Gardner Village

Here is SLC there is a nice little shopping area called Gardner Village where all the shops are in old farm houses in a complex. They go all out for Halloween. Heidi, Addison, my mom, Kyle, Aiden and I went in the beginning of October to get pictures of the kids in their costumes.

Isn't Addison the cutest?








We had to switch the sides of the kids because of their natural leaning would help keep them upright against Kyle better.








It gave us a lot of really good pictures. I just love those boys. Kyle was so happy in his monkey suit.

Herriman Lake

Did you know there is cute man-made lake up in Herriman on the mountain side with a beautiful view of the valley? There is.

My mom and I took the kids to play for about an hour one evening. We stayed until the sunset and it got freezing quick--oh and the bugs came out. But it was great that you could drive right up to within 10 feet of the lake so you don't have to carry all the way from your car. Sweet setup.




Aiden stayed in the shade by putting a blanket in Kyle's old swim seat that has an attached shade. He liked it for about 20 minutes and the mesh made it so he could watch Kyle in the water.

It was a sweet spot, although Aiden never made it to the water.

Heidi's House of Fun

While my mom was here, we spent a few days at my sister's house in South Jordan hanging out.

Kyle watched the air popper popping popcorn. Loved that.


He really likes to push my niece, Addison, around Heidi's kitchen in her top of the line high chair. He loves to push. Most days he physically pushes me around the house for fun.


He also got to wear an apron and hat, while the rest of us made applesauce. Cute boy.


Have I told you how good Aiden is? He is. He is getting a little less content since then, but he stayed on the floor mat for about 2 hours both asleep and awake.

State Fair

My mom was in town for the month of September. So she and my sister went to the Utah State Farm. Something that I just didn't care much about. I was able to clean my whole house while he was gone, that was a god send.

Antics

My boys love each other. Sometimes too much. But Kyle cannot leave Aiden alone if he can get to him--like on the floor.


Kyle loves to color right now and draw. He also likes to jump. He was both coloring and then taking breaks to jump on our bed that particular morning.


My chub. He is such a happy boy and he smiles the most for Kyle. When he is dressed it is hard to tell how rolly he is---but look at his legs and this isn't a very good picture.


Kyle loves his piggy bank. So I went to the bank and got a dollar in pennies. I gave it to him and went and made some phone calls in peace. Hallelujah!


We tried Aiden in the bumbo---no go. Not enough head strength yet. But Kyle loves to sit in it.

Food--what good is it?

Well kids, the health problems have extended to Aiden and Kyle's have not been resolved by the diet. Unfortunate. It means that we go to the doctors (allergist/nutritionalist, pediatrician, or gastroenterologist) about every week.

Aiden had to be moved to special formula without milk or soy protein. The pediatrician also had us giving him several feedings of rice cereal a day at 3 months. It wasn't working. He was in a lot of pain because of it. But he did love some of the feedings. This is not his first, because I usually fed him when Evan wasn't home, but we did get some pictures of a feeding Evan was able to do.



Kyle is now on steroids. We are going to try to reintroduce him to soy and then dairy depending on how the soy goes. It is possible, now they are telling me, he has early celiac or mild celiac. So depending on how this all goes, we will probably be off of glutten soon and needing to see a nutrionalist, as Kyle already only eats well almost nothing. We would be down to fruit snacks and juice. And he hasn't gained more than three ounces depending on the scale since June.

But both boys have huge circles under their eyes. Kyle won't sleep well and Aiden sleeps about 20 hours a day. However, at three months Aiden weighed 14 lbs 2 oz, which was about 1 1/2 lbs in a month, so they feel we have time with Aiden because he is growing. Kyle is more of a concern as the lack of growth.

I'll keep you all posted. :)

Fall

We had several days last week of weather in the upper 40's low 50's. We even had two days of snow. So that meant...boots. Kyle got snow boots for his birthday and since I don't have rain boots or anything, that is what we used.

(not his boots, mine, in case you couldn't tell :)







He loves his snow boots. He asks for them and to go "walk snow." He would have spent hours walking around our playground in the snow if I had time and let him. Aiden loves the little starfish blanket that allows me to buckle him in and keep him warm--thanks Alyse! Well, maybe I love it for him.