talan still really enjoys his jumper in the basement but he has also grown quite the affection for his exersaucer which is now taking up half of the living room. here's what he likes to do:
just warming up:
he's in the groove now. for 2 minutes. sorry it's so long, but it's funny:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
9 month check up
talan went into the doctor for his 9 month check up on tuesday. surprisingly he looks and sounds very healthy. the doctor looked at the report we got from his cat scan and said that pretty much everything with it looks typical and normal for a dermoid cyst.
she said that his chest sounds nice and clear even though he still has his 90 year old man smokers cough. she once again stated it's something we just need to wait and see if he grows out of. she said some kids can be wheezy and have these coughs for the first year of life and then clear up and never have a problem again.
no shots were needed this time around and he doesn't need to go back in until after his first birthday (of course, i'm sure we'll be back in before that!)
talan now weighs in at 20 pounds 1 ounce which is in the 50th% and is 29 1/8th inches long which is in the 80th%.
he also is now the owner of 5 teeth. after getting his first two bottom teeth in MONTHS ago, he received the two top ones last week and then yet another bottom one this week. and boy are they sharp.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
9 month photos
today i took talan to get his 9 month pictures taken. the second we walked into the store he put on his serious face and wouldn't budge. the photographer worked with him for a long time and we got a couple of small smiles but then he started to go down hill. we took a break so he could have a bottle and tried again. he did ok but then soon became tired and wanted a nap. the shots turned out cute but just very serious.
hayden had a couple of pictures taken when he was 9 months in a bathtub so we took a couple of talan this way so we can add them to the ones of hayden in the bathroom.
after two hours we are exhausted. talan is still sleeping in his car seat and i wish i was sleeping. here are the results:
hayden had a couple of pictures taken when he was 9 months in a bathtub so we took a couple of talan this way so we can add them to the ones of hayden in the bathroom.
after two hours we are exhausted. talan is still sleeping in his car seat and i wish i was sleeping. here are the results:
9 months
the ninth is a very prominent date for birthdays in this family. my mom is may 9th, mine is july 9th, jessica's is (today) january 9th and talan's is april 9th. so today while jessica turns 27 (was i not supposed to say that?!) and i turn 30 1/2, talan cash turns 9 months old.
so many things have changed and i tell myself i'm going to write things down so when it comes time to write these blogs i'll remember everything. but i never do. so going off the top of my head, here are some things that i can remember from this past month.
talan has conquered pretty much all of the baby jarred foods that he can without a single allergic reaction. yeah!! he has become much better about eating fruits and i rarely have a hard time getting him to eat them. there still are days where he will make a slight face or decide he's over it which he will NEVER do when eating sweet potatoes. by the end of the month he typically would eat 3-4 jars of food for a meal. in between the jarred foods he takes anywhere from 6-8 ounces of his formula. there are some days that he still doesn't want to be bothered with his solid foods, he just wants his bottle. weening him could prove to be a bit more difficult than it was with hayden.
he has also started eating some real solid foods a bit better. he has eaten some avocado, crackers, raisins, animal crackers and his little baby puffs. typically more ends up in his lap or on the floor than in his stomach, but he does eat more than last month. he doesn't seem to want to chew though. he'd much rather just let it sit in his mouth....much like his brother still does.
he still loves to eat paper but has also grown an appetite for fuzz. he just loves to scoot himself across the floor and pick up fuzz balls to shove in his mouth. it's a new cleaning method i'm trying out.
talan is still a happy, easygoing baby but he has become a bit more vocal this month. if he's frustrated or wants something he'll be sure to let you know. he doesn't really scream like a baby typically screams, he'll more or less yell at you. there are no tears and he's not even trying to make it appear like he is crying, he simply yells until he gets what he wants. after 9 months he finally realized that's what he needs to do in order to compete with his brother.
months after getting his 2 bottom teeth in he is finally in the process of cutting his 2 front teeth. they finally broke through his gums 2 days ago and after breaking through, the explosive poops have thankfully stopped.
this month he continued to get around by scooting himself pretty much refusing to even try a normal crawl. he gets around quickly and can get wherever he wants to get so he's perfectly comfortable scooting around like an amputee. he can now also sit himself up and at this point has mastered it. before he would try to pull himself up and weeble wobble before finally making it all the way to the sitting position. now he has no problem sitting himself up anytime, anywhere. i went into his room one morning to find him sitting up and thought....oh yeah, he does that now, guess we should be moving the crib mattress down a notch.
