More Pictures

Here are a few more pictures of Wyatt. Last night was his Grandma Onan's Sunday to be in town. Wyatt and Grandma had fun together as usual. I was able to snap a few pictures of Grandma reading to Wyatt before it was time to put him to bed.

Also, when Wyatt was littler we had taken a couple of pictures of him with our dog, Hawk, but we hadn't done that in awhile. So today I thought I would do that and got a couple of those taken as well. Hawk does really well with Wyatt but he's not sure if he likes Wyatt using him as a pillow (Hawk has never really liked anyone leaning on him; he's not mean about it he just usually gets up and goes somewhere else). But when we ask/make him put up with it he will.

A boy and his best friend!

Snack time

I've finally taken some more updated pictures of Wyatt so here they are. I haven't figured out how to do a picture "video" yet so I just have them stacked in my blog with cute captions to go with them.

Look at how well I can hold my head up now!

It's snack time and Wyatt is having some of his favorites: hand and rattle.

I have also added a couple pictures of my sister's dog, Louie, who is a puggle. She has made him a Twins Jersey with the number 34 on it (can't see the # in the pictures). Since that was Kirby Puckett's number she calls Louie her "kirby puggle". Anyway, since she doesn't have a blog of her own she wanted to "borrow" my blog to post these pictures of Louie.

Kirby Puggle making the game winning catch!!

Posing for pictures after the game.

3 Months Old!!

Today Wyatt is 3 months old!! It has been such a fun journey with him so far. Recently he has found his hand and his mouth and the two are hard to separate. Soon he will be grabbing things and putting them in his mouth instead of his hand. Wyatt also seems to be noticing his surroundings more and it seems like he has started to, unsuccessfully, grab at some toys if dangled close enough to his face and hands.

Here are a couple pictures from Monday this week (the closest I have to 3 month old pictures).

Wyatt smiling for his Great-Grandma Onan.

Wyatt with Grandpa Onan

MRI Results

I got a call from Wyatt's doctor today and the results from his MRI are in. The spot on his head looks to be a lipoma which is just a small growth of fat cells. This is good news for us. It doesn't seem like anything more will need to be done. We most likely won't even need to have a biopsy done either which was the main reason for the MRI (to make sure a biopsy was safe to do). If a diagnosis could be made from the MRI then we weren't going to need the biopsy. Also, these fatty growths may get bigger over time but not much and as long as they don't become bothersome then nothing more will ever need to be done. So, now we know and the spot on Wyatt's head is nothing to worry about.

Wyatt's Baptism

Yesterday Wyatt was baptized! It was a great service with Wyatt putting in his two sense as usual. He was kind of noisy while we were standing up front but then when it came to putting the water on his head he was quiet and seemed to enjoy it. We were blessed enough to have had lots of family with us for the occasion making a special day even more special. I would like to thank my brother Kyle and his wife Marie for being Wyatt's Godparents. Also, thanks to everyone who made the barbeque at our house afterwards a success with all of the food that was provided.

When my family was over on Saturday, they found Wyatt very entertaining. My brother saw how small Wyatt's feet were and thought it would be fun to do a little size comparison between his and Wyatt's feet. So Kyle took off his shoes for the comparison (Kyle wears a size 12). Then they (Kyle and my mom) saw Kyle's shoes sitting there and thought it would be funny to see what Wyatt looked like in Kyle's shoes. It looked like Wyatt was going on a skiing trip! It looked really funny and to think that Bert's feet are even bigger than my brothers.

These are BIG shoes to fill!!

With my family in town I thought I would give a couple of them an opportunity to babysit so on Saturday my sister, Leslie, came over. She never really babysat when she was younger but after having seen her with Wyatt a few weeks ago and teaching her some of the finer skills like changing diapers and such I knew that she would do just fine. And she did. But it was still a little nerve wracking for me but more because it was the first time I was leaving him with anyone but my mom and Bert for more than an hour (I was gone almost 2.5 hours). Then my dad also got some time to babysit Wyatt this morning. He even got Wyatt to sleep but then when I got home our dog barked and woke him up.

Some of you may know that on Friday Wyatt had an MRI of his head. It came about by me asking his doctor about a lesion on his head that he has had since birth. The doctor didn't know what it was so I went to see the pediatrician (his doctor is a family practice doctor) and she also didn't know what it was. In the meantime Wyatt's doctor went to a conference and thought it was something he saw there, Aplasia Cutis Congenita (ACC), so he referred us to a dermatologist. The dermatologist didn't think it was ACC but didn't know what it was so wanted to biopsy it but since it is on the scalp they can't just biopsy it in case there is something in the lesion connected to something in the brain. To figure this out he needed an MRI. So that took place on Friday. We had the MRI done at Children's West in Minnetonka (about an hour away) because my mom works there everyother week and she knew the doctors and their procedures and she thought we would feel more comfortable with that over going someplace unknown to us. She was right. It wasn't a week that she was working but she was able to be there with us and that was very awesome and kept me more relaxed. The bummer about it is that, because of Wyatt's age, he needed to be sedated and intubated. He did really well. He was in the MRI for about an hour and away from me about 2 hours. Wyatt did have a little bit of a throat irritation from the intubation tube which also caused a little bit of congestion but otherwise took it like a champ. I do not yet know the results of the MRI (hopefully will hear tomorrow) but I will post another post to let people know when I know. Oh yeah, nobody thinks the lesion on his head is a big deal but they want to make sure and that's why we are going through all of this.

Cause and Effect

I don't know when babies are supposed to learn cause and effect but watching Wyatt on his play mat I have to think that he knows something about cause and effect already. The film clip that I have posted today may seem very similar to the one I posted a couple days ago. Again he is on his mat but it better depicts him kicking the post to get the toys to move. Granted I have to have him placed so his feet can hit one of the posts since he is unable to move himself into position yet. Also, when he was playing on it I noticed that he was noticing the other toys hanging down as well instead of just the musical "lion" in the center.

Bert and I have also noticed that Wyatt has started mimicking us a little bit. Today Bert was holding him and stuck his tongue out at Wyatt. Wyatt then, in direct response, stuck his tongue out at Bert. It was very exciting and Wyatt did it a number of times.

Play gym

It's so much fun to watch Wyatt play on his play gym. He is so enthralled with the musical "lion" (I think it is supposed to be a lion)! He can watch and listen to it for a long time. I got a little video of him doing just that.

He also has definitely found his hands. The only problem is that he can't actually get them to his mouth on his own. He will lay and suck on them (or anything that comes close enough to his mouth) forever. He likes tummy time where he's on his tummy with his hands right by his face because then he forgets about exercising his neck muscles and just licks/sucks on his hands. Then I have to wipe the drool off of his face and hands. All of this just shows me how much he has learned so far.