Weight Check and school

Zoe Lynn is just gaining nicely!! She is 12 weeks old and now 7 pounds 7 ounces, yep, 2 pounds in 2 weeks! WOW! She is also now 19 inches long. Way to go Zoe! Not a lot else going on with her, they measured her hemangioma and it has gotten bigger, they showed us how much bigger they will let it go and if it gets to that point then they will have to remove it by laser but otherwise they would rather let it go away on it's own. Zoe has also started being awake for an hour or two at night, she is so cute!

As for Kaleb, well, him and I are not getting along right now:) We have been going head to head with the potty for about a week now, he is now in love with his pull ups. I am done though, I got his Thomas the Train underwear in the mail today, after this weekend I am making him go cold turkey, only underwear. He is getting over a really nasty cold so he is extra crabby too! He was checked out today to just to make sure he didn't have anything going on with his chest or ears and he looked great. He has seriously been 40 pounds since I was 15 weeks pregnant (he would always weigh himself at the office) :)He starts school on the 8th, Monday and Tuesdays 8:30-11:30 SO SAD YET SO EXCITED!!

Andrew had his open house today so Bill and I took him to meet his kindergarten teacher. She seems nice but not understanding a lot of what we were saying, it outta be an interesting year! He likes his school though, we also took him and introduced him to his speech, art, music and gym teacher. We are hoping it will make it easier for his transitioning issues. He didn't see anyone from his preschool so he is worried about that. Andrew seemed very overwhelmed with the whole situation, actually he looked like he was going to start crying when we got into his classroom! I felt so bad for him! But in the end he was a bit more comfortable. The school itself doesn't seem as flashy as ELC but ELC has got to be 15 years newer! He will get used to it though. Made me realize how much older he is getting when his teacher was telling us to drop him off on the playground at about 8:10 then he will be brought in by the supervisers and he has his own actual locker. :) Made me sad but excited for him!

That's about it here at the Gardner Household.

Pictures

I just wanted to post some recent pics, pretty much from the last week. Not a whole lot going on right now. Enjoy!

Catching up

Well a lot has happend since I've posted last.

Zoe Lynn is 5 pounds 8 ounces and doing pretty well. We found out that she has some sort of awkward birth mark right on the corner of her right eye that extends to her nose. It looks like a blood blister of sorts but what happens is it either gets bigger, which her's is doing, or gets smaller and causes no problems. With it getting bigger it obstructs her vision and so forth so they are going to measure it again at her next appointment which is in 2 weeks and if it has gotten bigger she will go to a dermatologist at Children's and they will look at lasar therapy or other means of reducing it. Her ped said that by the time she is 2-5 years old it should go away completely. As if she hasn't been through enough. She is now up to about 3 ounces every 3-5 hours, she's doing so well!!

Yesterday my great grandmother passed away after fighting cancer at the age of 85 I believe. Unfortunately we were on our way to see her and she passed away as we were getting everyone out of the truck, very disheartening seeing as she has never met Zoe Lynn. It's what she wanted though, to go on, she was not doing well. At least she is in a better place.

As for Kaleb he is crabby! Doing good though. He thinks that thunder is a choo choo train in heaven (he's a thomas nut if you don't know!) so he says that Percy took his "ma" (that's what he called her) to heaven. He then proceeded to tell us that Percy and Thomas will take good care of her. It made Bill and I lose it, not only the situation but the knowledge that he understands what is going on is just incredible! He's a good kid, just crabby lately!

Andrew is having a blast up north yet with his aunt. He comes home Saturday but it's his mom's week so we wont have him for a bit yet. His aunt says he is doing really well!

We are hanging in there, taking it a day at a time with this crazy life! I'll try to update again sooner!

Opthamologist

Zoe had her follow up appointment with the peds. eye doctor. Her eyes look great but she does need to be seen at about 3-6 months just to make sure. She is doing great and will get her first set of shots tomorrow afternoon. They will weigh her also. The public health nurse will be coming Thursday to start her weekly weigh ins and start the paper work for our Birth to 3 program which Kaleb was in. Otherwise things are going great with her!

Kaleb gets registered for school Monday!!! Sad yet excited!! He will be going twice a week. He is just over the moon excited because he gets a thomas the train back pack:)

Not a whole lot else going on! Enjoying all the family and friends that have stopped by or wished us good luck and congrats for Zoe Lynn, we really appreciate it! I will post tomorrow night after we get the latest numbers for Zoe's weight!