Friday, May 29, 2009
Swinging with Grandpa
My Dad took Cohen for his first swing the other day. When the boys go outside with my Dad, they have always had to follow his rules: No paci and you have to wear your camo hat! This is typical Cohen, big smile and legs going so fast you can't see them clearly!!!
Miracles
Please pray for my co-worker and his wife and their sweet new baby boy born three days ago. Follow their story at Our Little Miracle on my blog list.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
4 Year Old-Ness
Kent is such a funny guy. He says the most profound things sometimes sounding much older than he is. This morning he told me that when he "rides down the hill very fast on his bike, he applies the brakes." I told him that was very wise to "apply the brakes."
Many of you know that Kent has developed quite an obsession with the movie Cars. You also may have noticed that Daddy has developed quite an obsession with buying Kent ALL of the individual character cars! Pete defends this obsession says that gift giving is his "love language" and I shouldn't get on to him. ;)
Pete and Kent were playing cars one evening and when I say playing, I mean the movie is on and they are reinacting the scenes on the floor, saying the lines as they occur on the TV. Bizarre! If they get off, Kent will grab the remote and pause the movie so they can catch up...
Kent stopped short the other night when he realized that Guido, who is in charge of Lightning McQueen's pit stops, was missing. I often have to relocate Guido to the kitchen island because he is a little small for a crawling Cohen. Cohen was in bed, so I grabbed Guido and tossed him to Kent in the living room. Kent stood there glaring at me and very loudly scolded, "Mommy, we do NOT throw cars in the house!" then he walked over to me in the kitchen, handed me Guido and told me, "Now walk back over here and hand Guido to me nicely!" It is so hard not to laugh when I hear myself repeated back to me word for word!
Kent really likes to use beads as cargo for his trains. We are not exactly sure why they make ideal cargo, but Pete did get him some mardi gras beads so no more of my necklaces would have to suffer when I wasn't looking. Here is a silly picture of Kent after he draped his beads across his face all by himself. I don't quite know what he was going for, but I do know that I have a super cute 4 year old!
Many of you know that Kent has developed quite an obsession with the movie Cars. You also may have noticed that Daddy has developed quite an obsession with buying Kent ALL of the individual character cars! Pete defends this obsession says that gift giving is his "love language" and I shouldn't get on to him. ;)
Pete and Kent were playing cars one evening and when I say playing, I mean the movie is on and they are reinacting the scenes on the floor, saying the lines as they occur on the TV. Bizarre! If they get off, Kent will grab the remote and pause the movie so they can catch up...
Kent stopped short the other night when he realized that Guido, who is in charge of Lightning McQueen's pit stops, was missing. I often have to relocate Guido to the kitchen island because he is a little small for a crawling Cohen. Cohen was in bed, so I grabbed Guido and tossed him to Kent in the living room. Kent stood there glaring at me and very loudly scolded, "Mommy, we do NOT throw cars in the house!" then he walked over to me in the kitchen, handed me Guido and told me, "Now walk back over here and hand Guido to me nicely!" It is so hard not to laugh when I hear myself repeated back to me word for word!
Kent really likes to use beads as cargo for his trains. We are not exactly sure why they make ideal cargo, but Pete did get him some mardi gras beads so no more of my necklaces would have to suffer when I wasn't looking. Here is a silly picture of Kent after he draped his beads across his face all by himself. I don't quite know what he was going for, but I do know that I have a super cute 4 year old!
Monday, May 25, 2009
Milk Allergy?
Well, I am sad to say that Cohen appears to be allergic to milk. I waited quite a while to try milk based formula with Cohen hoping I could avoid what happened with Kent.
