Flack Family of Five: 5 months old ( a day late)

Sorry, this 5 month post is also missing it's picture of the boys and Lucy! I promise we haven't forgotten but it has been an interesting week. Lucy woke us up around 11:30 PM on Wednesday night with an awful barking cough. She sat straight up in bed, started coughing and couldn't catch her breath. I took her in the bathroom and turned the shower on and we tried to help open her airway up with some steam. It seemed to help a little, but every time she would cough, she would struggle to breathe right after that. This only led to her crying more and getting worked up. . . none of which helped her breathing. So after it appeared home remedies weren't going to help her, Michael took her down to the ER. They diagnosed her with croup, gave her a steroid to open her airways and by 3:15, they were back home. She didn't cough the rest of the night and since then, has had no more than a dry cough that only seems to come when she exerts herself. We've kept her home from school the past two days - she has been a little on the loopy side (I think from the steroid) and her sleep schedule is completely off. She has also been a little on the whiny side, but I think this just comes from being bored stuck inside and not allowed to do much. (Since her cough gets worse, the more worked up she is.) Oh well . .. hopefully, she hasn't shared it with the boys but only time will tell.

Lucy's whining could also be related to her lack of a nap along with her strange sleep schedule. I was awakened at 4:15 AM this morning by hearing her Veggie Tales CD start playing in her CD player. She hadn't coughed all night, but at this ungodly hour, she decided it was time to wake up for a little karaoke. I heard her singing loudly in her bed, which led to several (just dry, no bark!) coughing spells. I went in, turned her music down and told her she needed to stop singing so that she could stop coughing and go back to sleep. As I was leaving, I heard a quiet little voice. . . still singing along. Sigh. . . Then today, instead of napping - she started that darn Veggie tales CD again. After 3 times through the CD, singing and all, I went into her room, took it out of the CD player and put in a lullaby CD. Didn't bother her - she just started up a conversation with herself, talking loudly so she didn't have to listen to it! What a mess that girl is! ;)

I gave an update on the boys a few days ago so not much has changed since then. Alex is doing an awesome job of sitting up - he can even sit by himself for a few seconds and even for a few minutes with a little help from the boppy. However, when he gets tired he just leans to the right and falls over! Don't worry - someone's always right there. ;) Charlie on the other hand is figuring out how to move himself across the floor. You can't call it crawling, but at the rate he's going, he'll figure it out before too much longer! First he rolls onto his stomach. Then he gets his feet to push him forward. He wiggles his shoulders and arms into place, looks up to see where he is, then puts his head down and pushes with his feet again. Today, he made it from one side of his playmat to the other. He was quite proud of himself, but was so tired after that he took an extra nap today!

We're going to start the boys on a little rice cereal next week as well. We had wanted to try this week but it has gotten away from us - life with a three year old and twins certainly has a way of doing that!

These two boys are two of the sweetest little people in the whole world. I fall more and more in love with them every day!!! Enjoy a few pictures from play time this afternoon. . . .

These boys love this ball popper!!