Where does the time go?

Harrison is 5 weeks already! Will is going on 21 months...pretty soon he is going to be two!! I really can't tell you where the time goes.

Harrison's head is starting to look better (at least I think so.) We have been doing a lot of tummy time and that seems to be helping. My mom and I were looking up more on craniosynostosis yesterday and it really doesn't look like Harrison's head at all. These kids have deformed faces and oddly shaped heads. Harry doesn't have an oddly shaped head and I really don't think a deformed face, just a ridge running down the middle. It really looks like it is separating as well so hopefully we won't have to worry about it fusing together. We are obviously still going to have it checked out when we get to Sioux Falls; hopefully get some x-rays just to make sure that everything is okay.

We move next week. Mom and I are flying out on Wednesday with the boys, which should be interesting. Josh and his dad are leaving with the truck on the same day.

Our anniversary is next week as well, the 23rd. Can't believe it has been 3 years since our wedding day. So much as happened in those 3 years. We've had two kids, Josh has graduated from college, we've moved 4 times. And every year, it seems, we lose something more...right now not only is it our jobs, our home, but our sense of pride as well. But, one can't help but look on at our children with a sense of pride, they are sweet and beautiful and are the reasons that we keep plugging on every day, trying to give our best.

Josh has a phone interview next Friday for Cigna health insurance for a customer service position. Obviously it is located in Sioux Falls. Hopefully that will go well. For the amount of jobs he has applied to in Sioux Falls, he is already getting more responses back than he has in Fresno. I am really hoping that is a good sign. We also have a few other balls up in the air, hopefully we will catch one. ;)

USF is still reviewing his application for the Masters of Ed. program. Really wishing he would get in this time around, but if not he is going to take a few refresher courses and then apply again.

I am crossing my fingers that I will go back to school by the spring. I am looking into applying for USF as part-time undergrad. Of course, the thing that I am worried about the most is having the money to attend. I really don't want to take out any more private loans, the interest is too high and the payments are waaaay to high.

I have two pounds to go until I am back to my pre-pregnancy weight. woohoo. Now to just lose some more weight while I am at it. Breastfeeding is really great that way, it really does help a person to lose the weight.

Anyway, I thought I'd do a quick update as Harrison sleeps and Josh and Will are gone taking items we no longer want to the thrift store.

Well, where do I start today?

Haven't had much sleep lately, breastfeeding is hard work and exhausting. No wonder it helps a person lose so much weight.

Harrison had a Drs appt on Monday. Didn't receive great news though. Apparently his head had overlapping sutures and the Dr is worried that they will fuse together. I was reading that the suture that he has problems with (the one that runs down the middle of his head) basically makes a head be shaped abnormally but if he has anymore sutures that are overlapping it could cause developemental delays, brain damage, seizures, and blindness. He recommended that we take him to a specialist just so they can check out his head and make sure it isn't anything too serious. Pretty much freaked me out. Of course we are moving so we are going to take him to a specialist at the children's hospital in sioux falls.

The boys

Will had a Dr.s appt today for his last shot until he is 4. He did so well! He didn't even cry, at all! The nurses gave him spongebob stickers (which he loved) and board books for being such a big boy. And then daddy went to the dollar store and bought him some more books and a dinosaur for being so very good. He has finally gotten over whatever he had, my mom thinks it was something called Rosiola-not really sure if I spelled it right. Apparently it is a cousin to the chicken pox and most kids get it before they are two but no cases have really been discovered of children under 3 months since the mothers give the babies their immunities to it. So that is good.

About two more weeks until we move back to Sioux Falls...I have mixed feelings about it. Hopefully things will start going our way now...

Harrison is doing well, he is eating like a trooper. He has started to get chubby thighs, and I think they might beat Will's in the fatness department when he is Will's age.

Not much more to report, just thought I'd give an update on the boys.

Quick update

Wow. Things have been busy lately!

As most of you know, I had Harrison Joseph Allington on May 14th, 2009 by a scheduled c-section. Everything went really well, much better than the first time (but the first one wasn't a planned c-section.) The worst part was the spinal...ick, every time I think of it I cringe.

We went home that Sunday after they cleared Harrison to leave (he had lost a little more weight than they had wanted so they kept us a day extra just to keep an eye on him.) He has since then put on about 3 pounds since we left the hospital. This monday he weighed 9 pounds one ounce. I was very happy to see that since I have been breastfeeding and you never know how much they are getting. He loves to eat.

Will has been coping fairly well. He was fascinated with him at first but now he is kinda getting sick of sharing mommy, daddy, and grandparents time. He has become slightly jealous. But I suppose that is expected of a one and a half year old.

Will hasn't been feeling well lately and has been running a low grade temp the last few mornings so we took him into a walk in clinic. The dr. said she wasn't too concerned, just keep up with the motrin to keep his temp down. Harrison seems to be doing fine, no hint of a temp. He has been getting the immunities from my breastmilk, so hopefully he won't catch whatever will seems to have.

I have been feeling fairly well, much better than when I had Will. This c-section was a lot easier on my body. But I find if I over do it, I really pay for it later. It has now been 3 weeks since the surgery and we are moving in 3 weeks.

anyways, just wanted to update real quick. Not much time to write much else.