“Thank you for the get well package Lane! How did you know I like Elmo?”

Updates: We had a great Easter weekend besides for Cole’s pneumonia. My grandma aka G-G-ma visited along with my aunt and cousin. G-G-ma hadn’t met Drew yet and last time she saw the babies was the summer after they were discharged from the NICU. It was sooooo nice having them here and our house feels so empty with them gone. If my girl J doesn’t come back to us this summer as promised, I’m really going to try and get a high school student to help out in the afternoons. Our kids just seem to gravitate and respond well to younger kids like their cousin and aunt Kim.

Cole is doing much better with his lungs. We had his second glaucoma check yesterday morning and the results were much better than the first testing. One eye had a pressure of 17 and the other eye was 12. Last time both eyes measured 20 on a scale of 10-21. So the doc said that we don’t need to do any glaucoma checks unless his prescription drastically changes again. Let’s hope not…I don’t think it could get drastically worse! My next issue with Cole is the dumb GI tube dilemma again. Our last GI appt the doc talked about it and since Cole’s eating has not improved at all this last year, I was leaning towards it. Especially seeing how much bigger Drew is than Cole…it’s killing me. But I talked to my peed again about it this week. My peed is incredible and he never was for the tube and still isn’t. But he is sending me back to Pulmonology (we were discharged last year) and to their nutritionist, endocrinology, GI, then back to the peed in three weeks to review everyone’s findings and opinions. I’m glad that he’s coordinating all this and it’s happening fast and we’ll make a well-informed decision. It’s just a LOT of appts in one month. And that’s just Cole. I still have eye appts for Paige and a 1-year check-up for Drewski.

Drew is almost walking. He can pop up from the crawling position to standing. Wow! That’s incredible. He also is testing his boundaries with listening to Mommy. That’s getting old. He has a door fetish and we have a house rule of not playing with doors. Not that I’m so worried about them closing their own fingers in doors, but I’m worried they’ll close each other’s fingers in doors. Anyways, Drew is not respecting that rule at all and he throws huge tantrums when you say no to him. He is talking like crazy now too and I swear he says Mama and Dada at us. It’s cool. The breastfeeding era came to an end with little problem too. I am amazed he transitioned so well. His new thing though is not going down for naps or bedtime without a 10-15 screamfest. Bad Mommy for putting him to bed drowsy from breastfeeding. I knew that would catch up to me. I also am amazed at how quickly we are going through whole milk now that both Paige and Drew are drinking it. Time to get a cow.

Well, I need to get going and plan another fun exciting Spring day in AZ. Time outdoors is getting very precious. It’s getting HOT!!!