Baby, Basement, and Food

Little baby Ploeg is 28 weeks now. He's moving and shaking all the time (especially right around 10pm ... hopefully that isn't indicitave of life outside the womb) and my Baby Center weekly email says he's over 14 inches long and 2 pounds. Crazy, huh? He'll be here before we know it and frankly, we're not ready! We are absolutely stuck on a name. We have yet to move the twins upstairs (or get it ready for that matter). I'm not ready for three hour increments of sleep. I'm not ready for another set of lungs hollering for mama. All that said, we are excited for this precious little babe to join our family. I'm excited to see who he looks like, how my boys will react to him, what he will be like.

In the mean time, the boys are doing well. They love to play outside ... a little too much and I'm nervous for the weather to really turn on us. Which is why we are seriously looking into doing some work on our basement to get it usable for them. They will need a place to run and they already love to go down there and play with the ping pong table and toys. Hopefully we can make that happen before December and baby roll around!

We went to the dietician last week but in all honestly, it wasn't all that helpful. We did get a recommendation for a prescription nutrition drink that I think will be good for the boys but all in all, she didn't have any novel ideas or recipes or tactics to make them magically eat carrots or grow out of their allergies. I got the sense that we weren't exactly an easy case (which to be fair, if we actually decide to follow Sam's full list of "bad" allergies, he won't be able to eat much more than carrots and beef -- all easily available grains are out and a lot of fruits). We haven't at this point taken any new steps in the diet though because both boys have been doing relatively well on the current wheat, milk, egg, and nut-free diet. If anything, I may try to exclude soy but that's in a lot of their existing foods that they actually like ... so I haven't decided yet. Wouldn't it be great if #3 didn't have any of these allergies? Unlikely, I know, but man that would be great!