Moving right along to August

I know yesterday was Halloween,

BOO!

but I have not caught up to October on this blog yet.

In MessedUpKids world is it still hot and muggy August.

So put on your swimsuit,

turn up the heater,

and set pictures of tropical beaches to flash by as your screen saver.

Ready Now?

(reminder: all photos taken with my phone, love the HTC)

The biggest news to hit our house in August was

our Little Man turned 3!

He is such a big guy.

Warning - I am about to brag about my kid

Skip to the next photo if you don't want to read it

G knows his alphabet

Can almost count to 20

(that darn 16 and 17, so confusing sometimes)

Recognizes his name written out

Knows all of his colors

even peach

I know because he tells me

a lot

that my skin is not white

it's peach

Take that for Politically Correct!

He loves to do arts

like singing, coloring and playing with play doh

Don't have a clue who he got that from

A love of football or math I would get

Art?

He must've been switched at birth

His favorite toys are still his cars/trains

followed by any kind of ball

currently his soccer ball

He is amazing at playing by himself for hours

He is extremely loving

He is Miss L's favorite person

Pretty much, he rocks

Happy t-shirtless birthday little guy!

(Only 2 months and 17 days late)

Check back at Valentine's day

We just might be celebrating,

Christmas.

Another one of our Little Guy's traits

is extreme caution

Ever since he was little

I never worried about him

wandering off

climbing furniture

jumping off furniture

touching the stove/oven

putting his fingers in the outlets

etc

So, it did not surprise us

that he wouldn't blow out his own candles

but The Man didn't mind helping

Another milestone in our house was

Little Miss turned 6 months!

If she had been born 4 days earlier

my kids birthday's would be exactly 6 months apart

We finally tried to eat real food.

As always, the first time was hilarious

More ended up on her shirt

pants,

face,

the counter,

the chair

pretty much every where

than actually made it in her mouth

She had a BLAST!

It was so delicious she wouldn't even wait for the spoon

As for her health update.

During July

Miss L stopped pooping

so we had food coming out her mouth

and nothing coming out her rear

Something wasn't right

Finally in August we got back to the GI Doc

After lots of exams and blood work

Miss L was diagnosed with

Breast milk Dismotility

(I will refer to it as BD,

because seriously who wants to type that out more than once?)

along with the reflux she already had

What BD means is that she reacts to a hormone in breast milk

that makes her bowels slow down

and eventually stop

Like hers

The only complete cure

is to stop nursing

or take laxatives everyday

until I stopped

Both options sounded lame

A partial cure

would be to give her formula

only once or twice a day

To see if that would help enough

So far we haven't seen much improvement

Bummer.

Thank goodness our kids are relatively

happy and content

even when not pooping.

Finally,

we started out kitchen remodel

we got our cabinets and floors ordered

and started painting and tearing out the floors at home

Scary project ahead!