Journey to the Center of the Uterus

Monday, September 24, 2012

We're Six Months Old!

August 5 - September 5

What upppp peeps?

Mommy doesn't know that we're playing on the computer. She thinks we're fast asleep in our cribs for the night. Harhar! We have to hurry up and do our monthly post before she catches us. Aunt Bizbet taught us how to do bullet points alllll the way from Chicago. She's sooooo smart.

First off, Mommy says thank you for all of the Torticollis advice. A has been stretching and doing exercises and his neck is much better!
Our Mimi, Coop Daddy, Memom, Papa, Aunt Lala, and Hailey Mae came to visit! We finally got to meet our Aunt Lala and Hailey. They are pretty fly for some white girls!
We experienced our first birthday party ever...Hailey Mae turned 3!
Our Great Uncle Michael and Great Grandfather Mandaddy came to visit too! We are sooo popular.
We started ~~mumbling~~ shouting out more consonants this month! We've pretty much have the Dah Dahs and Ooh Ma Mas down pat. Mommy and Daddy think we're calling out their names, but they are sadly mistaken.
We like to creep side to side in our cribs. Mommy can't figure out how this is happening. She also can't figure out why her computer goes missing at night.
We get to try a new food every Sunday. So far we've gobbled up carrots, peas, squash, sweet potatoes, bananas, apples, and avocado. For the record, we HATE avocado.
We're starting to prefer Mommy and Daddy's arms. We pretend to be bashful and hide our faces when strangers are coming at us.
Mommy calls us Giggle Monkeys...we looovvve to be tickled and love to laugh!
Anderson caught up with Baney and graduated to size three diapers.
We're in size 3-6 month or 6 month clothes, depending on brand. Right on track peeps.
We like to drool and chew on everything...so far no toothies. We can't wait to chomp on some hamburgers. Maybe we can sneak those at night too.
We can sit up in our boppies allllll by ourselves. That ceiling and looking up Mommy's nose was getting kinda old. B can sit on his own for about 10 seconds. Then he falls over and go bump. Harhar.
We don't particularly like pacis, but B occasionally sucks on his thumb at night when he's lonely. He's a scaredy cat at night.
A experienced his first, and second double ear infection this month. His left drum perforated and he cried sooooo much. We all gave him kisses and medicine and he is feeling much better.
B finally rolled over (back to stomach) for Mmmie K on 8/20/12! He now practices his Ninja skills across the crib with A. He has, however, shown a bit of jealousy towards A. Growin' up ain't easy.
We like to look through the crib bars and find Mommy now...she plays peek-a-boo and cracks us upppp. We also like to play peek-a-boo while she's drying her hair.
A looooves to listen to us sing whilst napping on our shoulders.
Mommy and Daddy say that B is the happiest baby ever. He's always smiling and only cries when he is hungry or sleepy. A is a "Momma's Boy" and enjoys cuddling and being carried around.
At our six month checkup, our doctor said we're doing perrrrfect. We think he wanted to eat his words after our shots though.

A weighed 18 lb 2 oz (65%), was 27.5" long (85%), with a 17.5" head circumference (26%).
B weighed 20 lb 6 oz (95%), was 27" long (76%), with a 18" head circumference (94%).

Here are crazy camera lady's pictures from the past month:

We learned how to sit up with our boppies!

I wanted Anderson's toy reallllly bad, so....

...Mommy made us trade toys. Then, I wanted Anderson's toy reallly bad....Our life lesson for the day was how to share. Borrrrring.

We teethed on frozen bananas! They were delectable.

We learned how to do some wheelies in the parking lot!

We met our new best friend, Elmo!


Anderson decided that he likes to hang upside down most days...

We snuggled in our jungle gym

We celebrated our cousin Hailey Mae's Birthday!


We are getting to experience our first college football season! Goooo Cocks and War Eagle!

Our first Carolina game!

Our first Auburn game! Warrrr Eagle!

Our first Auburn game...Warrrr Eagle!

Six months old!

Anderson

Baney

"On the count of three...we'll show crazy camera lady who is boss."

"Regulatorssss mount up! Maybe she will finally stop taking pictures of us!"

"Argh, it's payback!"

"What in the world is this thing? Let's mess it up."

Practicing pushups for the chicks.

What in the hell is that thing?

Oh well. We guess it's okay.

Bathtime with Mr. Ducky

Playing peek-a-boo in the mirror with Daddy!

Who came first? The chicken, or the egg?

We couldn't find the Boom Boom, but we got the Pow!

Drool Monkey, 6 months

Spider Monkey, 6 months

Sweet boy

Laaaaa de daaaa

Playing with our Aunt Lala!

Playing with Memom & Papa!

Coop Daddy tried to make me a UNC fan...I ate his hat instead.

We love our Mimi!

Meeting our cousin, Hailey Mae, for the first time!

Chilling with our Great Uncle Michael

Playing with our Great Mandaddy!

We love our Great Mandaddy

Great Mandaddy


"La la la la la la la! We can't hear you!"

Uh oh! Mommy's coming...gotta hide the computer and pretend like we're asleep. Peace out peeps!

