he feels the same way about squash as he does about all the other vegetables. it's fine. but he'd rather have his bottle. and when being fed, there is usually a whole lot of other things that he'd rather be giving his attention to than eating.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
squash
talan moved on to the world of gourds on saturday. good thing too. it's just about time to carve pumpkins and you all know he'll be shoved inside a pumpkin for a photo op. lucky him.
he feels the same way about squash as he does about all the other vegetables. it's fine. but he'd rather have his bottle. and when being fed, there is usually a whole lot of other things that he'd rather be giving his attention to than eating.
he feels the same way about squash as he does about all the other vegetables. it's fine. but he'd rather have his bottle. and when being fed, there is usually a whole lot of other things that he'd rather be giving his attention to than eating.
Monday, October 15, 2007
6 month check up
today was talan's 6 month check up. i had a couple of things i wanted to ask the dr. about. things like, what drugs can i give him to make him stop waking us up in the middle of the nite?! he's had a cold for about 2 weeks now and i've figured that's what the problem is. but stupid parents that overdose their infants are now responsible for me not being able to buy infant cold medicine. other questions like, why does he still have this 80 year old smokers cough?! and what in the world is up with the bump on his nose by his eye?! so here's what happened.
he weighed in at 17 pounds 3 ounces which puts him in the 50th percentile. i believe he actually lost a few ounces but he's been eating all weird since this cold set in. nothing major. he is 26 7/8 inches which puts him in the 70th percentile. i looked back at hayden's 6 months stats and found that hayden was about 27 1/4 inches and weighed 18 pounds 3 ounces. so they're still close, but hayden was beating him out just a bit. it's interesting to see how similar they are in that regard. i forget his head size but it's in the 50-75 percentile range.
so the dr. comes in and asks how things are going. i mention the cold and she tells me i should give him some children's triaminic for the runny nose and stuff. she also said that she would send us home with a nebulizer since the cough still hasn't gone away, and in fact, is worse than ever. so we'll be giving him breathing treatments when he starts hacking a lung up now.
she starts looking at him and notices the bump on his nose before i could say anything about it. she felt it and said it was one of two things. 1-it was some kind of cyst that i forget the name of. i think it starts with a d. 2-it has something to do with the tear duct. but, usually that is a little lower, so she's pretty sure it's the cyst. it seems to be not too big of a deal, but it is something that will need to be removed. they don't do it now because he's so young, unless it really starts growing. but when it's time to have it removed i guess they'll have plastics do it because of it being on his face and all. so really, it shouldn't come as too big of a shock seeing as though talan has decided to always have some kind of medical thing going on.
right after she inspects his eyes she moves to his ears. oh. guess what?! he has yet another ear infection. surprise! cuz what would a talan check up be without an ear infection?! i'm guessing that when he had the fever several weeks back, that was the start of the ear infection but it wasn't showing up yet. so hopefully between the cold and the ear infection that's what's been waking him up. and once i get this medicine in him maybe he'll get back to sleeping through the nite again!
while laying on the table talan waved at the dr. i have been teaching him to wave and noticed on saturday that it appeared he would wave at us. i figured i was crazy and it was just a fluke thing. he's too young to wave. but that nite several other people saw it and we realized he was doing it on purpose. so today the dr. says "he just waved at me. does your mommy know that's a 9 month action?" so when she gave me all of the paperwork she skipped over the "what your 6 month old should be doing" because she said "i could have given him his 9 month check up. he's really far ahead for 6 months." after 2 shots she sent us home with our nebulizer, prescription for the nebulizer and prescription for the ear infection. we also had to make an appointment for 2 weeks to check the ear and get his flu shot as long as the ear looks good.
so i guess in two weeks we'll see what new medical condition he has. oh well. at least he's still always happy.
