We saw the Dietician at Children's today. We got some great information and some ideas on how we can put weight on Austin. Now I just need to make it to Whole Foods!!
We also skin tested Austin for indoor/outdoor allergies and oatmeal. The only thing he reacted to was Dog. I think that is a good sign! Also we can go back to eating oatmeal, we just need to find one that is Gluten Free.
The Dietician also informed us that Austin is eligible for a "baked egg study". I'm not sure we want to do it. The study lasts 2 years!! That is a long time to commit to giving Austin a piece of cake with baked egg EVERY DAY, thats if he can even tolerate it. There are so many risks and he is so small. John and I really have to sit down and deicde if we want to do it or not. The goal is at the end of the study he would be able to eat egg baked in something and maybe even scrambled eggs. I would jump at the chance if it was for milk or nuts, but egg is so easy to avoid for now that I don't see it as a huge concern. Yes, he could die from one bite of an egg, but it isn't in EVERYTHING like milk is. I told her I would let her know by the end of the week what we decide.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
Its been a LONG time
I haven't blogged in FOREVER!! I'm going to try to start doing this more often.
Weston is 6 weeks old now. At first we thought he would be a much easier baby than Austin, but it appears as though the honeymoon days are over. He still is easier because he takes a pacifier, but it is becoming more obvious that I DO NOT produce portable babies. Why is it that everyone elses's kids love the car seat and mine hate it??? I mean HATE it at this age. Even to pick Austin up from school is torture, which is only 5 minutes from our house.
Austin is 2 now! Wow time flies. As usual he is keeping me on my toes. Turns out he lost weight from 18 months to 2 years so now I'm trying to figure out what I need to do differently with his eating habbits to put weight on him. Our problem is his food restricitons from his severe food allergies. We are seeing a dietician on Monday so hopefully she will help me out. Also I happen to literally run into a lady who is a rep for Neocate. We started talking and she is sending me samples of two products they sell for kids with food allergies to help them gain weight. The funny thing is I met this lady about 2 weeks before we even knew about Austin's weight. Funny how God knew what was happening and dropped her in our laps. She is sending me samples this week!!
John and I are really liking living in Frisco. We are torn though, we want to buy a house but we still own our condo in Chicago. Our renters will be moving out in January so now its decision time. Do we rent it out again or do we sell it???? Hard decision since we know we will lose most of the money we put into it if we sell but we are tired of dealing with the hastle of having a rental property on the other side of the US. We haven't even seen it since we rented in out this past January. I'm just hoping it isn't too torn up...
John is loving his job down here. We love it too becuase he works from home. We see him so much more!! The only problem is Austin has gotten used to seeing him so he is constantly crying and wanting "daddy" when John isn't here.
I'm pretty much doing nothing other than caring for two babies. I had started sewing/quilting a little more before I had Weston, but for now I've put it away. Not much extra time right now. I will be able to get it out again in the future once Weston is a little more independet.
Weston is 6 weeks old now. At first we thought he would be a much easier baby than Austin, but it appears as though the honeymoon days are over. He still is easier because he takes a pacifier, but it is becoming more obvious that I DO NOT produce portable babies. Why is it that everyone elses's kids love the car seat and mine hate it??? I mean HATE it at this age. Even to pick Austin up from school is torture, which is only 5 minutes from our house.
Austin is 2 now! Wow time flies. As usual he is keeping me on my toes. Turns out he lost weight from 18 months to 2 years so now I'm trying to figure out what I need to do differently with his eating habbits to put weight on him. Our problem is his food restricitons from his severe food allergies. We are seeing a dietician on Monday so hopefully she will help me out. Also I happen to literally run into a lady who is a rep for Neocate. We started talking and she is sending me samples of two products they sell for kids with food allergies to help them gain weight. The funny thing is I met this lady about 2 weeks before we even knew about Austin's weight. Funny how God knew what was happening and dropped her in our laps. She is sending me samples this week!!
John and I are really liking living in Frisco. We are torn though, we want to buy a house but we still own our condo in Chicago. Our renters will be moving out in January so now its decision time. Do we rent it out again or do we sell it???? Hard decision since we know we will lose most of the money we put into it if we sell but we are tired of dealing with the hastle of having a rental property on the other side of the US. We haven't even seen it since we rented in out this past January. I'm just hoping it isn't too torn up...
John is loving his job down here. We love it too becuase he works from home. We see him so much more!! The only problem is Austin has gotten used to seeing him so he is constantly crying and wanting "daddy" when John isn't here.
I'm pretty much doing nothing other than caring for two babies. I had started sewing/quilting a little more before I had Weston, but for now I've put it away. Not much extra time right now. I will be able to get it out again in the future once Weston is a little more independet.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Finding a house
John was in Chicago all last week moving getting our condo ready for the renters to move in. This week we have been trying to find a house in Dallas. We found one in Frisco that we like. We put an application in on it today. Hopefully we will hear some good news today, because our stuff is already in Dallas sitting on the dock at the moving company. They will give us until the beginning of February and then they are bringing it. Hopefully we have a house to put it into to. This is our last chance effort or else our stuff goes in storage and we keep looking for a place.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Family
Today Kerri was off work. She came over and hung out most of the day. Brandy came by when she got off work for a little bit. It's nice having my family around a lot!
Austin is teething. BLAH... They are his bottom ones, which caused him lots of pain in the past. He still only has two bottom teeth, so I think we are in for more soon. Its weird becuase when he got his top ones in they didn't even bother him, and they are HUGE. Haha.
