April...in a Nutshell

Updating once a month...how do I keep up? Anyways....It's been a busy month. Charley is now almost 11 months old. She has had quite the month. It started with an ear infection. She went to the doctor got medication and 2 weeks later she still had the ear infection. We then moved on to antibiotic #2 and were back at the doctor's office 10 days later and given antibiotic #3. We tried that medication for 3 days, which didn't help so we ended up having to get an antibiotic shot. Thankfully it worked and she is now ear infection free. Today, however, she has a slight fever. I have given her motrin and am hoping her temp comes down. I guess we'll see. I think the doctor is sick of seeing me. The doctor said the ear infection could be related to the fact that she has cut so many teeth in such a short amount of time. She now has 6 teeth and I'm pretty sure she is cutting two more....yikes!

Justus is doing great. He started speech therapy last month and has been going every Monday for 30 minutes. It's going pretty well...although he is still having a hard time sitting at the desk to work. The teacher says he will usually work, but wants to stand. He also gets distracted pretty easily. We have two more weeks of speech and then he will start pre-school in the fall. I asked the teacher regarding his attention span and she said that we would wait until he has been in school for about a month and see where he is at. I'm really hoping that once he gets into a routine and is around other kids that the attention thing won't be a problem. I guess we will find out. He is talking quite a bit more and pretty clearly most of the time. He still jumbles some stuff together, but it's getting better.

Matthias has also started talking much more. He sometimes is easier to understand than Justus, but not always. He has a little bit of a lisp, but I asked the speech therapist about it and she said we shouldn't be concerned. One thing that has changed is that Matthias has finally hit the "terrible twos". He has been rather defiant lately and says no to everything. He also will throw little fits. They aren't too terrible, and usually nothing compared to Justus' "terrible twos", but definitely a huge change from his usual laidback attitude.

Jon and I also got to enjoy a little time away last month. We took a trip to Silver Spring, MD. We were there for Jon's uncle's memorial service. It was a good trip and we had a good time visiting with family and also seeing the sights in Washington, D.C. As of now, we are planning on taking our house off the market when our contract expires in the next few days. We have had very little interest and with Justus starting school in the fall, we figure it will be easier to wait. We have decided we are going to make some updates...like new windows and siding...before putting it back on the market in a year or so. We are also planning on staying here in O'Fallon. That could change I suppose, but as of right now that is the plan.