Just some random pics from this week

Here are a couple pictures of Matt and Christopher....One picture is before Matt left for work that morning and the other picture is right when he got home.

Here is a picture of me with Jessica and one of me with Christopher.

Here is Christopher playing with Toby. The two of them are good friends!

Christopher insisted that I take a picture of his moose. You can see Cassie in the background. She and Christopher are not very good friends, except when she thinks she can get some food from him.

This is what happens when you try to put Jessica down when she is in one of her cuddly moods (which is most of the time).
She is NOT happy, as you can see.

Here is Christopher helping himself to a snack from the pantry.

Just a random picture Christopher asked me to take. He has been into taking pictures the past week or so. Who knows why.

This is Jessica right before we headed to the pharmacy to get her new antibiotic. I think she was happy to be getting a different medicine since the first one made her throw up everywhere.

More fun with doctors

As if I didn't feel guilty enough about sending Jessica to daycare when she is so young, she spent 3 mornings there last week and now has ear infections in both ears. She woke up early Saturday morning with a fever. I called the pediatrician and spoke to the on-call dr. He said to bring her in. He checked her out and discovered she had ear infections. She ended up having a bad reaction to the first antibiotic he prescribed (she would throw up immediately after we gave it to her, kind of defeats the whole purpose of giving it to her). I spoke to her regular pediatrician yesterday morning and he called in a prescription for a different antibiotic. She seems to be tolerating this one well and is definitely feeling better. She should be able to go back to daycare tomorrow (Wednesday).

Our fun trip to the doctor yesterday

We had to head to the doctor yesterday afternoon because I was pretty sure that Christopher had pink eye. As I was putting his shoes on to leave, he says to me, "I am NOT kissing a frog! No way!" He wouldn't elaborate further and I'm not really sure where this came from. Matt later told me that it's probably related to an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I'm not really sure what made Christopher think of it at that particular moment, though. Random.

So, we got in the car and headed to the doctor's office. I had just spoken to Jessica's pediatrician this past Tuesday about having Christopher's records transferred over to him. Christopher had been seeing a family physician, but I thought it was easier to have both kids see the same dr and we have been really impressed with Jessica's dr. So, this would be Christopher's first visit to see this pediatrician. The dr's office is up at the hospital where Jessica was born. We were almost there when Christopher said, "Mommy, you went the wrong way! I think we're lost!!" I explained that we weren't lost, we were just going to a different doctor. He seemed satisfied with that explanation. :)

Oh, and he does indeed have pink eye and now I feel like the whole house is contaminated. We have been hand-washing like crazy around here in hopes that the rest of us don't get it. Yuck! I also have the fun task of sanitizing all of Christopher's toys, including all his hot wheels cars. Those of you who have been to our house know that Christopher has MANY, MANY cars. It is going to take me FOREVER!

Jessica's 8 wk check-up update

Jessica had her 8 week check-up with the dr today. She is doing great! She now weighs 14 lbs, 2 oz. (the 97th percentile) and is 23 1/2 inches long (the 95th percentile). She's my BIG girl! She isn't quite as long as Christopher was at 2 months (he was 24 inches long), but she weighs more (he was 12 lbs, 6 oz at 2 months). I love her chubby cheeks!

The dr checked her collar bone today. He said it feels like it's stable now and he is sure there is no need to keep is pinned. He wanted to make sure that it has aligned properly and that it won't cause her any problems in the future, so he had us get an x-ray this morning. The person doing the x-ray said that the radiologist would look at the films and then send a report to Jessica's dr (most likely by tomorrow). I'm guessing we will get the results tomorrow or later this week. Jessica did NOT like having the x-ray done because I had to hold her down so she would be still. She was super angry by the time we left. [Update: The dr called this afternoon after I posted this to tell us that the x-ray looked good and it looks like her collar bone healed just like is should have. She's totally ok now.]

The person who scheduled today's appointment when I called a couple weeks ago did not tell me that Jessica had to be officially 2 months old before getting her first round of vaccinations. She won't officially be 2 months old until Sept 16th, so we have to go back to the dr next week so she can get her shots. Although I was glad to have Jessica's collar bone checked out today, I was annoyed that they didn't tell me about the shots thing and that we have to make a second trip to the dr next week. So, she will get her shots on Monday the 17th. I'm not looking forward to that. It's going to be hard seeing her cry when they give her the shots. With Christopher, I almost cried right along with him.

Here are a couple pictures of her sleeping in her carseat right after we got back from the dr.

Here she is stretching out on her blanket this afternoon. I think she really loves that her arm isn't pinned anymore and she can move it however she wants.

Christopher let me take pictures today

Normally, Christopher runs in the other direction yelling "No!! Don't take my picture!!" when I try to take pictures of him. Today he decided he was in a picture-taking mood.

Here he is watching his new favorite TV show "Scooby Doo"

Here he is just being cute. :)

He's saying "Cheese!" in this one.....

Some recent conversations with Christopher....

He was watching me set up my breastpump the other day. He asked what I was doing and I told him I was getting ready to pump some milk for Jessica. He said, "That sounds great! That's nice!".

The other day I was holding Jessica and she had a dirty diaper. (Anyone who has been around breastfed babies knows that it's pretty obvious when this event occurs because of the noise.) Christopher said "what was that noise?" I explained that Jessica had a dirty diaper. He then commented, "Oh...that's not so nice."

Today after he finished drinking some milk he set his cup down and said, "Ahhhh. Delicious!" It was really cute because his L's sound more like W's, so 'delicious' sounded more like 'dewicious'.

Free at last!

We finally unpinned Jessica's right arm now that she is 8 weeks old (she is 8 weeks old today). He collar bone was supposed to take 6-8 weeks to heal. The dr will check it out tomorrow to make sure it's totally healed, but we're pretty sure it is. It doesn't seem to cause her any pain or bother her at all. She seemed somewhat confused when we unpinned it....suddenly she could move her arm all the way up. She held it up in the air for a bit right after I unpinned it. It was funny. Now she moves it all around like nothing ever happened. I took these pictures today.

Kim and Jessica

Jessica is 7 weeks old in these pictures.