this has nothing to do with the dr. but he's so stinkin cute here:
green beans
we're a little slow at the feeding thing in this house. i said i was going to start feeding talan green beans almost a week ago but we just got around to it yesterday. no real reactions. he seemed to eat them up just the same as the carrots and peas. oh, and the scratches? no worries there. he just got into a fight with the cat. you should see what dante looks like.
seriously. this kid.
hayden wanted to take some pictures so here is his work:
and he had to show off what he was eating for dinner. hey, no comments here, he used to eat these waffles frozen. he's really growing up:
seriously. this kid.
hayden wanted to take some pictures so here is his work:
and he had to show off what he was eating for dinner. hey, no comments here, he used to eat these waffles frozen. he's really growing up:
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
6 month photos
talan had his 6 month photo's taken yesterday. we got there when he was in a great mood and finished shortly before he started getting tired. here are the results:
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
6 months
talan has now been around for a half a year. that's insane to me. in many ways it seems like he's always been here, but it still seems like i just had him. he continues to be a great baby, although this may have been the most challenging month with him. now, i know what a tough child is, and i'm not about to say that talan is tough by any stretch. however, he was a bit crankier and a bit less content for part of this month. he has been sick, so i'm blaming it on that. and teething. you can always blame teething, even though there aren't any teeth to be seen.
talan has been tough to figure out a nap schedule for. he is a pretty good sleeper (aside from the fact that he STILL has to be swaddled to fall asleep), but i seem to remember hayden being very routine oriented. he took naps at the same time every day, even at this age. talan seems to need a nap early one morning but much later the next. now that hayden will be taking the bus, he should be able to at least get his naps when he needs them. most mornings he wakes up and will go right back down to sleep for another few hours. and lately he has been taking a great afternoon nap. night time has been another issue. he still goes down around 8 or 8:30, but for the past 2 weeks he has been getting up once, if not twice a night. something he hasn't done since his first weeks home. so, needless to say, we aren't too happy about this. again, he has been sick with quite the runny nose so i blame that. and again, teething. always teething.
talan can more or less sit on his own, but he doesn't quite know it yet. he typically will sit in between my legs, nothing propping him up, with just one hand resting on my leg. for whatever reason he thinks that is what is sitting him up. and as soon as he realizes he is actually doing it himself, he'll fall over.
the other nite he decided he wanted to travel around the living room so he rolled all the way around. then he decided that there had to be a slightly better way of getting around. that's when he got himself up on his knees and start to scoot, just a little, across the floor. he was really close to crawling and i can see that happening at any time.
he loves his jumper which is set up in the basement. dave will come downstairs after dinner every nite and bring the boys with him. talan will just sit and jump in that jumper for an hour. now, whenever you pick him up, he starts jumping.
he is doing really well at eating "solid" foods now. he finally opens his mouth without much prompting and it takes him far less time to eat than it did last month. he eats his oatmeal cereal, carrots and peas. as soon as he finishes the open jar of peas in the fridge he'll be moving on to green beans. i had forgotten just how stinky and thick baby food poop is. diaper changing is no fun.
he has lost much of his hair and looks like a chemo patient. hayden was born with a full head of thick hair that he kept. the only hair he lost was in the back of his head from where he rubbed it. talan has, what a neighbor pointed out, as mr. t hair. he has blonde hair covering his head but basically just a strip of long baby hair down the middle with some wisps on the sides as well. sometimes we try to spread it out so he doesn't look so sick. usually from straight on you can't tell just how sickly he looks.
he grabs EVERYTHING. something else we really don't remember hayden doing. at least not nearly as much as talan does. wherever you sit him, he finds something that he just has to have. weeks ago he grabbed my glass at the table. luckily hayden was there and caught it before he knocked it down. and he is a huge fan of the remote. if he sees it, he will do everything in his power to get it.
he has taken quite an interest in the cat lately. anytime he sees dante he'll just stare at him. and if talan is on the ground, he tries his best to get over to him to pet him. dante keeps a safe distance as i'm sure he remembers just what happened once hayden started moving. now he has to try to stay clear of TWO kids.
