Happy Easter!

Wow! It looks likes it might be a white Easter. That seems odd. Anyway, we took pictures with the Easter bunny in St Cloud yesterday, they turned out pretty good - both boys looking at the camera and neither crying. The boys also took pictures with Maddie and Isaac and all the kids did a good job. Its amazing to get four kids four and under to do a picture.

We are going to be in Chaska for most of the Easter weekend. We'll just be heading down to Sleepy Eye for lunch on Sunday if the weather and roads clear up. So Jacob will get to hunt for Easter eggs at his own house this year, it should be a fun morning.

Gavin's hernia surgery is scheduled for April 23rd. I was in no rush to schedule it, I do not look forward to not feeding him for 4 hours, having them put my baby under, and then the recovery. None of it sounds good, I hope that I will be proven wrong and things will go much better than I imagine. Especially the not eating part, because if that boy is hungry everyone will know about it.

I had Jacob in to the doctor this week too after a pinky injury on Tuesday. The dr didn't think it was broken and he hasn't complained about it today yet, so hopefully its feeling better. It was probably just a jammed finger or a hyperextension.

Happy Easter everyone!

2 Months Old

Gavin was 2 months old on the 8th. On Monday he had his 2 month appointment where he weighed in at 14.5 pounds (99th percentile) and was 24 inches long (94th percentile). The Dr said that was big enough to be sleeping through the night, but Gavin didn't believe him. Gavin does have a hernia in his right groin area, so we have an appointment with a pediatric surgeon tomorrow to see what they say about that. His pediatrician thought it would need surgery.

Gavin is more responsive to people now and does some smiling and "talking", its so fun. He seemed like such a serious baby for the first month and a half, its great to see him happy. He's pretty much in a pattern of eating every 3 hours during the day and then stays awake for about an hour and then naps. It works good for me to spend time with Jacob or get things done around here (not the cleaning, but other stuff).

Jacob started spring session of gymnastics and goes in by himself. Adrea used to be his "big person" in the 2 year old class, but since he's such a good kid they said he could go by himself in the 3's class. Adrea still comes down to pick him up and take him to gymnastics on Tuesday nights, one of the nights Fred has class, so that is a nice break.

Jacob has had a stomach bug for about a week and a half, meaning lots of messy diapers from the kid who usually is more on the constipated side. I had the bug for about a day and a half, so I am hoping Jacob's passes soon. If not, we'll be back at the Dr early next week.

Jacob keeps asking when his birthday is, now just 2 months away. I'm going to make him a calendar to see the days count down. He has also learned to tell a knock-knock joke. For those of you who he hasn't called, it goes Jacob "knock, know", other "who's there?", Jacob "Boo", other "Boo who?", Jacob "What are you crying about?". Since everybody has heard it, I tried to teach him a new one today, but the punchline for that still comes out as "What are you crying about?", so we'll keep working.