Tubes

Forgive me for neglecting the blog a bit lately. I've been busy with my new job and the kids and everything, so I feel like I haven't been taking very many pictures or videos lately!

Ava had her ENT appt. yesterday and she will be getting tubes in her ears. I am waiting to hear back from the Dr.'s office to schedule the surgery (they needed to clear it with the insurance first), but we are eager to get it done. The ear test they did confirmed that she has a lot of fluid in both ears, and the Dr. did say he thinks it is probably affecting her balance and causing her to be a late walker. It makes sense--I wouldn't want to try to walk if I was dizzy all the time either! Poor girl. I hope we can get her surgery scheduled soon and hopefully 2009 will be a good year for all of us!

Aiden starts back to preschool tomorrow, and we are all excited! :) He is ready to go back and be with his friends, and Mommy is ready for some more time in the mornings to be able to work while Ava is napping.

I'll write more later this week and promise to upload some of the video clips I have waiting on the camera!

All aboard the potty train!

Well, I think we can officially say that Aiden is potty trained. Not at night, of course, that will take some time, but he has been doing just wonderful during the day. Potty training was 1000 times easier than I thought it would be, and I think it just was the right time to do it. In the last week Aiden has only had 2 accidents, and mainly it was my fault for not reminding him to go. He has even been waking up dry from his nap too! We are so proud of him:)

Aiden really thinks that being "potty trained" means getting a train as a present once he is done using diapers, lol. He keeps telling me, "Mommy, now that I am all potty trained, I would like Duncan!" Duncan is a yellow train from Thomas the Train. I think we'll have to get it for him as his potty reward!

Just two random pics from the other day. Hope you all had a nice weekend!

Birthday scrapblog

I am not sure if this will work, I am having some issues on Scrapblog today. I'll try to fix it again later!

Another Ava video...

This was a little video clip from yesterday. Ava was watching the cats out on the porch and really wanted to go out with them, but it was cold! (relatively speaking...for the southeast;) Anyway, I thought she was being cute, so I wanted to share!

Birthday video

Here is the video from Ava's birthday! I did it on Youtube instead of posting it directly to the blog so that I could keep the quality better. Sorry that there is an almost constant red light on her face--I was taking a lot of pictures!

Enjoy! (this can take a minute or two to load, so please be patient)