My Rapunzel

The girls are napping so I should probably be napping or folding laundry or washing dishes... the never ending tasks of such things. We got home from Abby's doctor appointment this afternoon around 12:30. At one of the checkups we had in the past I asked about her hair, the CNP took a look and said there were a number of things that could cause it to be doing what it is doing. (very brittle, falls out, breaks easily... she has a few small bald patches even) I had always thought that it was because of her 'hair pulling' that she used to do about a year ago.. but I haven't seen her do it in a very long time and her hair is still having issues. Really most people might not even notice it, but if you run your hands through her hair and look closely you can see it.

The doctor saw it. She ordered a CBC and Thyroid levels on Abby to see if there were an abnormalities. I knew when they took Abby in to lay her down that they should have had more in to hold her. I ended up having to almost lay on top of her to keep her from getting away from the poke. It wasn't easy but we got it done. She told everyone she could about the poke and her bandaid and how she got a sucker and stickers afterwards. It was pretty funny, the receptionists enjoyed her. We find out the results early next week I guess. If everything comes back normal than she wants Abby to go in and see a dermatologist.

Like I said... no shortage of doctor's appointments around here it seems. I just want to make sure there isn't an underlying cause that is making her hair fall out like it does. It literaly will come out in chunks at times! And goodness it isn't caused by over-washing... my girl HATES having her hair washed. We only do it when necessary lol.

So in case your curious there are a number of things that can cause it ranging from a Vitamin D deficiency, Zinc Deficency, Hypothryoidism (I have this), Iron Deficency... etc etc... so I guess we'll see where this takes us.

At least Rapunzel has really long 'pink' hair :o) For now at least she can brush that! 

Qwik Update

Ahh... homemade toys....

Tom was teaching Abby the difference between lemons and onions (play food) Onions "Make daddy cryyyyyy?" Lemons: *She does a pucker, spit face*

Abby has been enjoying time with the puppy when she comes to visit. The puppy loves Abby too :o) This was before we got all of the snow! The picture below is our backyard after the snow. 

Abby out helping Tom scoop the snow

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The babies were too worn out from all that hard work..... lol

It's almost Christmas

And I have so much to do... but not the energy to get it done. My umpf has run low.

Both Kiley & Kara have drainage coming from their ears now, thankfully Abby's are ok at least as of right now. Though she has told me 3 times today that her stomach hurts. Hopefully, not the flu bug going around.

Our van is back in commission... I had no idea how much I missed it hauling the kids around. So glad we have it back before Christmas. Very thankful for our body shop guy and his quick work. (he's faster than insurance that is for sure!)

I have about 99% of the gifts still to buy on our Christmas List... hoping I can get a shopping day in with my friend to cross some of those things off! Also hopeful for a nice Christmas Bonus to ease those bills :o)

I spent $150 on groceries this afternoon... and I just looked. We spend about $450 a month on groceries... yikes! I bought 5 family size cans of fruit cocktail today, it might last us a week. Yeeeeeeesh.

Curious...

If 'regular' doctors actually even look in a one year olds ear?

They told me both twins had perfect ears... despite the copious green/yellow junk coming out of their noses....and this is the second appointment now where the day after the appointment they have had thick yellow drainage come pouring out.

Go figure it's back to the drops...

Blizzard

Winter came storming in this morning in the form of a blizzard. We have some large drifts in the backyard from what I have been able to see. It was a little difficult being 'stuck' home all day and with as antsy as I have felt  I'm sure the girls were feeling it too. I was able to catch up some on laundry... which reminds me there is probably still a load sitting on my bed waiting to be folded. It's so hard to do that with the girls sometimes, they are just so helpful!

I'm finally almost done with my Fall Semester. The final is on Monday and I'm so thankful that by all appearances I did quite well even though at times I felt like it was falling apart. It's hard being a student and mom of three.

Church has already been canceled so we won't be going out in the morning. Hopefully it will be cleared up by the afternoon at least. Tom will have quite the job of digging us out. If we had the extra income it would have been nice to have a snowblower. But not this year and that is ok. I only wish I had a stronger back to help him. Hopefully we can avoid more snow ;)

Yikes! I completely forgot to write about how Kiley & Kara's 1 year check up went. They are each 20lbs and 28 inches long (i think Kara is 3 oz heavier but hard to tell if it was accurate lol) It was extremely hard to take them in. Our appointment was at 11:10, I got there at 10:45 (early I know...) we got in at 11:45... my girls were running all over that waiting room and it was all I could do to keep up with them. They were tired and hungry and wanted to go. They each got three shots, Kiley pinched her fingers twice in drawers and bumped her head on one of the cabinets trying to get in. They were not happy campers by the time they got pricked. They were due for the Varicella vaccine (chickenpox) but I decided not to give it to them. Abby if you remember got the chickenpox from the vaccine and with my luck Kiley & Kara would too.... during Christmas. So we decided to hold off on it. I did let them have the flu shot because I'm just ... so tired of them being sick all of the time. Hopefully it will help.

Otherwise they are looking beautifully and on track developmentally, perhaps a bit behind in speech but with their ears as bad as they were they are making up fast. I needed to make an eye appointment for Kiley because the poor thing is showing symptoms of 'Lazy Eye' ... something I had as a girl. Hopefully she doesn't have it but we have to be safe and check it out. If she did have it and it was left untreated she have blindness, nothing to mess around with. So no shortage of doctors appointments here. We will see what they say, hopefully we are just being careful.