This is the cold that never ends...

Do you remember that really annoying children's song from the 70's - this is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friend? Yeah, sorry - I probably just put the tune in your head for the rest of the day.

Well, the H. household seems to have picked up the cold that never ends. There is a version of it going around at my work and I think at daycare also. Matt spent the weekend about two weeks ago coughing and sneezing and promptly got over it after a day or two. Sloane got it next - 2 days of pink eye, followed by a minor cold. Then Sarah sneezed for a few days. Erin and I have had it now for what feels like a century but is probably more like 8-10 days. Matt has picked it back up and Sloane and Sarah just started runny noses again. I never thought I'd wish these symptoms were caused by allergies..but I'm getting there.

Speaking of doctors, we met with the allergist about Erin's peanut allergy tonight and are taking the recommended approach. Obviously that includes keeping her away from all nut products. What he recommended from there is that we test her again in about 10 months to see if her sensitivity to peanuts is decreasing. If it does that at any point we'll challenge her to see if she's outgrowing the allergy.

No random pictures this post because I'm on the laptop, but more to follow.

So it only took a month....

For me to figure out how to upload photos from the camera to our new mac.  In the interim, we've had the big ultrasound....twice and all seems to be progressing well.  We couldn't resist finding out if we were going to have four girls or three girls and a boy.  But we know there are those of you that don't want to know so we'll refrain from posting the news on the blog.  We'll take turns calling baby Bobo he or she, so don't read anything into pronouns.

Yes, we're calling the baby Bobo for now.  Erin was Cashew before she was born, Sloane and Sarah were Shooter and Lefty.  This name hearkens back to the days when I shared books with my friend Vijay and we were reading about bobo's at the same time (Bourgeois Bohemians).  I vehemently denied Matt and I fell into the bobo category.  Low and behold when we started looking at names in the embarrassingly named Cool Names for Babies, virtually all of the names we liked were labeled as bobo names.  Hence, baby Bobo for now.  We're not even close on names but have lots of people offering ideas.  The new game at my office to IM me options at random points during the day.... Honestly, we really do get a lot of work done in between.

The kids are all doing really well.   Sarah and Sloane are both talking up a storm.  It's just so strange to hear them running around and actually using words.  They are m turning into toddlers.  Erin is starting to identify letters and how they turn into words.  She can spell an amazing amount of words for a child who's not yet 3.  Once again, she's going to outsmart us before the year is out.    I'll be better about updating the blog, really....until the next post here is a picture overload: