Expelled

Have you heard of Expelled the Movie? Its a docudrama with Ben Stein that explores the world of Intelligent Design research. It looks pretty interesting. Apparently the Jesus Mural has a part in the movie, for all you Biolans. It comes out tomorrow and you can check the website to see what theaters it's playing at.

Update on Ethan

Ethan is now 4 months old and weighs 14 pounds 10 ounces. He is all smiles, even when he's crying, you can usually talk him out of it and get him to smile. We've finally been given a good (early) sleeper . Only problems we've had: he has pretty bad acid reflux. All newborns have this to a degree; but his is particularly bad. His weight gain has not been great, partly due to this (remember, he started at 10 pounds). So, I'm off dairy and we've upped his Zantac dosage all of which is helping.

His newest trick is rolling from tummy to back. He's still not sure he's doing it because when he does he has this stunned look on his face; "How did I get here?"

Ethan also had his first taste of cereal yesterday. He liked it, opened his mouth wide each time. I remember Joel kept his mouth tightly shut. Then when I did get some in joel's mouth he would spit it out at me. Ethan gobbled it right down! Incidentally, I was going to wait another month to introduce solids. However, a new study by the APA came out saying that delaying solids until 6 months doesn't do anything in preventing food allergies. So I decided, why not? Maybe it would help with his acid reflux.

This picture is hilarious. Right when I snapped the picture a clash of thunder echoed outside. Ethan was unphased, but big brother was a tad bit worried.

I'm baaackk!

In more ways then one I'm Back.

First, I hope to have a handle on life so as to resume blogging somewhat regularly. The problem is that I am so tired at the end of the day all I can do is flop down and read or watch tv or go to bed. I stopped reading blogs of moms with 2 kids and newborn. Seriously, don't know how they can do it AND make their house cute. All I want is to not have spit up on my floor and shirt!

Second, is I'm back, as in really back from the sickly masses. Wednesday morning I awoke with a case of Knives in the Throat, aka strep throat. But alas, the Knives did not send me to the doctor. As all moms would do, I took 2 Tylenol and changed a diaper, thinking the aches, chills, fever and Knives would somehow go away by themselves. Meanwhile I did alot of sleeping while Aaron held the fort down. By Friday morning when I could no long swallow and having trouble breathing, I realized that the Knives had set up house. I called my babysitter, who thankfully was on spring break, and she came over so I could go to the doctor. I picked up meds anxiously and headed home. I'm thinking my babysitter is a saint because when I got home she offered to stay so I could take a nap! Um, yes?

So after taking vicodin, I could once again swallow with minimal pain. Yes, narcotics still didn't make me pain free. It did make Ethan pretty sleepy, however. Aaron took the 2 big boys to the zoo on Saturday while I stayed home with the baby. That was awesome. I had the whole day to myself at home. Granted I had Ethan, but like I said, we were both on vicodin.

Thanks to the Z-Pac (which is an AMAZING thing) I am now on the mend. I can swallow today without drugs. My house, however needs to be on the mend. Fortunate/unfortunately the kidlets were unaffected and continued with merrymaking while I laid in bed.

Moral of the story: If you wake up with a sudden sore throat and a fever/chills, do yourself a favor and go to the doctor right away.