Fun at the King House

Halloween
Here's a picture of us from Halloween. The babies are dressed as little monsters (not a stretch) and Madelyn carved our annual jack o' lantern. Normally we carve 2-4 pumpkins, but with the babies and the trip, we only had time to get in the "Kings" pumpkin that we carve each year.



Push and Ride
These are some of our favorite pictures. We bought a toy that allows a baby to walk behind it to learn to walk or to sit down and ride. This gives us the option for both babies to play with the same toy without fighting. Usually, that only works in theory, but this one actually works out great (most of the time). Here are pictures from their adventure of chauffeuring each other around the house.





Car Seats
After we returned home from our 2,000 mile trip in a vehicle, the last thing we expected was for the kids to want to spend more time in the car seats. After Todd pulled the car seats out of the rental van, they sat in our Dining Room while we actually got to clean out our vehicle from all the milk that's been splattered everywhere. The kids loved playing in the car seats. They'd often drop their toys and go sit in the car seats. Todd walked in the house at one point, turned back to close the door behind him and got quite a shock when the car seat screamed at him. Kiera had been sitting in it and didn't like when her Dad didn't pick her up immediately.



Empty Bath Tub
Along with sitting in car seats that aren't in the car, they also like to be in a dry bathtub almost as much as one with water in it. That's saying something, especially for Dylan who LOVES to splash water.


Dylan Walking
While Kiera learned to walk first, Dylan has been the more verbal one. Both of these are the complete opposite of what we expected after watching their first year of life. Each time Dylan learns a word, Kiera catches on pretty quickly. And now its Dylan's turn to play catch up since Kiera's learned to walk. On Saturday, Dylan took his first step. Sunday, he took one step a couple more times. Today, he simply walked. No transition period, he simply walked. He took more steps in that moment than he had in his whole life (okay a little dramatic there, but humor us).

Reactive Airway Disease

I realized that I never blogged about this huge part of our lives. Well here is the story. Some of you may know that the kids were really struggling with getting sick. From January until September both of them seemed to be battling cough, congestion and ear infections. Every time we would take them to church nursery or to daycare they would come home and the next day they were coughing had a runny nose and running a fever. Todd and I were constantly missing work and seeing the pediatrician every week, and I mean every week. Dylan ended up with 5 ear infections and Kiera had 4. In August they both got tubes in their ears and things went well for 1 week and then everything started up again just this time without the ear infections. So in September, I took them to a pediatric pulmonologist, a lung doctor. We found out that the kids have Reactive Airway Disease, or pediatric asthma. The twins were immediately given a regimen of breathing treatments, mainly preventative, and decongestants (allright!). The biggest thing about that appointment was NO daycare or church nursery. The twins are not supposed to be around other children until springtime. We were told that with asthma, every time they were exposed to other germy kids their lungs went into overtime trying to get rid of the germs and that ended up creating even more mucus which increased coughing. So every week when both Todd and I go to work the kids go to my (Maddy) parent’s house. Now on Sundays Todd and I try to trade off and on. He stays home with the kids this Sunday and the next I stay home with the kids while he goes to Sunday school. It is a little bit annoying but the wonderful thing is that we haven’t been to the doctor for a sick visit in over two months.
We revisited the lung doctor 2 weeks ago and he said that since they are doing so well we can decrease the amount of medicine and they will hopefully both out grow this!!!!! So if you go to our church and are wondering why you haven’t seen us or the kids that is why. We are hoping that all four of us will be able to come back to church in the spring.