Happy 15 Months Will

Yes my baby Will turned 15 months on April 19th and yes I'm 8 days late blogging about it. My mind has been crazy lately because I have had too much going on to even think that he can be 15 months old already.

We went to the doctor this week for his check up and Will weighed 18lbs 3oz and was 30 inches long. This puts him in the 4th percentile for a 15 month old in height and the 2nd percentile for weight of a 15 month old. If he was measured as an 11 month old he would be in the 75th percentile for height and the 5th percentile for weight. So it looks like we are going to have a tall and very skinny boy. So the doctor told us NO MORE baby food which I freaked out about. We are doing our best to pack on the pounds for Will so when we go back we can be at least be or close to 20 pounds.

So far Will has eaten chicken, variety of veggies and fruits, biscuits, nutra grain bars, pancakes, animal crackers, gold fish, gerber dinner trays, ham, cheese cubes, eggs, and fish. So far he liked them all. I was not prepared for this but Will's physical therapists have helped me figure this all out. I have no clue what to feed him. I was scared. He always gagged at everything but now he is not and is doing so good with it. He still drinks whole milk out of the sippy cup and is really learning how to hold it and self feed it to himself. He's growing up and it makes me sad!

He wears size 3 diapers and is wearing clothes between 12-18 months. He is pulling up on everything, cruising around the furniture and trying his best to figure out this walking thing. He does good when he is behind a toy but if you let him go he goes plop on the floor. His therapy is going great and they are really impressed with all the progress he has made.

He loves going to Mother's Day out on Thursdays, to the gym daycare with me on Wednesdays, and to Church and Sunday School. He loves going to restaurants and seeing people. He stares at everybody and just watches what they are doing. He's very observant. He has visited some of our favorite restaurants so far: Chickfila, Peppers Deli, Danvers, Atlanta Bread, Ole Venice, Cracker Barrel, Agnews, and Centerville Fish and Steak.

So as you can see our 1lb 1oz miracle baby is making great progress and we continue to give all the glory and praise to God for him. We pray every night that God will continue to use him and grow him into the perfect boy he is supposed to be.

A Strange Weekend

Well I was hoping this post would be about our fabulous weekend in Oxford but it is not. We had plans to take Will to Oxford, eat out a lot, spend the night at my parents condo, attend the Red/ Blue game, walk the Square and come home. Well we did make it to Oxford and we did pick up something to eat and we did spend the night but we left Oxford at 6am Saturday morning to come home.

This is how our strange weekend went down. Will developed a runny nose and sneezing Friday while he was at my mom's house. When we picked him up after work he was running a low grade fever around 99.5. We made the decision to go ahead and go to Oxford and we would hope this would pass. Well it didn't! We got to Oxford and Will ate good and slept good until 2am. After that it was all downhill from there. He never went back to sleep until 1pm that afternoon. He would take 15-20 minutes nap here and there. So at 5am we decided to load up and head home. He slept and cried the WHOLE way home. He never cries in the car! After we finally made it home, we fed him and headed to the pediatrician's office by 8am. After a 3 hour wait, a NEGATIVE strep and flu test and a good blood count level we were sent home with no diagnosis (but with only thoughts of a viral infection) and instructions to continue with Benadryl and Tylenol. He looked awful and it puzzled his doctor. He was a yellowish color and he just looked sick. He cried the whole time we were in there waiting and his parents were about to loose it. Trust me we were tired and irritated by this point.

So we went home and Will took a 3 hour nap and we did too. His fever did go up to about 101.9 when we got home so we dosed him up with Tylenol and sent him to bed. This boy was TIRED and so were his parents. After a 3 hour nap that was had by all, we ate dinner and fed Will and he went back to bed and slept 12 hours with only a little cough here and there throughout the night.

So as of today his fever has only been around 100, his coughing is getting better, and his nose is still running but not gushing out. So hopefully after more rest and medicine he will be back to normal. I guess he just got too much exposure to the public with Mother's Day out, sunday school and nursery and the wellness center day care. Oh well we knew he would get sick sometime but oh well life must go on! At least it's not strep, flu or the stomach bug.

Goodbye bottles and formula

Goodbye bottles and formula! NO More!!!!!! You are gone from Will's life FOREVER! Will is officially on a sippy cup and whole milk and I could not be more proud to say that. It has been a long time coming and lots of prayer. We started at first mixing his formula with the whole milk and gradually increasing the milk intake as he got used to it. But the problem was he was spitting up everything and literally chewing on the bottle. Doug and I got so frustrated with it that we finally said something had to change. So we took the plunge and went straight to whole milk in the sippy cup and took the bottle away completely. Will has never really been fond of the bottle anyways so it was a little easier to do that. We have been using the sippy cup for water but never for milk or formula. So as of today we are bottle and formula FREE. He has not gotten the full concept of the sippy cup yet but he is doing really good and plus he loves his milk too!

So congratulations Will! Mommy and Daddy are so proud of you! Keep up the good work! Now we have to work on table food! Prayers would be appreciated for that because Will is a very textured and picky child too!

Happy 94th Birthday Mamaw!

Today my mamaw celebrates her 94th birthday! We celebrated with cake and gifts with her. I'm glad she has been able to live this long and we wish her many more years of life! She has been good to all of us and we love her so much!

April is HERE

April is HERE and we can be a normal family again! We have not been able to take Will many places since we have been home so I'm looking forward to getting out and enjoying that. This Sunday will be his first time to visit the church nursery and go to church. I'm excited about that. I've already checked out his room and met the sweet ladies who will be taking care of him. Our church also has a Mother's Day Out program so we are going to start going next Thursday for a couple of hours to see how he does. He needs to be around other children since he has been around us and family for a long time. I'm looking forward to all the many places we have planned to take him. So if you see me out and about with him acting like a crazy person that means I'm just really excited to be out with him.