Pumpkins, and Doctors, and Fun - OH MY!

Whew - what a week it's been! We'll do a quick run down:

Sunday - Marquette Alumni visit to cheer on the Green Bay Packers to a victory!
Monday - Pumpkin carving day at school
Tuesday - Kate's well check and both kids' flu shots (more on this later)
Wednesday - Our snack day at school, parent meeting/breakfast at school, mommy worked the rest of the day
Thursday - Rhyme Time and then mommy worked again until 9pm
Friday - visit with Aunt Erin and to the park and to McDonald's (for apple dippers, of course) and now everyone is home resting, and mommy is typing (and thinking that she wants to rest too!)

Ok, so backing up to Tuesday - Kate's 15 month well-check. Developmentally, she is doing FANTASTIC! She can already pass the 18 month ASQ with flying colors - yay Kate! She is 30.25 inches tall (50th percentile) and she is 18 pounds, 7.5 ounces. If you click here, you can see that Kate weighed 18 pounds, 15.5 ounces at her last exam, 3 months ago. Needless to say, everyone is concerned that she's not gaining weight. She's dropped down to less than 3rd percentile on her charts. She's always been petite, but she WAS still growing on her own little curve. Now she's fallen well below her own little curve, so now we're back to weight checks again. We go back in a month to see how much she weighs then. In the mean time, we're working hard at increasing her calories and making sure that she gets 3 good meals and 2 snacks a day. I feel like all I think about now is what to feed Kate again in 2 hours.

The day after her appointment, while we were at the breakfast at Brett's school, I was talking to another mom who happens to have gone through this before with her son. She gave me several good ideas and told me that they see a great specialist at Duke if we have to go that far. I'm trying not to overreact and hope that we don't have to go that far, but it's good to know that there's someone to talk to about it all!

Let's see - what other funny things happened this week??? Oh, Brett got a small black eye at school on Wednesday. Apparently one of the kids tried to take his precious car. Oops! At least he was the one receiving the black eye and not giving the black eye! Of course, I haven't seen the other kid...

There were several funny things that happened this week that made me think that I really need to bust out the video camera and get some new video uploaded. I'll get there, eventually.

No pictures today (sorry). I forgot my camera when we went to the park this morning, but I think that Aunt Erin got some good ones, so I'll harrass her for some copied pictures. In the mean time, stay tuned for state fair pictures (Sunday), Costume Parade (Wednesday) and, of course, Halloween Party and Trick-or-Treating (Friday). Whew - another BUSY week!

Oh - and one more thing - a quick CONGRATS to our friends, Marci & Manuel, on the birth of their baby girl, Gabriella! We can't wait to see lots of pictures!!