Thursday, September 04, 2008

Updates and whatnot

Well, Mr. Theo has pretty much been dominating our lives for the past week and a half, as you could probably tell by our severe lack of posts. After S.'s initial shock at being left home along with a screaming infant all day, Theo seemed to have possibly turned a corner--he was actually pretty good for two whole weekends--in a row! But you parents know how it goes. The best laid plans...yeah. Today, fuss. Nonstop, apparently. Now, of course I'm at school all day so I dodge this until I come home, then I take over fussy baby duty, to a certain extent, to give S. some downtime. At least that's the ideal. Right now, I have actually managed to lull him to sleep with his sleep machine. (This is a must-have for our fussy baby and will now be our go-to shower gift for moms-to-be!) I actually feel sort of guilty for using it during the day, which seems a little weird. I mean, he doesn't know what time it is, really, not yet. I just hope he isn't actually more in-tuned to our nighttime routine than I know and now he's going to sleep for the next four hours and make S.'s night miserable. Ugh.

Other than that, I have to say he's been mostly pretty good (with the exception of today) this whole week. Of course I was around a lot. No work Monday, and we took Theo to his pediatric urology appointment Tuesday so I didn't go then either. His hydronephrosis is really mild, but still needs to be watched, basically--another ultrasound and consultation in four months' time. Hopefully it will disappear by the time he's one.

Oh yeah, and he's an official member of the pork-pie club, weighing in at 11.2 pounds. He's chubbing up at last!


7 comments:

Amanda Hanzlik said...

hooray for turning the corner!!!!

Anonymous said...

Glad that you posted -- I miss reading you. Love to you and Theo ... oh, and the sleep machine!

beans said...

Thanks for the update. I have been wondering how things are going.

Glad things are looking up!

Anonymous said...

Sorry about the fuss fuss. That sheep does not do anything for Trucker. What are we doing wrong? I do think it is funny that it is a sheep who speaks whale!

Lo said...

yay for pudgy Theo!

Anonymous said...

Have been thinking of you guys. Thanks for the update and hope things keep looking up. Sounds like you girls are doing a really great job.

Amanda Hanzlik said...

swaddling the heck out of him and using a noise machine did wonders for our fussy fuss...