Memorial Day FUN

We had a great Memorial Day weekend. Will had his last "water babies" class at the Wellness Center and he went under the water and did great!

Do you see his head under the water?

 

We ate alot of yummy food

 

 

We learned to cover our face and play peek-a-boo

 

 

 

 

We swam in the pool in our new boat float

 

 

We even played with our cousins, Anna Grace and Peyton, along with Aunt Alecia and Aunt Mary.

 

 

 

Hung out with mommy and daddy

 

 

"Big" William and "Little" William bonded a little bit

 

 

Played on our new toy

 

 

And just looked so darn cute celebrating a fun memorial day weekend

 



Mother's Day (just a little late)

Mother's Day weekend was just a few weeks ago and yes I am now blogging about it. 

Will was sick Mother's Day weekend so it didn't turn as I had planned. My plans were to go to church, eat at the club with my parents, go to the Gum Tree Festival, and then eat again with Doug's parents. Well we didn't make it to church and we didn't make it to the Gum Tree Festival but we did go out to eat. 

Will ran a low grade fever Saturday morning and was still coughing and had a really low grade fever Sunday so we decided not to take him to church. We instead went to lunch because he was feeling a little better and fever had gone. He did take about a 2 hour nap that afternoon and began feeling his normal self again so we decided to go out again with Doug's parents. 

Even though I had plans to do alot that day I enjoyed my day as a mother and helped Will feel better which is better than any Mothers Day present I could have been given. 

I'm so proud to have been chosen to be Will's momma. He brings me the greatest joy in my life and sure has taught me a lot about myself. He keeps me on my toes and loves me unconditionally. Whenever I'm down or in a bad mood he always cracks a smile at the right time. I absolutely love being his momma. 

Happy 16 months Will

Will is 16 months old today. He weighs about 19lbs and is 30 inches long. He loves to pull up on me, his daddy, furniture, cabinets, drawers, and anything else he can grab onto and boost himself up. He is cruising like crazy but still won't walk. He will walk if we are holding his hands but once you let go, down he goes. He's just scared and insecure about the whole walking thing. 

He has had an ear infection but other than that he has been good and well. He loves going to Mother's Day out, church, out to eat, grocery store and riding in a buggy. The boys face lights up when we put him in a buggy and go inside a store. It's so funny! 

So far Will has eaten all kinds of foods. He loves fish, French fries, peas, mixed veggies, hamburger meat, pancakes, yogurt, bananas, animal crackers, gold fish, applesauce, mandarine oranges, lunch meat, cheese, and chocolate chewy cookies. He would rather eat sweets than healthy food. His daddy says he is just like his momma and that is so true! He's not fond of Mac and cheese and grilled chicken. Whenever you try to help him eat he doesn't want you too and wants to do it all by himself. Mr Independent! He loves to feed himself and take the food out if his mouth, inspect it, and put it right back in. 

He can say bye, big, mama and daddy. He just now figured out how to move his fingers in a bye motion. It's way to cute. My dad is teaching him "touchdown Ole Miss" and it's precious. He throws his hands up when you say it. I LOVE it! Also we say to him "so big" and he throws his hands as wide as they go. He loves to clap his hands and laugh too. 

My baby is growing up so fast. So happy 16 months old sweet boy! God has big plans for you!!!!!

Water Babies

I signed Will up for Water Babies at the Wellness Center for the month of May to get him used to the water. We meet every Saturday for about 45 minutes and learn different things to help us get ready to swim. Will is a fish and LOVES the swimming pool. The first Saturday we met, all the babies cried and didn't want to get in the water, but not Will. He loved it and still does. So far he is learning to kick his feet and splash his hands. We have gone under the water just a little bit but mostly he drinks the water and gets choked on it. I've been told that this Saturday he is going completely under and I'm not liking that. Just hope someone is there and trained in CPR if he needs it.

I'm happy he likes the water and the swimming pool because we will be enjoying the pool all summer long. Here are a few pictures of our first Water Babies class.

Up and down we go

 

Posing for a picture

Always a toy in our mouth while swimming

 

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!