In big news at our house....Bayley has another tooth and a 3rd that you can see under the skin that hasnt broken through yet!!! Sydney spotted her 2nd tooth last night and Devin saw the 3rd tonight. This was out attempt to get a picture of her two teeth!
Bayley is such a booger and refuses to let us get a picture of her pearly white teeth but dont worry...I will win in the end! Bayleys tooth coming in explains the last few weeks of dealing with a fussy Bay, bad appetite, runny diapers, runny nose, diaper rash...this isnt just plain diaper rash...this is bleeding for days. It has been rough but she is better right now. Bayley had really started playing a lot. She LOVES her toys. I think maybe even more than Sydney did. The other night I was putting a cloth diaper over my face and playing peek-a-boo tickle monster. Bay loved it. The next morning when she saw me she reached behind me grabbed a real diaper and stuck it on my head ...she wanted to play. Such a sweetie. SHe is really loving her WOOFs these days. She LOVES dogs.
Bayley has a new obsession. She LOVES shoes. At any given point you will see her dragging around a random shoe. It is hysterical. Sunday afternoon she was in the bedroom with Brian and she came to the living room dragging his dress shoes and put them right in front of the recliner whihc is where he sits to put her shoes on!!! She is brilliant. She doesnt say but 4-5 works, she cant point out a body part, she has no clue what we are talking aobut half the time but my baby knows where Daddy puts on his shoes!!! Victory for the Baybay!
In even more exciting news. Im scared to even put it in writing...but for 2-3 days BAYLEY HAS STARTED SLEEPING BETTER. She slept all night in her bed 1 night and last night she slept in there til 5:30. WOOOHOOO!!!!!!!!! We are so proud of our lil baby girl.
Ok on Sydney news, She is just as silly as ever!
Syd's knee is still hurt. She is having to go to physical therapy on her knee twice a week. She is has a tight hamstring. I cant tell that PT is helping that drastically. Hopefully she will get some relief or else soccer is going to be miserable.School is HARD! The new AB schedule is really kicking everyone's booty. Having to juggle 8 classes instead of 4 has definitely proven to be a challenge. She is doing really well in a few classes, keeping her head above water in a couple of others and DROWNING in AP Biology. She has a 99.54 in Geometry (YAY SYD!), a 89.99 in Pre AP Chemistry, a 86 in PreAP English, a 82 in Pre AP History, and drum roll a 50 in AP Biology. Yup my honors student is STRUGGLING! She has studied like a mad person for this class and she has a 50. In all honesty, I have only found a hand full of students who actually passed the 1st test. They dont get points on HW so they have no way to pull their grade up except for tests so say a prayer that those test scores go back up. Syd is really working on study habits but if anyone has any helpful hints feel free to leave them.
Driving for Syd has been an adventure. So she has only scared the life out of me a few times. I need to get an emergency brake for the backseat so when Im sitting back there with Bay I can save us. Lets hope time improves her skills. lol
Anyway, that is all I can think of for now. I will try to not wait as long before I post next.
Sydney's 15th birthday went really good. She had a great day complete with the perfect cake for her. She doesnt like cake at all normally but several weeks ago she tried a cake at Pam's Devo and she fell in love with DQ ice cream cake. So she got her wish and had an DQ Oreo Ice Cream Cake. Fatty loved every bite! lol
And Sydney was VERY upset with the people who doubted her permit getting abilities.
WOOO HOOO! She was THRILLED! I was so proud of her and terrified for myself! We came straight to PG and she drove for the first time. I have to say it was every bit as bad as I had feared. But she did get a little better the longer she drove. Brian took her out last night and let her drive and he didnt think she was that bad. I guess she got her terribleness out on me. 
In other news, We temporarily have custody of Sunkist Steel who is the puppy that Devin & Syd rescued several months back. She was living in pitiful conditions when they got her and Devin has kept her at his house and as you can see she has grown a ton! She is approximately 7 months old and weighs somewhere around 55-60 lbs and GROWING! The vet said she is a golden retriever, lab, great pyrenees mix. Sunkist is such a sweetheart & Bayley LOVES her. She is so gentle with her. Sydney is loving having her big baby at her house...Brian is doing better than I thought with it. lol
Bay & her Bub doing what they do best...being silly! (Bay calls Devin Bub because Devin was too close to DaDa and the very first time I heard her attempt his name I said NOPE...Bub it is!)
Tuesday after the permit test & dangerous driving, We went and got Bay, took Syd to the dentist and then we went and had lunch with Brian. It was fun. After that we took Bay to the doctor for her 15 month check up. It was pretty good. She was down in her weight 17 lb 2 oz from 17 lb 5 oz (but remember that was with her clothes on... so it isnt too bad of a loss) She was 29 1/2 inches long which is great and puts her in the 50th % of 12 month olds (her corrected age). WOOO HOOO. She is still not on the chart at all for weight. Dr. Tindle said we would see what kinda weight she gains over the next 6 weeks and go from there. We start Synagis shots in October (YUK) I just cant tell you how much I dread Synagis and having to go back into semi-lockdown and becoming the antibacterial queen again. Bayley is behind on being able to identify where here eyes, ears, mouth etc are by pointing and/or attempting to say the words. Also she should be able to say Dada when you point at Brian, etc. She isnt doing any of those things or even attempting it. Dr. Tindle said one thing Bayley has taught us is to just sit back and wait for her to do it when she decides it is time. She definitely dances to the beat of her own drum. lol She said we would just talk about it again at 18 months and see how much progress she has made. Bay is still carrying the failure to thrive diagnosis. That is just so hard to believe considering the baby eats so good and has even gotten some fat on her little legs but its just not where she needs to be. We need to gain some serious weight fast to avoid the FTT testing. I have been watching her progress at home and as you can see I have my own CBC growth chart on Bay. I definitely prefer the corrected-age chart. You can see the best on the 2nd chart the Corrected weight chart what is concerning about Bay's weight. She had a good growth curve going and she has dropped that curve significantly. Even with being a preemie Bayley should be on that chart. YUK. BUT...Make sure and check out the 3rd chart...Actual Length 23rd percentile which is stinkin awesome...my tall stringbean.
We are fixing to cut out her two daytime bottles and swap to total cups during the day. We will still do her morning and night bottles for awhile to try to get more calories in her. Dr. Tindle was thrilled that Bay is walking so good. She said that was a VERY good sign. YAY Bay!
We all watched the two hour premiere Tuesday night. Even Brian watched and was captivated by the train wreck that it is! lol It was so exciting to see Kelly & Brenda back on the tv...man Ive missed my friends! lol (yes I know I have issues!) 
