The Klawiters: September 2011

Life is good in the Klawiter house. We are finding a new groove for fall and getting used to John being home more during the day. We are all loving it, but I am reminding myself that it is only for one more year. After John finished his internship we crammed as much summer as we could into two weeks and now we are cramming as much into the weekends as we can before baby comes! John is enjoying his classes and somehow finds time to play with the kiddos a ton and get all of his work done!

Coraline finally decided on her own to walk. She is very stubborn! I really don't know where our children get that gene! She is 16 months going on 5. She will try and walk into Adina's class room at school and gets mad every day I drop Adina off because she wants to stay with all of the big kids. Adina started preschool and is loving it. John and I are also enjoying the five day a week schedule although I do miss my girl! Last year I had to peel her off my leg and run out of the classroom the first week of school. This year she walked right in, I kept looking in hoping for one hug or wave, but she was little Ms. Independent!

Oliver is doing really well. We will always have our daily issues from nurses calling in, to calls to and from clinics, to a lot of pain and not knowing where it comes from, med changes, etc. We just deal with it the best we can and life goes on. Oliver has been happy and laughing again and playing with his toys. It melts my heart every time he looks at me with those beautiful eyes and big smile. He is awesome! Two weeks ago he had a quick surgery but recovered really quick! Now we just wait and see what happens during viral season. Oliver's main struggle right now is his movement disorder. We are trying to find the best medication to help calm his movements but struggle to find the right cocktail. It is times like those that I wish we could figure out his true diagnosis so we could know the best way to help. It might seem hard to understand this, but at times I honestly get jealous of other families that get a real diagnosis for their child. Yup, I actually hope, pray, and wish for a diagnosis! I don't think this is in the cards for us though, so back to the motto of, "life is life," I guess. No matter what, Oliver is a stud and teaches us endless lessons about life without saying a word.

Baby #4 will be here soon! John and I keep reminding each other that it is actually going to come. We have managed to keep the gender a secret, Oliver is the only one who knows. John and Adina picked the name, Adina just doesn't realize that she picked it yet. She said the name and we liked it. I know I said it a few posts ago but we are asking that nobody visits while we are at the hospital. We love you all but will need a lot of rest and also want to limit the germ sharing that we bring home to Oliver. Thanks again for understanding. We will let everybody know as soon as it happens. I am hoping to be induced the 14th of October. If not that day, for sure the 17th. Stay tuned for #4!

Milking a cow at the State Fair