The Girls

So.... It's been another long stretch since I last posted, huh? Let's see what has been happening... Well, both girls were healthy there for a good stretch - maybe almost two weeks! But that is over now as Sophie got sick (again) this week and now poor Emily has it too. Emily also has had a return of her reflux which has caused her to be really miserable and unhappy and of course in a lot of pain. We didn't know for sure it was her reflux back because she is also teething so we kind of just thought it was teeth. But, then we noticed that she was burping and then crying. A lot. And she was gassy. And she couldn't sleep at night for more than an hour or so at a time. So I had her back into the doctors yesterday and they seem pretty sure that yes, her reflux is probably back. See... the last time I had the girls in the doctor suggested I either stop giving Em her reflux meds or else switch her formula from Alimentum to a regular one and see how it went. So, we gradually stopped giving her the reflux meds and she seemed to be doing fine with it but I guess maybe the medicine just hadn't all worked its way our of her body yet. So poor Emily has had a tough run of it - between the teeth and the reflux and not getting a lot of sleep at night and now she's got a cold on top of all that. Hopefully now she'll start to feel much better once she has a few days of her reflux meds again.

Sophie on the other hand seems to be doing pretty well. She does have a cold but doesn't at all seem "down for the count". She is overall pretty happy and doing a bit better in general. She doesn't seem to be throwing as many tantrums as before and she does seem to be overall fairly happy and even-keel. She has been fighting us a lot lately on having her hair brushed and wearing clips or bows in her hair and she is always pushing it out of her eyes all day long so we went yesterday and got her haircut. She loves it and it is so cute on her. Hopefully it will make the morning routine a little less painful to not have the hairbrushing fight to contend with every day.

In other news, Mommy's AVON business seems to be doing pretty well. And, Mommy is going to start gong back into the office a few days a week now. We found an amazing caregiver who is a wonderful person, local, and who Sophie adores so we feel like we are so lucky to have found her!! We have been doing "test runs" of her being her to watch the girls and it's gone so much beter than anyone ever would have expected. Sophie even told me one day "You can go do some work now" so she could be with her new BFF, Miss Lynn.

We are all excited for Dayling Savings tonight so now when the girls wake us up at 5-6am it won't feel quite so awful anymore (because it will be 6-7 am)! And of course, we're gearing up for the big birthday celebration at the end of the month for our big "3 year old" cutie!