365 Photos

I have already fallen behind. I have a picture of each of them from day 2 but I didn't get one of them together and I missed day 3 all together. I am going to start again fresh on Monday. This week has been a busy one.

Peanut and Sweet Pea have been a handful. Sweet Pea was sick and now Peanut is sick and I am exhausted. I've been finishing up their costumes, I didn't get to do as much with them as I would have liked because we had some last minute things come up. :(

I am working on opening up a shop on Etsy. It has been pretty time consuming creating products, researching, and making sure that I have everything in order for taxes. I am very excited about the launch of my shop and am hoping to have it up and running mid November.

Random things from this week:

• Peanut is up to 11 teeth. The molars were a bitch.

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• Sweet Pea can roll over, and enjoys rolling around the rug. He also has fallen in love with the Jumperoo, but I try not to let him in it for more than 10 minutes a day because he still is so young. 

• Peanut is talking a lot more, sometimes she'll even repeat what you say. Our favorite Peanutism these days is "Wipe my butt daddy" but "What's That?" is also pretty amusing. 

• Peanut also is obsessed with stealing Daddy's identity. She wears his tie, sunglasses, hat, work badge,belt, watch and carries his cell phone. It is the cutest thing ever. 

• Peanut also loves to say "Bye, Bye!" She often will gather up some things walk over to the gate and wave and shout "Bye, Bye!" like she is leaving. 

Day 1

It feels like this year has gone by so fast. It seems like we just brought Sweet Pea home from the hospital but he is going to be 3 months old on Friday! With two little ones it is easy to get lazy with the camera because I almost always have a baby in arms so my goal is to take at least three pictures a day. One of the two of them together and one of each of them alone. I am thinking that at the end of the year I'll have 3 of the mosaic portraits printed with my favorite picture. So to start off our year in pictures...

Here is Day 1!

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New Pictures!

Here are some more pictures of the little ones :)

Potty Training Peanut: An Update!

Today my Peanut made me proud, she used her potty on her own! I have been trying to keep the potty more available to her during the day. I have been working with her more having her try to go after waking up, before and after naps, about 20 minutes after eating and right before bed. 

I was in their room feeding Alex a bottle and noticed that she was standing by the potty about to reach in it. I've been trying to discourage her from playing with the potty but I was very surprised and very happy to see that she had went.  

We did our usual send off party at the toilet and then she got a special treat she split an Oreo with me :) Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come!

The Missing Sippy Cup

With two little ones sometimes things just disappear. I swear our apartment is like the Bermuda Triangle sometimes, things come in but they go missing never to be found again. Today one of the missing items turned up in a scary way. I have searched high and low for a sippy cup that had cranberry juice. I went through her room moving the furniture, I checked under and behind the couches, the dining room, and even the kitchen and our bedroom that are off limits to the kids. I was convinced that James picked it up or it somehow was thrown away. 

Peanut found it!

This morning I was feeding Sweet Pea his bottle and Peanut comes out of her room upset and covered in what looked like blood. There was a huge spot on her thigh and tons running down her leg and all over her hands. I rush for the first aid kit without even stopping to take a look, convinced that I was going to have to rush her to the ER for stitches from the looks of the big "gash".

I get over to her, Daddy on the phone, trying to wipe her leg with a washcloth to find the source of the "blood" and then I realized it was sticky and thankfully not blood. After smelling it I realized it was juice, and after looking in her room I found the missing sippy! 

Today's lesson, old cranberry juice looks a lot like blood.

Potty Training Peanut

I've been working on potty training Peanut. We've been working on it since last month as she is really making progress. I didn't have high expectations because she is still so young. She was consistently coming to me and removing her diaper after she went so I thought it was worth a shot.  

She still tries to play with the potty, so I keep it in the bathroom with the door closed. I was trying to place her on the potty several times a day to get her used to the idea and she would go when I took her. She now comes to me and removes her diaper before she has to go, which is a huge improvement. The only problem I am encountering is getting to the potty before it is too late. I am trying to figure out a way to keep it out without her playing with it. If you have any ideas feel free to comment. I'll be updating as we progress! 

FPIES

So it turns out our little guy has a condition called FPIES (Food Protein Induced Entercolitis Syndrom). So far his triggers are Milk, Soy, and Rice. It is not a condition many are aware of so I'm doing my part to raise awareness. At the bottom of the page there are links for more information.
 FPIES is a severe delayed food allergy of the gut, it is understood to be a T-cell mediated response, a Non-IgE Food Allergy, in which food is considered a foreign invader and the body “fights/attacks” it until it can violently expel it; although the exact mechanisms are still not well understood.

Symptoms include: profound vomiting (often to bile), diarrhea and/or constipation. These can lead to: lethargy, low body temp or fever, hypotension, and in severe cases, sepsis and shock. And still yet, many children also experience many discomforting symptoms while the body "fights" this reaction and these can include: extreme stomach pains, gas, runny stools with or without mucous or blood, persistent hiccups, acid reflux, rashes, sleep disturbance, and agitation. 

To learn more:  *The FPIES Foundation website 

*FPIES United Family Fund

New Pictures!

The last week has been a busy one. Peanut is really enjoying her little brother. She even gave him hugs at the doctor's office before his first round of shots. He did great but she cried for him.