Just an update on the kidlets...
Rachel turned 6 months on 9/29. Craziness! So what can my 6 month old do??
1. She can roll both ways all over my house.
2. She is a master of the backwards scoot.
3. She can "tripod" sit. Not very long though, she tends to flop over a lot. We're practicing lol.
4. She can get up on her hands and knees and rock for about 10 seconds.
5. She is eating lots of yummy solid food and enjoying most of them. Green beans took about 20 tries (seriously!) and she's not a huge fan of homemade squash, but will eat the Gerber squash. Silly girl.
6. She can laugh hysterically at her big brother. If no one or nothing else can calm her down, all Corbin has to do is look at her and she's cracking up. It's so fun to watch their relationship develop as she's getting older and more interactive.
Last week we saw a GI for her reflux. This was good because her pediatrician (who I have loved for everything else) would not increase her reflux medication. She told us to thicken her formula with rice cereal. We did that for about 2 months. At first it helped a bit. Then it kind of stopped helping. Since she's eating solids from the spoon and I didn't want her to decrease her formula intake anymore (she eats around 22oz most days now) and the cereal wasn't helping much, we decided to just stop thickening the formula about 3 weeks ago.
In August, Rachel developed this cough that she just could not shake. It wasn't a bad cough, just throughout the day she would cough frequently. Then 2 weekends ago, she woke up a couple of times gasping and flailing and wide eyed and then threw up everywhere. After a quick google search, I realized the cough may be because her reflux wasn't being controlled properly. I called for a GI consult referral and they were able to see us two days after I called the pediatrician.
So the GI said since Rachel is growing well (she was 18lbs 9oz and 26 inches at that appointment) he didn't think there was anything physically wrong causing the reflux. We have nothing to worry about and she will most likely outgrow it. He did mention it could keep on until she's closer to 2 (oh joy), but most kids stop spitting by a year. But he said it sounded like Rachel was a baby that spit up a lot and she was a baby who was bothered by it, as opposed to a happy spitter. So we got an increase in her zantac and an rx for prevacid in case the increase didn't work. We ended the appointment with her puking on the floor.
It's been a week and it seems to have helped quite a bit. The cough has lessened and she hasn't woken in the night even just chatting in 3-4 nights now (she often wakes up, talks for a few minutes, and then goes back to sleep, but in the couple of weeks before we got her meds changed, she was waking up hysterically crying). She still spits, but a bit less and it's not bothering her as much. So that's about it for Rachel.
So on to the BIG kid.
I can't believe Corbin will be 6 in just over 2 months. So not cool. He's growing way too fast. It's insane.
Corbin started Kindergarten in August. He is at Three Oaks Elementary and his teacher is Mrs. Addison. IT has been a big adjustment for Corbin and there have been some bumps in the road, but mostly he is loving school. He loves PE and media and art and music. Apart from the fun stuff, he's really doing well with math. The concepts just click for him and he really enjoys it.
Corbin has gone from unable to read and really not interested in it, to knowing 20 sight words and how to sound out any word that's not a sight word. He read Are You My Mother? last week and barely needed any help from me. He basically read it on his own. It's so fun to watch him figure these things out.
Corbin's least favorite thing to do is practice his handwriting. We both dread the days when his homework is writing his name over and over in order to practice writing because he makes it difficult on both of us. But his handwriting is getting much neater and maybe someday he will hate it less.
Today was a big day because he got to check out a book from the school library and bring it home with him for the first time. He was so proud of that book and is taking this responsibility very seriously. It's really cute.
About 3 weeks ago, Corbin tried out for swim team. He is now swimming 3-5 nights a week and loving every second of it. He wants to do a swim meet so bad, but his coach and I agree that he needs to get another month or two of practice under his belt before it's time for a competition. He has a bit of work to do before he catches up with the other kids, but he's come so far in a short time. When he first started, he had to swim the length of the pool twice (50M total) to make the team. He did it, but it was a bit of a struggle and he was worn out at the end. And he had a hard time keeping up with the other kids. We are ending our third week and he's swimming that pool back and forth for an hour and doing great. He's keeping up with the other kids mostly and he's picking up on the right ways to do the different strokes. And like I said, he LOVES it and that's the important thing.
So that's it for us. We're busy, but it's fun and the kids are doing great.
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