Hamilton Happenings

It's August 26th and the summer is too quickly coming to an end.  Next month is September and then October!  What the heck!  Then we'll be waiting to see if this winter is as bad (meaning freezing and snowy) as last year. Trip to Roaring Springs was awesome!  I love summer. Today my sweet cousin Carrie is getting married at the Newport Beach LDS Temple in California.  I wish we could be there!  Thinking of her today!  It was probably a good decision to not spend money on a family trip this summer since Isaac's tongue tie issue took up a lot of our time and money.  But I still hate missing out on family get togethers. Isaac is pretty much the same.  He has happy moments and very sad moments.  He's tolerating the PT well.  I do mouth, tongue, and lip stretches on him a few times a day.  He's still clicking while nursing and swallowing a lot of air.  I met with a lactation consultant two days ago and she said she's never met with anyone whose already do

On Monday, July 31st, I took Channing, Mckenzie, and Isaac to a physical therapy appointment to help Isaac with his tongue tie.  When Isaac was born the lactation consultant checked Isaac for tongue tie.  He was significantly tongue tied and the pediatrician clipped his frenulum when he was a day old.  Mckenzie was tongue tied as well but we didn't catch it till she was having problems nursing at 6 weeks old.  I was happy that we fixed Isaac's problem before he had problems nursing.  Unfortunately he started making a clicking noise while nursing when he was about 4 weeks old.  Since his tongue was already clipped I tried to be patient and assumed the problem would fix itself over time.  At his 2 month appointment Isaac was still clicking while nursing and he was swallowing a lot of air which makes him uncomfortable and grouchy.  The pediatrician thought his tongue could be clipped a little more, so he did.  I was patient (or sometimes not so patient) through another bad week of