Megan is now 5 months old, and growing like crazy. Jenny and I were commenting the other day that it seemed like Megan gained 10 pounds overnight. At night she still has her ups and down. One week will be great, and she'll only wake up once in the night. The next week she'll have a cold or something and she'll want to get up every 2 hours. This past week she had a case of constipation. We had recently introduced her to rice cereal, and she started taking more formula. Well, for a few days she had a hard time getting the pipes cleaned out if you know what I mean. The three of us would be sitting in a restaurant and Megan would start grunting like an old man. I mean it was uncomfortably loud. I looked at her and she was turning red in the face trying to get things moving. I'm sure everyone was looking at us. Anyway, after a few days (and some swigs of baby prune juice) the plumbing started working again. Everything seems to be fine now. I'm sure her system is just trying to process the changes in her diet.
Ben is doing great. He's still enjoying all of his new toys from Christmas. He likes playing with his new LEAPFROG "LEAPSTER" game. I guess it's kind of a gameboy kind of thing, only the games are all educational. He loves playing it. The problem has been when he's playing it and not listening to us. Whether it's time for a meal, or a bath, or bedtime...sometimes he'll be playing it and won't listen to us. So there have been times when we've had to take it away for a day or two just to send a message. I can only imagine what he would do with an XBOX. But he's doing great overall. In school he's starting to sound out words and read 3 letter words. We'll sit in the kitchen at lunch and make out words with his alphabet pretzels. He'll always try to guess first and then I tell him to sound it out. After that he usually reads the word correctly.
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