i took him to get his 6 month pictures taken today and everyone kept commenting on how long he was. he goes in for his 6 month check up on monday so i guess we'll see if they were right. most people comment on what a big baby he is. so we'll see what those stats are in about a week. as well as have them try to figure out why in the world he's waking us up in the middle of the nite!!!!
even with the middle of the night feedings again (where he typically only eats a couple of ounces anyway) and the couple crabby/non content days, we wouldn't trade him for the world. even super baby has a bad day once in a while.
happy 1/2 year talan!
talan has been tough to figure out a nap schedule for. he is a pretty good sleeper (aside from the fact that he STILL has to be swaddled to fall asleep), but i seem to remember hayden being very routine oriented. he took naps at the same time every day, even at this age. talan seems to need a nap early one morning but much later the next. now that hayden will be taking the bus, he should be able to at least get his naps when he needs them. most mornings he wakes up and will go right back down to sleep for another few hours. and lately he has been taking a great afternoon nap. night time has been another issue. he still goes down around 8 or 8:30, but for the past 2 weeks he has been getting up once, if not twice a night. something he hasn't done since his first weeks home. so, needless to say, we aren't too happy about this. again, he has been sick with quite the runny nose so i blame that. and again, teething. always teething.
talan can more or less sit on his own, but he doesn't quite know it yet. he typically will sit in between my legs, nothing propping him up, with just one hand resting on my leg. for whatever reason he thinks that is what is sitting him up. and as soon as he realizes he is actually doing it himself, he'll fall over.
the other nite he decided he wanted to travel around the living room so he rolled all the way around. then he decided that there had to be a slightly better way of getting around. that's when he got himself up on his knees and start to scoot, just a little, across the floor. he was really close to crawling and i can see that happening at any time.
he loves his jumper which is set up in the basement. dave will come downstairs after dinner every nite and bring the boys with him. talan will just sit and jump in that jumper for an hour. now, whenever you pick him up, he starts jumping.
he is doing really well at eating "solid" foods now. he finally opens his mouth without much prompting and it takes him far less time to eat than it did last month. he eats his oatmeal cereal, carrots and peas. as soon as he finishes the open jar of peas in the fridge he'll be moving on to green beans. i had forgotten just how stinky and thick baby food poop is. diaper changing is no fun.
he has lost much of his hair and looks like a chemo patient. hayden was born with a full head of thick hair that he kept. the only hair he lost was in the back of his head from where he rubbed it. talan has, what a neighbor pointed out, as mr. t hair. he has blonde hair covering his head but basically just a strip of long baby hair down the middle with some wisps on the sides as well. sometimes we try to spread it out so he doesn't look so sick. usually from straight on you can't tell just how sickly he looks.
he grabs EVERYTHING. something else we really don't remember hayden doing. at least not nearly as much as talan does. wherever you sit him, he finds something that he just has to have. weeks ago he grabbed my glass at the table. luckily hayden was there and caught it before he knocked it down. and he is a huge fan of the remote. if he sees it, he will do everything in his power to get it.
he has taken quite an interest in the cat lately. anytime he sees dante he'll just stare at him. and if talan is on the ground, he tries his best to get over to him to pet him. dante keeps a safe distance as i'm sure he remembers just what happened once hayden started moving. now he has to try to stay clear of TWO kids.
i took him to get his 6 month pictures taken today and everyone kept commenting on how long he was. he goes in for his 6 month check up on monday so i guess we'll see if they were right. most people comment on what a big baby he is. so we'll see what those stats are in about a week. as well as have them try to figure out why in the world he's waking us up in the middle of the nite!!!!
even with the middle of the night feedings again (where he typically only eats a couple of ounces anyway) and the couple crabby/non content days, we wouldn't trade him for the world. even super baby has a bad day once in a while.
happy 1/2 year talan!
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