Sorry it has been so long since I last posted....

Things have been pretty crazy around here. Plus we have been busy enjoying our summer...while it lasts! So here is an update on all of us:

Hayden is doing great! He has really turned into a lil boy...no longer my li baby! :( He is doing so well in speech therapy...he has a vocabulary of probably around 100+ words...I lost count at 70. His imagination just cracks us up and we love seeing him pretend play...he likes pretending he is an excavator, a dog, and a sheep....Yes, a sheep...you read that right! LOL He is of course pushing and testing the limits...but hey he is 2 and that is what they are supposed to do right?!?!

Here are some pics of the lil guy from our trip to this awesome place called Davis' Farmland down in MA and a pic of him sleeping...yes, sleeping...in the excavator. Now that is love for heavy machinery!!! :) lol




Parker is gettting soooooo big!!! At his 6 month appt he was 19lb, 6oz. He is now almost 8 months old so I can't even begin to imagine how big he is now! He is sitting up all on his own now, crawling (mostly army crawl), and of course we are in teething Hell!!! I will post a pic so that you all can see how bad it is! It is crazy that this child still hasn't gotten any teeth yet! He is eating food now....Oooops did I just say food out loud. Crap he might hear me and want to eat now! lol The kid is an eating machine!!! His reflux is so much better and he is off his reflux medication now for quite a while. And he is such a happy baby!!!! So much better from when he was a newborn...he is so laid back! He is such a joy!!!

Here are some pics of Parker with bubbles on his head ala his brother! And you can see those teeth trying to come through. :o




The two boys love playing with eachother and hate playing with eachother....such is brotherhood!!! ;) We have also been going to a lot of playgroups. I joined a couple of SAHM playgroups in the area and we have been keeping busy getting together with them and with our friend Lee-Ann and her twins, Alex and Grace.



Casey is still working like crazy right now...keep the work coming!!! He just came back from a weekend in Maine visiting Grandpa Veary with his brother and Dad. They got around 10 fish and I got them all because they apparently just fish for the sport and none of them like brook trout. So hey...more for me! Yummmmm!!!

As for me....well a lot has happened since the last time I posted. Well, a lot has been going on with my health. I apparently had a case of post partum depression from having Parker (to be totally honest I don't know if I ever got rid of it from Hayden...I had it really bad with him and never seeked help). I just hadn't been feeling like myself and had absolutely no energy and wasn't thinking PPD but apparently it isn't always sitting in the corner crying like a crazy woman. lol Parker also apparently gave me acid reflux so now I am on meds for that. I feel like a friggin walking pharmacy!!! I am now also lactose intolerant and gluten sensitive. Man I sound like a wreck don't I?!?!?! Anyway, I am feeling so much better now and I have started 2 new jobs!!! I have started my own business as a Independent Silpada Designs Representative (check out my website http://www.mysilpada.com/tiffany.veary ) and I am also training to get my CDL and school bus certificate so that I can drive a school bus for the Goffstown School District. It will be great because I will earn extra money for our family and I can bring the boys with me and it will all work with their school calender when they are older. I figure they grow up way to fast to miss out on any of it. I can have a more professional job after my most important job has been done (not that being a Mom will ever be done lol)! I am also going to be getting my Notary so that I can start notarizing paper work for Casey's company when they need it. So a lot of changes have happened....told ya! :)

Hayden reading up on his driving practices and regulations! lol



And for good measure a pic of Casey and I at our friends wedding back in June.


So I guess that is it for now :)

Life with Parker is getting easier :)

Parker really seems to be settling in to this family...finally!

It is amazing how much he has changed this week. He isn't crying nearly as much and if he does it is for a reason (ie...hungry, diaper needs changing, etc.). He laughs and smiles all the time now...and it just melts my heart. I love gummy lil baby smiles!!! The last two nights he started sleeping in later (woo hoo!!!)...instead of waking up at 2am he is waking at 4am. His reflux really seems to be under control now and that makes life much easier. He also has been falling asleep on his own. When he gets tired you can just put him down and he will fall asleep.

So there is another update on the lil man :)

The Pediatrician's office pissed me off for the last time!!!

I called them because Parker is still having some major issues with his reflux. It is like a viciouis circle that never ends.

