Catching up

We had a beautiful wonderful white Christmas in Virginia.  We were gone for a full two weeks and only spent 3 days in the car.  Other than driving to DC for a night.  It was hard being away from all of my family for the holidays, but wonderful to see all of the Wall family.  We did see all of them except one who is out of the country.  For more on all of that, see Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/matt.claire.wall/VirginiaChristmas2010#

We are still having issues with James and food.  I'm starting to think this will be an ongoing struggle.  He is eating baby food and cereal wonderfully plus milk (no formula) and some finger foods.  He refuses to try most of what I cook.  He will eat bread, dry cereal, and banana all day if I let him.  He has also eaten some fish sticks Matt brought home from camp and some venison taco meat.  I figured out I can smash some scrambled egg into a small piece of bread and he will eat it, but not the eggs by themselves.  He likes trying to use his spoon, but mostly dumps it on his tray and then licks the spoon.  He'll feed himself his cereal from a spoon pretty well because it sticks to the spoon.  And he likes for me to dip his spoon in my mac and cheese and give it to him.  I packed away the bottles this week.  He's doing really well with his sippy cups.  I realized he didn't like the other ones he has because the milk or whatever comes out too fast.  We had to buy more non-spill cups that he has to suck on.  patience and persistence.  oi. 

He finally had his 1 year appointment last week.  He still hasn't had his vaccines because he has an ear infection.  We started fighting this thing sometime around the beginning of December.  3 rounds of oral antibiotics and an antibiotic shot later and it's still there.  We're going to see an ENT next week and he has another oral antibiotic to keep the infection from getting worse before we get to the doctor.  The Pediatrician says he will probably have to get tubes put in soon.  We'll see if the ENT has any other ideas to try before we do that.  Having an infection for this long can be very damaging to the ears. 

At his appointment he was about 20.5 lbs and 27" tall I think.  I can't find where she wrote that down.  His weight is still tenth percentile and his height is under the fifth percentile.  But he is showing a good rate of growth.  She said there is nothing to worry about unless he hasn't caught up at all by the time he reaches 2.  I have no idea where he gets all these short genes from.  :)

word of the day:  daaad-dy!

oops

So, dad told me my blog is boring.  It's not that my son is boring.  Quite the opposite.  But I probably spend the least amount of time online of my family members.  A solution has been provided for this problem which is that I allow my mom to send in Gigi posts.  They are moving closer to us again and she could be spending quite a bit of time with my little monster.  So, if you notice a post written by someone other than me, don't be surprised.  Just a warning:  giving my mom permission to post to my blog means my dad may as well.  This could be fun.