I don’t know if I’ve talked on here before about Zach’s problem with wetting the bed. It’s a fairly common problem in boys, although most outgrow it by the age of 6. Zach (and Ryan, of course. But he’s been day and night trained since the moment they potty trained almost 4 years ago) will be 8 in April and he still wets the bed. It isn’t an occasional thing, it’s a nightly occurrence. We’ve tried everything short of those bedwetting alarms that look like this (from the bedwettingstore.com):

We didn’t go with that option specifically because of Brian’s work schedule. They are loud and obnoxious and aren’t really conducive to a 2 a.m. wake-up call for him.

So, after trying a myriad of other option, yesterday we started medication. It is supposed to basically stop his body from peeing. It didn’t work last night, but poor Zach had a problem swallowing the pill. Hopefully it’ll be better for him tonight, now that he *sort of* knows what to do (the pill is tiny. smaller than a skittle, even). We are hoping this works for him. We’re giving it two weeks and if it isn’t working, we’ll be increasing his dosage. If that doesn’t work, well, I don’t know what’s left to try. I guess we just hope that he outgrows it sooner rather than later.

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On this Veteran’s Day, I wanted to stop and take the time to say Thank You to all of you who have served this great country. Thank you is not enough, I know, but it is all I have to offer you. So, thank you. Thank you.

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As you can see from my blog design, it’s Prematurity Awareness month again. It started last weekend, obviously, but I’ve had so much going on that I haven’t had a chance to post anything about it. I also made a new banner for the occasion. The small inset banner in the middle is supposed to be animated, but I’m having trouble inserting it into my banner and getting it to actually animate. I’ll keep working on that to see if I can figure it out. If not, it still looks ok. I’ll try and start posting info again, like I do ever year. I can’t guarantee I’ll do it every day this year, but I’ll try to get something up a couple of times a week at least.

I ran across the pictures of the twins right after they were born and will hopefully get those scanned and posted, as well.

So, there. Not much time to post today (at least not right now), but I wanted to “kick off” Prematurity Awareness month on my blog, even if it is a week late!

Happy weekend!

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Thought I’d post out Halloween trick-or-treating pics for everyone. We went with some friends from church (who also have 3 boys) and had a blast!

First things first:

Here’s a pumpkin patch the boys made, which I thought was very cute.

Here’s our jack-o-lantern. He’s patterned after Jack the pumpkin king from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

And now for the trick-or-treat pictures:

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