Wonder Twin Powers Activate!! Shape of a needle and thread, to fix a boo boo

Give you a clue of what the twins are for Halloween..
Mommy made the costumes by taking purple union suits and ironing on a decal to the front, making a pair of felt belts and completing the ensemble with some purple snow boots from Lands End at half price because of the funky purple color. Everything worked out great, accept we let the kids fall asleep in their outfits and well, they were soaked by morning.

Despite all their wonder twin powers they could not stop the forces of evil which brought one of our little superheros to Childrens ER on Sunday night. Orli got her little finger caught in a can of tomatoes that was in the recycling, the lid was still attached but she managed to wedge her little thumb in there. When mommy came by to help, she yanked her thumb causing her to slice her little baby thumb right open. Eeewwww... bleh, it was just awful, bloody, lots of parents running around screaming, yelling, running in circles, holding a little baby thumb in various paper towels and wash cloths. When clearer heads prevailed, we wisked the babies in the van, shoved little shoes in purses, and took off for the hospital, but had to turn back because we thought we left the stove on... Arghh. Orli relaxed and actually napped on the way while mommy held her little hand up high with pressure. The doctors took a look and decided to go ahead with two stitches but without any local anestetic to ease the pain. Poor little girl had to sit through the pain of getting stitched, they had wrapped her in a sheet like a buritto and held her down. She cried and cried and the sad part was she kept saying "up?" When it was all over she totally forgot and was happy again. Whew, it also did help a bit that Zev was having an asthma attack all weekend, which we treated at home, waking up in the night to administer the meds.

Keys found!!

Yes, one week later we found daddy's keys. They were found on garbage day in the pail of the bathroom garbage. Good thing mommy dumped the contents into a new bag and heard the telltale "jingle-jingle".
Zev goes to an asthma specialist today, we'll see how that goes. It has been 1 month of daily treatments.
We saw GG this weekend, aunt Louise, Uncle Stanley, cousins Susan and Donna, Auntie Sherry, Larry, Dustin on our way through CT. They loved seeing everyone and saying hello. We stayed with Lee and turned his apartment into a tornado, so now all of his choking hazards are out of the way, breakables up high and he's left with a stinky garbage pail. Thanks for your hospitality and patience Lee.
Zev took his first real steps over the weekend, he is thinking of trying to walk about 20% of the time, he's so accustom to crawling he doesn't realize he can muster up a few steps. So now it is a matter of choice. He takes a few wobbly, hesitant steps to get to a surface he can pull himself up on or a wall. He's all smiles when he is walking, but crawling wins out because it is faster.
Orli has been very observant, she got a hold of mommy's keys and walked up to doors with one key extended and poked around the door knob with the key. She's watching and learning. Monkey see, monkey do.

Memorial Day Madness-Another Hospitalization for Zev and Orli is walking 100%

Ok, it happened again so soon after the first.
We decided to go to VT last minute for Memorial Day weekend. We had originally thought to go to Stowe VT and go bicycling with the twins. We called L and H to let them know we'd be passing through and they offered for us to stay at their house. When we got there we discovered that Stowe was another 2 hrs from their house. Our children free era memories told us that it really wasn't that far.
Anyhoo, we cycled near Manchester on a back country road with the twins in our new Chariot bike caddy that turns into a jogging stroller. The kids loved it. We had dinner with L, H and their son Cos and in the evening we discussed how we needed to take a kiddie picture with Cos in the middle of the twins on a chair that we took the first picture several months back. At any rate Cos is still rocking VT with a big crop of hair, adorable..

Then all hell broke loose. Zev had another asthma attack in the middle of the night Sunday into Monday. We had to leave VT abruptly, and head home. It was a good thing H lent us his belkin power inverter for our car so we could plug it into the nebulizer we just happened to bring.

We got to Childrens' again, and he was given meds and admitted again. It sucked. Around 5ish, mommy was feeding Zev over the crib rail and noticed that one of his pupils was super dilated and the other was normal. We alerted the nurses, who alerted the Docs, who called the neurologists, who recommended he have a CT scan. Their thought was better safe than sorry, and wanted to rule out a brain injury. This meant Zev had to get an IV installed, poor thing cried the whole time, the first try didn't work at all, the second worked but was pretty bloody, good thing Daddy didn't see it. So they gave him some Ativan to calm him down and they put him in the CT scanner. The machine was so huge compared to his little little body as he laid on the platform as it passed him through the eye of the scanner. Zev was so good and calm and he was just looking at the whirling machinery, his little eyeballs rolling back and forth as he looked around silently. All was fine, he checked out, they then turned to the meds as a culprit. He did well overnight, and the next morning they took him in to see the eye dr. Their diagnosis was the meds given to him in the ER must have sputtered out of the nebulizer and hit him in the eye causing the reaction. Argh!!

So we are dealing with our little asthma patient at home, he's doing fine, playing, sleeping and eating just fine. We just have this issue to deal with and hope we can control it and hope it resolves itself.
Oh and he has yet another ear infection. Yuck.

Let's not forget Orli, Orli has been a good girl through all this upheaval, except she pukes in the car after she eats. One huge milestone to report is that Orli in the last week is 100% walking. She is even good at getting over thresholds between rooms, she does laps around the living room and dining room. She also loves to grab a toy from Zev and run/walk away with it and he can't catch her by crawling. She still walks with her arms out for balance, still says "flower", "baby", in her own baby talk way. Both kids are pointing at everything in their environment. And just yesterday Zev said "DA-DA!", mommy looks up and daddy was in the window on the porch. Wow..