March Madness 2010

It’s that time of year again…where basketball is on in our house for four days straight. I haven’t watched much this year though. But our beloved Wake Forest Demon Deacons squeaked out an overtime win Thursday night. Go Deacs!

The kids have had a rather quiet week but I sure have been busy. Lindy had hearing therapy on Tuesday morning and the kids had a ball opening Easter eggs. We are working hard on the ‘o’ sound so we have been saying ‘open’ a lot lately. I finally brought up some eggs for Will to play with and he’s had a ball with them. He says ‘egg’ pretty clearly.

I have been busy doing March of Dimes Ambassador stuff. I delivered goody bags to one of the NICU’s in town and had to give a speech at an elementary school. The community director emailed me today with a couple more speeches. I’m getting a little tired of hearing myself talk :)

The weather has been beautiful this week. Wednesday we ran an errand and stopped by the park for a few minutes. I pretty much can only go to the park with Drew. I can’t be at the bottom of the slide and helping Lindy crawl up the equipment at the same time. The kids had a blast crawling up and going down the slide, over and over! We were able to get out today too – this time we actually had to put shorts on since it was so warm. The kids are loving their swing set this year. Both are figuring out how to climb up the ladder and they love the slide. They have been swinging a lot too. All the hard work Daddy did last year is being put to good use this year!

Lindy and Will did get haircuts today. We went to town and went to Target first and then they got their haircut. They both did great today. I had them sitting on my lap but neither minded Anita messing with them. I hate taking them to get haircuts and hate paying for it, but they look so cute afterwards. I’m more of a once or twice a year kind of girl and they are getting theirs cut every two months.

We had a couple bad diaper days this week. One morning I went to change Lindy and found her diaper had exploded. The actual diaper. All the absorbent stuff inside was everywhere. It was a mess to clean up. She had footed pj’s on so thankfully it was contained inside that. Later that evening at the park Will went poop and we waited to get home to change it. I guess the sliding on poo over and over will make it come out the sides of the diaper. Learned a lesson on that one. Then the next morning both kids were soaking wet. They even had to have their sheets changed. I think it was a freak thing because they haven’t soaked any diapers in forever.

I’ve lost track of how many bed changes Lindy has had this week. Monday night she went to sleep fine but woke up crying a little later. We could hear she was getting really worked up so I picked her up and rocked her. But she wouldn’t go back to sleep so I took her back to her bed and she threw up. Another night I put them down and she immediately started crying and eventually made herself throw up. Then the urine soaked bed. It’s been a tough week for Lindy’s bed! I even woke up sick in the middle of the night one night. Hopefully no more throw up for awhile. We never really figured out why Lindy is getting sick. Other nights she goes to bed completely normal. She keeps us on our toes.

And now for some pictures……

Sharing a toy…a rare eventCute Will pictures. He was matching the animals up with the pictures in the book. We’ve had some temper tantrums this week. They are getting good at them. Lindy likes to hold her breath and fall to the ground. Will immediately falls to the ground and has added in some nice rolling around moves to his tantrums. Lindy has had some crazy hair this week. Will learned to blow on his hot food this week. By the way, he was eating spaghetti squash and had no clue he was eating a vegetable! By the end of St. Patrick’s Day Lindy had pulled off all her clovers so she had a no leaf clover. I gave the kids pink lemonade and it didn’t go over well. Good times at the fridge together. Good times in mommy and daddy’s bed this morning. New haircuts…. Both kids got boo boo’s outside while playing today. And I did too. Three of the four of us were bleeding. The kids got skinned knees and I got something in my thumb. We still had fun outside. Will wore his first band-aid today. Future t-ball stars, even if Will refuses to hold the correct end of the bat. The kid’s hairdresser told me how to get rid of Will’s dry scalp. She said to put baby oil on him before a bath and then scrub his head in the tub. Here’s the slick Willy version of his hair!

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St. Patrick’s Day

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from our lucky charms.

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Lindy and Will are 2.5 years old and still happily sleeping in their cribs. I suppose the day will come when one climbs out or I just finally feel the urge to take them out of their cribs. I don't feel the urge just yet though! We bought the cribs that turn into toddler beds and eventually full size beds. We hope they will use these beds for a long time to come!

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Warm Weather Week

It feels like spring has arrived – but I’m not getting too hopeful.  I know it can go back to being cold at anytime.  We did enjoy our near 70F days by playing outside.  It did us all good to get some fresh air.

