Rollercoaster Ride

I love you brudder

Is the water cold Sydney?

She even crosses her fingers while she eats!

Easton - 3 months

Cutie Pie

We heard from Mary Free Bed a few days after our appointment with Dr. McMahon and received terrible news - they couldn't get Easton in for his physical therapy evaluation and head scan until July 10, 6 weeks out. We were devastated. His neck had gotten worse after 3 weeks, what would happen in 6 weeks? So I called our doctors office back and left a message hoping to hear there was another place we could take E for physical therapy. After not hearing back for a couple of days I stayed persistent (thanks mom and Dana) and called back again. This time Dr. McMahon called me right back and was surprised to hear it was going to take so long to get in. He made a quick call to the Center for Physical Rehabilitation in Cascade and now we are scheduled to see someone on Monday. Yeah! We will still have to go to Mary Free Bed on the 18th for the head scan to determine if Easton will need to wear a helmet to correctly shape his head because he only faces one direction to sleep. I'm so excited to get things going. I'm a little afraid of what the physical therapist is going to say about the severity of his condition but can't wait to start helping out our little guy. Other than all of that . . .. Easton is doing wonderful. He just turned 3 months and is a joy to have around. He smiles, coos, and squeals, especially when someone pays attention to him. He loves to play pat-a-cake and do the hand motions to the itsy bitsy spider. His reflux seems to have gotten worse so he now takes medicine two times a day. Hopefully that will help. He slept through the night for the first time on Mother's Day and has been consistently sleeping around 9 hours for the past week and a half!!!!!! Gotta love that.



As for Sydney, she has held Easton a few times now and talks to him a lot more. She tries to play with him and soothe him when he cries. She says, "It's okay. Sissy's here." It's so cute. Her big thing right now is playing outside. That's all she wants to do. She loves to play on all of the neighbors' playsets, run through the sprinklers or slide down into the pool. She did the cutest thing the other day. She woke up from her nap and when I went in there she handed me a dried flower petal that she must have brought in from outside. She said, "Pretty mommy, present for you." She makes me melt. She is still showing a bit of her obsessive compulsive tendancies. She lines up all of her "guys" in a very particular way, she crosses her fingers all of the time, and just tonight she did the same action over and over while playing with Kevin. She ran around the activity gym, pushed down on Easton's exersaucer (in the same spot every time), and ran up to Kevin for another treat. It was almost like one of Pavlov's dogs!