Other December Updates

Nora's umbilical cord fell off at 10 days old, which was a vast improvement over her brother Jack, who held onto that puppy for 7.5 weeks!  She had a weight check at the pediatrician one week after her first check-up.  She weighed 7 lbs, 15 oz, which was 11 ounces more than the week before.  Big girl!  That put her in the 66th percentile for a 12 day old girl.  She measured at 20", which is 47th percentile.  We officially got the go ahead to let her sleep longer than 3-4 hours if she so chose (she didn't choose to do so initially).

Nora visited the pediatric urologist in December.  We had to bring with us the results from the ultrasound she had in the hospital.  The doctor clarified for us that it is not her ureters that are dilated as we originally thought, it is still her kidneys.  The concern is that she could have reflux (where the urine heads back into the kidney from the bladder through the ureter, which is supposed to be a one-way street).  The fact that her ureters look normal is a good sign that there's no reflux, but they won't know for sure unless they do a (rather invasive) test.  We so far have opted not to do that test.  The doctor recommended we keep her on the Amoxicillin and come back when she's one month old for a repeat ultrasound.  Here's Nora looking darling at her urologist appointment:

Jack's last day of school before the holidays was Thursday, December 17 and he didn't go back until Tuesday, January 5.  It was a very long break!!

The first night of break, our neighbor gave Jason four tickets to the Blues game.  He took the boys and Grandpa Clayton and they had a great time.  Charlie loved his first hockey game!!

We had LOTS of snuggle time with Nora.  We had quite a few visitors, but I didn't do well taking pictures.  Whoops!

New elf hat from Angie

The boys loved putting together their new Legos from the Lang Christmas...

And we tried out the Shrinky Dinks from Aunt Kelly...

Jack typed a sweet note in his Leap Pad...

 And Charlie renamed himself in his Leap Pad...

 I'd say these boys are loving their new baby sister!!  As an added bonus, they received a few gifts from Nora's visitors, including these cool Transformers from Jules...

One day, the boys were being punished for their bedtime behavior the night before, so we told them they had to 'work' all day.  The first task was cleaning out the toys in their room.  They were given three boxes: keep, donate and trash, and they did a surprisingly good job filling up the donate and trash boxes.  Later in the day I asked them to clean the windows.  The day o' punishment, while productive, sort of backfired because they both kept telling us how much fun they were having.

Here are Nora's 2 week pictures...

And a side-by-side of weeks 1 and 2.  Not a drastic change in one week...