Hey Y'all,
Happy Monday! I know most of you probably loathe Mondays. Clearly weekends were not made long enough.
Today O is 11 months old! Holy Crack-a-lackin that is just mind boggling. He is definitely a boy on a mission most of the time. He is now full on crawling..mostly when he realizes it is much faster and wants to. He still army crawls to places and is continuously taking leaps and bounds in walking along objects and climbing random house objects.
I do not know if any of you still own a actual VCR..but we do. I know its very RETRO..lol. But when you have certain copies of movies that you have not bought in another form or illegally downloaded in another version I dare say..you must use the old ways with a VHS tape. Well we do not believe in fully blocking off the real world from our children. This being said lately O and the VCR and DVD player are becoming quite the companions and wrestling partners. O likes to climb up on the tv unit and push the flap on the VCR or push it all the way through the unit till it drops down the back..with the DVD player on the shelf below included. It is quite entertaining to watch. Miss E will just shake her head and say Ohhhhh Oooooo! You can forget to tell him down or Ta. O has a mind of his own and he does not listen to reasoning. Explore at his own will he does. We usually end up moving him about 10-20 times and then say "Oh well if he falls he will learn. "
Sooo about two weeks or so ago..we got to take O in to a paediatrician to look at his manhood. The poor kid had the cyst like formation removed and also the skin around his penis head put down to wear it should have been when he got circummsized. So to sum up what happened. The doctor used a bigger needle with more force and removed the pea shaped formation off of his penis..which may return. It was basically the skin had grown over a oil gland that when you are not circummsized it produces oil to separate the skin down there. All naturally there. When it got covered it kept thickening the oil and it was trapped..turns sort of chalky and hard. The skin around..the purple helmet the doctor called it was scar tissue from when we had him circummsized and it had regrown up higher than it should..so that got popped back into place. Glad it was my DH that took the poor boy in and not me.
O is doing great on Homo. We are constantly trying new foods with him. O even had a peanut butter sandwich with his sister on the weekend and shared in our spaghetti and garlic bread at dinner last night. In fact he loved dinner while his silly sister just sat there and picked at the bread. Go figure a kid that refuses to try new foods or tomato sauce.
Lately O is making lots of fun noises with his mouth. He is a big water boy and loves baths or the pirate ship water table we play in on the deck. I would not be surprised if he does not have more teeth soon or uses two words together shortly. Each day is an adventure with our curious little guy, but he amazes us each day and we love him so dearly.
Miss E:
Ohhh Two's the roller coaster of emotions. One day we listen like a sweet girl..the next we are upset because the bathroom door is closed or as E would say "oh no, its locked".
We started potty training two weeks ago now. The first day was horrible. As the first week progressed it got better. This past week we went 4 days with no accidents which is huge for her young age. We are still putting a diaper on Miss E for nap, night and if we are going out on long outings. Usually on outings or nap though she is now dry. I am not wanted to wake her up at night quite yet and we still are pretty wet come morning. Before we started all of this I tried to decrease her milk at dinner but she was always wanting more and acting thirsty. We have enough problems with constipation between her and O we do not need to go there right now. Over all she is doing really well. We have to work on the telling us when she has to go and listening part. E likes to run in the other direction when we ask her unless she is already almost peeing her pants. Most days we only have 1 accident if that. She has even pooped on the potty a couple times.
Other than potty training we are just working on listening and vocal. We would like to put her in a preschool program up here to get her a bit more socialized before school next year. Scary right..she will still be 3 starting school. Bless her little heart. Also everything is "Mine" E will tell you..even if it is something that she should not have. One of our favourite things she is saying "Me Too" but when E says it, it always sounds like "I'm Two". It is a running joke around her lately.
Well right now I am going to have some mommy quiet time. It has been a long morning and I know I do not have much more time left before I go get the little guy. Love to all The Brants.
