Here is a quick update on things:

• Jillian is 7 months old TODAY! I can’t believe we passed the 1/2 a year mark. She is becoming less and less of a  little baby and its bittersweet for me. She is just like Ethan when it comes to food, she doesn’t want it yet. Ethan didn’t show much interest in baby food until 9 months. She did have her first teething biscuit the other day and that was a huge hit! She is still a SUPER EASY baby but she is adding in new skills like arching her back when I buckle her into the carseat and fliping over when I change her diaper. I do nothing to promote things like learning to crawl and am not even going to think about her walking! I need to enjoy these last few “baby months” while I can!  *In this picture (taken yesterday at Sarah’s party) she is in the middle of her blowing raspberries trick.
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• Ethan is currently making me very worried. He has been having stomach aches forever now and has been sick more often than I’d like this year. He is looking too skinny to me lately. This past week he has been getting temperatures every few days but they go away quickly and also headaches. Hopefully we will figure it out this coming week. He had blood work done Friday to test for milk allergies and celiac. Once the results come in I’m taking him to the Dr. again. The last few days I have moments where I fear it could be something more serious so I will ask about more blood work even though I’m probably overreacting.
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• Ben is good …. and bad! On Tuesday he mooned Ethan’s school bus. He is graduating preschool on Thursday! I took him to sign up for Kindergarten last week and he is excited. He loves school and looks forward to being in “Ethan’s school”. I of course would love for him to still be in preschool! Ben is still one of my cutest most lovable kids but he and I have been clashing. I need more patience with him and he needs to turn his ears on and his volume down! I think we need more one on one time. I am planning on a night out with just him and Jillian for Wed.
  
• Jamie is also good and she has her moments too! The boys never screamed like she does, its a new thing for me. She is so cute though and sweet too. She keeps saying “Happy Mother’s Day mom” to me several times a day and I love it! She will run and hug my leg and say it and its the best! She is going to really miss her Tiny Tots class which ended Friday, she has a best friend in it and they are adorable with each other (luckily in Sept they will both be in the same 3 yr old class).
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  In other news the kids are funny. I grew up in a much more diverse area but for the first time the kids saw 2 Hasidic men walking yesterday and the boys thought they were secret agents like in their Heroscape game. They had a very funny conversation as we passed by in the car and John and I just let them think the men in long black coats, big hats and bushy beards were “agents”. As I’m doing this post the 3 big kids have been playing with tinker toys making dogs with penises and bionicle body armor and guns, there is no way Jamie will be too girly!
  Oh and how could I forget the big highlight, Joey’s Italian Ice has opened up a location relatively close to us and we are totally enjoying it!

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