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Archive for 2011


   Nov 01

NaBloPoMo?!?!?!

I discovered from a post on a friends blog today that she read on a blog by one of her friends that today is National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). So the challenge is to post a new blog every day for one month. I have decided to take on this challenge and see if I […]

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   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. […]

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   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 […]

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   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 […]

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   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 […]

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   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. […]

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   May 18

Stress or symptoms?

So on Monday I went to my midwife appointment and she told me my blood pressure was up and that she wanted me to go to the hospital for some monitoring and testing. So I went. All my blood and urine tests came back fine but my pressure was still up. It wasn’t to high […]

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   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 […]

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   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 […]

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   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 […]

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