Good Morning…beautiful sunrise in Iowa City! Thanks to Daddy’s cousin, Julie, for the stunning daffodils for Peanut’s room. We’re learning that slow and steady wins the race for Peanut’s recovery from this illness. We’ll be here for at least a few more days.

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Good morning! Feeling pretty good this morning!

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Night #3 away from home. BUT Peanut was just gifted these rockin’ crocheted Elsa & Anna hats! She was really happy to show them to Daddy & Lulu over FaceTime a little while ago.

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Terrific twos, tremendous twos, talented twos, tiny twos….anything but terrible twos!!! Our Peanut is now TWO-Years-Old!!!! Generally, people use the term terrible twos to describe the stage in which toddlers begin to assert their independence and develop skills at a rapid speed – no longer a baby, not quite a kid yet! I hate to […]

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As I was busy writing last Friday’s update on Peanut, she was busy planning (without realizing it) her weekend. See, as I was writing about how well Peanut was doing, she was coming down with a stomach bug. Given Peanut’s condition, we’re always a little hesitant to say it’s the flu or a common stomach […]

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What a difference 6 weeks can make. It’s been 6 weeks since Peanut’s last visit to the UIHC for a check-up. On Wednesday afternoon, it was time to hop in the car and head back for another check-up. The biggest change in that time? Peanut’s development. During the last visit, Peanut was walking, but not […]

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I mentioned earlier that during Peanut’s last check-up her doctor wanted to tweak the green bean shake recipe to adjust for her age by changing the formula to PediaSure. (If you don’t remember the original version, you can find it here.) Peanut has been drinking the green bean/formula recipe for almost a year now with […]

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Wednesday may have been Peanut’s best check-up yet. Her GI doctor continues to be pleased with her growth (she’s up to 21 1/2 pounds) and is working on a few changes to her diet to see how she reacts to a formula in her green bean shake that’s not as restrictive. We skipped any blood […]

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When it comes to answering the question of how Peanut is doing, there’s a bunch of different factors the DW and I take into account. Her blood work, mental and physical development, diaper “output”, and appetite are just a few of the things we track. The most telling, and easiest to understand, though, would be […]

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Every parent thinks their baby is the next Einstein, but I really think we’re on to something here… “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton)

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