Yesterday Kerri and I drove to Firewheel off of George Bush to eat dinner with Kirsten. Wow, there is a big mall out there. We ate at Fish Market Grill, or something like that. We had fish tacos. Pretty good.
Austin goes in on Thursday for his 15 month appointment. I can't believe how old he is already! It sure goes by fast. AND Austin officially started walking today!!!! Woohoo!!!!
Austin is teething. BLAH... They are his bottom ones, which caused him lots of pain in the past. He still only has two bottom teeth, so I think we are in for more soon. Its weird becuase when he got his top ones in they didn't even bother him, and they are HUGE. Haha.
Yesterday Kerri and I drove to Firewheel off of George Bush to eat dinner with Kirsten. Wow, there is a big mall out there. We ate at Fish Market Grill, or something like that. We had fish tacos. Pretty good.
Austin goes in on Thursday for his 15 month appointment. I can't believe how old he is already! It sure goes by fast. AND Austin officially started walking today!!!! Woohoo!!!!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Dallas
Well weve been living in Dallas for almost 2 months. We are living with my parents right now until we sell or rent our condo in Chicago. Austin is sick with Croup right now. Its been pretty brutal on him. Thankfully I'm not here by myself watching him; since we are living with my parents and John works at home.
We are settling in pretty well. Weve been set up with a realtor down here and we are going to start looking for a rental soon. I anticipate we will move in January or February. I hope it won't be too hard on Austin, hes getting pretty used to everyone around.
The hardest part of moving so far has been changing our doctors over. I never realized how good we had it in Chicago. We LOVED our pediatrician and allergist for Austin. John and I just happened upon them. We didn't interview tons of doctors or have to visit lots. Here I feel like thats all I'm doing. I'm hoping we will like the one we meet with next Thursday.
Thats pretty much all that is going on. Looking forward to the holidays with a toddler!
We are settling in pretty well. Weve been set up with a realtor down here and we are going to start looking for a rental soon. I anticipate we will move in January or February. I hope it won't be too hard on Austin, hes getting pretty used to everyone around.
The hardest part of moving so far has been changing our doctors over. I never realized how good we had it in Chicago. We LOVED our pediatrician and allergist for Austin. John and I just happened upon them. We didn't interview tons of doctors or have to visit lots. Here I feel like thats all I'm doing. I'm hoping we will like the one we meet with next Thursday.
Thats pretty much all that is going on. Looking forward to the holidays with a toddler!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Summer so far
We have had a great Chicago summer. It has been warm and we have been able to go for walks almost every day. I know everyone in TX is jealous, but we only get 3 nice months out of the year, so I have to rub it in! I have found so many neat places in our neighborhood. I never really explored before because we were always so tired on the weekends from working so much. Now that I'm home we walk all the time. I'm actually starting to get a little tan!
In June we had family pictures taken by Lake Michigan. We took them at Museum Campus, which is where the Field Museum, Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium are. There is a GREAT view of the city from there.
Austin has started crawling and this week he is getting more adventurous. He has started to pull up on things and to try to climb on top of things. I feel like I can't take my eye off him for a second! He is also babbling more. Every day I feel like he gets to be more and more fun.
John's job is going well, although I wish he would play hooky sometimes to hang with us ;) but someone has to pay the bills.
I am loving staying home. We are wanting to try for another baby soon, but on Monday I'm having a biopsy of one of my boobs because I found a lump. I already had an ultrasound and a mammogram (SO painful) but they want to do a biopsy just to be certain. We are waiting to hear about the news from that and for the summer to end, and then hopefully another baby! We are in the process of doing some things around the house to get the condo ready to go up for sell. We only have a two bedroom, so we need to think about moving soon if we are going to have another baby.
We are going to Dallas in August and then in September Austin turns 1! Time sure flies by.
In June we had family pictures taken by Lake Michigan. We took them at Museum Campus, which is where the Field Museum, Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium are. There is a GREAT view of the city from there.
Austin has started crawling and this week he is getting more adventurous. He has started to pull up on things and to try to climb on top of things. I feel like I can't take my eye off him for a second! He is also babbling more. Every day I feel like he gets to be more and more fun.
John's job is going well, although I wish he would play hooky sometimes to hang with us ;) but someone has to pay the bills.
I am loving staying home. We are wanting to try for another baby soon, but on Monday I'm having a biopsy of one of my boobs because I found a lump. I already had an ultrasound and a mammogram (SO painful) but they want to do a biopsy just to be certain. We are waiting to hear about the news from that and for the summer to end, and then hopefully another baby! We are in the process of doing some things around the house to get the condo ready to go up for sell. We only have a two bedroom, so we need to think about moving soon if we are going to have another baby.
We are going to Dallas in August and then in September Austin turns 1! Time sure flies by.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Crawling!
Austin is FINALLY crawling. He is still slow but I'm catching him getting into everything. Its so much fun! Haha. I feel like we baby proofed, but he keeps getting into things I just didn't think about. This weekend we are having pictures of John, Austin and I taken with the Chicago skyline. I have been doing weight watchers and am down about 10 lbs. I was hoping to be smaller for these pictures, but I'm happy that I've lost as much as I have. Its a little annoying though, because my pre pregnancy clothes STILL don't fit so I had to go out and by a new pair of shorts.
I can't believe Austin will be 9 months old on Saturday! Time sure does fly.
I can't believe Austin will be 9 months old on Saturday! Time sure does fly.
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