Happiness

Ethan in the school spelling bee. They allow you to write the word on a white board before you spell it, so that's what he's doing in the picture above. He did really well and got in the top three- just barely getting out on the word acetone saying "a-s- I mean a-c " and you can't self correct! We've been trying really hard for Ethan to gain weight with his ADD medicine. It suppresses his appetite and when a few months ago he weighed a whole five pounds less than Jonah, we decided to do something about it! First, we gave him protein shakes in the morning and sometimes as night. When he lost interest in those, we gave him peanut butter toast or let him eat whatever he wanted to after dinner. It still didn't help much.  After that we decided to switch to a new medicine and see if that helped. It didn't and so I took him off for a month or so. When we went back to the Dr. today he had gained 3 pounds! The Dr said "I was going to say the medicine is h...

Ethan and Jonah made rockets for a school project and Declan found them in the coat closet. He loved blasting them off and he loved having me take his picture and then show it to him again. What a fun kid!

Here's my headache update. My headache has been so much better! I hardly notice it anymore but when I think about whether it's there or not, it still is just a little. It's been amazing to see the growth and progress as it's gotten better. It started out with long stretches of being better and then has gotten to this point of me barely noticing it. I went to a neurologist at the U and he just gave me a list of triggers to watch out for since I'm doing so much better. Yay!! Here are a few pictures lately: It's been quite the snowy winter with a storm at least weekly dumping 4-8 inches each time. Declan loves to go out and eat the snow- even if it's dyed a little green! Ethan made this green snow tree covered in snowballs- pretty neat! The morning after another storm came and left everything covered in white. The kids love it! I wrote this post about two weeks ago, but it still snowed this morning so I can still say it snowed! It's been warmer and rainy an...