Nathan's new trick!

18 months and counting!

Good morning!!!

Menke with Katie, an unusual sight!!

Nathan!!

MMMMM Hands!!!!

We had Katie's 18 month appointment yesterday and she's doing great! She got to stand on the big girl scale and weighed in at 24 lbs. She is 32" tall and is staying at about the 50th percentile for both height and weight. Nathan discovered his feet yesterday and was trying very hard to get them to his mouth. He also surprised us by starting to roll from back to belly! He does it like a pro and will not stay on his back at all. They are both getting so big and keeping me busy!

Updates

Not a whole lot of updates right now. I have to believe that Nathan might be teething because he's been getting up quite a bit during the night again. Last night he was up at 1, 3, 5, and 6:30. NOT a fun time for me. He has been running a low fever and chews on everything he can get a hold of so i'm thinking teeth. And i'm not looking forward to teeth since he still won't take a bottle. Katie is doing really well although this morning I went into the kitchen because I could hear something tapping on the window. The window that sits at least 3 feet up from the floor. The window that Katie surely couldn't be touching because she's not tall enough yet. Right? Wrong! She was standing on the table pounding on the window and yelling at the dog who was outside. Great. I'm running out of safe places to put things!

Toes...the final chapter

So, we went to what was hopefully our last visit to the surgeon. He decided to freeze the dangly skin and just clip it off. Nathan was a trooper but of course had to work out his lungs during the procedure. In any event, we should be done with toe stuff for at least now. Both nails are free and he's doing much better.

I am now giving Nathan some solid foods and he's doing really well with it! I wanted to post a picture of him in the high chair for the first time. Big sister Katie was NOT amused that her brother was sitting in "her" seat. I tried to take a picture of her tantrum but when the camera comes out she just has to cheese it up.

More baby stats and toe update

Nathan had his 4 month appointment yesterday and weighed in at a whopping 16 lbs 4 oz. He is 27 in. long and still charts at the very top!! The dr gave us the go ahead to start him on solids so I gave him some rice cereal yesterday. He actually took some so i'm hopeful we can get him started on more "solid" food and he can give momma a break. The dr estimates that at his weight he is probably drinking close to 40 oz per day. His toes look better but he still has a hangy piece of skin on one so it is back to the surgeon we go. His appointment is next Thursday. I'm not sure if they will want to operate, let it go or *shudder* cut it off at the office visit. Fortunately Nathan doesn't need to visit the ped for another 2 months. Katie is next up for her 18 month appointment in September. I can't wait for that. (note sarcasm...)

When kids get a hold of cameras...

I uploaded pictures from the camera today and found this one. I guess Nick and Katie were playing with the camera! If you can ignore the boogers in Katie's nose this is actually a pretty sweet picture! She's been spending lots of time in her pool lately and Nick loves to swim with her. Hard to believe we're in August already and soon it will be fall. Ugh. You wait all winter for summer to come and then you spend the entire summer inside with the a/c on wishing it wasn't hot. Welcome to Michigan...

Toesies!!

So, the latest in the great saga of Nathan's toes. We met with the surgeon last Thursday. He doesn't want to do surgery since Nathan is so small (ya, "small", I should say too YOUNG) so we were told to soak his feet three times per day and massage the skin. We almost immediately saw results! One nail is almost free from the skin and the other nail has a really wonderful gigantic piece of skin hanging free where the nail grew right thru the callous! We're hoping this skin can be massaged enough to just fall off eventually and then that toe should be okay. Really fun stuff but I think his toes should make a full recovery!!