Doctor's visit

Yesterday was his one-year doctor's visit. His stats: 24.8 lbs, which is still in the 75th percentile, and 30 inches long. Long and short of the visit - he's healthy and perfect (which I knew...of course!).

She does want me to wean him off the bottle now ("now" as in "he's still taking a bottle???"). So that's going to be a project. I've been half working on it for a few weeks, but so far it doesn't fit into his schedule to drink out of a sippy-cup. Actually, he does pretty good with a regular cup if I hold it, but for day care purposes, he needs to have something he can do by himself. So after he's done reacting to all those shots and being grumpy for a day or two, we'll start on that. Also, he can drink whole milk now instead of formula ($$$-HOORAY!-$$$). So, things are looking up. For me anyways! For him, it may be a rough few weeks. He doesn't exactly go for the routine changes very well. His exact words are usually something to the effect of taking a toy and throwing it angrily across the room. Or a sippy cup, or remote control, etc. Every day I ask the ladies at day care how he's doing with his cups, and I always get some variation of the reply "well, he'll take a sip or two, but he just really likes to drop it and throw it". Wonderful! I've already had two come home cracked up the side. My sweet boy...I think...

This morning I tried to give him some ibuprofen for his sore needle-pricked legs. He let me get the whole dropper in his mouth, then paused, then smiled, gurgled and spit it right back out at me. He's entertaining, that's for sure. The other day he managed to spit a green bean over 3 feet to land on Andy's lap. I started howling, which I know I shouldn't, but I just couldn't help it! Andy stood up and kinda jokingly yelled "Why did you do that?!?!" So Brent just pointed at him, kicked his head back, scrunched up his nose and belly laughed. I love this kid, I really do!

That's his new thing these days, scrunching up his nose like a bunny when he thinks he's being funny. I wish I could get a picture of it...it is beyond words :)

Well...hopefully the next few days won't be as challenging as I fear they will be. Wait and see!