I'm barely squeezing this month's update into this month. Waaaay late on getting Griffin's chair photos. If you know him, you know how hard it is to get him to sit still. Honestly, it's also hard to catch him not filthy or naked.
I'll start with Cooper like before, he's the one changing by the minute.
Height: 23 3/4 in
Weight: 12lbs 5 oz
Clothing size: 3-6 months
Diaper size: moving into Size 2
The rice cereal mixed in his bottles continues to keep him from vomiting. I'm hopeful that he's gaining weight at a faster rate so that his pediatrician will be happy.
He is a favorite at daycare. Sorry if this is repetitive, but he has been referred to as "their best baby" many times. That is a relief since he was not a very good baby in the beginning and I was nervous about him starting daycare.
He slept from 9pm to 6am last night. The night before, he got up twice. The night before that, he woke up once. It's really not too bad and he has always just been interested in eating then going back to sleep.
I know that we are not scheduling Cooper's activities like we did Griffin's. I'm making more of an effort to get him lots of tummy time, reading books, and all the things that I could probably find a notebook of charts from when Griffin was a baby. Cooper is rolling to his side fairly well and enjoys sitting in the bumbo seat.
Griffin has even more funny phrases lately. He speaks in terms of things either being a "good idea" or "not a good idea". The things he wants to do are never the latter. He has gone from saying naughty words, to being the bad word police. "Don't say that!" when he hears them, so that has been nice. I have also recently realized that he actually says "gotfor" instead of "forgot". It's cute but we are working to correct that.
I'm not sure about his height and weight.
He hasn't had a potty accident in a long time.
He VERY RARELY wakes up in the night.
He is extremely independent and wild and stubborn and strong-willed.
When Drew or I leave him, put him to bed, any kind of goodbye/goodnight.....he always needs a hug and a kiss, and an exchange of "I love yous". That makes up for all the rowdiness.
We've already had the acid reflux diagnosis. Cooper's spitting up/vomiting has continued ever since, which I think is normal to an extent.
Lately, it had turned to projectile vomiting pretty much daily. If it's not projectile, it will be multiple heaves leaving him, you, or both soaked. The daycare went through every spare outfit I had left there not once, but twice in the past 2 weeks.
Needless to say, Cooper saw his pediatrician this week. He had only gained 3 ounces since his last visit and that didn't satisfy Dr. Sponenberg so an ultrasound was ordered to look for a condition called pyloric stenosis.
I couldn't resist a few photos to document this. He didn't think it was a big deal, and the ladies doing the ultrasound were pretty smitten with him. I sure hope they got good enough pictures of the right thing. It took quite some time to find "it". I don't think they have babies in there often.
I was pleased that the results were negative. The game plan was to switch to exclusively pumping so that I could add rice cereal to his bottles and thicken up the milk. I'm not completely following his recommendations, but we are seeing a substantial improvement so far. He hasn't soaked any daycare ladies since we began adding cereal to his bottles. We go back for a follow up appointment this week. Cross your fingers that his weight gain is back on the uphill.
Rifle season began today. We would normally not see much of Drew for the next 2 weeks. It turned out to be the best opening day ever, because Drew got the old buck that he's been after for 3 years! I never respected hunting as a sport until I saw the determination, hard work, and perseverance it requires to be successful. Sounds corny, but if you had been on this ride with Drew and his pursuit of this buck.......seeing it, not seeing it, passing him up when he was younger, getting trail camera pictures, not getting trail camera pictures, shooting at him and wondering if he had wounded him, only to resurface the next year, and not getting close to him at all so far this bow season......it has been intense. And today, within a minute of getting in his stand at lunch time, there he came walking nearby.
Granted, it will still be bow season until early next year, and I'm sure Drew will be after does to send to the processing plant and for Share the Harvest. But is thrilled that this old buck will forever be honored on his wall, and I am beyond thrilled that we get a more relaxed Daddy back this winter!
We've been really busy this month! Drew just got back from an 8 day trip to the Dakotas so I have gotten to experience the single-parent life. I don't know how they do it. Griffin is still growing like a weed and weighed 13lbs 9oz at his check-up for his ear infection (right around the 3 month mark). Still never knew he had one, he's such a mellow baby. Smiles are now guaranteed and laughs aren't too hard to get either. Everyone seems to think he looks a little more like his momma now, but the Drew comments are still there too.