See ya next month!!!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Torticollis

Earlier this month, the lady that keeps A&B while I work mentioned that A may have torticollis, or wry neck. Torticollis is a twisted neck in which the head is tipped to one side, while the chin is turned to the other. It can be inherited or caused by birth trauma to the long muscle that runs down the neck. It is typically resolved by physical therapy, or by wearing a specially fitted helmet around twenty three hours a day for a few months. If it doesn't resolve after those measures, then surgery may be recommended.

After looking back through pictures, I noticed that his head does kind of tilt to his left side. I took him to see our pediatrician who checked his range of motion and evaluated his head shape. He can turn his head to the right without any problems, but when he tries to go left his chin goes down towards his left shoulder. If that makes any sense. The back of his head is head is a little lop-sided, but it is getting better since he is sleeping on his stomach now.

Our pediatrician said that it is mild, and that it should work itself out since he is becoming more mobile. He didn't want to do a physical therapy referral at this time. He said that he would reevaluate at his six month checkup.

After some research, I have read that the sooner you catch it, the easier it is to treat. I have been trying to do some neck stretches a few times a day, but it doesn't seem to be helping.

Does anybody have any experience with this? Should I tell my pediatrician that I want him referred to a physical therapist anyway? I've pretty much learned over the last few years that you really have to be your own advocate.

I'm a little peeved at my pediatrician's on-call nurse anyway. Anderson spiked a fever of 102 earlier this month and I had to call them at night. The nurse basically determined that he had a little cold and was teething. She said that I didn't need to call back unless his fever reached 104. Mmmmmmk. The fever went away, but he was sooooooo fussy, wouldn't sleep/eat, and would let out wails all day and night. The fever came back and I noticed drainage coming from his ear, so I called and told them that I wanted him to be seen anyway. Turns out he has a double ear infection and one of his eardrums PERFORATED. Seriously?? Bless my sweet little baby's heart. I felt like a horrible mommy. That was something that could have easily been prevented.

Let it be known that from here on out, I will be taking him to get his ears checked every time his temperature gets over 100...not 104. Bump that. I don't care if I get on their nerves. Not to mention the fact that both Andy and my sister had febrile seizures when they were babies.

He is on antibiotics now and is doing MUCH better. I have my happy baby back:)

You can't really tell in this picture, but he can't really extend his neck and look to the left. His head kind of stays "cocked" like this. Will it work itself out? Any advice will be appreciated!

Sunday, August 5, 2012

We're Five Months Old!

July 5 - August 5

The Itsy Bitsy Spider ain't got nothin' on our skills.

Mommy calls us spider monkeys because we like to climb all over peeps, bounce in laps, and do 180s in our cribs. We can grab our feet and alllllmost eat them. Almost. We're so adventurous that she told us we would get in trouble if caught climbing back and forth between cribs. Hmph. We'll see about that.

That ceiling fan looks mighty fun too.

We have strong necks now, and like to do push-ups for the babes. Well, if you count mom as a babe. She still won't let any girls near us. We also like to reach out and touch faces. Our favorite is daddy's because it's stubbly. He said that we would have beards and staches one day too, and he would teach us how to scrape our faces with that stick thingy. He made us promise that we'd never grow mud flaps. No parties in the back for us. Sike.

We're getting better at this solid food hoopla. We take whole grain rice cereal mixed with breast milk in a bowl or in our night night bottles. Mommy tried to give us some oatmeal for breakfast, but it made our tummies hurt so we'll have to try that again later. We even got to try peas for our 5 month birthday! They were ouuuutstanding. Daddy purees three day batches of fresh peas with our nifty Baby Bullet and we gobble it all up. Mmmmmmgood.

The 'rents like to keep us on the same schedule. We don't know why, gah. We are still sippin' on 7-8 oz of boobie juice at 8, 12, 4, and 7:30. We still nap from 930ish-12ish, 2ish-4ish, and 6ish-630ish. We sometimes take shots of boobie juice or formula in-between meals when we've been burning calories jumpin' in our bouncers, exersaucers, and cruising in the 'stang. It ain't easy being this physically fit. Well, under the baby fat anyway.

We started recognizing that plastic thing that puts boobie juice in our mouths. We can spot one from a mile away. When it gets close to us, we can reach out and pull it to our mouths. We can allllllmost hold it without any help. Yep. We're that coordinated.

The night of July 16, Anderson woke mommy and daddy up screaming bloody murder! Sure enough, he had rolled to his belly and couldn't figure out how to get back! The next night, he rolled from one end of the crib to the other. He haaaaates sleeping on his back now....it's belly down and butt up every night!

Baney on the other hand...can roll from his belly to back, but has only rolled from back to belly once. He still prefers his back or side at night!

We love to gnaw on everything in sight. Fingers...be it ours or someone else's...are the best. We saw mommy slip on one of our puddles of drool the other day. Ha ha. Ha. We like to surprise her with booby traps. She can be a liiiiiitle clumsy.

We also got to see both sides of our family on the way to the mountains and ocean for their family vacations. Aunt Ebeth even came alllll the way from Chicago to babysit us! We haven't seen her since we were born. We were sooooo confused because she looks like mommy...but we really love her for figuring out how to take care of us for a whole day! We didn't get to go on family vacations, but maybe mommy and daddy can let us see what the mountains and ocean look like next year.

Annnndd...here we go with another round of crazy camera lady's pictures.