3 month stats!

Legnth-23 inches-5th percentile
Weight- 12 lb 8 oz-26th percentile
Head Circ- 50th percentile

Jax's appointment went well.  His eating 6-10 ounces less per day has clearly not had any effect on his growth and she said she was surprised at how big he had gotten.  He is so much bigger but clearly such a little peanut!   He has been doing so much better the past three days with his reflux so we aren't changing anything but we still do have the appointment at AI Dupont in January.  It looks like we are chalking up the temporary slide to his bronchitis and the meds he was on for it.   She said he is on track with everything and that he is doing well so we will take it!

Christmas!

As you can see we had a wonderful Christmas!  Our basement closet and Jax's closet looks like a Fisher Price stockroom.  He has so much stuff, I can't wait until we can play with it all in a few months.  My little guy is doing well, him and his dad are headed to the doctor's today for a weight check since his reflux has been acting up again and he is eating 6-10 less ounces a day.   UGH, we have an appointment at AI Dupont to see a GI specialist but it is not until January 25.   He has seemed better the past two days, not screaming with bottles, happier but still not eating a whole lot.  I am having Chris ask the pedi today if we can either flavor his med or try the solutabs which I have read people have a lot of success with.  I think the prevacid works but when he got bronchitis and had to go on an antibiotic it all just seemed to go to hell so hopefully this doing better trend will continue and my little man will be beefing up again in no time.

The only bummer about the holiday was that we had the stomach bug going around daycare on Christmas Eve and we apparently gave it to my family:(  My dad was hit the worst out of all of us and my mom is really not feeling well today.  I knew we should have stayed home but with it being his first Christmas and the snow storm coming the next day we all wanted to be together.  Well, we learned our lesson!  My mom and dad were supposed to watch Jax Monday and Tuesday since daycare was closed and that clearly did not happen so I took the day off and Jax and I hit the outlets with the money we got from his Mom-mom since she didn't know what to get him.  I did very well in resisting all 3-6 month temptation since he has enough but we went a little wild on 6-9/6-12 sizes.  Who can resist when the long sleeved shirts are $5 at gymboree and osk kosh?When I laid everything out when I got home I realized I probably got a few too many long sleeved shirts, I might take some back and grab some more pants.  In the end he has 8 long sleeved t shirts, 3 long sleeved onsies, 3 pairs of shorts, and 5 pairs of pants for under  $100 and we got $25 in gymbucks to use next month.   I also did buy myself a few things, I am finally back into a 6 in pants and found some awesome fitting pants at Ann Taylor.  Curvy Trouser.  Hello, that's me!  Sign me up.  I found two pairs pretty quickly and am now kicking myself for not looking for more but Jax was getting fussy and I wanted to get home.   I actually got a compliment today on how nice my pants looked which is always a confidence booster.  I tried on the jeans in the same style and like usual they looked ridiculous.  I don't know what it is with me and jeans.

We are rolling!

Last night Jax was doing some tummy time with Chris and I and the little man rolled over.  Chris and I were both shocked and I said that was totally a fluke.  I go and grab the video camera since Chris was convinced it wasn't a fluke and we flipped him back over.  He did it again and we stopped after that since he was giving us the look of "if you don't put that video camera away I am going to crap on your bed."  He was so pumped he decided to stay up an extra hour to celebrate his efforts.

Blogger fonts

So this is pretty funny. This morning I posted about not being able to add new fonts to the html code when I read in an article that blogger recently added new fonts. Why was it not showing up, I am not sure. I actually started a new blog and it showed up in there and switched back and walla there are all of the new fonts. Fun times.

Navigating Family Time

I was pretty much ready to call off Christmas yesterday until the ladies on the bump smacked some sense into me.  Long story short is every year for the past 9 years we spend Christmas Eve with my in laws and then Christmas day with my family.  Well just a few days ago she says she made different plans for Christmas Eve and now she wants Christmas Day since its not fair we always go to my parent's house.  Keep in mind that when I saw her last weekend she told me she wasn't in the Christmas spirit this year, wasn't putting up a tree, and wasn't getting Jax anything.  What we wanted to do for our first Christmas with our son of course never entered her mind.  Chris of course says nothing and then its up to my parents to change their plans around which my mom said was fine but then I come to find out later everyone was mad.  So in the end I called my MIL and told her she was invited at 8 am Christmas morning for breakfast food and present opening since she cancelled on us for Christmas Eve.   She said fine and didn't call Chris to complain about it so I am guessing she is fine with it.  I am hoping we will be out the door by noon at the latest, we will miss going to the movies with my parents like we do every year but I am hoping that is all we will miss.  Soon I am going to tell her that her day is Christmas Eve, Santa is just the three of us and then we will go to my mom's in the afternoon starting next year.  She actually had the audacity to ask my husband if they could start being present when we do the Santa thing.  Who asks that?  Ugh.  Once we have a house of our own further north we will be hosting Christmas dinner and both families will be invited so hopefully that will eliminate most of the issues.

