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| Charlie is fascinated by the blinking lights on his baby MP3 player... |
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| working toward the french fries...for a kid who can't actually crawl he gets around an amazing amount! |
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| French fries have how many calories?? |
Charlie is still growing like a weed and getting closer and closer to getting his belly up off the ground. It is so scary that he may be mobile soon. The baby gates will have to come out again and all the cords will have to be secured again. Cabinet locks, and all that fun. He is finally sleeping better again, but teething has been affecting that somewhat. He seems to be getting the two center bottom teeth together, you can just see the little corners poking through. His reflux is still bad and he still has episodes of pain daily, so next week he is having a barium swallow(shows if there is reflux and how bad it is.) and he is seeing the GI specialists at Children's after that. He seems to be reacting to most of the solids we have tried so I think we will be stopping those until after 6 months, maybe even 9. I guess it's pretty common with babies that have MSPI(milk,soy protein intolerance). The Alimentum is working well though. I just wish it weren't so expensive. I am so happy that insurance is covering 75% but our copays are still very steep. Charlie is still on the Prevacid, and taking Zantac in the evening as well. All in all he is WAY better than he was before the meds and the formula change, but it's still hard to see him in pain and see him gagging and coughing throughout the day. I hope that the GI docs can help him. Other than that he seems pretty happy with life. He sleeps well at naptime, loves to watch out the windows and ADORES watching his brother do crazy things. He laughs and laughs when Will jumps onto the couch landing directly in front of him. Almost getting squashed is SO funny apparently. He is very cuddly and adorable and loves to be held and carried. He is really getting excited to read books these days and loves to pat the pictures and chew the corners. We are trying to get him included in the bedtime routine more and more, but he usually needs to go to bed after one story. He loves his pacifiers, which is a surprise because Will never really liked one. The Dr's say it helps keep the stomach acid down so I am letting him have it. We are so happy to have this little man in our family. It seems like we have always had him now. How did we ever live without him?
