On the Verge...

Abram will officially be two and half tomorrow!  What a big kid!  Selah got quite a lot of blog time this last  year with her monthly posts, I thought I needed to do one for Abram at this special milestone.  I'll even use the same survey format.  Here goes: Date: May 16th, 2013 Weight: Just went to the doctor two days ago.  He was around 12 kg (or about 26.5 lbs).  I think that's somewhere around the 5-10th percentile?  That's almost exactly where he's been his whole life. Just sticking to that growth curve! Clothing size:  He has a few 6-12 month shorts, a few 12 month, a few 18 month, and a few 2T.  The elastic in the 2Ts are cinched as tight as they will go.  He definitely fits best in 18 month.  Shirts are pretty much the same.  18 month is best, but he's not swimming in 2T anymore.   Feedings per day:  He's like a real person.  So three.  And a snack (sometimes). Naps:  Usually one 2-3 hour nap from around 2-5 in the afternoon.  So

My vocabulary did not include the word "latrophobia" five seconds ago, but I googled "fear of doctors" and now it does.   We took the kids to the American Hospital of Dubai yesterday for well checks and immunizations.  Selah is quite far behind and Abram never had his two year check.  In Austin we went to the doctor all of the time.  Like, too much, probably.  80% of the time it was necessary.  The other 20% happened mainly in the first few months of Abram's life when I was a paranoid new mother.  He had bronchitis quite a few times and has even been to the doctor here twice before yesterday.  But it's been about five months (praise God!) since the last visit and both kids were not happy about the outing.  I tried to prepare Abram by telling him that we were going to the doctor before we left so that he wouldn't be surprised.  He kept telling me that he didn't want to go to the doctor, he wanted to go to the grocery store.  I just kept saying

I will now attempt to communicate the happenings of our birthday party last night in only pictures.  You see if you can tell what happened without any words. That's right!  You got it!  Balloon pit, food, cupcakes, more balloon pit.  How did you know?!   Oh yeah.  The pictures.  That's right.  

Tomorrow we are having a "big" birthday celebration. Our close friends who live "next door" (what's with all the quotes, "Anaka"?) have two kids who have had birthdays in the last two months and Selah's was right in between theirs. So we decided to have one party for all three of them. The party will actually be on George's fourteen month birthday. He turned one March 12, Selah turned one April 22nd and their other son, Augie, turned three on May 5th. The hardest thing is going to be explaining to Abram why they are all being celebrated by 30 or so people and he had chicken nuggets and a cake at home with just us while he battled bronchial pneumonia six months ago. But I got him (and the boys' sister, Siena) a cupcake just like the birthday kids, so hopefully there won't be too many hurt feelings. We are inadvertently going with a kind of Mexican themed party. This feels appropriate since we are all from Texas and most of our guests w