The next thing that I have to figure out is Easter and Thanksgiving.  In 9 years I don't ever recall being invited to her house for either holiday.  Chris says its because she assumes since we always go to my parents that is why she doesn't even bother asking.  Well if you don't ask how are we supposed to know you want us over.  Either way, in addition to her request for Christmas day she also wants the other holidays so I have to see if every other works for my parents or do one in the morning, one in the afternoon at each.  If they didn't live an hour and a half away from each other it would all be a bit easier.

Christmas Pics

I realize I am biased but could my kid get any cuter?

Huh, my blog is fixed!

I am not even sure why I checked this blog yesterday but I did and low and behold it is fixed! Interesting. I will be transferring the highlights from my blogspot blog over here and we will continue here. I figure I started the journey here, I mind as well continue it here:)

2 months!

Sorry I have been so awful updating my blog! I knew I had to go back to work so any free time I had the last thing I wanted to do was spend time on the computer instead of with Jax.

Here his 2 month basics…
Weight-10 lbs 12 oz- 17th percentile
Height- 22 inches- 2nd percentile
Head Circ- 33rd percentile

Head- ah getting a little flat on the right side thanks to the rock n play. I always read people had issues with that but it was a Catch 22 with the reflux. She said its slight right now so we are doing our best to keep him on his tummy or off his head at all times when we are at home from work, positioning him at night, and he is laying on nest noggins when he is in his swing or bouncer at home. She said and I have read that since he is still so young it may even out, but if not at his 4 month appointment we will be talking helmet if it gets worse. I just can’t wait until he can sit in a bumbo!
Acid Reflux- it blows. We are starting our third medication tonight and we will see how that works. Everything was going well but he seems to have grown out of his Axid dose and his stomach can’t tolerate the higher dose so this week has been a total mess at night. Hysterical crying while trying to feed him which turns into him just flat out refusing bottles. So hopefully this med will work like the Axid used to and he will be chugging down bottles again in no time. Luckily he is only in hysterics while trying to eat so other than that he is still a super happy baby.
Laryngomalacia-we were sent to AI Dupont last week to find out if Jax’s wheezing is soley from the reflux or layngomalacia has something to do with it also. Laryngomalacia is common in infancy and just means that the tissue covering the voice box is immature and can flap forward. Poor Jax had to have a scope put up his nose and down his throat to see if there was any flapping…and there was but it was minimal. The ENT said he thinks the problem is mostly reflux and we don’t have to go back again which is nice unless he hits a year and still breathes like a nutso. A side note to this is I am so effing sick of people asking me what is wrong with him when his reflux is bothering him and his breathing is off. My MIL constantly thinks he has pneumonia and the whole thing just pisses me off.

So other than that he is doing awesome! He has been smiling for quite a while now, the first smile I caught on camera was on Halloween. This kid smiles at everything. He smiles at basically any noise Chris makes, the Christmas lights I hung in the living room just so he could watch them, the dogs, seeing me int he morning and when I pick him up from daycare. He is so happy for being a refluxer which I thank my lucky stars on a daily basis that he never turned colicky.

I went back to work this week and have had myself in a tizzy for weeks about it. If you have been reading my blog you know I had some issues in regards to my whole short term/long term/return to work situation. I originally was told I would get my job back. Fine, I didn’t like it but whatever. Then I was told that it wasn’t guranteed the state would hire me back at all. What, hold the brakes…you are telling me I got pregnant and sick and that I am done with the state. Hello budget cuts. My return to work date comes and nothing so I apply for unemployment oh and wouldn’t you know the very next week they found me a job…A job back where I used to work and transfered from because I hated it so much. I came home in tears from this place at least once a week. It was awful so when I found out this was where I had to go I was a mess. The only good thing was that I hated all of the daycare centers we visited in Kent County and I LOVE the Goddard School up by where I work.

Well I started this week and it is going great. I cried pretty much all weekend and Monday morning on the way but it was fine. I just can’t say enough about his daycare, they.are.awesome. I stopped by twice during the day and they have no problem with it. Each time he has been all smiles. Seeing him smile at his teachers made me feel so good about the choice we made. They let me bring in a rock n’ play for him since he isn’t in a crib yet because of his reflux and he sleeps like a rock in it.

Work isn’t as bad as I anticipated. Most of my co-workers are new and I liked the ones who aren’t. The supervisor is apparently not very good at all but I figure if I just do my work and lay low until I find something else then so be it. I really think knowing Jax is safe and happy makes being here so much easier. I am actually updating my blog and I read some which are nice perks! I, of course, would rather be home with him but as that isn’t possible I might as well make the best out of the situation. We will see how high my stress level re-skyrockets once I actually start seeing clients again and processing cases. I have been looking for something but so far nada. I keep telling myself in this economy I should just be happy to have something.

So that’s it! I am sure I will be updating much more frequently now that I am back at work. You can check out his pics at his shuttefly share site.