Noah and Jakob: Catching up on Noah...back to week 54

June 21, 2010

Well I'm still really behind on my blogging. I have a long list going to remind me what was going on and if I don't get it on here now I'm not going to remember anything that happened last month so here goes...

Noah had his one year check-up at the doctor right after his birthday party. It went great as usual. He DID NOT like the shots this time around and cried so hard that his lips turned blue. It scared me a little but the nurse said that it was normal. She actually said that she had a little girl in there that completely passed out because she was crying so hard and wouldn't breathe. Shots are so much harder now that he knows what is going on. He's doing great on his weight and height. He's 21 lbs and 1 oz now and is 29.5 inches tall. He looks like a little frog with his long skinny legs and chubby belly but he's such a cutie! I had the doctor check his ears really good though because he has been pulling on them constantly and she said that he is getting his first molars in and that's why his ears are bothering him so much. Poor baby! He has always been an early teether so I'm not surprised that he is getting them already. Hopefully it won't be too hard on him.

We also took Noah to his first baseball game to see the Redhawks play. He had a lot of fun watching all the people for about 30 mins then he was done. He was all over the place and wore us all completely out! It was very fun though and we got some really cute pictures. I'm sure there will be a million more baseball games in our future if his daddy has anything to do with it.

We've been having some trouble getting his to eat his food these days. Maybe because of his molars -- who knows. But all he does at his mealtimes is play with his food then throw it down to Zoe. I've been trying to give him more of his favorites like avocados and cheese but it hardly helps. Everyone says not to worry about it and he'll eat when he is hungry enough. He's definitely not starving...the kid gets bigger every day! Speaking of food...we are about halfway done with the weaning process. He is doing okay with the not nursing part but not so great with the drinking milk from a sippy part. It takes him FOREVER to get an entire bottle down. He messes with it for a least an hour every time if not longer. He'll take a couple of swigs then throws it as hard as he can. Then he goes and gets it a few minutes later. And we do that pretty much the entire day. Hopefully he will get the hang of sitting down and drinking his whole bottle at once.

Weaning has been a fairly easy process so far. My plan was to drop one feeding each week for a month (he nurses 4 times a day now) starting with the late afternoon feeding, then the lunchtime one, next the bedtime feeding, and the morning one last. We are now down to two nursing sessions a day, the morning one and the bedtime one. I haven't had any problems at all so it's probably been one of the easiest things we've done in terms of breastfeeding. Although, even though it's been a challenge, I've LOVED nursing Noah and am so thankful that it worked so well for us. It's been such a blessing to have that time with him and I'll always cherish that.

He's starting to really learn things quickly these days so I'm having trouble remember all of it. A few of the highlights are waving bye-bye (at the appropriate time and everything!), sometimes even saying "bye-bye", riding his new truck by himself, wiping his own face with napkins, dancing all the time --- he REALLY loves the square dancing part on his Baby MacDonald video and dances like crazy to it, unscrewing caps on bottles (I found that one out the hard way, he was holding a full bottle of water while I was carrying him and suddenly found myself drenched), pushing our chairs around while he walks with them, and sticking out his tongue ALL THE TIME.