We're still alive!

Holy Cow, I haven't posted in a while! We've been fairly well at our house. Weston just got over a cough but other than that we've been fairly healthy. The diaper rash was out of control at our house so we decided to switch to cloth diapers. We cloth diaper Rylee and Weston at home and use disposable when we are out and about or they're going to daycare. We're attempting some potty training again with Troy. He's doing alright but the problem comes when he is playing he doesn't want to stop to go potty so its a fight to get him in. Last night he took off his pullup and ran into bathroom saying "daddy I got a go potty" and he sure did! He will only use the big potty, STANDING UP! So you can imagine what the potty looks like after a day of Troy...YUCK! We took Rylee to visit the neurosurgeon a couple weeks ago. Her weight was 16 lbs, 4 oz! AMAZING. That's up 10 ounces. Since she was in the hospital, she hasn't really wanted Pediasure a lot bunch so we decided to experiment. Rylee hasn't gained any weight since February. At the end of August she was drinking about 24-32 ounces of Pediasure a day by bottle and that was pretty much all she was getting. She wasn't interested in pureed foods. We started to give her more table foods, by the speech therapists request. Mid September we started reducing the Pediasure and supplementing with Vit D milk and giving some table foods like cut cooked veggies and soft meats. Today, Rylee is not longer taking a bottle, drinking solely Vit D and eating table foods at every meal. This girl can eat. She eats more than Troy. She got mad at Kristopher tonight because she ate all of her biscuit and he was going to eat his, so he had to give her another one! She has been using a spoon. It's great! We also took Rylee to the Orthoped doc a couple of weeks ago. This was just to check her Surefits to make sure there were no tight spots or rubbing. There were a couple of spots that had to be popped out a little and he put some Teflon tape in the inside to help make moving a little easier. He said that she absolutely HAD to have shoes. They could not be Robeez, which are moccasin type shoes, because they do not have stability to them. He said tennis shoes. He also said that it didn't matter if we got her Stride Rites or Walmart brand shoes just whatever we could find. HA, that turned out to be harder than we thought. Yesterday, Kristopher took all 3 kids to Walker's in Lancaster where his mom works to look there. They came home with the cutest little white and pink pair of Nike's. She hates them but she'll get used to them. They're hers for a while since she doesn't out grown much very fast. She'll probably wear them out before she outgrows them! I asked the Orthoped doc if these braces will fix the problem or will this be a problem throughout her childhood and teenage years? The pronation of both feet is so severe that it's going to be a lifetime problem. There is nothing they can do to fix it. The braces are there to help but not cure. Rylee's incisions are nice and healed. There is one of her tummy that I don't really like the look of but the Neurosurgeon assured me that it looked fine. Her hair is starting to grow back from the surgeries and the rest of her hair is grossly long and constantly in her eyes. She needs to have her hair to be trimmed for sure! The orange dye is starting to come out but there is definitely still a tint to her blonde hair, she looks more like a strawberry blonde. My hair tends to pick up the red when I have it dyed so it maybe more in the genes. She's pulling herself up to everything! She's doing wonderfully! Weston is growing growing growing. He is 10 lbs, 4 oz. He still has all of his hair. His head control is awesome. And he smiles. True smiles. He gets all fussy and fidgety with Kristopher sometimes and all Kris does is hand him to me and Weston is a whole new kid! I just love him so much and I tell him that all the time. Bedtime tonight is coming early for Troy. He hasn't been a very good boy today. His ears aren't working today and he thinks its fine to pick on his sister and back talk to mom and dad so right now we're all listening to him scream to the high heavens. He's sure persistent, it's been a good 1o minutes. It's football season and we love our Badgers and Packers. Do you know how to Bucky?