366 Project: Week 2

Sunday (Day 8)
January 8, 2012

Korvin is coveting everything on the table that he can't have.


Monday (Day 9)
January 9, 2012

Silly little monkeys playing before bed.


Tuesday (Day 10)
January 10, 2012

Multitasking. . ."helping" Mommy clean while doing baby yoga.


Wednesday (Day 11)
January 11, 2012

Baby needs a pedicure.


Thursday (Day 12)
January 12, 2012

Kadence (she says she's Doctor Who): I'm gonna fix your hair!
Korvin (if he could talk): HELP!


Friday (Day 13)
January 13, 2012

Baby BOY eyelashes.


Saturday (Day 14)
January 14, 2012

Dr. Pepper made with Imperial Cane sugar heard about Dublin Dr. Pepper. . .and then saw me drink a Coke. It was so depressed, it jumped. (BTW, those things can bounce for awhile before they break.)

Updates from Facebook (mostly) from the last 6 months

‎Kadence and I were grocery shopping, and she told another lady "I'm shopping with my sister Rachael." HA! Didn't quite know how to respond to that.

Korvin smelled awfully manly for a baby. I was trying to figure out why, then I realized he'd been cuddling with his daddy all night.

Korvin came unlatched, and started crying while he was nursing. Kadence (who is usually sitting next to me so she can "help") said "It's ok, you'll get it back." Once he re-latched and started nursing again she said "There you go! You got the boob back!" He has his own personal nursing cheerleader.

Korvin resembles a tiny drunk man really late at night. One night when he was a little over a month old, he finished nursing, rubbed his face back and forth a few times, belched and passed out. It made me laugh so hard I was surprised I didn't wake him up.

"You're not fat. You're previously pregnant. It's baby byproduct." Yeah Patrick...that's called "fat."

"We don't eat poop. Only food and snocones." - Kadence
Not really sure why she felt the need to tell me this.

I think Kadence might by dyslexic. . .J/K, but she wanted to write "Happy Birthday Mommy" on a picture she colored a week before my birthday. HYPAP was as far as she got. :)

"This little piggy went to market. This little piggy had roast beef. This little piggy went home. This little piggy had roast beef too. And this little piggy went 'wee wee wee' all the way home." Um. . .that's not how I remember it.

When Korvin was nearly 2 months old, Kadence rubbed his head, and then told me "He's kinda rough. In a sentimental way." ???????

It took a few days, but Patrick finally noticed that there was a playing card with a picture of fish in our fridge. Kadence put it in there. She told me she wanted fish for dinner, and I told her we didn't have any fish. . .so she put her fish card in the fridge so we would have fish. :)

K: We don't eat cows! Cows say "Moo!"
Me: Yes, we do eat cows. Then we say "Mmmm"
Kadence: Mmmm! Tasty!
Then she had a fit because she couldn't find the cow in her burger.

Kadence asked "Do you have a regular baby, or a racketized baby?" Um. . .he was legally obtained, so I guess that makes him a regular baby??

Kadence told me she was making cupcakes, and asked if I wanted chocolate, or regular. The day before she asked for a chocolate cookie, not a regular one. Apparently everything has two flavors. . .either it's chocolate, or it's not.

K: I like soda. Soda is good for you.
P: No, soda isn't good for you. It's high in sugar.
K: I like high in sugar.
P: No, it messes with your caloric intake.

K: Oh, crap.
Me: Don't say that.
K: Why not?
Me: Because it's naughty.
K: But Daddy says it!
Me: And it's very naughty of Daddy.
K: Well, then you will have to spank him when he gets home. Spank him, not me.

"I'm a Samarod. . .don't touch me!" LOL. . .she meant Samurai.

In September, Patrick was in the attic and asked KK to come ask me if Korvin is old enough for the activity center up there. I told her "Not for a few more months." She went back and told him "No freakin' donuts."

When Korvin was about 2.5 months old, I realized something. . .He really is a lot like his Uncle Natie. . .same ears, same cheek dimples, and always gets really excited when he sees himself in the mirror. :)

Korvin: grunting while trying to poop
Kadence: He's a little consummated. 

