Pumpkin Train - Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!

Well, it's been a long time since my last post - it's been tough to keep up! I returned to work last week and it was bittersweet leaving all of my boys (including their father!) Things went well and Jack seems to be adjusting very well to having both boys at home. I didn't hear alot of complaints about not being able to get some work done, so I'm taking that as a good sign. I'm sure having Elliott in school 2 mornings is helping quite a bit.

We were able to ride on the pumpkin train last weekend with some of our friends and Elliott had a BLAST! I really wish it would have been warmer so that he could have enjoyed the pumpkin patch a little more. It was FRIGID! Here's some outtakes:

Elliott and his buddy Charlie!

On the green tractor:

Until next time.....

Sara :)

Date with Mommy

Today I was able to get out for a few hours and take Elliott to see Toy Story 1 (we didn't stay for the double feature) in the movie theater. It was actually his 2nd movie - his Aunt Shanon took him to his first one several weeks ago ("Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"). This one was 3D - and he didn't wear the glasses the entire time - but seemed to enjoy it anyways.



Getting ready for the previews:



Not loving the 3D glasses too much:


Until next time.......

Sara :)

Skyline

Today will be a banner day - two posts! I took out our more portable digital camera and realized that I had forgotten about the pictures I took at Skyline Chili (one of our favorite places!) - just days after Oliver was born. (I'm thinking he was 6 days old - we went in for the Labor Day special - 1/2 off). It was Oliver's first restaurant outing and we took pictures and some video of Mr. Elliott. Here you go:



Shielding his brother from the mamarazzi:


Elliott had also recently learned to give the "thumbs-up" sign - in his own style of course. Enjoy!

We start them early on Skyline! :)

Until next time......

Sara

1 month

It is so hard to believe that one month from yesterday, little Oliver made his way into the world. I have enjoyed my time with my family SO much - and am very thankful that I have almost a month left!

Already tiring of the many photo ops:

On another happy note, the results from Oliver's nuclear study were wonderful! It was very hard to see him restrained with an IV in his head and catheterized, but once those procedures were done, he slept through the imaging (which lasted about 40 minutes total). They injected the IV with a radioactive dye to make his kidneys light up and about 20 minutes later they injected the IV with Lasix so they could watch the kidney and bladder drain. Then we had an appointment with the pediatric urologist. The results were the best we could have hoped for. As we had surmised, the left kidney is pretty much defunct (only about 2.7% function.) It's only about 2cm long. The right is very healthy, doing what it is supposed to be doing, and doing virtually 100% of the work (97.3%). We have a clean bill of health and don't need to go back for anything until 6 months. They'll do another renal ultrasound at that point to monitor the cystic kidney (left) and make sure that it's not increasing in size, etc. Hallelujah! :)

We also got some photos taken when Oliver was 3 weeks old by our friends, Dan and Brooke Brand of Brand Photo & Design. Head on over here to check them out: http://brandphotodesign.blogspot.com/ .

Preschool continues to go well for Elliott - yesterday there was no whimpering or fussing when Jack dropped him off. I think we're turning a corner!

Until next time.......

Sara