The babies are starting to turn over!  Lydia has always slept on her side.  That might be because of her birth-mark on her back.  But Anna and Jonathan have always slept on their backs.  Several days ago, Anna started to turn onto her side from her back.  Then two days ago, Jonathan did the same thing.  They've been doing it ever since.  This morning while Jonathan was having his diaper changed, Lydia went from her side onto her tummy!  She has never done that before!

The Early Intervention folks came by yesterday for another evaluation.  They said they never saw a baby at our babies ages that smiled and laughed as much as Anna.  She has been quite the smiley and giggly girl lately.  Who needs a tickle-me-elmo when you have a tickle-me-Anna?  And no tickling is even required to start the laughing.  Part of their evaluation was testing them being able to roll from their tummies onto their backs.  Anna did the best, which was no surprise to us.  When we tummy-time her, she regularly pushes herself up so far/fast that she ends up loosing balance and tumbling onto her back.  Jonathan had to work alittle hard at this, and Lydia did it but was just generally in a fussy mood even before they arrived.

Speaking of tickle-me-Elmo, have you seen the new tickle-me-elmo T.M.X.?  It looks hilarious.  We would like to get one for the kids to share.  But it might be luck to actually get one.  I went over lunch on Thursday to Boscov's and looked there.  As I saw boxes by Fisher-Price yet unopened, I asked the clerk about it.  She said they had set out all the T.M.X.'s before the store opened at 10:00.  They had 27 of them,and they were gone by 11:00!  I looked at Target too.  And no luck there either.  I had already looked online at Fisher-Price.com, Walmart.com, Target.com and eToys.com.  Target is not even trying to sell them online, and the other sites were already sold out.  We'll keep trying to find them in stores or online at a retailer, but we refuse to buy one from someone that already bought one and is looking to make a huge profit by marking it up 100%, 200% or more (I've seen one site listing them for $120.00, when the store retail is to be $39.99).

Ms. Harley decided to get sick again this week.  Just as she did around the time the babies were brought home, she ended up having trouble with her bowl movements.  So off to the Vet. for her again.  They decided we should increase the one medicine from 2 to 3 times per day.  And they perscribed a stool softner hoping that if the stuff is softer, it will have less chance of clogging up inside her.  We hope this works.  She really is the sweetest cat when she is well.  But if this does not work, the only other thing that could be tried is a surgery by a specialist.  But as there would be no guarentee that the surgery would cure her and it would cost more than two months supply of formular/diapers/wipes would cost, we may have to consider putting her to sleep if the problem keeps coming back.  So I hope for her sake, the increased medicine and stool softner works.