I tried formula with Kent when he was three months old. He sucked it down without protest; Kent was quite an eater. It was his night time bottle and he went to sleep normally. He woke up a few hours later with splotches all over his body, crying and writhing all over trying to scratch everywhere. I thought it was just a terrible eczema flare up, but it was probably hives. I held him in the living room all night so he couldn't scratch himself to bleeding anymore. He was fine in the morning, but didn't have milk again until I absentmindedly gave him some baby food at six months with milk and wheat and eggs- the first time he went into anaphylaxis. He has not had ANY cow milk since...no cheese, butter, ice cream or yogurt. Thank goodness for soy! The doctor thinks he will outgrow this one allergy by the end of this year. Update coming in November!
I waited with Cohen until he was seven months old. He had milk based formula five times with no reaction, so I thought he was fine. Sunday night, at our small group social (right after the pictures with Annie below), he had six ounces of formula and everything seemed normal. Three hours later, after we were home, he began throwing up and continued to throw up nine times. When his stomach was empty, he was fine. I dismissed it as some kind of stomach bug. Thursday afternoon, my mom gave Cohen two ounces of formula to fill out a bottle of breast milk. Again, three hours later Cohen started throwing up; this time only eight times. I called the doctor and they said what I thought; it sounded like Cohen was allergic to milk and we should try soy.
Cohen finally took his first full bottle of soy formula yesterday at church, so I don't think he is allergic to soy-thankfully! We'll have to try a few more times before I'm sure. Of course with all my allergy research, Cohen may not have a true allergy to milk. Digestive issues always point to more of an intolerance, which in my opinion is much better- not life threatening! We'll have to wait for the allergy testing in the future. I think I will move forward with my plan of trying wheat cereal next week. You'll have to bear with me; I think I will be nervous every time I try anything with Cohen that Kent is allergic to. I absolutely know how ridiculous it is to think they would have the same allergies. They are completely different people. Just so you know, if you have allergies, your children have a 50% chance of developing allergies. What allergies they will have, however, is unique to their own genetic makeup.
I write all of this to document this journey for myself. God was preparing me even while I was pregnant with Kent. I read so much about peanut allergies; that one allergy seemed like the end of the world. Now, I look back and laugh, not because of how hard it actually is, because it is really not hard at all. I laugh because I know that I am truly, truly blessed! Allergies are nothing compared to the struggles I have seen some of my family, friends and students go through with other various physical, emotional and mental disabilities. I thank the Lord everyday for his blessings and my smiling, perfectly happy boys. I have two very healthy, strong boys who have never been on antibiotics, never had an ear infection, and are rarely sick. I keep reminding myself of what my friend Wendy told me at church, "cow milk is for baby cows".
Who needs ice cream anyway!?!
I tried formula with Kent when he was three months old. He sucked it down without protest; Kent was quite an eater. It was his night time bottle and he went to sleep normally. He woke up a few hours later with splotches all over his body, crying and writhing all over trying to scratch everywhere. I thought it was just a terrible eczema flare up, but it was probably hives. I held him in the living room all night so he couldn't scratch himself to bleeding anymore. He was fine in the morning, but didn't have milk again until I absentmindedly gave him some baby food at six months with milk and wheat and eggs- the first time he went into anaphylaxis. He has not had ANY cow milk since...no cheese, butter, ice cream or yogurt. Thank goodness for soy! The doctor thinks he will outgrow this one allergy by the end of this year. Update coming in November!
I waited with Cohen until he was seven months old. He had milk based formula five times with no reaction, so I thought he was fine. Sunday night, at our small group social (right after the pictures with Annie below), he had six ounces of formula and everything seemed normal. Three hours later, after we were home, he began throwing up and continued to throw up nine times. When his stomach was empty, he was fine. I dismissed it as some kind of stomach bug. Thursday afternoon, my mom gave Cohen two ounces of formula to fill out a bottle of breast milk. Again, three hours later Cohen started throwing up; this time only eight times. I called the doctor and they said what I thought; it sounded like Cohen was allergic to milk and we should try soy.