his most recent development has been pulling himself up to the standing position on occasion. i have heard a rumor that while at his cousin rainah's 1st birthday party my dad looked over to find him standing while holding onto the fireplace. so i guess december 29th would have been his first time, that anyone saw at least. since then i have witnessed it myself several times with him typically pulling up on one of his baskets of toys to have a better look.
thankfully his sleep patterns are much better than they were several months ago. he goes to bed around 8pm and usually stays asleep through the nite. he might wake up and squawk a bit around 11ish but we are able to stick his binky in his mouth and he'll just go right back to sleep ( well, he really isn't even awake to begin with). there have been several times that he'll wake up in the middle of the nite but we just let him cry it out which sometimes can be quite a while. thankfully that doesn't happen very often anymore. he'll wake up anywhere from 5-7am but will typically eat a bottle and go right back down to sleep. if he's up at 7, he'll stay up until close to 9 before going back down for his morning nap. he wakes up a little before hayden gets home from school at around 11:15am and then will go back down for his afternoon nap around 1 or 1:30. even though i don't feel like it many days, i am getting quite a bit more sleep than i was 2 months ago.
he celebrated his first christmas and new year and attended 2 birthday parties in as many days. he took yet another trip to the hospital for his cat scan and the results came back with good news. hayden can still make talan laugh like nobody else can even if it appears to me like hayden is torturing him. when babbling he mostly makes the "mama" or "baba" sounds but he has at times seemed as if he is trying to mimic us by saying "no" and most recently "wow." he also likes to click his tongue or make these weird throat clearing noises. he likes making these noises best while he's sitting in his high chair eating with hayden present. he'll make the noises and just look at hayden and try to get him to laugh. if hayden's in the other room i have seen him make the noises and stretch to see if hayden notices him.
talan still loves to jump in his jumper and has recently realized he can also jump in his exersaucer. it doesn't seem to be as much fun for him and he'll only really stay in that for little bits at a time. i just moved his swing out to the garage even though he still did like being in it at times. maybe we'll have to bring in the outdoor swing and rig it up in the basement somehow.
he has gotten into playing with toys much more now. he loves taking 2 stacking cups or 2 plastic balls from some of his toys and banging them together. he also has really grown to love throwing things. he'll pick up a cup and just throw it out in front of him, sometimes with pretty good distance. he'll pick it up again and throw it again. he can repeat this for quite a while. he also likes banging toys on the wood floors. if he's playing on the carpet, he'll scoot himself over to the couch so he can bang the toy under the couch. i have even caught him stashing toys under the couch on purpose. he loves toys that light up and make noise but still probably would rather just bang 2 plastic toys together.
we are headed out to have his 9 month pictures taken this afternoon. we plan on getting some bath tub pictures to match the ones hayden had done at 9 months so we can put them both up in the bathroom. we also will be going to the dr. for his 9 month check up on the 15th. we'll be sure to post the pictures and his newest stats when they come in.
unbelievably there are only 3 months until you are 1. let's try to slow it down a bit. happy 9 months, t-money!
so many things have changed and i tell myself i'm going to write things down so when it comes time to write these blogs i'll remember everything. but i never do. so going off the top of my head, here are some things that i can remember from this past month.
talan has conquered pretty much all of the baby jarred foods that he can without a single allergic reaction. yeah!! he has become much better about eating fruits and i rarely have a hard time getting him to eat them. there still are days where he will make a slight face or decide he's over it which he will NEVER do when eating sweet potatoes. by the end of the month he typically would eat 3-4 jars of food for a meal. in between the jarred foods he takes anywhere from 6-8 ounces of his formula. there are some days that he still doesn't want to be bothered with his solid foods, he just wants his bottle. weening him could prove to be a bit more difficult than it was with hayden.
he has also started eating some real solid foods a bit better. he has eaten some avocado, crackers, raisins, animal crackers and his little baby puffs. typically more ends up in his lap or on the floor than in his stomach, but he does eat more than last month. he doesn't seem to want to chew though. he'd much rather just let it sit in his mouth....much like his brother still does.
he still loves to eat paper but has also grown an appetite for fuzz. he just loves to scoot himself across the floor and pick up fuzz balls to shove in his mouth. it's a new cleaning method i'm trying out.
