Moving house

I've been meaning to post here, but I haven't gotten around to it. Life keeps interfering.

We spent part of the weekend moving house. Not actually moving houses, but switching things around in the house. We moved B's crib from his room to J's room. We moved J's dresser to B's former room (now known as "DH's Office".) We moved J's beds from one wall to the perpendicular one. A couldn't be left out of the excitement. We moved her bed to another wall and took down some storage crates in her room. I need to help her clean out her closet but that will have to wait.

B is now sleeping in J's room. The first night he went to sleep in the big bed with very little trouble. The next night he was up and down and up and down and talking and playing. He was moved to the crib. Soon he realized he could reach the light switch in the closet and he started playing. The crib was moved away from the wall and he cried himself to sleep. Last night, he went down with only one warning to be quiet and stay in bed. But he woke up this morning around 7:30 asking to move to the crib. He laid there for about 45 minutes before getting up.

J has been doing great. He gets annoyed when B talks to him at bedtime so we've had a lot of tattling. In the morning he's been tiptoeing out of the room and not waking him up. That's good.

J's big news. He's probably going to get his tonsils & adenoids removed. I noticed before Christmas that he was having a lot of trouble swallowing fibrous foods (meat, oranges, apple peels, etc.) He would chew and chew and chew and he said he couldn't swallow it. He ended up spitting the food out, gross! I decided to take him to the doctor. The ped didn't see anything at first but then had him lie down to do a strep swab. That was when she saw that his lower tonsils were huge. We went to the ENT yesterday. He checked them out and said they are so large they are almost touching. He recommended taking them out. We're waiting on insurance and a second opinion from a doctor friend of mine. I think if we do it, it will be mid march around spring break time.

J is taking it okay. He cried when he first realized what I was talking about. But promises of blue jello, chocolate pudding and strawberry shakes brought him around.