Lindy had PT on Tuesday morning.  She had a couple meltdown moments but overall she did pretty well and worked hard.  It feels so long between sessions now that we only go every other week.  Drew was headed out of town that morning and I was going to have to take Will with me – something I don’t enjoy doing.  I talked to Uncle Ed and soon-to-be Aunt Jamie and they agreed to watch him while I took Lindy.  They live very close to the hospital so I just dropped him off on the way.  I think he was a little confused.  I’ve never dropped just one of them off somewhere.  He was standing at the front door just watching me drive off which was a little sad.  But I knew he would be fine.  I hear he got to play on the piano and the steps which would constitute a great morning for Will! 

Wednesday morning Will had speech therapy.  He did not talk as much this week but overall we notice a lot more talking from him.  Our early intervention service coordinator was here so he might have been acting a little shy in front of her.  He was also very interested in playing with her toys and not talking.  We did talk about Lindy getting a speech evaluation and Lawson starting services with her too.  I figure we should take advantage of the fact that we have a speech therapist coming to our house every other week.  She used to work with cochlear implant and hearing aid children at her last job so I think it will be a good fit. 

Wednesday afternoon we had hearing therapy but we didn’t actually do any therapy.  North Carolina has a couple great programs for kids with disabilities.  Our vision and hearing therapies are all free to us.  Chris works with the North Carolina Early Intervention for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing but there is another program called Beginnings.  Beginnings is a parent advocate group here in NC.  Terri from Beginnings came out when we first got Lindy home and explained all about hearing loss and what forms of communication we could choose for Lindy.  She fades out after that until you start talking about transitioning kids into preschool and the school system.  We talked to her for almost two hours on Wednesday.  We learned a lot of stuff about her preschool choices and all the IEP meetings.  We looked at an IEP so we could be a little bit comfortable with it.  Terri knows the laws inside and out and will be coming to all of our IEP meetings with us.  She will be there in case we need her to help fight for Lindy and what she needs and deserves.  Of course we hope we have no problems but it is great to know she is there and available to us.  It’s hard to believe we are even talking about all this IEP stuff – how can they be old enough to go to preschool?

Today we had vision therapy with Lesley.  She works for Governor Morehead which is another free state program for kids with vision loss.  We worked on colors which is great.  Lindy kind of struggles with matching up same color objects.  She has started saying the color names but she needs to learn which ones are which!

Speaking of talking, we feel like the kids are talking a lot more.  Will knows all his colors and can say ‘blue’, ‘geen’, and ‘ellow’.  I haven’t really heard him say ‘red’ yet.  Lindy will also say the words if you ask her to.  It is so cute to hear them talk.  We’ve been working hard on getting both kids to say ‘o'.'  Neither one of them really purses their lips when they say it.  We’ve talked all week about ‘open’, ‘moo’, ‘boo’, etc….  Wednesday night Will was playing with a Winnie the Pooh phone and I told him to put it away.  He turned it off and Winnie says' ‘Goodbye’.  Will repeated him and said ‘Goodbye’.  It was cute.  We see both of them talking more, but Lindy has to be prompted more to say things.

Don’t forget to support us in our March of Dimes walk.  We have 14.9% of our goal!  Thanks to the Grecos, Birbicks, and Joanna for recent donations.  We had a fundraiser dinner at church last weekend and raised money for our team.  We had the 1st Annual Palmyra UMC Chili Championship with 9 people entering chili into the contest.  Congrats to Nancy who was picked by three judges as having the best chili!  We appreciate the people who did come support us.  I think everyone there had a great time tasting all the different chili!

Lindy pretty willingly poses for me these days.  Poor Buddy just hasn’t embraced the camera yet. But Daddy can always make them smile! Our chili entries last weekend. The highly esteemed judges. Not eating chili at the chili contest!  Cody, the other boy in the picture was a preemie as well.  He weighed 1lb 13oz at birth.  He’s now 10 or 11 years old! Nancy, the winner, receiving her gift certificate to a local restaurant.Playing outside in the warm weather!  Yeah, Daddy is home from the grocery store! Swinging – sorry it’s blurry.    Sliding – Blurry too.  Can’t catch them in motion without it being blurry!  Waving at the cars driving by.  I love when Lindy sleeps like this.  Reminds me of a frog! Will was so excited to have the letter ‘A’ on his shirt.  He talked about ‘A’ all day long.  He kept finding the ‘A’ magnet and holding it up to his shirt.  He was still talking about ‘A’ this morning!  He loves the alphabet these days. Chillaxin on the couch watching a little of the ACC basketball tournament. Lindy doesn’t watch tv, she just follows us around. I can’t get enough of my babies giving kisses to each other. This one is blurry and off centered as well, I wasn’t fast enough to get it focused.  But it’s so cute I’m posting it anyway.  I told Will to give Lindy a hug and he laid his head on her shoulder.   Then she put her hand on his back.  TOO CUTE!

Have a great weekend!