Changes

I'll start this off with talking about the kiddos. We are coming to a new phase in our lives being parents.....preschool. It's like picking out a child care provider, but a little more complicated. It's researching all of the different schools out there and then looking at your child and their personality and deciding which one is going to provide the most benefit for them. For Peytonn, he is a very active kid, there is no way that he could sit all morning long and attempt to learn and listen. I realize that one day he is going to have to learn how to do that, but right now in his life, that is just not him. So, we chose a school that is child led and more of a play learning than structured learning. It is a very good school in our area and usually has a long wait list. I put him on the wait list today for the fall semester and I hope to be able to get him into the 7 week summer class to allow him some transition time. In the Fall, he will be going 4 days per week from 8:15am-11:15am. This allows me to take him and pick him up mid day and take him to the babysitter. Then he can eat lunch with the other kids and still take his afternoon nap. This seemed like the least restrictive and most consistent to the schedule he follows already.

As for Bennett, he is growing so fast and learning so much. He can say "mama," "dada," "more," "all done," uh oh," and "nana" for banana. He is talking much more than Peytonn did at his age. Peytonn was a very late talker and really didn't call me "mama" consistently until about age 2. Bennett is walking very steady now and even runs a little when he gets excited. He is excellent at climbing the stairs and basically anything he can get his leg up on. The kid will eat just about anything that I put on his tray and he even eats more than his big brother does.

We've also had a trying month dealing with a recurring fever. It started around New Year's and has lasted pretty much the entire month, off and on. At one point, it got up to 103.6 degrees. I was finally fed up with whatever was causing this and took him to urgent care this past Wednesday. His temp was 102.2 degrees, he weighed in at 23lbs 5oz, they tested him for strep, and gave us a prescription for Amoxicillin and sent us on our way. The next day the nurse called and said that his strep test was negative but continue with the antibiotics for 7 days. On Friday, Bennett broke out in hives all over his chest, tummy, and back. So, I called the nurse back and they said to stop the antibiotics and just do Benadryl. Finally today the hives have gone away and he seems fine. After all of this, I still think he is teething. After a month, Peytonn has not gotten sick or had a fever at any time and he used to get fevers in the 102's when he was teething. So, after all of that, who really knows what is going on or what the cause of the recurrent fevers are.

So, that pretty much sums up our lives this past month.