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It’s so hard to believe how quickly our boys are growing up… and how little I blog about it. Sorry!! It’s not because they aren’t busy kids and there’s nothing to talk about.

Camden is really growing up. Preschool has done wonders for him socially. I notice such a big diffrence in him already. He is much more willing to talk to people that he doesn’t know as well, though apparently I can’t be in the room and listening when he does it! We were at MyGym today and I walked in the room as he was about to talk to one of the teachers and he suddenly got really shy. I asked him if he wanted me to leave the room so he could have his conversation and he said yes! As soon as I left he started talking to her again! What a stinker! His school pictures turned out awesome! I was so amazed. He is such a stinker when I try to get him to take pictures. Maybe next time I’ll try leaving the room! He’s also interacting more with other kids when we go to the park and other places. He’s really into drawing and art projects and his drawings are really cool to see. He’s actually drawing objects and not just scribbles. Many of his drawings have stories to go with them. He loves to sing (as long as he doesn’t think anyone is listening) and he loves to make up his own words to the songs. He also likes to just make up words (occasionally they come out sounding quite profane… we just ignore those and let him move on to the next!) He is becomming slightly less picky with what he eats, but still won’t go anywhere near broccoli

Parker is growing and changing so much it’s just amazing! I’ve been trying to count how many words he can say but he just keeps adding new ones every day. Over the past week we really have had such a language explosion. I think we are somewhere between 30 and 40 words right now. Today he attempted “Costco” which was pretty cute. Sort of came out like “taco” but he really put a good effort into it One of my favorites is when he says “lawnmower” which sounds like “ma-mower”. He definitely is his brother’s brother! These boys just love when the gardeners come. Parker saw a gardener raking leaves at Camden’s school the other day and pointed to him and called him a “ma-mower.” Along with all of the words he’s saying, he is also still using a few signs; more, please, all done, cheese, milk… I like that he can say “more please.” Thank you was one of his first real words, that’s a cute one too. Okay, lets face it, all of his words are cute! Parker is starting to like to color with crayons, or “draw” with “goggles” as he says. Sometimes he gets his words a bit confused

We had Parker’s 15 month check-up last week and the doctor was very happy with his progress and seemed to think that he was pretty advanced for his age (and that’s when I thought he was only saying about 20 words). It’s so hard to say though, all kids are so different at this age!! I really don’t remember where Camden was. I think he weighs about 27.5 lbs and was maybe 33 inches tall… I can’t remember at the moment. His head is still off the charts but he’s pretty big all around and it rounded the curve like it was supposed to so the doctors are not worried about his big noggin He’s just going to be like his grandpa

We have a lot of pictures of the boys in our photo gallery at http://lizard-lips.com/gallery. I have more to upload that will hopefully be there soon.

Parker has been babbling up a storm and keeps coming up with the funniest words as his first words. Why say easy words like, “hi” when you can try words like, “applesauce.”

Parker’s newest word is “thank you” and it is soooooo cute! Here’s a little video. You might have to turn up the volume so you can hear his replies (he has his back to the camera).

Wow, it’s been a long time since I last posted. I think about it just about every night, I just don’t get to it.

First, we met with the neurologist and they did not find anything wrong with Parker. Every test indicated that he is a strong healthy baby boy. This is great news. We still don’t have any answers as to why he’s rolling his eyes, but nobody is too concerned about it and they think he will grow out of it. He acts a bit like he has vertigo when he’s on a swing, but the doctor isn’t worried about that. They think he might have a bit of motion sickness. Interestingly, this is common in families with history of migraines. We tried to turn his car seat around last week and he freaked so we turned him back rear facing. Maybe he was feeling a bit motion sick then too? Who knows. We’ll try again another time.

When we first made the appointment they told us we would have to wait until August 25 which was a 2 month wait! Today they called and they had a cancelation so we now have an appointment next Thursday morning. It will be nice to get it over with. I have a feeling there won’t be much they can tell us, but it will be good to talk to someone who knows something and it’s not just me making my own speculations. Being the big dork that I am, I accidentally deleted the video off of my camera. I put it back on the card, but my camera won’t play it anymore. Oh well. I’ll upload it to a CD and take that along, I imagine they have a computer there where they can read a CD. We have not seen Parker roll his eyes in quite a while which is great. I do still watch him closely and every once in a while I wonder if maybe he’s doing it, but I can’t see his eyes at the time so it’s tough to say. I think having the video will be a huge advantage when we see the neurologist - it’s a tough thing to describe otherwise.

We’ve got a climber on our hands….

I like this one because I love how his little legs move and don’t get anywhere!

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And, just a minute later… masters the skill!

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For the past couple of weeks we have been noticing that Parker occasionally rolls his eyes back in his head. We have no idea why this is happening, so, this morning we took him to Children’s Hospital for an EEG. Our pediatrician should get the results in about a week.

Totally by fluke chance, I managed to get a video of one of his “episodes”.

 
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So…. I took Parker to the pediatrician last Monday. They submitted the referral for the EEG and we were expecting a month wait to get the appointment once the referral was approved. Not sure if we got really lucky or if our pediatrician lit a fire under someones butt, but we got in today! So much better than waiting a month! Our instructions were to keep Parker up “as late as possible” and get him up between 4 and 5am. After a little internet research I decided that 11pm was an acceptible time to put him to bed. Here’s a few pics of how we spent our night!

Tired boy eating graham crackers:

Mommy brought the water table inside:

Playing catch:

We also spent time playing in the playroom, eating more snacks, nursing, more water play, more playing with balls, practicing walking…. Whatever I could think of to keep him happy! There was only one meltdown and it was cured with a little nursing magic. At 10:30 we took a long bath and then off to bed.

Brian got up at 4:30 this morning, took a quick shower, then got Parker up… he really didn’t want to wake up yet! The best was on the car ride there, Brian sat in the back and did everything he could to keep Parker awake during the drive…. even dripping water on his head! I was cracking up at how much effort he had to put forth to keep the poor child awake.

When we got to the room and got ready for the EEG the technician wrapped him up and I held him down while they started placing electrodes on his head… this caused screaming… which caused him to sweat… which made the electrodes fall off! Time for plan B. We shut off the lights, I nursed and cuddled him and he went to sleep. Once he was out, I layed him on the bed and we started with the electrodes again. For the most part it didn’t bother him but there was one in front of and one behind the ear and those tickled and he eventually woke up, started screaming and started sweating… She quickly added the last few and gave him back to me to nurse back to sleep.

I held him for the duration of the test because we were afraid he would wake up again. After she got enough data while asleep we woke him up and they turned on a strobe type light and monitored just a little while with that light going on and of (flashing for a few seconds then turning off for a bit and repeating.) After that she pulled off the electrodes and washed some of the goop out of his hair and we were done. He got a cute little dinosaur as a gift for being such a trooper. They recommended sedation if we ever have to do this again! Hopefully we won’t!!!! Here’s some pictures of the EEG….

Happy again on the shuttle to the car!

There are more photos in our photo gallery! We’ll update everyone when we get the results!

We finally got some video of Parker taking a couple of steps. It’s not the best video, but you get the idea! I also got a video of Camden and Parker playing in the water table. It was Parker’s first time playing the water table and he had so much fun! Both boys needed dry clothes before nap!

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