Ready for the usual random photo dump?
Well let’s get started then!
It’s amazing how exciting a churro and a 25 cent bottle of water can be when you are a little kid. I love our Costco runs and how much fun they have eating all the samples. Plus they are always supportive when I say “We should buy this ridiculous snack, right?”
Henry was happy, ignore his expression…
A lunch date that wasn’t Subway! He was pretty excited about his cheese quesadilla and getting to hang out downstairs at work with me. Less excited when people kept stopping by to say hi when they saw I had such a cutie sitting with me.
I think it is totally understandable that I tend to freak out of little things that she does that seem “weird” and I have to wait to ask her physical therapists if it is ok or not. Case in point - she keeps flipping her hand under when she is doing tummy time these days. They weren’t entirely sure why she was doing it, but then I handed her the binkie she dropped and she held it in her mouth with that same backwards hand motion.
Well there you go - she’s been doing that since about 6 weeks old…
This kid busted his lip good the other day at school. He said he fell on the climber, though I am not 100% sure what he means by that. I do know that he was being walked in from outside to get ice the exact second I walked in the door. Poor guy was upset…! Turned in to a pretty gnarly bruise a few days later.
Thomas comes home with some pretty random arts & crafts from summer camp. But I loved this headpiece. I think it looks like his head is a flower, but he did not agree. “It’s a crown, mom!!” Ha!
Sam was over at the house and ate a random Payday candy bar I had sitting around. I totally didn’t mind, but I still gave him a hard time about it, because that’s the kind of friends we are. Got this package in the mail a few days later.
You know this will only enforce my bad behavior, right?!?
She tried to steal one too! Hands off, cute little baby!
We finally switched DME (durable medical equipment) companies to the in-network supplier. We had to use the out of net work supplier when she first left the NICU because they were the only one that had the Apnea monitor. And our insurance gives you 6 months when you get a waiver for a network deficiency. I was totally putting off switching because it seemed like it was going to be a huge hassle.
Turns out, it wasn’t too bad. And the upside is that we got a new O2 monitor - the cord is a little shorter, but it’s smaller and not quite as annoying…
These guys wanted to stay up late (I know the sunlight is deceiving…) to go pick up Nonni from the airport. Not only that, they wanted to wear their fancy clothes as well! How can I say no to that??
Pretty sure everyone thought Nonni had the cutest welcoming committee! :)
For a girl who isn’t allowed to have anything by mouth, she sure is interested in food. Her dad waved this popsicle in front of her and she grabbed it and held on for dear life. She was pleasantly surprised when she stuck her fingers in her mouth a few seconds later.
(I’m not going to rat anyone out with photos from a similar burger incident, but let’s just say this girl has quite the grip…)
One of Natalie’s therapists is working on getting a certification in infant massage and needs to build up hours teaching caregivers of babies the massage techniques. So Natalie graciously offered to be a massage recipient. The giant baby doll was to demonstrate the proper moves to Nonni, but Natalie thought it was a real baby and got so very excited. By the second session, I think she had figured out it was a doll, but there a pretty close in size, huh?
Natalie is cuter! ;)
I have been reading everything I could online about managing reflux in babies given the awful results of the ph probe study. I think the most frustrating part for her / me is the amount of time she has to spend in her chair sitting up. Her feeds take almost an hour and then she really needs to stay upright for another 30-60 minutes. Which means she only gets an hour out of the chair between each feeding. Especially if she falls asleep and then wakes up just in time for the next one. Homegirl is tired of that chair!
So imagine my surprise when I saw a recommendation on the Seattle’s Children’s website that anything that keeps them upright is effective, including bouncers. Well we just happen to have one of those laying around, so I pulled it out to give it a try. She looooooooooves it! She twirled and bounced to her heart’s content.
Of course, she still has to stress me out and kept rolling her foot sideways when she was standing up. Guess I have another item to discuss with the physical therapists and hopefully they are supportive of the bouncer. Otherwise, I may have to go rogue…!
(They were totally on board as long as we don’t let her hang out in it all day and showed us how to use blankets to better support her in it until she’s a little bigger - whew!)