Chris so kindly reminded me I needed to update the blog. I think about the blog often, but haven't taken the time to post anything.
Biggest news... I am back to work. Full Time. The transition went better than I expected, but I still miss my kiddos SO much. Hannah is doing wonderfully at Cindy's house and they have got each other figured out. For now.
Yesterday I was off work and we took her for her 4 month appointment and shots. She now weighs a whopping 16 lbs 8 oz and is 25 3/4" long. She got 4 shots in her little legs and she was not happy about it. The first shot she was ok with. Didn't make a peep. Second shot, she whined a little bit to let us know she was a little pissed. The third and forth shots were a blur as all we heard was screaming. I instantly tried to nurse her which she wanted nothing to do with, so we packed her up and took her home. She cried the whole way home (all 4 blocks of it) and once we got home and she cuddled with me she was much happier.
Yesterday morning Zach also had an eye doctor appointment. We (meaning the doctor who went to school way longer than I did) decided that Zach needs surgery. For the past 2'ish years we have been trying to fix his lazy eye with patches, eye drops, glasses, prayer, threats, and nothing worked. It improved it some, but not totally. See, the way that a little ones eye works is that when their eye crosses, the brain shuts it off and only the "good" eye works. And what will end up happening is that he will lose all vision in his "bad" or crossed eye. The surgery will go in and straighten out his muscle. I am a little scared about this. Mainly because I am afraid it won't work and the whole surgery was for nothing. The good side of it though, is that if it does work, hopefully we don't have to hold him down every morning and pry his eye open and put a drop of Atropine in his good eye. Another bad thing about this is that he cannot be active for a lot of days. Anyone that knows Zach understands, that will be a huge challenge. The surgery will be on a Tuesday, he will be down all week (he will probably feel ok, but can't go to school or daycare). The next week, he can go if there is not a chance of him being rambunctious. Right. So, we are hoping that he can at least go to school, if we can work it out with the teachers that they will keep him inside during recess. Daycare is out of the question though.
Other than that things are normal around our camp. We are finally getting some rain in this area which is much needed after the dry winter we had last year. We had a huge storm a couple weeks ago and there is now a huge oak tree lodged in the creek behind our house. It looks kinda cool. All the garbage that the storm brought to the creek doesn't look nearly as cool.
New pictures coming soon....
