To the Park and 20 months!

I

It's been a long week in our house! Mostly due to the illness that Will and Xander had. They just weren't fighting off their colds, and unfortunately they both ended up with sinus infections and wheezy, congested lungs. So, after two separate trips to the doctor, we got two sets of antibiotics, instructions for nebulizer treatments for both and Will is trying out a new asthma medicine called Singulair. (So far so good for that one.) They both are doing tons better this week and Grace didn't really get it too bad. Some coughing and sneezing, but she seems OK.

Saturday, the kids got a taste of a large group of kids in the house. We hosted our Young Couples group from church here to watch the football game. There were about 15 kids and 15 adults here. Grace enjoyed watching the bigger kids play, the boys were pretty shy and just played around the smaller babies. But, all in all, it was a fun time. We went to the park on Saturday night, that's where Aunt Kara took the pictures.

The bottom picture is of Grace after her first haircut. If you've ever seen her with her hair down, you know that this is a huge improvement. It was very wild and crazy and now it's only sort of wild and crazy. The boys also got much needed haircuts, and cried the whole time. Grace is used to people messing with her hair, and didn't cry at all.

They are talking tons lately. Babbling, repeating everything they hear us say and saying the words they already know a lot. Their newest thing is "up, up, up". When they want us to pick them up, or when they want to crawl on the couch or, this morning, when they wanted me to stand up and get out of their way. They repeat so many things we say, it's pretty funny to hear yourself in stereo! One nap is going sort of better. The earlier bed time is helping. They still aren't sleeping as long in the afternoon as they need. Hopefully, this will continue to improve. Their latest food development is that they like eating cereal, the way it was intended, in a bowl with milk. They've only done is a few time, but so far so good. They liked it. We go back to the hospital tomorrow for our 18 month developmental screen, so I'll post news about that next week.