Mar
2010
Mar
2010
Zach at 8 months
Posted by Rachel
Zach is now 8 months old. He is 22lbs. 12 oz. One nice thing about Zach being sick so often (daycare…yuck) is we always know his weight within a few ounces. Anyways…
Zach seems to have grown up so much this past month. He now has 2 teeth, which are the bottom 2 teeth. He has now had rice cereal, squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans, peas, pears,and peaches. We will be giving him apple sauce and bananas in the next week. Zach also had some “real” food. He had a waffle. He loved gumming and sucking on it. He ate the whole piece we gave him. We will probably start giving him other finger food like puffs.
Zach is an accomplished roller and can now move himself all over the place. He can also turn himself on this belly to change which way he is rolling. In the last week he has started to get up on his knees and rocking. He is getting ready to crawl. I expect he will start doing this in the next couple weeks. We think Zach’s best motivation will be our cat, Draco. He loves to watch him and whenever Draco goes by Zach tries to touch him.
Zach is also so noisy. He is always “talking”, whether it is happy or upset he just loves making noise. He has started to really make noise with his body as well. He is trying to clap his hands. He still needs work on that because he usually has one in a fist and one open, but he loves to try. He also loves to tap his hands on everything. He especially likes tables and Mommy and Daddy’s hands. He is good at patty cake with Mommy.
Zach and Abby got to spend a whole week this past month with Grammy and Aunt Becky. They came down for Becky’s winter break and the kids stayed home with them instead of going to daycare. It was a great week. They both were good for Grammy and Aunt Becky.
Lastly, Zach was sick again this past week. He had a double ear infection and was wheezing again. After getting a chest x-ray (came back normal) and talking with the pediatrician Zach will be starting what is called Pulmicort. It is an inhaled steroid. It uses the same machine as his previous breathing treatments when he’s been sick.This is to help keep Zach out of the doctor’s office and help stop his wheezing when he gets sick. He will have to do these breathing treatments twice a day everyday until the winter season is over. Then he will most likely, depending on how he does, move to just once a day. We will have to wait and see how he does for the rest of the winter season and see what the pediatrician has to say at his next appointment.
Feb
2010
Why I love Sundays…
Posted by Rachel
Why I love Sundays…mainly my two cuties below and being able to spend time with my family.
Most mornings we get up and rush, rush, rush in order to get both kids up and dressed and get Zach fed (Abby eats breakfast at school) and then mom and dad off to work. The weekends are different and I love it!
We let the kids dictate when we get up. We let either Zach, when he is hungry, or Abby when she wakes up come in our room and get us up. It is usually Zach, but today it was Abby. She loves coming in our room and jumping into bed with us and lounging for bit. It usually doesn’t last more than 10 minutes, but we cherish them. She then wants to get up and moving for the day. There is no such thing as really sleeping in at this house. Maybe when the kids get older.
We then head downstairs for a big Sunday morning breakfast that either Dave or I or both of us make. Today it was sausage and fresh waffles. Today we gave Zach his first what I call real food. He has been on baby food for a little over a month now. He has had rice cereal, sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, peas, green beans, peaches, and now a waffle. We gave him one triangle of waffle and he loved it. He sucked on it and gummed it and ate the whole thing. He was so happy and quiet the whole meal, which is a big change. Many days he is very loud whether he is happy or upset at the table.
After breakfast we pumped up Abby’s new hippity hop we got yesterday at Toys R Us. It is a princess hopper and Mommy couldn’t resist getting it. We were there shopping for our friends kids birthdays that are coming up. FYI…don’t take a 3 year old to Toys R Us unless you want to spend hours there. Trying to get her to stop touching all the toys and move to another isle is nearly impossible. Anyways, Abby loved it. She has used them before at her preschool.
After playing inside for a while we headed outside. We built a snowman and went sledding down our hill. I’m so glad we were finally able to build a snowman here. We have been wanting to with all the snow we have gotten, but until today it had not been good packing snow to make a snowman.
Now and for the rest of the afternoon and night I will be enjoying watching the last day of the 2010 Winter Olympics. I can’t believe the 2 weeks are over already. One of the last things I will be enjoying is the gold medal hockey game. I am not sure who to cheer for though. Do I cheer for the USA and be patriotic or do I cheer for my favorite Penguin player Sidney Crosby? Either way I win because one of my teams will win. Go USA! Go Canada!
Feb
2010
Love of Reading
Posted by Rachel
Dave is an avid reader and our hope is to instill that in our children. I also love to read, but I have to admit not as much as Dave. If I have to chose I usually don’t pick reading. I have been trying to get through a series for the past 4 years. I have been reading Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. It’s a great series and I recommend it, but they are very long books and with 2 kids I find it hard to have time to read.
Abby loves to read already and I hope that continues. Each night we read Abby at least one book, but most of the time it is 2 or 3 books. She has already begun to memorize her favorites like 5 little monkeys (the whole series…I think there are 4 books…at least that is how many we have), Are You My Mother?, Brown Bear, and Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You?. She even shows interest in reading Daddy’s books.
Soon we will be starting with Zach. We have read him some books and sometimes he listens in to Abby’s, but really all he wants to do is put the book in his mouth. Maybe in a few more months he will be ready to look at books without eating them.