Lucian starts solids

Lucian started solids a couple of weeks ago. He is doing great and really gobbles it up. Helps with the pooping too since it has been so runny for so long!!!

Walking home from daycare with Isaac

Today I walked with Lucian to pick up Isaac from daycare. The whole way home Isaac was saying "goodbye everybody" to anyone he saw. I think he is really starting to pick up the NY accent. He doesn't say bird he says "Boyed".

There is a mouse in my house!!!

Sitting here tonight - all is quiet with the new bedtime routine for the two boys.... then... out of the corner of my eye what do I see. I have a mouse in my house!!!

Sicky traps for us tomorrow. I don't care how cute those little mice seem - they have got to go before Isaac befriends him.

As I write this he is getting more and more courageous. He started off just running along the top of the heater - how he is dashing out from the side of the room to the middle of the carpet in front of the tv.

Well Visit news

Today both boys had well visits with the Dr.

Isaac is doing fabulously. He is now 34.25 lbs and 37 inches long. He is over the 97%ile for both height and weight - not bad for a Preemie! His lower right tooth - just beside the front one is just beginning to come up and he still has all his incisors and 4 more molars too. Another 8 teeth!! He is still evaluated as a preemie - so they adjust him back. So as he is really almost 2 years and 2 weeks they seem him as 1 year 10 months and 3 weeks. One side comment: He turned 2 almost 2 weeks ago and his speech in that time has just rocketed. It is amazing how it all just clicks. A girlfriend told me a long time ago - when Isaac was just a tiny baby - that at 2 years the speech switch just goes on - and boy, was she right. He is just a sponge with his language!

Lucian is doing great too. He is now 14lbs and 8oz. I kind of wanted him to have gained more weight. He looks like such a chubby kid and put him beside a bigger baby and he really looks bigger than he is. I suppose I am just shocked that with all the double chins and chubby arms and thighs with cellulite that he hasn't gained more. He is now 25.25inches long too. The Doctor is happy although now we begin to hit all the followups from the NICU. I just scheduled a Neurology appointment for him and have his ROP (Ophthalmology) followup in September. I am sure everything is OK but it is best to get him to his follow ups so that anything abnormal can be caught early on. Aren't normal and abnormal terrible words. I am guilty as charged - I use them so often - but I remember when we had all the chromosomal tests for Lucian that the word normal was so hard to use.

Anyway - just thought I would update you. Sorry this post is so fundamentally boring!!

Upstate with the Family

My friend Carol invited the whole family to her wonderful upstate house for a weekend. Rosalie was there also and we really had a fabulous time. It was the first family vacation since Lucians arrival.

Isaac turns 2

More pics

Isaac now eats at the dining table like a "big boy". No more High chair - well not until his brother gets his hands on it.

Lucian visits his NICU buddy - Ilan

Isaac, Lucian, Mark and I visited Ilan, Lucians NICU friend and his Mum, Kerry and Dad, David. Isaac had a fabulous time pushing his stroller around the park.

So much has happened since my last post

My beautiful Mother and her 3rd Grandson.

So much has happened since my last post

General Pics of the family

Anyone remember the Swaab curl....

and wonder where it went....???? Particularly those of you who worked with Mark and I at Channel 9.

Really, Truely - Finally pics of WalkAmerica

We raised $1455 for WalkAmerica - March of Dimes fundraising event to fund research into Premature birth in the USA. Thank you to every one who donated to team "All 40 weeks". It was a fabulous day in Sag Harbor and the walk was really very enjoyable. A special thanks to Selena, Mum and S who walked with us. Team "Parents of P'Nuts" kept us company and we all picniced together at the end of the walk. Dana makes a pretty mean chicken caesar wrap and, of-course, remembered everything I forgot for the picnic.

Isaac shares his chair

Chilling in his crib...

Although Lucian is still sleeping in the bassinet beside me, he sometimes takes a nap in his crib.

Little laughs...

Isaac's new doo.

We went on a family outing on Saturday to a fabulous kids hairdresser in Huntington called Zippity Doos. They have such a great business there. The people are fabulous and so warm, making every kid feel like a prince (or princess). And they have cars for the kids to sit in instead of normal chairs. Isaac sat in a Jeep watching either Little Bear on his TV or BackYardigans on the little boys beside us and let Lorraine take her time to get a great cut. It is his first real haircut and he looks so gorgous and so grown up. I still love all the soft long hair but the shorter brings out his fabulous features. Don't mind the food that is constantly on his face. It isn't that we don't clean it - it's just that he is always eating!




Lucian is far from needing his first haircut!

Lucian is laughing...

Lucian has been smiling for some time now - maybe 3 weeks. He suffers so badly from the second child syndrome. We really have to try to take more pics. This is the only pic of him smiling that we have taken so far. I know... I know... we are terrible parents! His smile is just amazing. He smiles so wide and I am guaranteed a smile after a good feed. I just love them. He is cooing too and also makes a funny chortle. I wish I could bottle it!

Biting the ears off a rabbit.

Auntie Selena really had an urge to bite the ears of a chocolate bunny. Who better to give Izzy lessons!! After the ears - he ate the eyes - then any body part available!