Bailey & Co.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Tooth #5

Jacob's 5th tooth finally pooped through this week. It's another top tooth, left of his two front teeth. Teething is a slow process! #thethingstheydonttellyouaboutparenting!

Here's a picture of Jacob making us breakfast. Happy Saturday!

Thursday, October 4, 2012

14 months old!

Jacob finished his second round of antibiotics to clear up his ear infection on Friday and Saturday morning he woke up with a fever of 101.4. So, off to the doctor it was again. We ended up getting some good news though, his ears were clear so the medicine worked! Now he has a virus, and oh what a long weekend it was! His fever went up on Saturday night and Sunday it was 102.5 but finally broke Sunday evening. We spent the weekend doing lots of cuddling and feeling like we had a 2 month old in the house again. We both juggled work and being home with him Monday and by Tuesday he was improving improve, showing signs of his normal playful, smiling, silly self again, just in time to celebrate being 14 months old! He seems to add lots of works to his vocabulary everyday. The other day he said blackberries and raspberries and cheese at lunch and he loves to try to say the words apple and opposites. He says book and dog and knows Bailey is a dog. He likes to vacuum with his pop pop toy and pretend to talk on the phone, and he will repeat peoples names: Aunt Suz and Aunt Jessie (he says Jess). He is signing deer and rain and please now and obviously feeds off our reactions to what he's doing. In the car earlier this week he was putting a toy and his paci on his head and as soon as I started laughing he did the same thing and then proceed to do the same thing over and over and laugh all the way home. What fun he is right now! You can see the little wheels churning inside his head trying to figure out the world.

But . . . yesterday, both Mark and Jacob woke up sick again. Mark has a sore throat and Jacob started with a runny nose and cough. Last night was miserable, we were up until 3am trying to get him to sleep and after a trip to the doctor this morning he's on antibiotics for ANOTHER ear infection. I think this is just karma for being an Audiologist. I NEVER had ear infections as a child! So, I think when we go for his follow-up with his pediatrician we'll be getting a referral to the ENT.

As for a stats update: At the doctor on Saturday he weighed 23lbs, 14oz. He's still wearing between 12 and 18 month clothes and he wears size 5 shoes but his little feet seem to be growing like crazy.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Walking, talking, signing and dancing

Jacob is a walking, talking, signing, dancing, happy little boy these days. He walks 95% of the time now and loves wearing his shoes. When he's getting dressed in the morning he often wants to put his shoes on before he has the rest of his clothes on. His signing vocabulary is still expanding and he is also saying new words everyday. He surprises me all the time with the words he'll say that I think he may have one heard once or twice in his life! He signs: milk, water, more, finished, all done, rain, bird, deer, airplane, tree (those are the ones I can think of at least).

He loves music and dancing and has recently been very fond of tickle time. He'll walk towards us with the biggest grin on his face and fall into our lap saying "tickle, tickle"to the best of his ability or look at us and then lay down on the floor and roll over so we'll tickle his belly. He has the sweetest little laugh!

He's also become Mr. Independent and often decides he only wants to walk in one direction (usually the opposite of the way we need to go) or wants to wash his own hair with the washcloth in the bathtub. He's getting really good but isn't quite there yet and gets upset when we help. He is also little Mr. Picky eater . . . in his own way. He's not the typical picky toddler who only wants to eat macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets, but he has his own list of foods that he'll eat and looks like everything else like it's an alien. He will consistently eat: peas, edamame beans, yogurt, cheese, hummus, raspberries, blueberries and pasta. He will usually eat lima beans, spinach, mushrooms, green beans and applesauce. He will not eat meat, most bread, most fruit and veggies that aren't green. Oh silly boy! We aren't complaining because at least it's healthy but sometimes feeding him peas for dinner 5 days in a row gets old.

The weather finally cooled down a tad here this week (or at least the humidity is down a bit, it's still in the mid 80s during the day. It's been beautiful and we've been taking longer walks in the evening and even went to the park on the way home from school this afternoon for a few minutes. We're looking forward to many more days we can get outside and play and hope this awesome weather sticks around!