Paci Fairy!! Come back!!

Typed March 22nd - Forgot to Post!

Well she came....

Ryan isn't taking it so well though. I don't think the kid will ever sleep again. His paci's have been gone for about 2 hours now, but probably seems like forever to him. He just keeps searching the house for more (we only had 3 and they all went into the bag).

I'll start from the beginning though.....

We got up this morning and asked him who was coming today he said "Elle & Emma?" which of course we replied "not today, who is coming today?" "Paci Fairy" Ryan responds....

So we proceed to talk about how the day will go - Playing for awhile then getting all the paci's into the little green bag, putting it onto the tree which Ryan quickly told us he didn't want to put his paci's on the tree because the bees will put them in their mouths. So we told him of course that the bees will not get them & the Paci Fairy is going to take them to new babies who need them. While he's napping the Fairy will come and leave him his new big boy gift.

So as planned we put the paci's into the green bag, tied them to the tree & off to nap he went. Well the nap never happened - he refused to stay in his bed so after about an hour we let him up.



Then he noticed "it" the big boy gift sitting just where he had left his paci's he loved it! The Mater tricycle was a huge hit....for about 30 minutes at which time he realized the paci's were no where to be found. So he's ready for that Fairy to come back take the trike and give his paci's back.

It's going to be a long night........

~~~~UPDATE!!~~~

Well, He did start sleeping again, we had about 2 weeks of sleepless nights...either him not going to be until 11:30 or 12:00, or when he did go to bed he would wake up 2 to 3 times each night.
Now things are much better, the speech has gotten a little better but not as quickly as I had hoped, but hey we're getting there!

P.S. - Check back in 2006 - notice anything???

Goodbye....Hello

Last weekend was sad for us a we lost our good friend Sponge Bob Jr. he had been in our family for about a year and a half so we were sad to see him pass.

Just the day before we had finally bought him a friend "Pistol Pete". We had noticed SBJ hadn't been acting normal for about a week but had hoped a new friend would help. But no such luck.

This past week we upgraded our fish tank from 2.5 gal. to 10 gal. so we adopted 3 more fish. Here they are...

Pistol Pete - Black Pop Eyed Goldfish
Lollipop - Sucker Fish (get it lollipop-sucker fish??)
Diego - Orange Fantailed Goldfish
Spot - Calico Fantailed Goldfish

Can you find them all in this picture??

What are they doing to me?!?!?!

A couple weeks ago I signed Aydan up for a Nutrition & Development study for breastfed babies at OSU. They observe the babies at 3, 6 & 9 months as well as test the mothers milk & blood as they are trying to determine the effects of major metals on brain development.

Well to do this they monitor his vital signs while he watches a computer screen with random pictures of people on it. Then they put an electrode cap on his head and test his brain waves while he listens to different sound through baby headphones.


For me this was very exciting because I'm very interested in how babies learn so the students doing this study were able to explain alot about their findings so far. Plus the picture make for fun scrapbooking! For Aydan it was exciting because he had a whole bunch of people paying attention to just him! He only got upset once and I think that was from wanting to nurse but the sound from the headphones were making it very hard to relax.

I'm Sorry, Sooooo Sorry!

I know it's been a really long time! Life with 3 kids is just so much more tiring than I expected.
The family is doing well though! At least as well as can be expected. We all have finally recovered from the flu. Luckily everyone was able to get treatment for it except me...because of Aydan - I refused to use formula for a week...

Dylan celebrated his 5th birthday this month. I can't believe he's 5 already! He is thriving in school! Coming home with new things he's learned everyday. He just finished up his spring break this past week. While on it he learned to read 2 sight word books! I've been so proud, and he is so proud of himself for being able to sound out the words. He also just recovered from his 4th year of HSP, once again he broke out in those awful red spots & was in pain for a week. He's much better now & back to his handsome little self!

Ryan is growing slowly but growing! We've just made it into 24 month jeans! Woohoo! We just completed potty training & he is even staying dry at night-1 whole month now! (this is huge...I really need me sleep! and no more pull-ups!!) He's getting ready to have a visit from the Paci Fairy tomorrow. He has very mixed feelings about her arrival - well really her departure more... I'll let you know how it goes!

Aydan is changing so much right now. Just over the past 3 weeks he has went from tiny cuddly baby to a mover & shaker - learning to push up on his arms & roll over. He laughs all the time which causes awful hic-ups & in turn makes him very upset. JD is convinced that he already says "hi" - but I'm not too sure....