Tuesday was crazy hectic! Malissa was discharged!!!! We had to cram in Noah's one year check up at the doctor's office, get back home and get all gussied up for my award's banquet at the Tyson's Ritz Carlton...high rollers! Side Note: Matthew and I made a bet in regards to the amount of money I would be gifted from my company for said award, if I was correct...shopping spree. If Matt was correct, then we'd have to jointly agree on the funds, most likely paying off our 2010 tax mistake that the IRS grabbed us for this month (does anyone else see the irony in this?!). Shopping spree here I come! wooot wooot! Noah had a wonderful check up! :) We left with the following goals for the next three months and a reference for a pediatric neurologist (aneurysms are genetic--Mama has to get tested/checked out too):
- Phase out baby food completely (easy peasy...we are just trying to use up the rest of our baby food!)
- Phase out the bottle completely (honestly--I don't see that night time bottle going anywhere anytime soon until we get this boy sleeping through the night again...more on this below)
Noah has made a seamless transition this week to whole milk...holler! :) Our #1 goal before we more towards the other two is to get this baby sleeping through the night again. Needless to say the last two months have been extremely taxing on our entire family. He was teething then BAM Mama is gone for two-three days then back. Then gone again. It was rough for us all. We've established a bedtime routine to help get him comfortable at night, but there were not results. So we asked the doctor about it and she told us that we're at the point where we're gonna have to let him cry it out. OMG it breaks my heart. When he wakes himself up he is normally standing in his crib screaming by the time one of us get in there and the first thing he does is fling his little arms in the air to be picked up and rocked. So I'm following the doctor's advice to put him back down and get him settled and pat his back, but DO NOT pick him up. MURDER. We started this approach on Tuesday night, which that first night was brutal. I was DYING. Since then he has had 1-3 little wake ups a night but goes right back down after 1-3 minutes. Progress.
In other news we have a little boy wonder on our hands...Noah is counting in SPANISH! Uno, Dos, Tres! Adorable. I have a video that I will have to get loaded on here later :)
This weekend we will be on the road yet again, going to Carrsville to visit my Sister. Since discharge on Tuesday she has been migrated to BFE with my parents to finish up out patient rehab until she is able to move back to Richmond and live on her own again. We are very excited and blessed over her progress!
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