whew!

Well, it has been quite a week around our house.  Quite a week.  The highlights:

• Sydney was able to skip TWO bars on the high monkey bars at school!  She's been working and working at this and was so proud to tell us about it.
  
• Foster has been on a nap strike.  I remember when Syd was a baby and telling Andy often that "we had 'No-Nap Grignon' again" and it seems this trait has been passed onto Foster.  Makes for very long days.  Most of the time he takes a very short morning nap (less than a half hour most of the time) then a short mid-day nap (an hour or so).  Then he's good for the rest of the day.  This week, however, we had many days where he didn't sleep at all.  
• Foster is getting very good at going to sleep on his own and back to sleep on his own (after nursing at some point in the night).  
• Sydney fainted at school on Tuesday!!  Yep, you heard it right.  Fainted.  We thought at first it might be a seizure since she has had those in the past.  Nope... the neurologist thinks it was a good, old fashioned passing out.  She was playing on the playground after snack and went up to one of the parents and wanted some water.  Then she went down.  We saw her pediatrician on Thursday who ordered blood work and an EKG.  If the blood work doesn't give us any clues, then he wants us to see a pediatric cardiologist, just be on the safe side.  We are also going to see the neurologist at the end of the month, just to cover our bases.  I have to say that I was pretty proud of Syd, Foster and myself that we got all her tests done on Thursday with no melt-downs.  Now... if Andy had been there we might not have been so lucky.  ;-)
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• I finally got a picture of Foster with his HUGE smile.
• Foster celebrated his half-birthday yesterday!  To celebrate the occasion Andy and I split a "Foster's"

Other than that, it's just been the same old, same old around here...