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Weekend of Fun!

Knuckles and Bapa came down from Minnesota so that made Jack's day since Steve went to Trout Lake Camp for the weekend with the youth group. We had a lot of fun hanging out, eating yummy food(I even made a blueberry pie since my dad brought down some MN blueberries from this summer). We went apple picking today which was a lot of fun, and now we have TONS of apples. I better get baking! I'm really waiting for my pampered chef apple corer-peeler-slicer to come in. :)

Here are a couple cute pictures from apple picking. Since Jack LOVES to eat apples, he was in heaven on Nels shoulders picking his own apples from the trees.

doctor

On Friday we spent the morning at the Blank Children's Health Center in Des Moines with a Pediatric Pumologist, to find out that Jack has asthma (which is what we were thinking) and he also has reflux, which goes hand in hand with asthma. What does this mean for us? Well, we have to keep a close diary for the next 60 days of when he coughs, etc and try to re-arrange some medications. We go back right before Thanksgiving and the goal is to try to figure out if he has consistent asthma or intermittent asthma and the best form of treatment depending on the type. I guess 10-15% of the general public have asthma, so it's not too uncommon.

We finished up the day with an hour trip to the pharmacy (just mom and Jack...and yes, I gave in and got him a sucker!) They of course had to educate us on all the meds and check with insurance, etc. Fun, fun, fun!

birthday pictures

Hello again!

I do have a couple pictures to add...here are the ones I promised back a couple weeks ago from Jack's birthday. He had so much fun that the morning after his party he slept in until 9:15! Don't get too jealous, that only has happened once.

Happy Birthday Jack!

I can't believe 2 years ago on the 15th Jack was born! Yikes...time goes too fast. We've had a couple weekends with fun birthday celebrations, which I'll post some pictures of sometime soon. I posted a picture of Jack when he was just a wee little guy!

big boy bed!

We got Jack a twin bed for this 2nd birthday (even though it's not until the 15th). I thought it would take them at least a few days to deliver the bed, but they came an hour after we bought it. No more than 15 minutes after the bed was here and set up it was nap time. Jack told me he didn't want to sleep in his crib, because that was for babies so he napped on his bed. Amazing. Then when it was time for bed, he wanted to sleep in his bed. At this time I was thinking that we'll be up 10 times in the night with him getting up, etc. He went to bed and didn't wake up until morning when some random alarm went off in his room. We're crossing our fingers that this transition is easier than we were thinking it was going to be. I'll try to take a picture of the bed, but it's even cuter to see him sleeping in it. I'll have to try at a nap time so the flash doesn't wake him up.

Steve's parents have been here for the weekend, so we did an early celebration for Jack (one party out of 3 total). He got a Fisher Price House from them, which he has spent a great deal of time playing with already. At least now the people from the house are bigger then when I was a kid because those things hurt when you stepped on them.

Yes, I also survived the 1st 2 weeks of school with kids. I did figure out when you loop (have the same class for 2 years) you don't get the nice "honeymoon" period that you do when they're new. I guess they're too comfortable with you and each other. Great. They are pretty fascinated with the fact that I'm pregnant, I think they're really excited to have a sub from Feb-May they just don't want to tell me that.