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Baby K said Thank You for the first time today! Pronounced as above.

Once a Month Cooking

Ok so one of the mom's in my moms group has been doing this and I kept on thinking what a great idea it is. Prepare all of your meals for the month in one day. Then you either bake, BBQ or slow cook it and dinner is ready! What a great time saver.

I recieved this cookbook for my birthday:

The book is even published in Canada! Here is their website www.thebigcook.com there are pictures of the recipes and even one to try out.

So I am excited to give this a try. I just need to get organized, pick which recipes I'm going to try and then make a shopping list. So when I try it I'll let everyone know how it goes.

Hope's Pics

I just love this series of pictures. Although not techically perfect they absolutely show the interaction between my boys, perfectly.
So freakin' cute

Ahhhhhh... my little momma's boy.

Mr O looking as handsome as ever.

Baby K too cute for words.

Baby K's little hands.

This is Mr O's impression of Frank from Cars (you know the big red combine that chases McQueen & Mater). Very funny stuff.

Handsome boys

I'm not entirely sure why but I really love this picture of Baby K's feet.

Here is the link for the rest of the pictures if you feel so inclined:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=h.walls.ticdesign&target=ALBUM&id=5308129962997350545&authkey=Gv1sRgCITW44Gj2LDQqgE&authkey=Gv1sRgCITW44Gj2LDQqgE&feat=email

What We've been Up To

Well, where to begin? How about right after the party. On Sunday Hope came out to take pictures of the boys, the last set of the milestones package. As always we were really pleased with the results. I wish my pictures could look that good! lol.

Monday Baby K had his appointment with his pediatrician, just a well baby check up. He is up to 19 lbs and was 29 inches tall. Mr O was 16 lbs and 26 inches tall at a year. Baby K is definitely our "big" baby though according to the charts he is only in the 3rd and 10th percentiles respectively.

Monday evening somehow (Brandy this was your girls fault, lol) Baby K came down with a horrible stomach flu. Vomiting & diarrhea, horrible horrible horrible. Thankfully the rough patch only lasted about 24 hours. Unfortunately the rest of the family went on to get it (grandparents too) The only one to escape unscathed was Mr O.

Baby K got his 1 year vaccinations at the end of that week too. I really hate doing the vaccines when they are "aware" enough to really anticipate the needle. Its so sad when they are screaming already because they know what is coming. He recovered quickly however and suffered no ill effects from the vaccines.

All the while through everything since Baby K became sick he never really got back to being himself. His little belly was sticking out, he had bags under his eyes, he was incredibly fussy, no appetite, which just isn't like him. He is normally so very happy. So back to the pediatrician we go. He recommends we try Lactaid to give his little intestines time to recover from the stomach bug that he had had weeks earlier. It works! Within a day or 2 he was back to normal. His little prego belly gone and everything!

So he is just finishing up the Lactaid milk and then we will try to switch him back to Homo milk. I'm paranoid now that he is lactose intolerant or something but we'll just have to wait and see.
Karl snapped these last two pics one right after the other. Mr O pitching a fit and my reaction to it. Do you think I've had enough. Oh Yeah!

Party Pictures ... A month overdue

Sorry about the delay folks but it has been a bit crazy around here the last month. But without furthur adieu here are some of the birthday pics. Just a few cause my internet is so slow! I made the cake! I was quite happy with how it turned out.