Aug
12
Will is feeling better, and has a bit more energy and appetite.
Aug
11
Will 0.10 has been fighting a nasty little bug since sometime on Saturday. We took him to Chicago to play with Jack Bossert, and starting that evening he was fussy and out-of-sorts. On Sunday he was worse, and last night he was just not himself - fever, no appetite, no energy. Pam stayed home with him today, and we got him into his doctor after his fever hit 103 this morning.
This is just a virus, unrelated to the ear infection he had last week. Ears, eyes, lungs, everything else looks fine. Doctor Hill said we’d just have to fight this one out, using Tylenol for the fever and that his appetite would return once the fever broke. Yippee!
Here’s a cute picture from Willpower visiting Chicago’s Bean in Millennium Park on Saturday.
Aug
07
I’ve been playing around with a new look (”theme”) for gordyhulten.com for a while now, and I finally found time to finish it and turn it on.
So things will look a bit different around here, but the content hasn’t changed. And I’ll try to be better about posting updates - both posts and pictures - more often.
Thanks!
UPDATE: Never mind. Internet Explorer sucks, and wasn’t diplaying the theme correctly. Back to the drawing board…
ANOTHER UPDATE: Never mind again. The new theme was working fine, and I’m an idiot. I hope you like it. And Internet Explorer still sucks. Firefox is the web browser used by smart, good-looking people.
Aug
07
Well at least Will and mommy are hover the summer cold hump at this point. There is much more to say about daddy as I think he is finally catching up with the rest of us in getting this horrible cold. Sorry Gordy :*(
I have to say that babies and antibiotics are not good combinations though. Medicines do wonderful things to the already sensitive digestive systems of babies. Other fun things about our fast growing son include climbing the stairs like a crazy man, eating pretty much all big people foods except for his bottles throughout the day (he loves chicken and bratwurst), and yes he is already mastering the art of a temper tantrum! Who knew at the ripe age of 10 1/2 months old, he would learn how to get his way with mom by lunging his head back abruptly, stiffining his arms and legs, and screaming his heart out.
Things I am beginning to wonder about as he turns the big ONE:
- when do the bottles stop and we start with real milk (or what about all this mail I have been getting on continuing your child with Emfamil’s Next Step formula until the age of two)
- flintstones vitamins - if he is not on formula, how is he going to get enough nutrition
- do we really need to put up baby gates - I sure can’t keep up with his motor butt so I think the answer is yes on this one
- we still need to find a good home for our two cats - I am sliding this one in because our arrangements fell through last weekend and we really have to get them out of the house for Will’s allergy sake. His face is breaking out again.
- I am struggling with what toys should we be working with that encourage more learning. It feels like everything we have right now falls under the baby category still. I did get out to some garage sales last weekend and got two really cool toys that help him to stand and walk. One is a V-Tech Sit to Stand toy that I got for $4 (retail $69) and it doesn’t have a mark on it.
Will turned 0.10 yesterday - that’s 0 years and 10 months, expressed as it would be for a software version, so 0.10 comes after 0.9 which comes after 0.8, etc. And Will 0.10 is different (by nine months) than Will 0.1. This isn’t math, so it doesn’t have to make sense. :-)
Will 0.10 is fighting a mild sinus bug, which means he’s very snotty and congested and sometimes even cranky. He’s got five teeth now, to one degree or another - two on top, barely peeking through, and three crooked little things on the bottom. He loves eating, but doesn’t care for baby food any more. He just wants to sit with us at the table and eat whatever we’re eating. I’m OK with that, but I think we need to start him on vitamins now that he’s winding down his formula consumption.
His facial rash comes and goes - we’ve identified that he’s allergic to eggs and the cats, but don’t know if the allergy causes the eczema outbreaks. We’re doing an OK job keeping him away from eggs - he’s on an egg-free diet at school, for example - but we’ve not yet taken action on the cats. We are trying to find a good home for them - preferably outdoors - rather than taking them to the humane society. We’re trying to balance our responsibility to the cats with our responsibility to Willpower, and really, there is no balancing to be done - Will is allergic and the cats need to live elsewhere and that settles that. I just wish it were that painless to actually implement.
Willpower is also increasingly mobile, as you can see here:
He’s crawling very well, even up the stairs (but not down yet!) and pulling himself up easily, but hasn’t yet taken his first steps. We expect that he will soon, but it’s probably a few weeks away.
