Busy Week

We have only made it through Tuesday and we are exhausted at the Hochberg house...lots of new going on! Claire started her new school this week, which is overall going well. Monday drop off was a piece of cake thanks to her friend from Kim's being there, Neale. Tuesday was not so smooth, but not horrible, fingers crossed Wednesday goes okay. The problem being she is not napping, needs to get used to the cots they sleep on (as all kids at daycare and preschool do). She has napped less than 30 minutes total the first two days so far which has resulted in a not very fun Tuesday evening. The school is closed Thursday and Friday for teacher inservice, which is actually a good thing I think, I don't know if she could handle 5 full days the first week. On a positive note, she seems to be loving the school part, they have daily crafts, reading and learning time, plenty of time to play, and even had a guest "band" on her first day, Mr. Stinky Feet! : ) We also had Claire's two year appointment Friday at the end of the day. All is well and she is a tall girl...just a quarter inch short of 3ft tall which is the 92nd percentile. Watch out Aunt Beth, Claire might pass you up soon! : ) Her weight is just over 28 pounds, tracking right where she already has been around the 70th percentile. No concerns developmentally and we spent some time discussing the potential asthma and breathing issues. Since all issues seem to be virus induced the plan is to proactively use her inhaler multiple times daily ONLY when she has a virus. In addition we discussed the potential of a daily asthma med through the winter time virus season, but will see how things go once that is upon us. Her goal is to manage and proactively treat this in hopes that as her lungs continue to grow it will correct itself (fun fact, you lungs grow until you are 12 years old them stop). Daddy also got a bit of a lecture from Dr. Mellick about "is he sure his exercise induced asthma is really gone" and it might be smart to do some lung function testing to prevent problems later in life. I knew I liked her! : ) In addition our basement remodel started bright and early Monday morning, so we have had various workers in and out of house starting at 7am. Basement is framed, electrical work is mostly done and the sheet rock goes up on Friday....it's looking good! Claire's favorite book this week is "We are going on a bear hunt", and she has requsted it 3 mights in a row. Last night after Mike got done reading it (in the very entertaining way he does), she took it from him and read it to us. It was the cutest thing, she turned each page and alternated between "swishy swashy, swishy swashy" and "Oh No" on every other page. She got pretty animated which made us laugh so hard partly because we are pretty sure she was imitating her daddy. I am looking forward to a bit of break on Thursday and Friday from our new routine. Mike is staying home Thursday and me on Friday. We also have lots of social activities planned for the weekend. Friday Claire and I have a bridal brunch for my cousin's soon to be bride, and then we are planning an evening trip to Topeka so Mike and Claire can meet Miss Maggie! Saturday is my cousin's wedding, Claire is going to sit this one out as the reception is a little more formal downtown. My cousin Katie is coming over to play and stay with Claire. Katie by the way is a senior at Aquinas which I CAN NOT believe, I used to babysit her when she was a baby....yes I am getting old! Next week is our sonogram, looking forward to viewing the little sweet thing that has been with me for the last 17 weeks for the first time. I am praying all is well with this little one and that we have been blessed with a 2nd healthy baby. Happy Wednesday!