Xander, Emilie and Baby #3

Fri, Apr 27, 2007 2:31 PM

Just a quick (HA!) doctor's appointment update. Xander was back in on Monday to have his tongue examined. Dr. Havlik said it appears to be healing really well and told us to be on the look out for cysts to form on the bottom of his mouth (just like Emilie's). When he stitched things back up, there's a chance that he could have blocked a salivary duct, causing a cyst to form. So far so good though. He still won't really stick out his tongue (maybe that's a blessing in disguise) and has never licked his upper lip and rarely, if ever, his bottom lip. We're not sure if that's normal (kids don't know how to do that right away) or if he just doesn't realize he can. One victory--he can roll his tongue now! : ) It's one of the things he LOVES to show us lately!

Emilie had her 6mo well baby appointment on Wednesday. She's tipping the scale now at 17lbs 14oz! Maybe that's part of the reason people say she looks so much like Xander as a baby--all the chub! : ) After the rest of her measurements, we (more accurately, I) got to ask Dr. Duck all of my questions. Emilie doesn’t really seem to like to hold things or to stand. Those are my big worries lately so I asked him to tell me there was nothing to worry about. I also mentioned that Xander was doing all of these things by her age. Wrong thing to do. He stopped the exam and stared at me so I quickly admonished myself and told him that I know I’m not supposed to do that but that I can’t help it. He continued to check her muscle tone and her ability to do those things and said both are fine. He sees no medical reason that would cause her not to be able to do them. It sounded more to him like a lack of motivation—she just doesn’t want to. He also said standing is a 9mo developmental milestone so there’s really no need to worry about that one. Otherwise he said to watch her progress over the next few months and we’ll discuss things again at her 9mo appointment. She also has a dry patch on her forehead that we had him look at. The first thing he asked was if she has or had cradle cap (she and Xander both still deal with it on and off). He suggested scrubbing it with the Selson Blue when we wash her hair and it should clear up.

Then came the dreaded shots—4 this time and the oral one. She was completely fine through the first one. She just watched the nurse. After the second one, the tears and screams came. It’s such a different cry than her normal cry! You can just hear her pain in it!! It’s sooooo sad!! : ( The receptionist had to come back, check on her, and tell it was okay. Poor baby girl! But after the oral immunization, she was pretty much back to normal…until later that night. Then the sore thighs set in and the Tylenol quickly came out. This morning they finally seemed to be a little less tender so hopefully she’ll be back to adorable self by the time we pick her up today! : )

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Sat, Apr 14, 2007 10:50 AM

The surgery was a success!!!! He can stick out his tongue!! Granted, he hasn't attempted it again since the local anesthetic wore off soon after we got home yesterday. He's done really well with eating, drinking, and playing as long as we stick pretty close to Motrin every 6hrs. We can tell when it's wearing off because he starts to slow down, then tells us his mouth hurts, and finally breaks down in tears. As a reward for doing so well, Daddy took him shopping for some new GeoTrax pieces. That seemed to make everything all better! : )

Gotta run! We're getting our second delivery of the day--the refrigerator/soon to be kegerator first and now our kitchen table. Woo hoo!

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Fri, Apr 13, 2007 10:42 AM

Well......The surgery went well. Xander is doing fine. He is clipped and stitched. He handles his drugs like his dad. They gave him some Versed to calm the separation and anxiety about the anesthesia. He had the sleepy gas for the surgery and woke up asking for mommy's muffin from Starbucks!

He is having plenty of clear fluids and resting. We will try light foods later today.

We will try to add more later!

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Thu, Apr 12, 2007 10:51 PM

We weren’t sure what was happening to our little man on Easter Sunday. He was fine when he first got up except that he didn’t eat much. During the first 1/2hr of church, he was entertaining the kids in the pew in front of us by singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm and Where is Thumbkin. Not long after that he was sleeping in my arms. That’s completely out of the ordinary for him. He’s usually getting in trouble because he’s talking too loudly or wanting to run all over instead of sitting quietly. When we got back to Grandma and Grandpa Minch’s house, he spread out his blanket on the couch and laid down to take a nap—on his own! Daddy knew something was wrong and felt his forehead—burning up! He was running a 101-102F fever but showed no other symptoms. We immediately suspected teething but he hadn’t been gnawing on his fingers all weekend and that would be a high fever for teething (it had never exceeded 100F for any of the others).

The rest of the day went about the same. He rejected nearly all food (including M&Ms, which NEVER happens!) except for Great Grandma Bea’s homemade strawberry jam—no one can pass that up! He pretty much slept the rest of the day and only in Mommy or Daddy’s arms. Motrin helped with the fever some, but it never knocked it out completely. When we finally made it home Sunday night, he passed up dinner and opted to watch Buzz and Woody on the couch. We were prepared to call Dr. Havlik’s office on Monday to let them know we’d have to postpone his surgery due to fever/illness. However, Monday morning he woke up a new child! He was only at 99.5F and was ready to play. He still didn’t want to eat but we could definitely tell he was feeling better.

So what was the mystery illness? He cut 2 molars ENTIRELY in 24hrs! You may think that’s impossible but trust us—we’ve been checking his mouth religiously during tickle fests because he’s been chewing on his fingers constantly for the last month or more. There were only 8 teeth on the bottom on Saturday. Monday night we spotted 2 new molars. WOW is all we can say!! No wonder he didn’t feel well!! : )

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Thu, Apr 12, 2007 8:29 PM

Xander’s 2yr well baby visit went very well last week, other than needing to get on the scale. For some reason, he completely looses it when he gets called back and has to make a stop first to get weighed. When we put him on the big boy scale, he either won’t let go of us or he bounces up and down as he screams. Then he does the same thing as the nurse gives up and has us put him on the baby scale. This really is strange because he loves to weigh himself at home. He comes into our bathroom and pulls out our scale so he can stand on it and check his numbers. Evidently it’s normal because the nurses never seem too surprised by his behavior. Part of his terrible 2’s?

Otherwise, the appointment proceeded rather quickly. He was measured in at 38in, which means he can move up to the next size car seat (according to some manufacturers)! Our baby is getting so big! : ) He didn’t really like his quick exam either but that’s been the norm for his last few sick kid visits, too. Luckily for him, Dr. Duck didn’t doddle. Then he finally got to get down and play some more while we were given some tips on time outs (which he’s been getting a lot of lately for hitting). Then came the dreaded shot—at least it was only 1! He, of course, screamed and gave us such a heartbroken look—How could you let her do that to me?! But one mention of a sucker and a sticker and the tears dried up. Thank goodness there will be no more shots until he’s 5!! Emilie, on the other hand, only has 2wks until she’s due for more! : (

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