New Photosite

Well seeing as though my photobucket is at 99% capacity I opted to open a new account with a new website. I'm quite happy with Shutterfly, it's a fast upload and seems to be easy to use. I've added a link on this website to access his Shutterfly account.

Today we went for a walk and had a little photo shoot. I am 100% addicted to photography.... especially when it comes to my son. Here's a couple of good shots, the rest can be viewed on his new website.

We're back to normal!

Look at those lashes!!

I've got my happy little baby back again!!

He's back to napping twice a day, he must do the same kind of the that Cousin Kailey does. When a tooth is pushing through it disrupts their sleeping schedule.

Look at those chompers!!!! He's discovered a new sound, he clicks his tongue now. It's almost like my little baby is trotting as he walks through the house, we're always able to find him with the clicking.

I'm currently on the hunt for a new caregiver. Angela (the old nanny) wasn't able to do Mondays any more & asked if there were any other days she could watch him. Unfortunately they really need me to work Mondays for the next couple of months. So we're on the hunt! I don't have any doubt that we'll find someone else, when we were originally looking for someone I received a lot of replies, so I'm hoping I get the same kind of feed back again.

I was just looking at the calendar and October is going to be a crazy month for us:

Oct 8 = Thanksgiving

Oct 9 = Robbie's surgery

Oct 16= My Grandmother is flying in from Ontario and will finally get to meet her Great Grandson

Oct 23= Kailey's birthday

Oct 27 = Kailey's birthday party

Oct 31 = HALLOWEEN!!!

Did I miss anything? Phew!

I'm in the process of planning Halloween for Robbie. I'm unsure if we'll be going trick or treating... but I think we'll make a stop by Grammie & Grampie's house as well as Auntie Alison's place!

Picture Post

Robbie had one nap again, so I'm pooped. Here's a couple pictures for your enjoyment.

Yep, he's figured out how to open doors!

What is going on?

For the past couple of days Robbie's been testing himself and how long he can go without sleep. He gets fussy and starts yawning so I've tried putting him down but he finds things to entertain himself with ie. takes off his pants (WITH BUTTONS, not snaps) Today he didn't go down for his first nap until 3 (yes, THREE) in the afternoon!! What in the world is going on here?! I feel so bad for this little guy, he gets so over tired that it's so hard for him to fall asleep in the evenings. I wonder if it has to do with his teeth/growth spurt?

Now that's he's been up for longer periods of time we've opted to take him out for a change of scenery (and to avoid temper tantrums). The mall is our new best friend! He has such a great time walking around and going into all the different stores and showing everyone his big smile with all of his teeth. It tuckers him out and I get to do some window shopping!

Speaking of teeth... he's figured out how to use them - on me! We've been wrestling a lot lately and he's bitten me twice with these new chompers!! OUCH! As soon as he bit me I started pouting and pretended to cry and he could tell that I was sad, hopefully he'll remember that biting hurts.

We went out and bought Robbie his own chair as well as a shopping cart. He kept on trying to put things into his walker & take it for a spin so we figured he'd be able to put a lot more in a shopping cart. He seems to like it, it's a little bigger than him so he can put things in it but can't get things out of it. We bought him a chair with the thought that we would introduce him to the idea of sitting down on his own level, the next step will be the potty! (I'm already investigating into which one we should get)

Story time:

This morning after I tried to put Robbie down for a nap (where he refused to go to sleep) I was starving so I was making myself some toast, I had let him out of my sight for a couple of minutes while I buttered my toast & then I quickly went looking for him. I went into our bedroom.... nope, not there. Maybe he's in the closet.... nope, not there. I slowly open our bathroom door and there's my little monkey sitting on the floor with hundreds of Q-Tips laying all around him. I wanted to laugh so bad but I wanted him to know that what he did was wrong, so I turned around and let out a giggle and a smile and quickly turned back around to give him a stern "no". He proceeded to walk over to the tub and knocked over my shampoo and conditioner, that obviously wasn't enough because he went over to his shopping cart and grabbed a ball and threw it into the tub! What a rascal!

It's confirmed (surgery)

Robbie will be going for surgery within the next 3 months. The resident and the surgeon both couldn't feel his nut but seeing as though he's had 3 ultrasounds to confirm that it's there, he thinks it's best for Robbie to go through with the procedure. The Dr is a nice little oriental man who was really friendly and playful with Robbie. There's a slim possibility that they might not be able to pull the entire nut down; in that situation they'll tack the nut as far down as possible & wait 6 months where he'll go for another round of surgery to try pull it down fully. There will be 2 incisions made: belly and sack. They'll locate the nut in the belly and push the nut down the canal and make 3 stitches to keep the nut in place once in the sack. It's day surgery so he'll be in and out in one day, which makes me happy. I was looking online at pictures of people who have had it done & the scars are very minimal. When I was filling out the paperwork I checked off that we were available on short notice, so we'll either get a call from the hospital giving us a surgery date or they'll be telling us to come in the next day. I'll keep everyone up to date.

On to more happier stories....

Last night Robbie was up several times throughout the night (he's been doing this on & off.... it's a mixture of teething and a growth spurt he's going through right now) He was up @ midnight and drank another 6oz and he went back to bed. Then he was up at 1:30am (he put himself back to sleep after a little bit of whimpering) and again at 2:15am.... I picked him up and gave him a dose of Tylenol. He sat on my lap while I rocked with him in the rocking chair while singing Phantom of the Oprah (I think he likes the music because we saw the musical when I was 9 months pregnant and sitting in front row) I was singing song after song and then he turns his head to look at me and leans into me and gives me a kiss (his big slobbery open mouth kisses) I started bawling.... HE LOVES ME! All these sleepless nights, fussy baby, open sores.... all made it worthwhile with that one little kiss that he wanted.

He's getting so good and giving and taking. When we're playing catch if I say "give" he'll throw/give the ball to me. He loves chasing the ball, he crawl ('cause that's the fastest way to get to it) and he'll stand up and walk it back to us. He loves going into the bathroom and into my drawer where all my makeup and jewelery is and throwing everything on the floor. He'll come into the living room with my blush or eyeshadow and a makeup brush and will be whacking the two together in joy.

Robbie is officially eating everything we are. Steak, chicken, bison, fish, pasta, rice, etc he'll eat it all as long as there's flavour to it. My lovely husband made sweet and sour chicken one night and he was really into it, eating everything that was put in front of him.

He is fascinated with the diaper champ. Anything that he finds he tries to shove it into the champ in hopes that he can turn the handle and put it down the shoot (we've already lost a bottle of Tylenol to this new game) Why don't they child proof this essential tool? As you can see from the picture, he's tried his toys, clothes, Vaseline... whatever the little guy can get into.

UPDATE:

As I was writing this blog the hospital called to book the surgery. He's scheduled for Oct 09. The hospital will call closer to the date to confirm his day surgery & give us a time.