had stopped him from climbing on the counter...

day three

Today did not go as well as Monday or Tuesday but I guess I was due especially after the crying fit William had in the middle of the night last night. he woke up at 9:30 and I managed to get him back to sleep he woke up again at midnight and I didn't have as easy of a time getting him back down.

The allergist.

today was the day that William had his allergist appointment.  We left the house about 7:45 and arrived one minute late.  Not to bad since we were aiming to leave at 7:30.  I have to be thankful for mom and dad letting us sleep over and for dad taking Evelyn to school as there would have been no other way for us to have made the appointment.

The appointment went about as I thought it would, including a lot of history and talking about what was going on.  After talking to one of Evelyn's friend who had gone through the testing I had an idea of what the testing was going to be like and it was not as bad as I thought.

I was worried about how William was going to take it but he did a great job sitting still in my lap and putting his head on my shoulder.  The end results were that he has a peanut allergy, they really didn't test him for a lot.  We are still not to give William strawberries until after our followup. To be sure that there really is no issue though she thinks that maybe it was the antibiotics that caused it. I am hoping that we will challenge it in the office at the next visit.  She mentioned a skin test but not a challenge specifically.

fter the appointment we went to the clinic at work to have his blood drawn (a real blood draw) not a finger stick.  William cried a lot as one would expect but he did a great job after taking a lot of blood for such a little guy.  We walked around the clinic to say hi to a few people but William was very tired.  So we dropped him off at school (luckily) he did not fall asleep in the car.

Meeting Mr Carter.

Today I got back to the gym for the first time in four weeks.  It was pretty sad and though my weight set was not to bad.  My run lasted only a mile at a 10 minute pace but I did things backwards by doing the weights first so I am hoping that that is what kept me from running more.  We will see next week as I will go back to running first.

After the workout we went to spend some time in the play gym.  This is my favorite part of the day as with Grandma there I usually get to play with each of the kids individually, giving them my full attention. At least for a little while.

After nap time we went up to see Mrs. Amber and Mr Seth and meet Mr carter.  the whole way up there J was telling Evelyn how fragile Carter is and how she needed to be careful around him.  She did great and even got to hold him for a little while, about 10 seconds before she got that scared panicked look on her face and I took him away.  It was nice to hold a baby again and makes me wish for that 3rd baby that we always say that we want but just can't do yet, despite the difficulties that we had with William i guess i have baby fever yet again.  Evelyn loved being around Carter and had a great time.  William loved feeding Kyra (the dog) and just playing around. 

Another saturday.

Today was another saturday and I was greatfull to have a little bit of a pajama day as we let Jason sleep in to feel better. Evelyn was also happy about spending some quality time in her PJ's and with the family, any mention of her getting dressed for Robotics was met with resistance.  Despite her being super excited to see daddy's robot.  Jason got up and was doing well enough to head in so we went in.  Evelyn got to the door and didn't make it 5 feet in to the arena before turning around and walking out because it was too noisy.  I tried the other door just in case but had no luck getting her in.  We walked back to the original door and sat on the bench just inside the door hoping that she would acclimate, I was just trying to get her to the end of the bench when jason swooped in and got her into the competition.  He took her back to the robot pits where it was quieter and William and I watched the competition which he thouraly enjoyed.  He was not bothered by the noise at all.  when Jason came back I was hoping Evelyn could watch the robots in action however the noise was just too much and she wanted to leave to go to Wegmans.

On our way to grandma and grandpa's house we stopped home for some food (evelyn wanted breakfast for lunch) and I wanted to check that the baby books that I ordered had come in.  I got our stuff and was so excited to see teh baby books on teh front porch.  I have all the info on them in evelyn's blog and on facebook.  I just need to cull through it to fill out the book.  I do like the books that I chose however they do have a few downsides.  I got the binder which is a great idea and came with extra pages, what i didn't realise is that the pages are blank white not blank in theam so I will have to decide what to do with it to jazz it up a little.  It should be fun to do I am certently excited to get the info in there.

William fell asleep on the way to grandma and grandpa's house - I have no idea how long he was asleep for but I had to wake him up to make lunch.  After lunch at wich Evelyn ate 2 eggs and 1/2 of a soynut butter and jelly, we played a little bit to get william sleepy enough for another nap.  at one they both went down.  William was up 45 minutes after i put him down - assuming he slept the entire time not to bad. After a quick trip to wegman's we went to Anna's birthday party.

The kids had a great time playing with all of the toys and other kids.  Evelyn asked where Kensington was and didn't quite understand that she was not invited to the party.  After cake William was exhausted and we took off.  he of course fell asleep in the car on teh way home.  luckly for us he didn't have too much trouble going to sleep.  Evelyn was a bit hyper going to bed tonight but she did come up with a new lulliby...

Evelyn's lulliby (head song?):

I don't like you hitting me,
I don't like you scratching me,
I don't like you kicking me,
I don't like you biting me

(from me)
But I do love your kisses
(Evelyn)
and hugs and snuggles!

Down with the sickness.

William has had a cough all week which has been getting wetter and progressed to a runny nose.  Tonight after bath time seeing that his nose was clogged with snott I decided to suction out his nose, which he thought was funny last night.  however he had changed his mind and went bolistic on me.  I got one nose clear  and started on  he other one but must have cleared just enought out that he started snorting the snot that I hadn't managed to get out.  I gave up and picked him off the floor as he coughed up the snott.  Good times.  I thought he was calming down when he puked.  not to much but he was clearly not pleased - poor kid.  I think this is the first time he actually puked. and of course when I picked up the kids from school both of them had notes posted outside their door stating that they had been exposed to strep. ugh I can't wait till it ends.

Evelyn was a ball of fire tonight and told mommy all about playing with her baby dolls at school today...

Wait one minute!

Tonight while Jason was trying to put William to bed and read him books William escaped and ran to his door.  apparently he made the wait one minute sign to the door before grabbing a blanket then running to the door and knocking on it.  of course at that point Evelyn had heard him "playing" and wanted to play with him too so we went in to say good night.

Baby books

ok so it's a little late in the game but I finally got baby books for the kids.  Evelyn's info is in her blog unfortunately I've been terrible with keeping up with this stuff for William but I hope some of the info is around in Facebook updates, photos and this blog - limited as it is.  I will be glad to get the info together as limited as it may be. 

Bath time.

Tonight with Jason at robots Evelyn had to come and play in the bathroom as I gave William his bath.  after William got settled in Evelyn watched him and thought that his bath looked like fun so she stripped and announced that she was going to join him!  She got in the tub and they had a blast, splashing each other of all things (neither of them usually like to get splashed though since William discovered how fun it was the other day he is getting better.)  they both ended up giggling like crazy and soaked and for the most part the water was miraculously kept off of their faces.  of course it was inevitable that Evelyn was going to get splashed in her eyes (the biggest no no).  She did not like that and asked William to stop splashing, unfortunately William had learned how much fun splashing was and was hard to diswaid i have to admit i got soaked in the process.  after i kept him from splashing William quickly got tired of his bath and since it was past his bed time he was tired in general and quickly went down hill.  I had to rush Evelyn out of the tub to get william to bed well past his usual bed time but daddy came home just in time to save the day (and distract Evelyn while I put William down).