6 Months and 4 Year well check!!

Having a fun snow day!  And then coming out of quiet time with a BATHING SUIT?  In snow?  Only her...

Sadly, I have not been updating like I would like.  We have been too busy in this house trying to get well.  We are still dealing with the tail end of pneumonia and Abby Kate has a really bad cold too.  We went to the doctor yesterday for AK's 4 year well check and Bo's ear recheck and found out Bo now has a double ear infection and Abby Kate has one too!  SUPER FUN!  Bo was soooo much better for about 4 days, eating, sleeping like a champ, etc...and then it seems it just returned in the middle of the night (always) like it had never left.  So I am back to giving them both breathing treatments and they are both on antibotics.  Did I mention I am SO over winter?
But in the midst of all this, our sweet boy passed the half a year mark and it has had me in puddles.  I literally have had no other time in my life that has passed so swiftly.  Yes, I am exhausted.  Yes, it does feel like 6 months since I slept a full night, but in other details, not so much.  These last 6 months are intense in my memory but somehow hazy as well.  Guess it is the lack of sleep.
We have had some big milestones these past few weeks.  A first tooth.  Starting to scoot.  Rolling all over to get across the room.  Sitting up.  I finally moved him to a 4 hour schedule without any fanfare.  He was more than ready but I kept thinking I had to follow advice I read online to wait until he was sleeping through the night.  But this move has been incredible and has actually extended his night sleep to consistently 8-9 hour stretch.  He is now awake 2 hours and sleeps 2 hours twice a day.  It has been amazing.  He goes right to sleep when I put him down for his naps and he has literally doubled his solids this week.  Once he is feeling a bit better, we will start introducing foods other than brown rice cereal and oatmeal.  He is eating twice a day now as well.
Abby Kate had her 4 year well check and was in the 97th% for height (43") and 80th% (38 lbs) for weight.  We adore our peditrician and she did truly complete check.  She asked her if she could right her name and she said, "No but I can write an A!" (which she did) and then identified tons of shapes and colors and numbers and letters.  She was asked her age and she asked her to hold her arms out and stand on one foot which literally lasted about 2 seconds until she said "watch Dr. N!  I can fly!  I can fly!"  We were all dying laughing at her.  The one hard thing was that she recommended us to see an opthamologist due to her eyes not focusing correctly and her not being about to read small letters unless she was close.  We shall see what he says.  So all in all, it just seems my babies are growing up so fast.  When Bo started sitting up this week, Abby Kate exclaimed, "Bubby!  You aren't a baby anymore!  You are about to be a kid!"  And boy, I know that he will be before I can blink.  So I am savoring this time.  (with a dash of coveting a little more sleep :)