One Year Later...

Wow. It's been a year since I posted anything. I don't know what happened. I had such good intentions to keep up a blog and record all the wonderful little things that happened in my day to day life. Fail.

So what's been happening? The main thing I remember from the last year? Nathan has been sick. Constantly. It started shortly after turning 1 last October. He got a little runny nose that seemed to not get better and then one night, I go into his room and see that he is really struggling to breathe. So for the last 9 months we have been to all kinds of doctors and my poor little guy has been on every kind of medicine out there. Verdict? He has Reactive Airway Disease and apparently the worst sinus passages known to man. He got tubes put in back in January and they have helped a lot with the ear infections, but not with the cough, wheezing and runny nose. As of right now, we are doing Nasonex, Singulair and Pulmicourt daily with a little Albuterol mixed in when we need it. It sucks. He is just getting over some sort of monster double ear infection and bronchitis. Yuck. I really hope we are on our way to a healthier Nathan, but I doubt it.

He completed another summer of ISR lessons. Yeah! He remembered how to float and he now has a little swim down. So fun to watch. He LOVES the pool. He will jump in from the side and swim to you. Then he wants you to let him swim to the steps to get out and do it all over again. Love it. I can't wait for next summer. I think he will have a full blown swim by then.

Lauren. Wow. She has grown up so much the last year. She starts Kindergarten this fall. :( I can't believe it. I am super excited and super sad all at the same time. She is pretty excited about it. Her daycare/pre-school did a great job of getting all the kids excited about school. The sang songs (We're going to kindergarten in the fall... set to the tune of she'll be coming 'round the mountain.) They taught them cheers and dances. All the kids are pretty excited about the fall.

She is also quite the entertainer. She has really decided that she is a fantastic singer/dancer/entertainer. She sings constantly. I'm not even kidding. All. The. Time. It would be better if she could carry a tune, but alas she inherited her mother's singing ability. That's to say she has none. She also is quite the dancer. I need to post video of this little talent, but she gets shy every time she sees me try to film her and so all my videos don't capture the true Lauren. ;)

Let's see. Oh yes. Soccer. Lauren "played" soccer this spring. I use the word play pretty loosely. We signed her up (at her insistence) but she refused to play a single game. No joke. She cried, she screamed, she laid on the ground. She made Brian stand on the field with her and hold her hand. It was awful and embarrassing. She announced after the first game: "I didn't even want to play soccer. You signed me up while I took a nap." So not true, drama queen. Anyway. It's over and we will NEVER play soccer again. Right now she wants to take swim lessons. Hmm, I seem to remember the swim debacle of 2008 when we took a Mommy and Me class and she cried through the whole class. Sigh. I'm not sure what to do. She is 2 years older and technically more mature. Maybe we'll do swim.

What else? Oh, I have been dieting since the end of January. Weight Watchers. It's been a big change for me. But, I've lost 25 pounds and 2 pants sizes. I don't know how many inches total because I was a baby at the beginning and refused to take my measurements. I only started measuring in the last 2 months and I have lost 8.5 inches in that time. Super excited. I still have 25 pounds to go, but man, I've done it this long, I can for sure do this a little longer.

SO... that's us in a year. I'm going to try to be better this year. I really want to remember these things and this seems like the best way to do it.