My baby is 2!

Today I drive around with hubcaps in the van. Kav wants to know why I took the tires off. I'm just proud I managed to get them off and air in the flat tires by myself, and wasn't about to try to put them back on. I had caused enough of a traffic jam at the gas station being in the way of the car wash line.

Today I take time out to write. My baby's 2nd birthday just doesn't seem to lend itself to workaholism. We thought maybe when he turned two he would no longer be called "baby Kai." But I think that will have to wait until 3.

Despite the many facets of Kai that make him still so much a baby he is also very much a 2 year old! He loves to do the opposite he is told while flashing a devious grin, running away and giggling. He loves to be the "house clown" and just looks for ways to make us all laugh. He has some unique facial expressions that are just priceless and I have yet to capture them on film (I mean on megapixels.) His latest feat and source of worry is climbing up onto the tall kitchen table via the tall chairs! I watch kids older than him that can't get up them.

Kai has a 3-word sentence "I want down," and the average vocabulary of a 2-year-old. He probably has 50 words he just doesn't pronounce them the best, choosing to fore go any consonants after the first letter. Today when we left Kari's house after she watched the boys he did better when he said "bye Henry" (He-ree) and it was so cute.

Yesterday was the 2 year well-check where we discovered Kai is anemic. I'm actually wondering if he wasn't last time he was tested and wonder if this got missed a whole year ago. We start iron drops now and I personally believe iron deficiency is not a common cause of anemia as iron is so easily absorbed from foods. Therefore I am once again convicted I have to try a gluten-free diet soon as I have suspected a possible wheat intolerance before and this can also be an underlying cause of the low Hemoglobin. Iron for now, please!

Kai will also have the growth hormone stim test next week, now that the state will pay for it. And it's a good thing we have that funding - if he needs growth hormone it costs over a thousand dollars a month!!!!! Why can't I just give him factory milk from commercial cows? Ha.

You can be in prayers for our misery as we hang out with Kai in a hospital for 5 hours after he has fasted overnight and cannot have any food or drink other than water before noon. This is Thurs the 29th starting at 7 a.m. I think.

Kavan is having quite the moody spell. We are very concerned that the child who was the easiest for so long is suddenly lashing out at the past lack of attention. He'll seek it out any way he can get it now. I wish I had more positive things to share about Kav. Check back soon. Actually, what is positive is our decision to add one full day of day care for the boys. I need to finally be SURE I have enough child care to reduce my stress level and the recent overwhelm. I want to be fully present in the time I am with my kids; lately I haven't been there for them in the way I had planned as a stay-at-home mom.

Kaylin is just full of the most random thoughts and conversations.

"When fog comes out of our mouth that means our words are freezing."

After explaining that not everywhere we drive is Forest Lake, and in a one mile stretch we were driving from Centerville, to Lino Lakes, to Hugo. "Is Disneyland in Hugo?"
I hated to disappoint her but she didn't seem surprised. "Oh! I know, Disneyland is in the world."

As she looks in her closet trying to figure out what to wear: "(sigh) I am just so stressed out."
(hence the reason something needs to change around here with child care.)

When asked if she knows who Barack Obama is? "I voted for him once."