I want a new camera

I am not sure how old my current camera is, maybe 4 years old, but I am ready for a new one. The one I currently have is good for throwing in my pocket for on the go shots like when we are at the park, but I am ready for something better. I see the pics my dad's camera takes and they are better and then yesterday I was down at my cousin, Jaime's house and used her camera and loved how the pictures looked.
Yes, I know there is a recession and we are building up on our house so extra cash is not easy to come by now, but I believe I will save up some money and hopefully in a few months, maybe a year :) I will have a new camera to take better pics.

I'm finally back to blog

Well I finally am sitting down to enter another entry. I am not doing it as often as I had hoped but, will continue to try.
We are finally settled into my grandmother's house and are awaiting final approval for permits for the go ahead on our house expansion. We are hoping to have final word and the go ahead this week; it's only about 2 weeks later than we thought. I don't care as long as the work can be done and we can get back into the house by summer's end.

As for the family we are adjusting well to our new habitat. In the beginning the boys were having fun going up and down the stairs; not so much fun for the grown-ups that were around. The newness of the stairs has worn out and they don't go up and down as much, thank goodness.

Dylan celebrated his 5th birthday and since that day his sugar levels have been all over the place and Dave and I are having a hard time trying to adjust his insulin levels to get him to be within his range. The weekend we moved into the house we went to Friendly's for dinner and they boys had sundaes and later that night Dylan's number was in the low 400s; that was even with giving him extra insulin to cover the ice cream. We thought that maybe we underestimated the amount of carbs but since then there have been two other occasions when he has had ice cream and we have given more insulin and even tried to split his dose and he still is quite high during the night.
He has his endo appointment on Monday and I am sure the doc will ask why his numbers have been high and hopefully he will have some suggestions on how to deal with ice cream.
I am also wondering if he has had a growth spurt on top of that and we just need to figure out how to adjust all his insulin doses to get him back on track.

Bike riding

The past couple of weekends have been pretty mild, and we have been taking the boys outside to enjoy some outside time. Well they were super eager to ride bikes so we got them out for them. Now I fully anticipated to push Aidan on his bike (more of a tricycle) as he was unable to pedal it himself the last time he was on it back in October. But to my and Dave's astonishment after just a few pushes he was pedaling all by himself. We were super impressed as Dylan wasn't able to achieve this until he was 4 years old and on a bigger bike. So now when they go for a bike ride there are no more sore backs from pushing Aidan. Now he just needs to learn how to pick up the speed to keep up with Dylan.

Rolled over and wacky numbers

So, Keira finally rolled over from her belly to her back yesterday afternoon. It only happened once but I will considered it a milestone achievement. Both boys did it around this age as well. I was wondering if she ever would be able to do it because she doesn't spend a lot of time on her tummy because she always spits up and then gets upset. So today we will see if she can do it again.

Wacky numbers
Dylan's sugar levels have been so crazy lately. Yesterday at lunch he was 58 and then 2 hours later at snack he was 300; what gives? I thought that maybe I didn't give him his shot but he remember me doing it. Then I thought maybe I didn't dial the pen correctly and he didn't get enough insulin so I gave him a shot at snack time and then proceeded to check him every 1/2 hour to make sure he didn't go too low. He was fine. Then last night at 3:30 he was 205 (normally he is around 100 or lower) and when he woke he was 242. We just can't seem to figure out what is going on. He does have a cold so if that is the culprit his numbers should be high throughout the day. So we shall see what today brings.

What was he thinking???

Today I was sitting in the parking lot waiting for Dylan's school to open when I saw a car drive through the parking lot with a kid in the back seat not buckled in at all. He was probably around Dylan's age and he was hanging on to the head rest of the driver's seat. At first I just thought maybe the guy was just moving to a different part of the parking lot, but NO he pulled out onto the main street and drove away. I sure hope that nothing happened to them.

Pre-school or no pre-school

Well it is that time of year when pre-school registration begins. I am not sure what to do with Aidan next year. I would love for him to go but I need to find something close and that has hours that work with Dylan's kindergarten schedule as I will have to drop off and pick up both of them. I would send him to the school Dylan goes to now as the hours work perfectly and it is close enough but I wasn't overly impressed with the program last year; and for 2 days next year it is only $20 cheaper than it is this year for Dylan to go 3 days a week.
There is another pre-K nearby that has the same hours but when I looked at it for Dylan the class rooms were very small.
Ugghh, I just don't know what to do.

New Blog

Well I have decided to start a new blog since the previous one was titled Life with Dylan and Aidan and now our lives include Keira as well.
Hopefully I will be able to post more frequently than I had been, but who knows.

Can you believe that my little girl is already 3 months old today, next week I have to register Aidan for pre-K and in the beginning of March I have to register Dylan for kindergarten. Time is going by way too fast.