climbing, new doc and aunt ellen

I survived a week with my computer gone. HP fixed it for free due to some sort of recall. The wireless gadget inside was not working so they replaced some things and I'm so happy to be mobile and online once again. Since our last post, we took a few pictures in black and white. We continue to take our walks around the block, and it's a great day when the train comes when we're near the tracks.





Ellen came to visit last weekend. Lewis loves it when she comes, and they wear each other out. :) One major miracle was that we got Lewis to eat meatloaf on Friday night. I replaced a couple ingredients to keep it gluten and casein free, and it tasted great! Lewis was not excited about it, but he is using a fork pretty well these days and seemed to get into it once he had the first bite.

Ellen and I went to a wedding of a college friend (Amy Sweeney) on Saturday, and that evening we got to take the boys to a nearby playground. I accidentally left the settings on black & white for this video of Lewis climbing on some equipment.



Here's Ellen with Owen.


Speaking of climbing, Lewis is doing much more of that lately. He's always been behind in gross motor skills, but I don't think about it often. However, when it comes to his crib, we've not been in any hurry to move him into a bed because we know he's safe in there and he's never tried to get out of it. The other day I was looking for him after getting Owen dressed and couldn't find him anywhere! I finally noticed he was sitting in his crib drinking his milk. So later that day I asked him to get in his bed and he climbed up and sort of fell over the side. It wasn't pretty, but it got the job done. Since then he's been able to get out when the crib latch thing has been down. It's just a matter of time before he's climbing out in the morning. Most of our friends went through this well before their kids turned 2, so we're kind of happy about it! At the same time, we'll have to figure something out about a big boy bed.

Doc update: We went to our new pediatrician yesterday and it went very well. I have been concerned about the diet Lewis is on and feel like he's not really growing at this point because his eating is so limited......so we talked about it and they did an allergy panel and a celiac panel to check food allergies and ran a second thyroid test (a repeat of one we did in January that was elevated). This doctor spent a lot of time with us and looked through Lewis' medical record asking very appropriate questions. It was wonderful to not be rushed in and out and to have tests done in their office. We are trying some goat's milk again (the doc recommended easing into it since he hasn't had milk for several months), and can go from there.

Lewis seems to be on the verge of something. He started saying "baby" this week and is quick to fill in the "oh" in some songs....particularly "Old MacDonald."

We went by today to drop off his pre-school enrollment stuff. We took a pic of the school.



We headed to Kroger after that. Here are the boys, for posterity's sake. They seem to like shopping more than me!