28 weeks - Elsie Mae/2nd Grade

Total blog fail....

I left off the newest addition to the Greskoviak family last Monday!  Mom and Dad thought for sure, baby girl #2 would be early like her sister, but little Elsie Mae proved to be her own women already and held out a couple weeks longer.  She did her best to keep things interesting though arriving before the Dr made it to the delivery room :)

Elsie Mae Greskoviak

8/12/2013

8lbs 21 inches

 Congratulations Todd, Tara, & big sister Lena!!  We can't wait to meet her!!!

8-17-2013 - Kiel & I went to a wedding in Springfield...

Jones Wedding 8-17-2013

so Jase stayed over night at Aunt Amy's.  We really had a great time.  Everything at the wedding and reception was beautiful, the food was amazing, and the band was Brushville aka Brushfire (they play in Bloomington a lot and we really like them) so we were on the dance floor a lot!  I fully believe adults need to take time for themselves every now and then (as I have often had to explain to Henry)...but around 9pm, we both agreed it would be nice to just go home and see Jase.   

8-18-2013 - Coming home to this face is the BEST

And yes, that's Kiel on the couch in the background feeling 31 after a night of acting like we're 21 :)

8-19-2013 - I don't have any pics for this date, but I did have to call Dr Proehl and get a recommendation on what if anything I could give Jase for allergies.  Not sure if it was all the different places he had been over the weekend or just all the crap in the air from the change of weather, but this kid was a sneezing fool!  He had a dry cough and red itchy eyes to boot.  Kiel is pretty sensitive to outside allergens like grass and pollen and so it seems Jase is too.  She said to give him 1/2 tsp of Childrens Benedryl every 12 hours, but if we didn't notice a difference in 24 hours, it might be more then allergies and he should probably be seen.  I gave him a dose when we got home from daycare, he slept for an hour and a half, got up long enough to eat & take a bath, went to bed and woke up a new kid.  He wasn't 100% himself yet, but I could tell the benedryl was working and by Wednesday he was our smiley baby again.  I feel like we dodged a bullet there.

8-20-2013 - First day of 2nd grade!  My oh my, a year sure does make a difference!

Aden & Bevin will start school after Labor Day, but if you ask Aden, he is NOT going to school lol

Yes, Hayden wore the same shirt on purpose :) 

I'm still making a go of homemade baby food (with the exception of a few fruits I bought for the initial test and cereal obviously) and so far we've done pretty well with everything aside from the avocados lol  He's had rice cereal, mashed potatoes, squash, pears, prunes, applesauce, bananas, carrots, avocados, and most recently green beans.  I would have to say his favorites are pears and green beans.  He "talks" the entire time he eats them and it cracks me up.  The first time I gave him green beans it sounded like he was saying "nom nom nom" every time he would take a bite.  I haven't gone crazy with making a bunch and freezing it since we have to make sure he's not allergic to each food first, but I plan on starting that over the weekend.  Going to start sweet potatoes on Saturday...this stage is so exciting :)

-Nicole