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Cute Baby Moments
by , 10-11-2010 at 11:50 PM (6136 Views)
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last Matthew update, so here’s another. We’re getting the hang of the daily routine: Bedtime at eight, up at eight in the morning, breakfast, play, morning nap, lunch, out for an afternoon event (park, store, grandma’s), afternoon nap, dinner, play, and back to bed. It’s easy but you go bonkers trying to keep him occupied during the play time, and worry about him getting into trouble if you let him go unobserved. Of course during the week I'm at work and the burden falls on my dear wife.
We also had our first pediatrician visit last week. I’m happy to say that other than his cross eyes (strabismus) he is perfectly healthy. One always wonders with an adoption, especially a foreign adoption. Most of the medical analysis from Kazakhstan was ridiculous. Matthew is pretty much on par for a child his age, perhaps just slightly behind in development, though as I look at the list of what a child his age should be doing, I don’t see anything he’s behind in. As to his size, Matthew is average in weight and on the shorter side in height, which makes him a bit over weight. Perhaps that’s why the pediatrician rated his muscle tone as poor, which is a little baffling. He seems pretty strong to me. What kind of muscle tone is good for a one year old? I don’t know. What did she expect, a body builder?
The hardest part of the medical exam was drawing blood. That was hard. First she tried the left arm, jabbing him to no avail, then the right arm, and then deciding the best place would be the neck vein, and even there the right side was to no avail but then finally success on the left side of the neck. I had to hold him down the whole time as she jabbed and finally drew blood. The screaming was excruciating.
We have an appointment for the end of the month with a pediatric eye specialist to see what to do about his eyes. But she found him to be a happy child with a “bubbly” personality. He’s a good baby.
The day after the pediatrician visit has been the only day where Matthew has had a hard day. He received a number of vaccinations at the doctor and we think he had a mild fever the next day. He was extremely cranky and barely ate. We gave him a child ibuprofen and it helped, but come night time he refused to go to sleep and cried all evening. It’s amazing how long a baby will cry continuously for, nonstop for hours. You would think he would tire himself out crying that long, but no. It was after midnight when I finally got fed up, put him into his sleep position (on his stomach), held him down for five seconds until he stopped resisting, rubbed his back for a few minutes, and amazingly he fell asleep. I should have done that hours ago…lol.
I guess that’s enough for now. I’ll let you have some images of our routine through what I’ll call cute baby moments. Here’s what comes to mind. I’m sure there are more. Let me know which one you liked. I’ve got a couple of new pictures at the end too.
Cute Baby Moment #1
Listening to his baby talk is just adorable. He’ll sit in the crib and babble away as if he knows how to speak and speaks his mind. I listen outside his room, hiding. There is something very endearing about the tone and timbre of a baby’s voice.
Cute Baby Moment #2
The way he opens his mouth wide while being fed and says “ahhh” to hurry me up with the next spoonful is just too cute.
Cute Baby Moment #3
When he’s laying down naked getting his diaper changed and he decides to pee, the way the urine flows in an arc looks like he would make a good cupid fountain.
Cute Baby Moment #4
When he drinks his bottle, he’ll hold it up at a high angle like he’s playing a trumpet. When he does that, Daddy will put his mouth up against the back end start toot tooting and watching Matthew’s eyes curl into a smile.
Cute Baby Moment #5
Pediatrician told us about brushing his teeth. So we bought him a toddler toothbrush. To our surprise there is such a thing. And we thought no way would he ever allow us to brush it, but he actually enjoys it. He likes the feel of the bristles against his four teeth. He laughs. I tell him he’s dentally challenged.
Cute Baby Moment #6
His pacifier has a handle on the end and on occasion while he has the nipple in his mouth I’ll put the handle in my mouth and we’ll smile into each other’s eyes. One day while doing that, Matthew took the pacifier out of his mouth and put the nipple into mine.
Cute Baby Moment #7
Matthew seems to know how inexperienced daddy is at dressing him. Amazing how daddy always gets wrong on how to put on his one piece footsie pajamas. Daddy puts the footsies in first and then twists Matthew’s arms in trying to get them in. Finally Daddy starts all over and puts the arms in first. There’s always more crying when daddy dresses Matthew.
Cute Baby Moment #8
Matthew said his first multi syllabic word yesterday where they weren’t repetitions. He said “dah-day.” Actually he started pronouncing it “da-daaaaay.”
Cute Baby Moment #9
Matthew has discovered how bouncy and cushy the couch is. He’ll stand and drop himself onto his back like he’s falling on a trampoline.
Cute Baby Moment #10
Matthew has discovered how to play with his food. He’ll pull it out of his mouth, shred it, toss it to the dog, finger-paint with it on his tray, and generally fly all over the place. Why is it when daddy feeds him there’s food particles around his mouth, on his chin, by his eyes, on the tip of his nose, up on his brow, and even behind his ears?
Cute Baby Moment #11
Matthew’s favorite sleeping position is on his belly with his knees pulled up and his butt up in the air. How does he find that comfortable?
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