Life.

It's just how it is.

Archive for the 'Kids' Category


   Sep 12

Off to a great start to the school year?!?!?

This past week Cameron started big boy school (Junior Kindergarten).  He will be attending 5 days a week full days, but for the first week he only went Wednesday and Friday as an introduction. Everything went okay. He didn’t want to go into class in the mornings and didn’t want to come home at night. […]

Read the rest of this entry »

   Aug 28

Update on well….everyone.

Nate is doing well after passing the plum pit 2 weeks ago. Things seem to be evening out but he is a little backed up but we are giving his boy time to try to deal with it but may be upping the laxatives again soon. All in all though he is doing well and […]

Read the rest of this entry »

   Aug 16

Potty party!

I have been struggling for a while now to get Cameron to toilet train. I have tried everything can think of. I have read countless numbers of books and articles and tried every piece of advice I have been given but nothing worked and with another child on the way I was dreading the idea […]

Read the rest of this entry »

   Aug 16

It’s the pits!

So on Thursday I went to the farmers market and while walking around I gave the boys plums to eat (they love them). After a couple of minutes I asked them for the pits and Cam gave me his and Nate just told me “Gone”. I figured he had droped it on the ground. Friday […]

Read the rest of this entry »

   Jun 20

Introducing Alexandria Dorothea!

On June 13th I went to see the midwife. I was 39 weeks 4 days based on my original due date and was very sore and tired. I had been having contractions on and off for over a week. I asked the midwife if there was anything that I could try to get labor started. […]

Read the rest of this entry »

   May 15

Update on Nate.

I haven’t posted in a while because I have been afraid to jinx things but well here goes. Nate is doing great. Since his last botox we had a lot of problems and pain and things got really bad. We ended up starting him on Flagyl, mineral oil and miralax. After a little while we […]

Read the rest of this entry »

   Mar 22

Comunication progress.

For the last few weeks Nate has been working very hard on his speech and has learned some new words. He is also learning to visually recognize letters. Amongst his new words are duck and hello. Cam is doing well to he has almost learned to say the entire alphabet and can recognize a lot […]

Read the rest of this entry »

   Mar 22

Genetics and GI.

Yesterday I was contacted by Sick Kids to book an appointment with the genetics department for Nate. We have been on the wait list for near a year now. It turns out that they had a cancellation so we will be going in next Monday. We will be looking into the possible cause of Nate’s […]

Read the rest of this entry »

   Feb 01

Communication problems.

I am confused. Nate has speech delays. The other week Nate and I went to see the speech pathologist. I asked her if the delay could be apraxia of speech. She said it was possible but in order to get a diagnosis we would have to get it from a medical doctor like our pediatrician. […]

Read the rest of this entry »

   Aug 08

My Toothless Wonder.

I just discovered today that Nathanial my Toothless Wonder is no longer toothless (age 22 months). He went in to the hospital on July 26, 2010 with 3 teeth the two front bottom ones and his top left eye tooth. He came home with six teeth. He now has his four top front teeth and […]

Read the rest of this entry »