Busy Week

First week of school for C and K! They are both loving it - though this morning they were exhausted and ready for the weekend. Macsen misses them - hooting, looking around and waiting expectantly for them to come running and swoop him up.  I miss them too. The house is too quiet!

First day of preschool celebratory sushi lunch- now a Miller tradition 

(2 times makes it a tradition right?)

Milky Moos after-school ice cream trip with Daddy

And look who is 11 months old this week! Planning his birthday feels surreal.

Sad day

Today we had to say goodbye to our beloved Miette. We found her lying paralyzed in our yard. The vet found she had been shot with a pellet that lodged in her spine. It's been an awful 2 days.

We did get to hold and cuddle her and tell her good bye. We will miss her everyday. We were blessed with another 10 months with her and are grateful for that time together. 

Leaps and bounds

We have had a wonderful week. Macsen has finally started to bear a little weight on his little baby feet :) he won't do it in your lap - only when HE wants to do it. Mainly when he wants to see where his toys have gone that he dropped over the edge of his tub. He scoots his booty up to the side, his legs in the butterfly position and pulls with his arms. He also will try to peer over the top of my bottom dresser drawer if I leave it open to see inside. Little booger is very curious! Another funny thing he does - when he is in the tub playing with his nesting cups he loves to place them on the side of the big bath and if there is a soap dish he will try to stand to get his cup up there! He has  started making a lot more noise - great noises like "ba ba ba" and my favorite " ma ma ma." The girls said "da da da" first so this makes me extra happy. He is sitting so much better - finally preferring to remain upright to play instead of trying to lay down. sometimes when he falls on his back he looks exactly like an upside down turtle - stretching his arms and legs, chin trying to pull his head back up to sitting. And he'll glare at you if you dont help him as if to say "A little help here!!!!" He will also put his arms out to be held, and plays tug of war with toys. He got his first normal, non surgical boo boo leaning over too far and bammed his forehead on the floor. Kismet and I cuddled and pampered him - both blaming ourselves that we didn't catch him.

Right now we are in Birmingham at the Science center and having an awesome time. This place is all hands on and really neat. We've played in giant bubbles, made huge smoke rings, pet stingrays and bonnet head sharks (always a big draw for C.)  I had to take a pump break so am sitting in the car while the fam keeps playing - I will definitely not miss pumping  once M starts eating other food. Still no news on the feeding clinic. 

Hopefully we can start working with them soon. He wants to eat - not puréed- but soft finger foods he'll put in his mouth, mash them then chokes and vomits when he tried to swallow them. I have cut out dairy again and had to cut out my milk supplement fenugreek because I think they were adding to his tummy troubles. We have gone down from 3-5 

massive bench clearing pukes to 1 which always seems to happen in public. Today it was in his sling after downing a record 7 oz in the science center... All over the carpet. Sigh. It seems to always happen now when he eats more than 3/4 ounces at once. I may talk to his drs about a med called periactin that helps speed up his digestion which may help with the huge pukes - a side effect is increased appetite which would be good. He's still barely over 16 lbs - having stalled again from all the puking. 

Here is a video I took of him talking on the 3 hr drive to Birmingham 

http://youtu.be/U0yNdHbGkf4