Our busy lives!

If you are reading this you are probably wondering what happened. Well, we got busy, our USB cable decided to stop working so I took some time off of our blog. We are still busy, but Nate did figure out that the cable from my MP3 player would work for our camera as well, so I updated a couple of weeks over a couple of days.

The girls are swimming the length of the pool now. They should be ready for their first swim meet next Monday (a week from today). I will surely take pics of that!

Sloan and Evie in their team suits. All the pics I took Sloan looks fidgety.


We've still been spending lots of time at the lake. Will is at an age now where he loves it. I did realize that I hadn't posted any realy update on him at his birthday. He weighes 23lbs, that's down a full pound from his 9month check-up. Right now they are just watching him. He barely missed tripling his birth-weight and the weightloss, our doc isn't overly concerned, but I am supposed to really encourage him to eat. He really doesn't like to eat much, he would just rather nurse, but at this point (go figure) I am unable to produce enough food to keep up his weight - his pediatrician was amazed that I got him to 24lbs on pretty much nothing but breastmilk though. What can I say? He's also still really bothered by his GERD, as both our other children were at this age, so that's not helping our cause any. We let him eat pretty much anything he wants, but some stuff just doesn't agree with him. He's much larger than Sloan was at a year (18lbs), and a bit smaller than Evie was at a year (26lbs), but Evie had been on the Reglan for 9 months, which I begged the docs not to give to Will unless he really needed it b/c we felt it really disrupted Evie's ability to sleep. If he needs it now, at least his sleep schedule is already set.

He's not walking yet, but neither of our other kids have walked before 15 months. He's a pretty good kid.

All Nate wanted for Father's Day was to get to go on a jeep trip with some of his buddies. Pretty simple request, so of course he went. That was a busy weekend, as you will see below. We also dog-sat that weekend. Our friend Kyla's dog Baby stayed with us all weekend. She's really sweet & did very well considering how different our household is compared to what she is used to. Kyla is married & they have one child, and he doesn't get around yet. Baby tolerated the chasing, carrying and pulling from our children, and the rough play from our labs like a champ. And she's so cute! How can you not love that face?!