Edmonton!!!!

Some of Joe's family came up for a little visit this weekend. His Mom, Meg and Ryan, and William to be exact. Ryan really wanted to go to Edmonton and see the Gretzky statue at Rexall Place (an arena for all you non hockey people) which is just one of the many stops we made. Meg and Ryan needed to go and get a picture of one of Ryan's ancestors we took Joe's mom and William to see the Edmonton temple and continued on to West Edmonton Mall. If any of you were wondering we still only have our olds cutlas and we fit two carseats and 4 adults into it. Not comfortably but we made it to our destinations. At the Mall Ben, Kaleb and I watched the sea lion show while William and Joe did some shopping. Meg and Ryan, and William all went swimming at West Ed while Susie, Joe and I and the boys all went to the Telus World of Science. We enjoyed ourselves their and Ben sat on a tongue (plastic).

After all of that you would think we drove home right???? Wrong!!!! We continued on to find the Legislature building in downtown Edmonton and played in the many wading pools out in front. We also met up with one of Joe's cousins and his kids at the pools and had dinner with them.

We had a very enjoyable day!!!
Kara

Just Updates

So last weekend we went and visited Meg and Ryan in Raymond. It was nice to see them and Benjamin fell in love with Ryan. Everyday since we left all Ben can talk about is "see Ryan, play basketball, watch baseball, see Ryan, long car ride, Ryan". As you can see he really misses Ryan.

Kaleb is determined to sleep as little as he can during the day. He sleeps fairly well at night but I like him sleeping during the day as well.

Benjamin, Kaleb and I all came down with the stomach flu the last two weeks. I was first and then we had a few days where no one was sick and then Benjamin started puking and then Kaleb started puking (it was hard to tell if he was sick or just spitting up). Finally they both got over it and I am able to leave the house without fear of the boys vomiting or the other.

The weather here has been fairly nice which is good cause our house heats up really easily.

I did turn a quarter of a century old on Sunday. Mom and Dad came to visit and brought a delicious turtle cake (recipe thanks to Laura) and we were supposed to have some of their garden lettuce but decided to pass when we found the caterpillar that was making his cocoon in the lettuce. I am sure it would have been good.

Well that's about it. Kara

Ali - What??? Alimentum

So we went to the pediatrician yesterday to hopefully find out why Kaleb vomits so much. Well the Dr sad it probably is a combination of acid reflux and a protein intolerance so he has him taking Losec which is for the acid reflux and Alimentum formula which is hypoallergenic for the intolerance. So far he has spit up / vomited way less and he has only had like 4 feeding. I feel kinda like I might be starving him because he isn't eating all the time like he was before. He also is not vomiting like he was before either so the more that stays in the less we have to feed. Yeah!!!!!
The Dr also wanted to rule out some sort of bladder/kidney infections that can also cause vomiting and so we had to collect Kalebs pee for that. Now how the heck do you collect a baby's pee you ask. I little bag that is specially made to fit over his "little bits" as the lab tech described to Joe, of course. From where we put into a collection bottle ourselves and also on some sort of dip stick thing with a little plastic syringe thing. That is my medical explanation and hopefully he peed enough because for once he didn't pee very much at one time. I really don't care to do it again.
Anyways thought I would let you all know that so far Kaleb is doing better and let's keep it that way.
Kara