Bits and pieces

This post is just a bit of this and that news, since I have not updated in awhile.  Lucy is now 6 months!  I have not taken an official monthly picture yet, but she is getting so big.  We had her (officially 4 month check up we never had) last week.  She weighed in at 7.2 kilos (15.8 pounds), right at the 50th percentile mark.  Like her brothers, her head is big (97 percentile) and I can't remember her height.  I will have to go back and look it up.  She loves her toes right now, is babbling dadada sounds (probably not an official word yet) and "talking" all the time, is getting closer to sitting up though still falls over after a few seconds.  She is a joy to have around and loves, loves, loves to smile.

She grabs her toes whenever she can...and check out those cute rolls.

How sweet is that?

Austin is sick this week.  He came home from school Monday seeming listless and started running a fever.  We ended up at the doctor's office Wednesday after he complained of his neck hurting...scared me it might be meningitis.  Thankfully, he got a clear report from the doctor and his neck pain was actually gone by the time we got to the doctor. I think he just slept on it wrong. He had been laying on the couch at a weird angle earlier that afternoon. He is definitely better now, but coughing a lot.  I am not sure if Bennett might be coming down with it now.  He fell asleep at 11 am this morning on the couch, surrounded by all of us noisily being around.  Then he slept 3 hours this afternoon. No fever yet but we will see.

The weather is finally nice!  Close to 60 degrees or a little over this week and blue skies.  We did manage to play outside once in the middle of sickness but hopefully there will be more of that to come.  It looks like we probably won't be moving, unless something really unexpected happens in the next week.  Angie and Jason still have not decided where they will move, but just today a nice apartment opened up just above us in our building on the 10th floor.  We are hoping it will work out, since then they would still just be an elevator ride away.

Pre-sickness pictures...lots of silliness in this house, especially involving underwear

Nightly wrestle-fest on our bed with the boys.  Bennett still considers underwear as being fully dressed.

 I recently went to see some neighbors of ours who are practiced in some alternative health practices and regularly help people around here (American neighbors).  I have still been having some weird nerve issues over the past few years with no medical explanation.  Anyway, they suggested I try a special diet over the next couple of weeks as a de-tox, including no gluten, no dairy (except plain yogurt), no sugar among many other things.  I decided to skip the Chinese medicine they prescribed for now since I am nursing, but am going to try the diet.  So I am trying a lot of new recipes and eating a lot of rice (good thing I am in China ha).  We will see if anything changes.

Finally, Mom, Dad, Char and Em...I ordered a food processor finally!  This was a birthday present and I had been trying to decide which one to get.  I finally ordered it at 9:30 last night on Taobao (the Ebay/Amazon of China) and it arrived at 3:00 this afternoon!  Gotta love Taobao.  Used it for dinner to make zucchini "noodles" (gluten free you know) for soup tonight.  THANKS!  I love it already.