Drink!

Our latest challenge with both Brandon and Katelyn is getting them to drink. A couple of weeks ago Katelyn decided to quit nursing. We’ve also been working on weaning Brandon. This all sounds great but we’ve really struggled to get them to drink enough. They aren’t showing any signs of dehydration but it’s not uncommon r them to drink half of the daily minimum, despite the fact that we are constantly offering them drinks.

We’ve tried all kinds of cups. One of the interesting things we’ve tried was hair coloring bottles. They made it easy to squeeze and help the babies get the milk through the straw. They still weren’t getting enough. We talked to the doctor and he said if they get less than 10 oz. for a couple of days in a row that we needed to bring them in. This was kind of scary because we know what kind of things they do when babies aren’t eating and drinking enough.

Despite our efforts to keep our family healthy, we’ve been sick lately. Derek had Strep and Brandon had a Ear infection. Although Katelyn didn’t show many other signs of sickness weh ran a slight fever and threw up a couple of tijmes. This made it even harder to make sure whe was getting enough fuilds.

With the suggestion from one of our therapists, Amy did some hard-core modifications to some of our sippy cups by replacing the straw with some tubing. The good news is that it seems to work. They drank more today than they have for weeks.

When we were in California we had some family photos taken. The photographer was great and he posted a handful of the pictures at his blog. I put some of hem below.
Here is his blog: http://www.briankhang.com/blog/the-fox-family/

I got a bunch more photos of our trip to California from my family.

The water was very cold but we couldn't slow them down, even after Blake took in way too much salt water and lost his lunch. He was heading back the waves before we could burry the evidence.