Updates

I actually got a smile out of Liam, he is very anti-picture right now. :-)

Finn eating....yippie!
not big enough for the cool bike. Poor little man
This one is much better

Tomorrow Dominic goes to the board to make E6. We have been waiting for this even for about a year now, so we are excited it is finally happening. Hopefully he passes the board (I think he will, but you know Dominic) Then we can hope his points stay down low enough for the next three months that it takes the paperwork to go though, so we can see a pay raise!!! Our other hope is to move from the ghetto to a different neighborhood, but housing hasn't been very helpful with that so far, and of course all the nice places have a long wait...its all in God's hands I know.

I took Finn to the nutritionist for his monthly meeting and found out he gained an average of 11 grams/day, which is really good. Average weight gain is 5-8 g/day with his age group, we have been averaging 3-4 g/day. Which isn't "good" when they want him to gain weight. He is now up to 18lbs, 8 oz...only another pound and a half till we can turn his car seat around. He is no longer breastfeeding during the day, chocolate proved to be a good distraction ("la-la" as he says for chocolate) But he still nurses at night, I am hoping to have the resolve to have him cry it out and be all done this weekend, but we will see. Finn also has 8 teeth now, four on top, four on bottom. And instead of attaching to anything external, he has developed an attachment to his belly button. No more onsies for us, I need to make sure he has access to his "beh-buh-un" at all times. Totally random, but it works, with that and his sippy cup "bup" he can be calmed.

Liam is 4. and so grown up. He is finally 30 lbs! He has been enjoying summer quite a bit, and had a ton of fun at "safari" school (VBS) we are still researching gymnastics or tae kwan do schools for him, but hope to start that before the summer ends.

We were able to renew our registration with no problems today, so my stress of last night was all for nothing. sigh. I hope to post some good news about Dom passing the board tomorrow..so keep him in your prayers 8am our time!

Oh, and there are new recipes at the bottom again!