Past due update....

Tommy NOW! 9 months old. 16 lbs, 8 ozs! Eating GREAT!























Tommy THEN! 3 weeks old. 2 lbs, 12.5 ozs -just 44 grams more than birth weight. And eating just 13mL's (2 1/2 teaspoons)every 3 hours!

















Sorry for the long wait on an update-- we're alive and well. Just busy, what's new?!?!?

So Tommy was stuffy at his 9 month check up almost 3 wks ago.....then he got so congested and bad that the snot was causing him to puke and he could only sleep for about 45 minutes at a time (even at night). I drew the line there (around the 1st of Oct)...called the doc. This is when I learned that there was all the OTC cold meds in the news saying how they are bad and dangerous...okay...I don't watch the news in my limited free time so had to google it online to learn more. Anyhow, as always they claim the cold meds don't work and the doc wouldn't have me give any to Tommy the nurse told me. Okay, I just disagree...the meds do on occassion work...just got to find one that does. I only use them when the kids get real sick anyhow...I asked the nurse to see if these nose drops with a decongestant in them were okay to use. He okay'd them and we used them for two nights, Tommy got sleep and mom and dad did too. Was great. On Friday (the 5th) I took him in to be check out. He did have a mild fever with this too...wanted to be sure all was okay. Doc was a little concerned and gave Tommy a breathing treatment with meds. There was no big difference, and he was pretty certain Tommy was in the tail end of the cold. Turned out he was...He's pretty much all better now, BUT he did puke today during a nap?? No idea why. Life has been good, Tommy has been sleeping 12+hours long for the past few nights. He's napping again...hopefully it's (the puking) nothing but a fluke today.

I guess now they have pulled some cold meds for infants off the shelves....sad as the problems and deaths are due to mis-use and overdosing. Most agree they don't work...but somehow I can tell you on deperate occasions...we've gotten more sleep when using cold meds (so the baby/child can breathe and sleep too)---

Larry's Mom and dad came for a visit last weekend. We went to the USAF Museum and the boys definitely enjoyed it more than the girls! grandma and Grandpa got to go to one of Robby's football games which was fun for all. Tommy and mom tend to be whimps and opt to stay home for some games. 5pm games are hard as that's Tommy's dinner time. Then the freezing cold games....um, we'll just stay put in the house.

I need to down load the pics from the camera....but for now here are Tommy's 9 month old pictures!

TOMMY 9 months old, 16 lbs, 8 ozs and 27 inches.....






















ROBBY 6 months old, 16 lbs, 4ozs and 26 1/2 inches!










These oufits are slightly different...I had gotten rid of Robby's outfit and by chance came a cross Tommy's outfit while surfing ebay one night!! Tommy's car is new as Robby's was ahand me down and went through the first two kids and all the years of sun dammage. Pretty certain Tommy's car sits higher as you'd think Tommy's feet would hit the ground as he's longer than Robby was in the pic....





Tommy's absolute FIRST time to ever "pull-up" caught at the portrait studio!! HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!? What a show off?!?! The bottom left pic is seriously the first time he stood up!






Can't believe I forgot...we went to a cool maze last weekend too. The had "Corn Cops" that kept watch of the maze and had fun watching us with a baby, three kids and two old people. I heard one talking on a radio to another about the gorup with a stroller...I asked the "Corn Cop" if he was having good laughs laughing at us. We went over stroller track enough to think there were at least two other strollers in the maze....hehehe Larry's mom believes they were watching us closely cause they worry worried about them being older with the heat...it was HOT...like 91 that afternoon. We have more pics...will get to them soon, hopefully!