talan is still a happy, easygoing baby but he has become a bit more vocal this month. if he's frustrated or wants something he'll be sure to let you know. he doesn't really scream like a baby typically screams, he'll more or less yell at you. there are no tears and he's not even trying to make it appear like he is crying, he simply yells until he gets what he wants. after 9 months he finally realized that's what he needs to do in order to compete with his brother.
months after getting his 2 bottom teeth in he is finally in the process of cutting his 2 front teeth. they finally broke through his gums 2 days ago and after breaking through, the explosive poops have thankfully stopped.
this month he continued to get around by scooting himself pretty much refusing to even try a normal crawl. he gets around quickly and can get wherever he wants to get so he's perfectly comfortable scooting around like an amputee. he can now also sit himself up and at this point has mastered it. before he would try to pull himself up and weeble wobble before finally making it all the way to the sitting position. now he has no problem sitting himself up anytime, anywhere. i went into his room one morning to find him sitting up and thought....oh yeah, he does that now, guess we should be moving the crib mattress down a notch.
his most recent development has been pulling himself up to the standing position on occasion. i have heard a rumor that while at his cousin rainah's 1st birthday party my dad looked over to find him standing while holding onto the fireplace. so i guess december 29th would have been his first time, that anyone saw at least. since then i have witnessed it myself several times with him typically pulling up on one of his baskets of toys to have a better look.
thankfully his sleep patterns are much better than they were several months ago. he goes to bed around 8pm and usually stays asleep through the nite. he might wake up and squawk a bit around 11ish but we are able to stick his binky in his mouth and he'll just go right back to sleep ( well, he really isn't even awake to begin with). there have been several times that he'll wake up in the middle of the nite but we just let him cry it out which sometimes can be quite a while. thankfully that doesn't happen very often anymore. he'll wake up anywhere from 5-7am but will typically eat a bottle and go right back down to sleep. if he's up at 7, he'll stay up until close to 9 before going back down for his morning nap. he wakes up a little before hayden gets home from school at around 11:15am and then will go back down for his afternoon nap around 1 or 1:30. even though i don't feel like it many days, i am getting quite a bit more sleep than i was 2 months ago.
he celebrated his first christmas and new year and attended 2 birthday parties in as many days. he took yet another trip to the hospital for his cat scan and the results came back with good news. hayden can still make talan laugh like nobody else can even if it appears to me like hayden is torturing him. when babbling he mostly makes the "mama" or "baba" sounds but he has at times seemed as if he is trying to mimic us by saying "no" and most recently "wow." he also likes to click his tongue or make these weird throat clearing noises. he likes making these noises best while he's sitting in his high chair eating with hayden present. he'll make the noises and just look at hayden and try to get him to laugh. if hayden's in the other room i have seen him make the noises and stretch to see if hayden notices him.
talan still loves to jump in his jumper and has recently realized he can also jump in his exersaucer. it doesn't seem to be as much fun for him and he'll only really stay in that for little bits at a time. i just moved his swing out to the garage even though he still did like being in it at times. maybe we'll have to bring in the outdoor swing and rig it up in the basement somehow.
he has gotten into playing with toys much more now. he loves taking 2 stacking cups or 2 plastic balls from some of his toys and banging them together. he also has really grown to love throwing things. he'll pick up a cup and just throw it out in front of him, sometimes with pretty good distance. he'll pick it up again and throw it again. he can repeat this for quite a while. he also likes banging toys on the wood floors. if he's playing on the carpet, he'll scoot himself over to the couch so he can bang the toy under the couch. i have even caught him stashing toys under the couch on purpose. he loves toys that light up and make noise but still probably would rather just bang 2 plastic toys together.
we are headed out to have his 9 month pictures taken this afternoon. we plan on getting some bath tub pictures to match the ones hayden had done at 9 months so we can put them both up in the bathroom. we also will be going to the dr. for his 9 month check up on the 15th. we'll be sure to post the pictures and his newest stats when they come in.
unbelievably there are only 3 months until you are 1. let's try to slow it down a bit. happy 9 months, t-money!
Monday, January 7, 2008
the results are in
i got a call from the plastic surgeon's office the other day letting me know that the cat scan results were in. it looks like the cyst is not attached to anything which will make for an easy removal.
we were told it is up to us if we want it removed now or if we just want to wait. since it is a new year now, which means a new $4000 deductible, we'll be waiting to have the cyst removed. we'll just watch and see how quickly it grows to determine when it is best to have it removed. at least the procedure will be easier and cheaper since it is not attached to anything and no neurosurgeon will need to be in for the surgery!
thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.
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