Not sure if I ever mentioned it, but after all that time (only 10 days) it took to come up with a name for Lauren the birth certificate (and SS card) spelled it wrong.
So we sent it back with the corrections.
Nearly 6 months later I called the state for an update.
After spending 45 minutes in electronic phone menu hell, I finally got a hold of someone that could help me.
“We just started processing the mid-January correction requests. If you’re daughters request is in there, it will be another few weeks.” was the nice lady’s answer.
Wow. How do I get a job with time lines like that?
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Is the question we constantly ask Abigail in response to her most often odd behavior.
“Yes.” Is her answer every time, then she stomps off to put band-aids on the wall or do something else entirely.
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Built the girls a sandbox last weekend.
It’s 6′ x 8′.
Jen liked the plans here, so that’s what we built.
It contains 3,200 lbs of sand. It took me three trips to Lowes to get all 64 bags of sand (that’s 50 lbs. each).
So far Abigail loves it. All she says is “thank you, thank you, thank you”.
That’s nice.
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Abigail and Lauren have a new cousin.
Lena Mae (Vera’s sister) was born this morning at 2:04 am.
She was 6 lbs. 11 oz. and 19″ long.
Welcome to the family.
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Jen found a quick and easy water table we could build for Abigail to play with.
She sent me these links and said have at it:
After buying the mixing tub and nailing some scrap lumber together for an hour and a half, we had this.
Before Abigail even had breakfast she was a water table fiend
I call it V1.0, because there are some additions/changes/edits we can make. We’ll see how it goes. So far just having water seems enough.
See more in the Gallery here.
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Remember at the beginning of the Whooping Cough scare the thing that got us into that was a visit to the urologist for Lauren?
This week we had our first Nephrologist appointment. Here’s what we learned.
Apparently of children with fluid in the kidney (Hydronephrosis) and extra large ureters (1% of live births), only 5% also develop kidney stones.
Lauren is of that 5%.
To determine if diet or some chemical imbalance is causing her stone(s), they took blood and will get urine samples.
Taking blood wasn’t so easy, hence the bandage on her foot (both feet actually).
Pending the results, we’ll either go back in 6 months or sooner.
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With a serious lack of time, I’ve resorted to posting lots of pictures to the Gallery without much comment or notification here.
If you haven’t seen the latest check it all out here.
If you’re family, email me to get your user ids and passwords to see the private albums.
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A week or so ago Jen and I changed up the night routine. Now upon Lauren’s first waking, I give her a bottle (about 3 oz.) and get her back to sleep.
Things were going well. So well I got it down to not heating the bottle (beyond room temp.), giving it to her in her bassinet, and getting back to bed in 15 minutes or so.
Unfortunately it takes just one bad night to throw it all down the drain.
Last night I didnt’ get to bed until shortly after 11. At 1am she was awake and ready for her bottle, but she wasn’t ready to go back to sleep.
Eventually after an hour and forty minutes of bouncing and a couple of episodes of Law & Order she was out cold.
Unfortunately I was not. I didn’t get back to sleep until some time around 4am.
Ouch.
Tonight I’m going to bed early.
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Lauren had her first meal other than breast milk tonight.
Not that anything’s going to change over night, but it is another mile stone to check off the list.
See the pictures here.
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Back when the clocks changed we stopped going to the rock gym on Saturdays. With the longer days and Abigail napping later in the afternoons, the gym didn’t make as much sense.
Though over the last couple of weekends she’s asked to go again. This morning in an attempt to tire her out and nap early before a birthday party this afternoon, we went to the gym to try out her new harness.
It didn’t go so well.
Nobody got hurt, but nobody really climbed either.
There was a party taking place and lots of kids running around.
She wanted to run around too.
Then she wanted to go home and shear Gretchen some more.
Then she wanted Mommy.
Oh well. Can’t expect much from a 2 year old.
At least the harness worked and she got some rope time.
Maybe we’ll try again or maybe we’ll wait till the fall.
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