Say no to moo.

Yep that is right. Not because I have gone veggie or sided with PITA or something. The boys cannot tolerate any dairy I eat. No milk...No cheese...No butter...ugh. If I eat more than a smigen, they get congested, they get gassy, and their diapers...well, I won't go into details but it ain't pretty.

Helen was the same to cows milk for a while maybe 8 months but we had her on Soy formula and no worries there. I am hoping that this won't last long. From what I have read, they say if the reactions are not severe, the mom can try it in a month or so and see if they are less sensitive, so I am looking at Christmas time to try again.

I am seriously going through some withdrawls. At the end of my pregnancy, I was consuming a gallon a week of milk pretty much by myself. Eating tonnes of cheese (note the way I spelt that, very British, *cough* *cough* I mean Australian) and baking with butter. Right now, I make something and even through I would not put any dairy in it, I think it needs something like a bit of butter, milk or cheese. I have been crabby and irritable. I dream about sourcream enchilladas.

Well, it shall pass (hopefully fast) because I am not going to give up breastfeeding the twins for this. They are doing so well. So pass me the soy cheese and maybe the tofurkey while you are at it.

All tests negative...

Helen had a cough and runny nose for like a month and a half and no matter what, it would not quit. So the Dr thought she had allergies. So we put her on Claratin and ran some tests. Well I just got a call from the Dr and all tests are negative.

She is not allergic to:

Pollen - many types common here in Australia
Cats
Dogs
Soy
Cows Milk
Peanuts
shellfish
fish
eggs

There was a few others but the dr said they did the run of test with foods etc and it all came back negative. So we can stop the Claratin and see where we go from there.

Also, tomorrow she is going to have PB and J since she is all good with peanuts. ye-haw!

Personalities

At first, I was so worried I could not tell the boys apart and I couldn't. I would seriously look at each one going who are you. They were changing every day so the thing I would pick to look at would be different and then crap, who was who. When they were born, they each had a band-aid applied to their back with their name written in sharpie. I think it is so they could tell who is who in the theatre (operating room). Well they were 10 days old before I took those band-aids off. How sad is that.

Now? I can tell them apart and I have even got Austin mixed up (he was right all the time in the begining). I think what is part of it is their personalities are starting to show through.

Erik is my high strung little dude and Jason is my chill little chap. I am not sure if it is because Erik was the smaller of the two but that kid has to cry louder, eat more (and gain more weight), and poop more than his brother. Making up for something, lost time maybe who knows. Jason, just sits and chills, until he is hungry but that is remidied pretty quickly.

It is neat to see they are not just the same, Erik reminds us alot of Helen when she was first born (in looks and facial expressions). Jason's looks look alot like Austin's baby pics and I see alot of Austin's facial expressions in him already.

To tell you the truth, I am glad I can tell them apart with painting someone with nail polish.