Monday, October 27, 2008

Pics and a video

I have finally succeeded in getting the pictures and the video to upload and post. I hope that they are worth the wait. You can put my socks on when I'm done snacking on my toes!

I'll stand here only if I can play with the remote.


Wow! Dad's actually letting me "type".


Saturday, October 25, 2008

Feeling better

Wyatt is finally starting to feel better. He still has a runny nose/cough but that is subsiding. As I wrote in one of my previous blogs that Wyatt had gotten hand, foot and mouth disease. That is all cleared up now. Also Wyatt had gotten two ear infections and was put on amoxicillin. His temperature decided to spike again 10 days after that and when my mom took him back to the docotr it was found that the amox. hadn't cleared up the infections so he was put on azithromicin (or something like that). That seems to have worked as Wyatt is feeling much better. Also when babies have ear infections they don't like sucking very much and so Wyatt stopped breastfeeding (yes, I'm still doing that) for 12 days. Since I was not ready to stop I proceeded to pump that whole time and now Wyatt has taken over in that category again.

Anyway, in the meantime Wyatt has turned 9 months old. Nine months is one of those times when babies have a doctor's appt. but since Wyatt's doctor is in Chine until the first part of November we have to wait an extra couple weeks. From Wyatt's few trips to the doctor's through his illnesses though he was 19 lbs. 9 oz. so just shy of tripling his birth weight of 6 lbs. 9 oz.

On an exciting note Wyatt has begun a form of forward movement. It is kind of a semi-army crawl. Unfortunately the blog is not letting me post the video and cute pictures again so keep checking back and they will be up in the near future (hopefully).

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Here is the picture and video that I haven't been able to post the last couple of days. In the picture Wyatt is showing off his two upper teeth. Then in the video I did not hit the "Mute Wyatt" button he just decided to start "talking" without making any sounds at all. Enjoy!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Good news!

Gas prices are coming down! That's right, here in Western Wisconsin it is below $3! Bert is telling me that it is $2.60 something in parts of the Twin Cities.

Wyatt hasn't been feeling well for a little while now. On Sunday night/Monday morning he decided that he didn't want to drink anything no matter how we tried to give it to him. So we went to the doctor's on Monday and he was diagnosed with 2 ear infections and put on ampicillin for 10 days. That was supposed to help his drinking but it didn't so we went back in on Wednesday. It was then that he was diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease. There were a couple decent sized sores on his tongue causing him quite a bit of pain when he tried to suck so he didn't. To prevent dehydration we have been syringing liquids into him since Monday. Well after a long week tonight he finally "inhaled" 7-8 ounces of milk from a bottle. I have literally never seen him drink that much that fast ever. This means that he might be feeling well enough to start nursing again soon. That's right, all week I've been pumping. Now that he's being treated for he ailments he has been sleeping better this week, too. Unfortunately, I have not been because whatever he had he gave to me and I've had a sore throat/cough all week.

So as you can see it has been a long and trying week for us. The good part is that Wyatt has been pretty happy and alert just not drinking anything. I will have to upload the picture and video I wanted to post some other time because things aren't being cooperative.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Some more pictures!

There isn't really much new going on so I just thought that I would post a few pictures this time.

Dad's teaching me how to drive!

Hanging out with Uncle-to-be Jim at the Minnesota Zoo.

Moving only laterally definitely has its challenges.

Hi Mom!

I think I do pretty well feeding myself!