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August 18, 2004
*19 month old boy, make that beautiful boy
*brown hair, buzzed short for summer
*16 teeth, eats well but doesn't over-eat
*no where close to potty trained and doesn't give a rip
*talks sporadically, says NO NO, Jerri Ann, Dang and Hot Dang really well
*Loves to disassembe toys and furniture using a scredriver
*At present time has green snot flowing from his nose like Niagra Falls
For Sale or Trade OBO
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Ok, so it is time for that big Walker update you've been promised. Let me start at the top of his head and work down.
Hair: We are keeping it buzzed off for the summer and he looks like a little man, people everywhere are forever rubbing it to feel that prickly sticks of the hair.
Nose: Yep running green snot right now. Thsi is the first true cold that I know he has ever had and now....in summertime, yack. He is cranky as ever and just wants to play sitting down, ugh. He wants to be held and put down, up down up down, ack ack ack. I hate illnesses.
His mouth: He has 16 teeth and I am wondering if this snotty nose is the sign of 2 year molars already??????
His body: At 32 lbs and 36 inches tall, we are carseat shopping as he is about to outgrow his Evenflo Triumph...great!
Potty Training: Well, we had big intentions, Ok, I did anyway. Yesterday we were going to do this the Dr. Phil way and get it over with. Then, he gets up sick and I thought better of that little idea. So, for now, who cares? Right?
Talking: This is by far my biggest news to report. He does speak some now, not what we want to hear of course, only what he wants to say. Here are his favorites:
Jerri Ann: anytime you tell him to *call* another person, he yells my name...lovely uh?
NO NO: well, what can I say, he is into everything and we have to stop him somehow
OH NO: and while he is into everything, he breaks things as well
I poot: self-explanatory I think
Other words come out sporadically but not with a lot of meaning, he tells the dog to "shut up" still, he says what I think to be "dog" sometimes. He sometimes says 'daddy' and "nanny" but not often and rarely says "mamma".
Sidebar: I just had to go remove him from the closet...tell me how he got the damn thing open would you?
He is all toddler now, throwing fits when he is in trouble, wanting me to hold him when daddy corrects him and telling us "no no" when he doesn't like what he have to say or do.
He sleeps in his own bed most all night, sometimes he comes to our bed when Wayne leaves for work, sometimes earlier. If it is before 3AM, I usually take him back to his bed and he will stay a while longer. Last night he slept from 7 til 6:30 this morning in his bed with no wakings.....drugs I tell you, benadryl for that nose and the kid was out like a light. Not that I would say do that for the sleep but I had no idea it was going to knock him out like that. I was kind of glad though because his poor nose was dealing him some serious misery.
He has about 25 bruises on his legs, he is a wild man I tell you. No fear of anything. Yesterday I turned my back and he went onto the porch and was scooting down the steps. Needless to say, time to keep door locked at all times. How in the world he can reach these knobs I'll never know.
We are using a mixture of time-outs and *spats* for discipline. We don't have to use time-out very often, just telling him that an action will get him time-out works fairly well. And, the spats are for the dangerous things since he likes to play with screwdrivers and the such we have to keep a close eye on him. He loves cords and we have them all put away except a box in the office where we allow him to sit with us and wind and play with them to try to keep him from *wanting* them so much. Ohter cords are off limits and he knows as much and thus far it hasn't been an issue. Some folks would call us nutso but I believe that the attraction to some things such as the cords and screwdrivers is simply the fact that we won't allow it. So, we try to allow these things in a controlled environment so he can get it out of his system. Thus far it works fairly well.
My father always told me as a teenager that if I was going to drink alcohol to let him know, he would buy it and I could drink at home. That way I could see there was really no thrill in it and hopefully wouldn't want to do it while out and about. I never took him up on the offer but it worked. I just never saw the attraction. So, that is the theory we are going with.
I just took at look at my sweet son siting in a chair, playing with a puzzle and snot is pouring down his face...man this is nasty. He is not a sit down and play kind of kid. He doesn't watch television at all except in the van and doesn't always want his dvd's on there. He likes to talk and sing and sometimes just doesn't want to be bothered with the tv. That reminds me, he can say "right here" and "want that" which comes out "awnt dat". He can say "elmo" too. THat is basically the only dvd he cares for and I like it that way.
Anyway, he has puzzles and books but very rarely does he play with them. He is a ball throwing, truck pushing, busy-body. However, this cold is whipping him and he has played with his puzzles and such for 2 days now. I like the calmness, I don't like the snot.
Oh, I keep rememebering words. Since we now know that we are having a boy, we are trying to teach him a little about that. He can say "bubba" and will rub my belly while I talk to bubba for a few minutes. Then, he whacks bubba right in the head (he is butt down right now, lol and Walker his hitting my belly really high, so I assume that to be the baby's head, hehehe). He doesn't respond when I ask him where the baby is but I do try to get him to show me that HE is the baby so he understands that first and foremost, he IS mommy's baby.
I did a photo shoot this weekend of a couple with a newborn. I was holding the baby and I was terrified of his reaction when he saw us. But, he came over and lovingly rubbed his head, then wanted to hold him. He tried to put his hands under the baby's arms and pick him up. I was shocked. Then, he went right for the pacifier. Another reason for alarm, however, he brought it to the baby and when I told him the baby didn't want it, he carried it to the baby's mom. He never once tried to put it in his own mouth. I was shocked.
His pacifier is a night-time and nap-time thing. We've done really well so far with that but I dare say, taking it away from him during those times may be difficult.
On another communication note, he drives me crazy looking at me like he has no clue what I am saying. Everyone laughs at me and swears that he understands but just doesn't want to comply with my requests. I swear, I don't think he gets it about half the time and it makes me nutty. He doesn't appear to be dumb or anything, he just has this blank stare on his face. A friend suggested it was the male hormone kicking in early, lmao!
I think I have about covered it in the Walker update. He is adorable and is a good kid to take places. He likes people and as long as their are strangers around for him to watch, he is generally happy. Wal-mart, the mall, restaurants are all places he loves simply for the people-watching. That he got from his mommy mostly. Wayne is a shopper but doesn't observe his surroundings very often, me I love to look around at the on-goings. He is also a talker. Outside of his few words, he can jabber you up a conversation that makes you proud you can't understand part of it. That too he got from his mommy.
It is refreshing to know that he does have something about him that is like me since he appears to have been spat from his fathers gut.
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Quickly, about the pg: I am 21 weeks today and feeling better now that I am on some iron and not puking so often. I am tired a lot and starting to have a backache...oh well, that sounds normal. We will have a 3D/4D u/s at 28 weeks and are still planning a c/s for 38 weeks. My next ob appointment is on the 26th which is next week. I am no longer working at the doc's office, simply doing photography and staying home with my little boy, I love love love it. The photography is jumping right now and that is a blessing, we can use the cash, hehehe.
I think that is quite long enough for now, don't you?
Thanks for reading,
Jerri Ann, Walker and the bug #2 who still has no name
In the name mix for now is:
Gage and Blaine with a middle name to be determined when a first name is finally chosen.
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