Fun Filled Week

This past week and half has been pretty eventful here. First off, Kyle's parents came last Thursday to visit. Friday morning Kyle graduated! I am so proud of him and all that he does for our family. It is so nice for him to be done...hallelujah! On Sunday Claire was blessed. We were so lucky to have a lot of family come up for that. It was a wonderful day. We are so grateful for all the help we were given for the luncheon and for all those that came. On Monday we went to the zoo with Grandma and Grandpa Gardner. Anna loved it! I think her favorite thing there was the carousel ride. She rode it three times. It was a lot of fun. After the zoo, Kyle's parents treated us to our favorite...Red Iguana. On Wednesday we went to the Aquarium in Sandy. The aquarium definitely exceeded my expectations. It was really neat. Anna was able to touch a few sting rays. She accidentally put her face in the water....oops. Kyle's parents left yesterday and we miss them already. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Gardner for coming to visit and for all you do for us. We love you!
Onto another topic, Claire has had an interesting week. Ever since she has been born she has always had gas problems. Well Sunday night she started being colicky around 7:00. So I stopped nursing her to see if that would help. We put her on this colic formula starting Monday and the same thing happened at 7:00 that night. Well it also happened Tuesday and Wednesday night. For those of you that don't really know what colic is, one word...screaming! It's past a cry. It really breaks your heart because there is not a whole lot you can do. It's like they have these cramps in their abdomen, and they can't do anything about it. I guess it just has to taper off by itself. Well yesterday thankfully, my pediatrician had an opening and I was able to take Claire in. Well once the doctor came in I completely broke down. It has been so hard on me and Kyle, and I just told her everything. She then told me that her third child was colicky and in order for him to calm down, she would leave the water running for like two hours each night because that was the only thing that would work. She said that you just have to find one thing that works and do it. In the meantime she told me to try soy formula and prescribed Claire some medicine that may help her stomach cramps. Well last night we tried the formula and the medicine and it worked! Now it definitely could change tonight. However so far today she has been a happy little camper. It is so good to see her smile and laugh again. I will have to keep you posted on her progress. I never thought that I would have a colicky baby. But I feel like that this has definitely helped us to be more patient.