No More

I really felt like my heart broke in two today. My girls had their GI specialist appointments today and of course I was grilled as to why I was there? What are their GI symptoms?.... yada yada yada. The answer to all those questions is that they are healthy, have NO signs of GI problems, however they are little. To me this is pretty much a joke since my sister NEVER charted and the rest of us were near the bottom. All my nieces and nephews are all tiny too and nothing is wrong with them! For some reason we have been put through the ringer for it and I am SICK OF IT! They want us now to go to a nutritionist (which I already did when Adeline was a baby and it was NO HELP and she was totally rude), want follow up appointments and made us get more labs. I was just in there two weeks ago with Norah while they pinned her down and took loads of blood. Adeline DID NOT want to go today in fear she was getting a "shot". Of course she was devastated when she found out she had to. The took 10-15 tubes of blood from her and I had to hold her tight in my lap. She screamed and screamed and I could not take it. I started bawling too and Norah was also screaming while strapped in her stroller. I felt like the WORST mom ever since the doctors are only doing this to make themselves feel better. I keep saying, "ok, I will do the labs to make them feel better"... but then they just keep wanting more and I am done. After they were done with Adeline I turned her around to give her a big hug and she pushed away from me because she was so mad. She finally gave in and gave me a big hug. Then of course they gave Norah to me to hold down and took blood from her. She looked up at me and was screaming the entire time and I felt horrible. This little girl has 2 ear infections, bronchiolitis and 5 teeth coming in and I ALLOWED them to stick her and put her in MORE PAIN. I left the doctors office totally distraught and went straight to the McDonalds drive thru to get adeline a ice cream. I cried ordering the ice cream and cried through my next couple of phone calls.... this also resulted in a massive headache. We will see what the labs say and if something is wrong, so be it... I will be glad to know. Most likely they will have no answers again and will want to do MORE... and I will finally say NO!!! And I will be cancelling my nutritionist appointment, because that is just ridiculous.

What a great birthday! Abe and I were able to go out to dinner after we put our kids to bed and had someone come sit at our house. I told him that if we weren't able to do that, I am not sure if I would have recovered from my day.

Sunapee

This past weekend we headed up to Sunapee, NH to go skiing. The first half of the day I went with Adeline and the second half Abe went snowboarding. I knew that it could have gone either way taking Adeline skiing. She was either going to love it, or hate it. There were a couple bunny hills and right off the bat she didn't even need my help holding on to her. Luckily we bought a wedgie last time we took her and I think that helped. I explained the concept of snowplowing to her and she seemed to get it. You can hear her in one of the videos below say, "I want to go faster!"... so I told her to make a smaller pie and that's what she did! I felt so proud of her because she did such a great job! She was giggling and had a blast. She got completely bored on the bunny hills and wanted me to take her up the lift to the bigger runs. Luckily the resort let us borrow a harness thing because she would start going so fast down the hill!











Afterwards we went back to our hotel and went swimming in the freezing cold pool! Adeline loves staying in hotels and was really excited about it. Unfortunately Norah was up until almost 4am because she just wanted me to hold her the whole night. NO fun! The next day I felt in her mouth and she got a new molar. Go figure!




Adeline is obsessed with her strawberry shortcake movies. We always catch her singing all the songs in the car and finally got it on tape. She is performing a little as well :) So cute.

Happy Valentines Day!!

Adeline had a great day today and was so excited to give valentines to her friends. It seemed like it took a lot of convincing to the teachers for them to celebrate at all. At first they weren't going to do anything and were not able to pass valentines out. It really bugs me that the schools don't do anything for the Holidays. Adeline couldn't even dress up for Halloween which I thought was lame :( At the end of last week we went out and bought supplies to make cookies. Adeline loved it!





We just spent the night at home and got some take out. Totally casual, but Valentines is a little over rated and it is hard with kids. We will go on a date another night where the restaurants are not so busy :)


Just trying to enjoy my girls as much as possible. They are starting to play with each other a lot and it is so cute. Adeline does torture Norah quite a bit, but other than that they get along. They both had weight checks this last week and Adeline is 27 lbs at 3.5 years old and Norah is 17.8lbs. They are both around the 3-4% in weight. I had to get labs on both of them and it showed that they have low Iga levels (the antibody in your intestines that help to protect against GI infections). They are "borderline low", so it may be normal for them? But "just in case" their doctor is sending them both to a GI specialist. BOO! They are going to have to get pricked again :( Hopefully everything is normal...

Aquarium

About a week an a half ago we ventured to the aquarium since Abe had the day off and we have had a little cabin fever. It wasn't as great as I was expecting it, but the kids loved it and it was nice to get out of the house!













walking back to the car... gotta love parking in downtown boston!!!

Melts.My.Heart

I feel like there are countless moments every day that "melt my heart" in regards to my girls. I love this cute little card that Adeline made at school. It is so fun to see her get more artistic and creative. I love her little people she draws. I took her shopping today and bought her some clothes. This girl LOVES clothes and LOVES shopping. She insisted that she try them all on in the dressing room. Every time she would try something on, she would look in the mirror and dance around the dressing room. It was hilarious. Wish I had my video camera. She was also very opinionated about what I was wearing and insisted that I change before we go shopping. "Your shirts does not look pretty with those pants mom. You need to change." She is full of spunk, personality and such a little independent thing. She is also sweet though and very caring. I love how she calls Norah a "Sweety-heart".