What's new with the Sicklers? Not much. It's hard to believe that in a little over a week, Christmas will be here already. We are all preparing for that one. Brayden is soo excited- it's so much fun to see him this year, now that he "gets" what is going on.
Speaking of Brayden, he's doing great. He's doing well at school and he's learning to write his name, and doing an awesome job at it- he can now recognize some numbers/letters and write the first 2-3 letters in his name, without help. He's very excited about sports and has decided he wants to be in hockey (yay!) again so I think we'll get him some skating lessons again this year. He is a typical 3 year old and has his difficult "moments", but he makes us laugh every day.
Burke is doing awesome these days. Since we got his eating issues under control and put him on a special formula for his milk intolerance, he's been wonderful. He was great before, but he's feeling so much better now. Every day this past week (except one) he's slept through the entire night (from about 7pm-6am) without even waking up once!! And daycare says he's doing awesome and has gotten nothing but great reports. They say he's been SUPER happy there. That has been such a relief for us to see him lately. He's been trucking right along too with crawling, pullinh himself up, etc. He even started to climb the stairs this week- we have to watch him like a hawk! He also got ear tubes this week and so far, he's done well. No issues at all. Hopefully this will be the end of the constant ear infections for him too. I've also started him with some people food- nothing major, but he can eat some of the Gerber Graduate things- the "puffs", "yogart melts" (cut in half), and he even had some very small pieces of toast this morning when we went to breakfast. He loves it and has done excellent with it. I'm sad he's growing up so fast, but love seeing all the new things he does every day. He is a joy.
As for mom and dad, we're eating up all the uninterrupted sleep we've been getting and we're trying to get everything sorted out for X-mas. This past weekend, we got to visit Mindy and Dusty and their new house, which was fun and they got the kids some great gifts. From here until after X-mas, we're "booked". Next week is the kids' holiday program and then next weekend we are visiting Santa so I'll probably post then with some pics. We hope everyone has a great holiday.