Cohen finally took his first full bottle of soy formula yesterday at church, so I don't think he is allergic to soy-thankfully! We'll have to try a few more times before I'm sure. Of course with all my allergy research, Cohen may not have a true allergy to milk. Digestive issues always point to more of an intolerance, which in my opinion is much better- not life threatening! We'll have to wait for the allergy testing in the future. I think I will move forward with my plan of trying wheat cereal next week. You'll have to bear with me; I think I will be nervous every time I try anything with Cohen that Kent is allergic to. I absolutely know how ridiculous it is to think they would have the same allergies. They are completely different people. Just so you know, if you have allergies, your children have a 50% chance of developing allergies. What allergies they will have, however, is unique to their own genetic makeup.
I write all of this to document this journey for myself. God was preparing me even while I was pregnant with Kent. I read so much about peanut allergies; that one allergy seemed like the end of the world. Now, I look back and laugh, not because of how hard it actually is, because it is really not hard at all. I laugh because I know that I am truly, truly blessed! Allergies are nothing compared to the struggles I have seen some of my family, friends and students go through with other various physical, emotional and mental disabilities. I thank the Lord everyday for his blessings and my smiling, perfectly happy boys. I have two very healthy, strong boys who have never been on antibiotics, never had an ear infection, and are rarely sick. I keep reminding myself of what my friend Wendy told me at church, "cow milk is for baby cows".
Who needs ice cream anyway!?!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Road Trip
Georgia's Ceramic Symposium was down in Newnan this year and I had to go down and pick up my student's work. I was not looking forward to the drive by myself, so we planned a little family trip and had a great time! Newnan turned out to be a pretty fun place. Everything was new and clean. After we picked up the artwork, we had ice cream (well, just Pete and I had ice cream. If you ask Kent, he will tell you "NO ICE CREAM! I'm allergic to ice cream!" Don't feel bad, he could care less.) After ice cream, we found a brand new bowling alley that does cosmic bowling all the time! You should have seen Pete's face after he told the girl that the three of us would be playing two games...$47.00!!!! later we were bowling. Everything was so high tech. The bumpers were electronically programmed to come out only for Kent and then automatically went back when Pete and I were up. Kent loves to bowl! He carries a seven pound ball all on his own and then launches it down the lane like a shot put- hysterical. He waits silently the whole time the ball goes down the lane and then jumps up and down screaming when the pins fall.
We had a fantastic time and even toured the mini golf course that was also part of the complex- it was all glow in the dark too, with some of the best murals I have seen in a long time. Here are some of the photos of our day out in Newnan.
We had a fantastic time and even toured the mini golf course that was also part of the complex- it was all glow in the dark too, with some of the best murals I have seen in a long time. Here are some of the photos of our day out in Newnan.
Kent found another purpose for the blower at the end of the ball return.
Me and my big guy!
The boys!
A train from the mini golf course- Kent's favorite.
Pulling Up
This is what I see everytime I go into Cohen's room! I guess it's time to lower the crib AGAIN! The big problem is that he thinks he can walk. He keeps letting go of everything once he stands up and then falls right over, sometimes flipping! Thankfully he never seems to be that hurt; he just gets right back up again. This one will be climbing out of the crib first chance he gets, I'm sure!
Friday, May 1, 2009
Crawling Man
Cohen has been officially crawling since the day after he turned seven months old. I am totally not ready for this and I really wish that he would have learned to sit up first. Yes, he still won't sit up, but he is now pulling up on everything. I'll try and post some photos of what I see when I go into his room when he wakes up in the morning. It is so funny to see him holding onto the rail and his little face peering over the edge of the crib. Kent loved his crib and never once in three years tried to climb out of it. He probably would still be sleeping there if we let him. I just know that the minute Cohen can get his little leg over the rail it will be all over. This kid is a mover and (he thinks) there is nothing stopping him. I'm trying, but failing miserably. He still looks like a little baby to me and I guess I just want him to be small for a little longer...
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