He is on soy formula (he is also lactose intolerant ) and we were putting rice cereal in it because it was helping keep the formula in his stomach. Now when I say "helping" I mean it was helping...it didn't solve the problem. He went in for another follow up last 2.5 weeks ago and they upped his Pepcid dosage to 1ml. If anything it has made him worse. He has been spitting up more and just more cranky...which I also think is correlated to him being constipated. Speaking of constipation...the cereal makes him severely constipated. So I decided about a week after going to the follow up appt. to stop the cereal completely. They had suggested doing the cereal every other bottle to help with the constipation...tried it and it didn't do anything. The only thing that helps him have a bm is by putting a thermometer up his bum to help stimulate him to go...but he is still in pain everyday trying to push out the rock hard poop (I know...TMI). So anyway, I stop his cereal and now we have a whole new problem...actually old problem...we are back to the way it was before he was on cereal. More spitting up and regurgitating and swallowing it back down and the cluster/over eating. So...I called the pediatricians office and instead of booking him an appt. they have the nurse call me back. Why? not sure...they should have just scheduled me an appt since it is something he is currently being seen for. So the nurse calls back and says that she wants me to put him back on the cereal every other feeding and to give him 2 oz of either apple or pear juice in with his formula once a day and if that doesn't do it to buy some pediatric stool softener suppositories and cut them in half lengthwise and give that to him once a day. Try all of this for 3 days and if I don't notice a difference than to call back and they will book him an appt. She also believes that most of his issues are stemming from the constipation. So let me get this right??? You want me to give him Pepcid...that doesn't even seem to be doing sh*t for him and then give him cereal because the Pepcid isn't doing its job and then give him pear/apple juice and suppositories to counteract what the cereal is doing to him??? So lets give him one thing and then another thing to counteract that and another thing to counteract that.....WTF?? That just doesn't sound right to me...am I the only one??? Or am I just crazy??? I just want him to feel better and to not be miserable!

So I was already researching new offices to bring them too (I have been unhappy with that office since Hayden was a baby and before we had Parker and was planning on switching after Parker was born) and I had found one last week but figured I would wait till Parker had his 2 month check up at the beginning of March. Well, I called them and they are getting him right in. One of my biggest gripes about the old office is that they are sooooooo huge the boys never see the same doc so no one knows exactly what the hell is going on. Also, I called to schedule Hayden's 2 year appt and asked if I could do Parkers 4 month at the same time...nope..sorry we don't book physicals together. Ughhhhhhhh!!! Plus they aren't real close to home so the new one is only 10-15 mins away and they are a family practice so now all 4 of us are going to see the same doc. Casey didn't like the place he was going to and for me I liked my doctor...so it wasn't that big of a deal to me, but for Casey and I we don't see dr's as often as the boys do and so that is what is important. I want them to get a relationship with their pedi and vice a versa. I would like the doc to be able to remember them when he sees them.

So he went to the appt. the next day and he is great! He is very laid back...he was wearing jeans, t-shirt, and sneakers that day. At one point I was very impressed when he said that most dr's have a God complex and think that just because they have been a dr for 20 years they know everything...he said he is not like that and I would know my child better than anyone else. Most dr's I have ever delt with think they know you child better than you...I think this guy is going to be great! He said that obviously the Pepcid wasn't doing anything and that obviously it wasn't because I even said that it wasn't doing anything. So he said to stop it...he also said that there is a good percentage of babies that it doesn't work on. He said that usually just working with thickening the formula with cereal and giving him some juice each day should help with the spitting up and regurgitating and swallowing it back down and the juice will help him from getting constipated. So we stopped the Pepcid and I started adding more cereal to his bottles (he was getting almost 2 tsp. before and now he is getting 1tbls) and I am giving him juice everyday. He said to start with 1oz of juice and it should help, but if it didn't that it isn't a science just to bump him up one more oz a day. So he gets one ounce in the morning, noon and at night and it seems to be working (one oz wasn't working so I already bumped him up to three oz.). He seems to be happier. And speaking of happy...this child cracks me up when he laughs...it is just the cutest thing! He loves it when you talk or sing to him...he is just in stitches!!!

Parker 6 weeks later :)

Here is Parker in the hospital the day we were leaving at 1-1/2 days old....

Here is Parker (a very pissed off Parker :) ) 6 weeks later in the same outfit...he fills it out just a lil bit better LOL....



And a few bonus shots of my other boys :)

Parker Andrew's Baptism

Well, Parker was baptised yesterday and it went great. Both of the boys were great in church and the party afterward went great.


Here are a few pics from the batism. It was held at St. Lawrence church and his godparents are Magda and J. Jay (his aunt and uncle).

Another update on Parker...

Well, he had another appt last Tuesday and they up'd his Pepcid (the medication for his reflux) and if anything it seems to have made it worse :( I was going to wait till his 2 month appt which is in about 2 weeks, but he just seems miserable so I am going to call and see if I am can get him in this week. I am also going to call around for a new pediatrician for the boys because I really can't stand the office that they go to. Wish us luck!!!

Oh yeah and he was 11 lbs and 10 oz at his appt...he was 5-1/2 weeks old.

Coming home with our new lil addition!

Now this is love!