Vocabulary

I wanted to make a list of Kyle's words at 2 because I haven't stayed up on it or really remember when he first started talking and attaching meaning. But it has taken off. So for his record and because I think that it is interesting---Go! Diego, Go! has helped a lot with animals by the way.


Food:
cereal
cookies
crackers (crackies)
hot dog
chicken
juice
ice cream
snack (fruit snacks)
apple
strawberry
smoothie (soothie)
lunch
hungry
eat
popcorn (o-orn)


Every Day:
poopy (this and bath go very closely together probably because we've had so many blowouts)
bed
pillow (illow)
wet
water (wa wa)
go
shoes
out
on
off
open
door
phone (ohn)
book
toys
blocks
gun
tv (tee vee)
airplane
truck
seat down (refers to his high chair any place to sit and car seat used as a verb and noun)
blanket
a song (a sog)
socks
pants
shirt
sippy
button (often means volume because we use the computer or mouse for that matter)
hat
buckle
brush (ush)
potty
bath (ath)
shower (ower)
backpack (ack-ack)
glasses (glassssies)
ball
basketball (baseball)
bike
help
please
thank you (ank you)
kisses
activaté (spanish for activate)
bye
cloth
sorry (he says it unprovoked and repeatedly if anyone says "ow" or thinks he hurt us)
light
tent
bubbles
Daddy work (daddy-urk)


Body Parts:
face
hands (also means hand sanitizer)
toes
button
nose
eyes (obsessed)
boogers
ears
hair
head
boat
train (ain)
tree
blue (boo)
green (geen)
uh-oh
oops
no


People:
mommy
mommy daddy
papa
mammi (sounds like mommy)
Zoie (soie)
Avery (avy)
Heidi
Oliver (ol-ver)
Aiden
Addison
baby
monkey (monks)
KYLE
Dane
Halle (alle)
Diego (eggo)
Alicia (lisa)
Elmo
Jesus (jee-see)


Animals:
bobos (Diego reference)
cat
dog
bird
rabbit
lion (and knows sound)
jaguar
bear (ear)
bug
octopus
turtle
fish
horse
pig
cow
tail


This is in no way exhaustive, but he talks all the time and he picks up things that I didn't even know he was exposed to or that I had said to him. He often learns a few new words a day. He'll also repeat almost anything you say--so sometimes it is hard to know if he knows it and will say it unprovoked. That is a pretty good list for a kid who started talking so late we needed a 15 month doctors appointment.

Long Overdue

Hey all,

Well, we've done a lot. We had a fun filled week long trip in Ohio the beginning of August, of course, I have a lot of pictures that I want to post; however, who has time to do all the uploading. We blessed Aiden and Kyle turned 2. Right now, the best I can do is some random pictures from the last month or so.

This is Aiden with Winks. Winks is his elephant that matches from the same collection as Kyle's monkey. We chose it to be his love before he was born and this time we bought 2 to begin with. Have to say, I was so super excited and so was Evan. We'll let you know when he even starts to bother with the fact that he is there. It is being called Winks instead of elephant because elephant is a hard word to say--unlike monkey and the name that came with Kyle's monkey is Dangles (yuck). Winks is cute.


We met Addison, my sister's baby (her first), the day after we got back from Ohio. She was born the day we left. I have to admit that when I look at her or hold her, I feel like I'm looking at a mini Heidi. No one else sees or feels that. But it is such a strong resemblance to me--not even my mom thinks that. She needed to look at baby pictures. But I think of her as mini Heidi.


I like this picture because there is a reflection of Aiden's face in the window.


My mom came at the beginning of September and will be here for a whole month :) She is reading to Kyle (who loves to be read to) and Addison (who doesn't care either way).

But I do have everyone's favorite: STATS


Kyle at 2 year check up-----
22 lbs 6 oz (below curve, he still hasn't gained weight back)
32 in (5%) although other doctor said it was 10%
head is 75%--go figure

Aiden at 2 months----------
12 lbs 11 oz (75%) at one month he was 10 lbs 9 oz also 75%
23 in (50%)--don't believe this because he is wearing 6 months and born at 22 in
head is 70%

Aiden sleeps now from 7:30 or 8pm to 5 or 6am (10 hours), eats, 20 mins later back asleep until 9 or 10 am. So about 14 to 15 hours of sleep at night. He is also in Kyle's room in the crib now and Kyle is doing so much better in the toddler bed this time around.

More pictures and stories of August and the 2nd birthday cake disaster to come. Plus, updates on Kyle's eating. Sneak peek: it's going well and he is doing better.

The Results

Kyle has not been well. In fact, he started having diarrhea and vomiting on the 19th of June. It has not stopped, well let me rephrase, it is intermittent. But at least once a week he vomits and the diarrhea is usually pretty sever several times a week. I've done a lot of laundry since the 19th of June.

So we saw a lot of our pediatrician. No luck. Started to see a gastroenterologist. He suggested some scopes. So last Friday, while I was in the throws of food poisoning (Evan was as well, but he was at work), we went to Riverton Hospital and Kyle had scopes and biopsies. This does require him being put out and on an OR table. The doctor told me there were some abnormalities and he had done lots of biopsies. The results would come in today. On a side note, Kyle did not come home sleepy like I had hoped (I was so sick), he did not take a nap until 4pm that day. I hate what medicine does to my child---it is not sedating like I wish it was.

We got the results this evening while I was making yummy lasagna roll ups for dinner, Aiden was screaming in the swing, and Kyle was calling out for me on the opposite side of the kitchen gate. I just shut myself in the pantry. I love our gastroenterologist, but he did read me the report from the lab word for word. What I do know is that there is a lot of inflammation in his stomach, duodenum, colon, and intestines. There is a lot of e-word things that suggest he is having a type of allergic reaction and something having to do with white blood cells is also high. These things are usually seen with celiac disease, but the villi in his intestines are still intact; therefore, it doesn't look like that is the cause. What is the cause? No idea.

We could see an allergist, but the doctor thinks that won't turn out a definitive answer. We could try steroids or we can take him off all dairy (we already have taken him off milk and ice cream, which was causing too much stool earlier in his life) and all soy for ten days and see. We are going the second food route starting Monday when I can get to the store to buy almond milk and have a little time to plan out a dairy/soy free diet. What are we going to eat?

All I know is that there is something wrong with my toddler. He has not been himself and the diarrhea gives him yeast rashes and causes horrible painful skin. His weight is dropping while he is getting taller (he was small to begin with). He is also sleeping--a lot. Most days 15 hours or so--we sometimes even have two naps. On the day in the picture, he went to bed at 8pm one night. At 3:30pm the next day, I went to see if he was still alive. He was up until 5:30pm, slept on my bed for an hour, and went to bed at 7:30pm where he slept soundly until 10am the next morning. He has huge dark circles under his eyes most of the time.


I wish that I had my little boy back and I wish that they could tell me more definitively what was wrong. Something is wrong and the test corroborate that. Now, we just have to play around until we can find a solution.

Almost Two

This is what an almost two year old loves. He loves shoes (he found one and had me put it on) and pants--he tries desperately to put them on himself, but then he usually brings it to me. "Help me." So today, two pants, one shoe and a grin because he loves the camera. "EESE"


And he loves the bouncy seat--always turning on the top part so it plays music nonstop around this house.


This was taken back in July, Aiden was probably three weeks old. And that is how Kyle likes to hold him, by himself. Then he pokes at Aiden's face with both hands since there is no bother supporting Aiden. :) Matchy, matchy.