My six days on and six days off are coming to a close, I'll miss this chunk of time off with Baby R! But it'll also be good to have Wednesdays off and getting off early enough to have dinner with him. Benefits to both :)
As it always works, my days off were cold and full of snow. I actually love the cold if there's snow, it makes it seem so magical. Baby R seems to be fond of the cold too; he sometimes slaps on the glass doors to go touch the snow.
I'm learning that toddlers love routine, and nothing can be repeated too many times. He loves to play in his room in the morning, then eat breakfast, then watch this one 40 minute thing on Amazon Prime full of little baby rhymes. His favorite is the "One Little Finger" song. And he might chew the coffee table too and put his hands in the cat food, dump out the dirty laundry etc.
Serious goals to decorate his room first! I would ideally like to paint him some fun things :) Maybe a next six days off project!
I cannot believe how much energy this little guy outputs. He loves his Rody with the rocking horse stand (he once took a face plant without it so we thought it was a good idea to stabilize him a bit haha) and he always wants to sit on Rody. He says, "Bounce Bounce Bounce" which sounds more like "Bow Bow Bow!" when he sees Rody, so I put him on it and he bounces for quite some time.
I've almost given up dressing him. He takes off his shirt in the middle of Walmart these days. Poor customers hear some funny things down the aisles like...
"No we have to keep our shirt on!"
"Get that sock out of your mouth!"
"Leave your diaper on!"
I recently got a tea cup for my Narwhale diffuser Austin got me for Christmas. And there's the cutest store called Heaven on Earth here in Gillette that sells a bunch of fancy cooking stuff, baby and Momma stuff, and tea! I love the hibiscus goji berry herbal tea especially on cold days. Warms you up, and helps me get in fluids! Supposedly it gives you energy too, but pffft. Nothing can contain the Baby R. Least I try!
(One of these days that bread keeper will be filled again with homemade bread, especially since we've been on a British Baking Show kick.)
Little Man loves his baths especially when he gets congested. He hasn't had bubbles in a while. I did them lots when he was super tiny, and then introduced the bubbles again to him. Scared him so bad he tried to jump ship out of the bathtub, I was laughing so hard!! I know, terrible parent!!
Anyway, he's not jumping ship anymore and has super fun bath play time with bubbles now... as you can see.
In case you missed it, he had RSV as a three month old so his respiratory system is still crap. It's fragile too. A cold can turn into many other things for him. Today, I took him into Urgent Care because he woke up from his 1.5 hour nap with a temp of 103.0 so I gave him Tylenol. He had been crabby that morning as Austin noted, so I brought him in after dosing him.
Another ear infection. As I suspected. But what was incredible that the PA caught was that he had some crappy lung sounds and they were full of junk to the tipping point of sounding diminished. She caught on to his breathing pattern and rate, etc. In short, he's fine but he is back on nebulizer treatments because we don't want his lungs to fill up with more junk and cause more issues. He also got a rash too... poor little guy!
He loves his Jelly Cat (the brand name of the kitty my mom gave him for Christmas) and wouldn't let go of Jelly Cat all day. So Jelly Cat came to the clinic, got squeezed and loved on (and snotted on too)... and will be getting a bath too when all this is through. Here's to another week!
Xoxo,
From Wyoming!
Comments
Post a Comment