All About The Peanut: Updates

I have lots to update on the blog, but, unfortunately, I have been very sick. I came down with a cold - similar to the one Matt, then Henry, then Hayley had a little over a week back. I thought it was getting better the mid-part of last week, but then started to feel really crappy last Wednesday. I called the doctor and started medications. On Friday, I actually felt worse and my doctor gave me some additional anti-biotics. Well, they may have killed the germs, but I had a terrible reaction and ended up in the ER today with severe dehydration. To say the least, it has been a shitty few days. We even had to cancel our super bowl party today. On the bright side, Matt got some great time with the boys this weekend and also definitely took first place in the dad of the year competition. He took them to JumpStreet, and Chuck-e-Cheese and Bake and Play yesterday all by himself. And Hayley, who I literally don't know how we would survive without, took care of them today while Matt took me to the ER. We are so blessed that she takes care of them during the week, but also so thankful that she loves them like her own is always willing to give up whatever is going on in her life to help out. We love you Aunt Hayley!!

Here is a brief update on the boys:

The no-nap thing has been revolutionary. David is a whole new kid and has been routinely going to bed with no hassle. He thinks he is quite grown hanging out with the non-nappers after lunch. He also started Chess lessons last Tuesday at his school with an outside group called The Knight School. It is targeted toward children ages 4-5. Whatever they do is pretty amazing because he loves it and we have enjoyed playing Chess with him at night. I am not sure if he is the next Bobby Fisher, but he has a lot of potential and really enjoys playing. Like many of you know, he is quite the gamer so we are trying to guide that love for "games" to something at least thought provoking and/or educational.

Henry is so interactive and really getting the crawling thing down. He still does a combo of bear crawl, army drag and crawling - but it is pretty effective at getting him where he wants to be. Despite the fact that David is still a little rough with him, Henry thinks David is the funniest thing ever and just wants to get closer to him. On the food front - he is a little more reluctant to embrace the solid foods, preferring instead to nurse. He will taste a bit of solids at dinner, but then just pucker his lips and and blow bubbles. Apparently, introducing solids at 6 months is just to get them use to the texture and taste of foods and not really all that necessary nutritionally, so we are just going to wait until he is ready to eat more solids. In other big news, Henry got his very first tooth this past weekend. We are now working on the no biting rule!!