No Camera, Updates Anyway

I am sorry to say that we have lost our digital camera again. (When I say lost what I really mean to say is that some small creatures in our house play monkey games with it when they aren't supposed to and break it.) So, since we just bought a new computer and had our pipes cleaned in the kitchen and are doing home renovations, it is going to have to wait!

Liam is crawling, sort of. Two weeks ago he started doing a boot camp crawl where he pulls his whole body across the house by his arms. I thought he would start pulling his knees up under him any minute, but no. He is completely satisfied with the dragging and gets around just fine, and mighty fast! He has two teeth and started saying Dada and baba for his bottle. He is so smart!! He is a real stinker too. I would love to hear from moms of boys about how interested their sons are with a specific body part. Liam grabs his at every diaper change and bath without missing a single opportunity to play. (I hope I am being as polite about the subject as possible!) He also screams and throws a fit if I try to finish the diaper change before he wants to let go of it. Is this normal? He is still not sleeping through the night and I am so ready for him to.

Emma has become such a sassy little girl. I can't even count the number of times a day she says "I don't care" when I tell her to do something. Yesterday she said it so much I put her in time out and told her to stay there until she started caring about something! Seriously, she uses the phrase about every little thing. If I tell her we are having spaghetti for dinner she looks at me and rolls her eyes and says "I don't care." If I tell her I love her, "I don't care." Be nice to your sister, "I don't care." I think you get the idea. I dare say that I have never met a moodier child than the one she is quickly becoming. Fortunately she is absolutely hilarious so these mood swings and sassy remarks are quite funny when she says them. I just need to get a better poker face so that I can nip this in the you know what! Other than the major mood swings her last 4 molars are coming in. Poor baby, all at once and she is in a lot of pain. She has taken so long to get all of her teeth, I am so glad that she is finally getting the last ones in! She loves school and taking care of her babies, all 15 of them. Depending on her mood she will have all of them, 3 of them or just 1 that she is taking care of. She is getting taller too. Her 18 month pants are now too short on her. The only bad thing about that is that she still needs 12 months in the waist, so having to move to a 2T pant is never going to work. Glad she like dresses and tights!

Page is having a Barium swallow test done on Monday. She has been complaining of chest pain for several months now. The doctor initially told me that it could be growing pains. We went back two months later and they said to try heartburn medicine. Still not getting any better they now think something might be lodged in there. So we are going to find out on Monday. She is getting so big! She wanted to write every single one of her Valentine's for school. She wrote every child's name and her own. She is adding and subtracting and even starting to read a little. She knows what all the letters sound like and she really tries to put them together. She does great with the smaller words that don't have any weird sounds to it. She really wants to learn how to read a clock so we are working on that a lot right now. She doesn't leave the house without a purse and lipstick (chapstick) and only wants to wear dresses and black patent leather shoes, even to the playground. She did not get that from me! (I haven't carried a purse in 4 years and I wear lipstick about once a month these days.)

I know it is a long update, but since I don't have any pictures to write about I thought it was a good time to catch up on what's been happening at our own personal zoo.