mum - I'm so sorry to hear. How are you doing? What are you thinking is next? Yes, could not agree more - so much has to line up correctly, it's a miracle anyone gets pregnant. Yet...we're overpopulating the earth! how is that??
so many returns, my heart can't take it! So good to see you too, Wicky!!
WOW what a great update! And pics of M! She's SO adorable!! I love the description of the commando crawl - hey, as long as she's getting to where she needs to be! Malcolm always had a textbook crawl but Timothy's was a 'broken-legged bear' crawl most of the time. He was the first one to walk, though, so it was really just a go-between for him until he figured that out. I love that she said 'Hi Mama!' too!!! I wonder if we are all the ones that are 'the nurturers' to our babies and they feel they don't "need" a name for us just yet b/c we are just always right there when needed? I dunno. Anyway - Malcolm has been saying 'Mama' quite a bit lately so I think I finally have a title from at least one of them!
and I think you're both right - we'll rue the day soon but for now, I love it!
How was the Stepmom stay? I hope everything went well. A month?? holy moly. My folks are coming up for a week in a couple of weeks to watch the boys at the end of that week while we take a quick romp over to Vegas. But things are definitely more scatterbrained when they are here.
Re: the helmet - I'm sure this is a doctor-by-doctor thing but they had told us that helmets would be needed before 10m b/c the soft spots of the skull start fusing after that. So I hope PT can definitely help little M! Timothy still has a slight flat spot but really only we know it's there and can only tell in the bath when I wash his hair and feel it. No one else would be able to tell.
miki - WAHOO for starting your FET!! 4 patches? wow! are you feeling any different with all of that extra hormone? Please keep us updated! I want to relive through you! Though yes - I can totally see how you're very much distracted this time b/c of Kai!
The boys have totally started to play and interact more together now too. I do think that it's just a general awareness of toddlers - you're right. The pediatrician even said last visit that they are 100% self-involved at this point. But now M will laugh at T if he's doing something goofy. M has become a big nose-booper and he wants to boop Timothy's nose too. Oh and don't get me wrong - the usual position of their stuffed animals is in their mouths, on the nose, walking around making crazy sounds just like Kai! This is mainly Malcolm, though. T will actually walk around just holding his stuffed animals. Their other big 'toy' are books too, which we LOVE about them right now! That's basically all we do for an hour before bedtime is read and reread all the books they have in their room, around bath time and brushing teeth and all that.
TTC - omg, it seems I STILL cannot handle Bella's curls!! she's so cute! how does she like tumbling? I think the boys would like it. We go to My Gym and they like that stuff and already love doing forward rolls and having us flip them around. So glad you don't need surgery!!