Settling Down

We feel like things around our house are finally settling down!
After Scotty's first 4 months (which any first 4 months with a baby are a blur), then sickness, the holidays, and more sickness, things are finally almost normal around here!

We've been working with Scott on some sleep training- helping him learn to sleep through the night- and are seeing some progress. He's now sleeping 8pm to 6am, but we're still aiming for 7am!

He is growing like a weed! He's 18 lbs, 26 inches long, and just outgrew his infant car seat and got promoted into his sister's seat this weekend. She got herself a new "big girl" seat, and our backseat of the car is FULL!

Scott and Timmy are madly in love with each other. Scott loves to grab and pull at the fur, Timmy loves to be grabbed and have his fur pulled at. Seriously, it makes him purr. He comes looking for Scott each morning for a little wrestle-love time.
There is still a lot of brother-sister love too. Addie is a great big sister, very helpful and sweet. She is newly in love with Lego Duplos, since getting a set from my sister for Christmas and a bunch from a family at church who had outgrown them. She plays with them for a loooong time each day, which delights her mommy.








The only interesting thing that has happened lately is Scott scaring his parents half to death last weekend. After having an allergic reaction to Amoxicillin and breaking out in hives for days, he also then quit using one arm. He didn't seem to be in pain, and I thought it might be the hives bothering him, but after several hours Greg and I discovered that he wasn't using it at all, just letting it hang limp at his side. Of course, this was on a Saturday afternoon when the doctor's office was closed. We called the on-call pediatrician who had us take him right in to a pediatric urgent care (thank the Lord we didn't have to go to the ER). We were imagining the worst case scenarios all the way there (stroke? seizure?). But after the doctor examined him and was very doubtful of a break, he decided to try a quick fix before sending him off for x-rays. He told us it could be as simple as a partially dislocated elbow, and performed a special little handshake to reset it, just in case that's what was going on. Sure enough, Scott started using his arm right away. Greg and I almost fell down on the ground out of relief! The doctor told us some kids just have loose joints, and it was very likely that Scott would do this again. It was so easy to reset, the doctor even taught Greg how to reset it, so we can fix it at home and be the ultimate "do-it-yourself"ers now! What a relief to drive home that afternoon with two healthy kids in the backseat. It was a good opportunity to thank the Lord again for their health, and for "normal" family life!