The pics are of the girls after their shower tonight. Lena loves the water, bath shower, sink she doesn’t care, its all great. Kassie is developing a dislike for bath/shower time. It’s one of the few times she actually cries. I think I need to try bathing her at a different time and see if it makes a difference. Maybe she’s just getting too tired in the evening to enjoy her bath/shower. I tell yah, Kassie is going to get away with murder when she pulls out that face though. It’s a heart breaker, already the other kids will do almost anything to make her smile again.

Teeth are over rated BIG TIME. Sure they give you more menu options but really lets think about it. Teething sucks, I’m not sure who it sucks more for, Baby or Mom. The crying, the whinning the not sleeping. I just don’t know who suffers more. Right now at our house it’s a toss up. Do we really need the teeth? Pureed food can’t be all that bad, same stuff just quicker to eat. Besides smothies and shakes are IN right?

All joking aside. Right now teething sucks. Kassie wasn’t so bad in the beginning, the cutting through didn’t bother her much, I didn’t really even notice a change in her really. Now that it’s working its way up though she is a bit more testy. Bearable though. Lena on the other hand thinks that this discomfort means that as long as she is awake, she is entitled to be in my arms (in fact I am typing with one hand right how as she is in the other). Oh yeah and after about 9am she is conscious most of the day. Sure she gets tired and grumpy (whinny) and needs a nap, so she falls asleep in my arms. After about 10min, when I think its safe to put her down I get up from wherever I happen to be and if she doesn’t wake up upon standing or when I put her down (this happens quite often) she will have a 10-20min cat nap. Does she go back to bed, heck no, she’s wide awake and ready to play, eat etc. I tell you this kid does not need to sleep. She sleeps fine at night so its not her bed or laying flat etc (as suggested by Nana) she just doesn’t nap. So as you can imagine I get a lot accomplished these days.

Teething makes this routine even more fun, she is fine to be put down to play right after waking, then she just wants to be held. Oh the whining, now that Kassie has decided that teething sucks and Lena figured it out right from the start, when they get going I start to go snaky. They tell me that this only last until they are 3. Yes the last baby tooth comes in around 3 years. Yeah!

On the bright side of things, Miss Lena has been making leaps and bounds this week. She has decided that she would prefer to play and just be in an upright position, laying on her back results in loud vocalization that would pierce any good ear drum. So the bumbo chair is great. We also retried the exersaucer today and she lasted considerably longer than before. When in an upright position she has much greater head control, she has really started to move her head in all kinds of directions. Her eyes look better this way too. Hopefully all these improvements mean that good things are happening in there and we WILL NOT need surgery again. Our appointment with the neurosurgeon is on Tuesday morning, the closer it gets the bigger the knot in my stomach grows. I really do not want to see her go through surgery again. She is doing so well and is so happy….