When Korvin was almost 3 months old, Kadence told him "I'm so glad you came out of mommy's tummy and got borned." ♥

On October 10th, Korvin giggled for the first time. Kadence was being silly while Patrick was taking her upstairs to go to bed, and Korvin thought it was funny. It was the cutest little giggle. :) Earlier that day, Kadence was distracting him so he wouldn't cry while he burped so he could finish eating...that morning's technique was to stand in front of him making faces, and in different tones repeating "Boobs! Nipples! Boobs! Nipples!" LOL. . .that's what he WASN'T supposed to be thinking about.

K: I'm a girl, and you're a girl, and daddy's a girl.

Me: Daddy's not a girl. 

K: You're kidding.

  

Me: Go eat your food.

K: It's hot. I feeled it.

Me: You felt it. "Feel" is when you are doing it, and "felt" is something you've already done. 

K: I folt it hot.

Kadence made me a "snack." (Legos arranged on a plate.) After I "ate" it, she asked if I liked it. I, of course, said yes. . .then she gave me an evil grin and said "It has corn syrup in it." She thinks she's so smart. . .see if I eat HER snacks again. Lol

Korvin figured out sitting up at 4.5 months.

He LOVES shopping now.

He has to be inclined when he sleeps. . .
so he put himself to sleep sitting up.

Kadence curled up against my chest and asked me to burp her like the baby. . .so I patted her back until she pretended to burp. . .then she sat up, sounded like she was hocking a loogie, and spit on my chest. When I asked why, she said "I spit up. Like the baby." We won't be playing baby anymore. Lol

Me: You need to go lie down for an hour and take a nap cause you're very tired.
K: But my eyes aren't tired. They don't want to lay down.

K: Can I go to Sonic and get a cheeseburger? Not a cow one.
P: The burger IS cow.
K: I don't want cow in it.
P: All cheeseburger have cow in them.
K: Fine. Can I have a cheese cow burger?

Picked Kadence up from her 1st day of Pre-K:
Me: What did you learn today? Did you learn about Jesus?
K: Yes.
Me: What did you learn?
K: Jesus knows what I did.
Me: What did you do?
K: Jesus knows what I did.
I can't figure out if she did something, or if that's what she learned. Lol

Kadence was upset that Grandma Patsy ate her ear shaped piece of candy. "When she gets home, I'm telling her she doesn't get ANY more candy today! It's NOT for big girls that are humongous!" I nearly died laughing. . .her vocabulary is gonna get her in trouble.

Me: Isn't he cute?
K: Yes. He's multiple times cute.

Me: Isn't he the most precious baby ever?
Kadence: I don't think so. . .but he IS very cute.

The two pirate guys on the Disney channel that sing piratey songs were singing the "cod lover" song one morning. . .Kadence then  randomly sang "hot lover" all day. Hahaha. . .I just stopped correcting her.

Korvin: drooling
Kadence: He's about to rain on me!

"Do you know how to fight bad guys Mom? I do. First we kick their bodies and make their bones come out. Then we break the bad guy's bones. . .right Mom?" ???? Is Nick Jr. teaching hand to hand combat with bad guys now? I really need to start paying attention. . .

Kadence insists that her name has an "s," so every time I write her name and she doesn't see one, she adds one to the end. Her name is now Kadences.

Kadence randomly starts patting her knees and saying "Here boy! Come on boy!" to Korvin, or "Here baby, baby, baby! Here baby baby baby!" I keep having to tell her that he's not a puppy.

I was putting Kadence to bed, and Korvin was downstairs crying (he got shots that day), so I was rushing the routine to get back to him. Instead of our normal prayers (we always pray for some friends preemie baby), I said a quick one for sweet dreams and started to leave. . .she sat up in bed and yelled "WAIT! I forgot to pray for Baby Beckett!!"

Kadence made a Build-a-Bear puppy for Korvin for his Christmas present. . .and tried to give it to him every day for about a week. Waiting for her presents? No problem. Waiting to give her baby brother the one she made him? It was driving her crazy. This was the first year she's been involved in the giving side. . .she kept wrapping things in Kleenex and giving them to me. Lol

Korvin was screaming in his bed (he screams when he's happy, and he screams when he's mad. . .can't always tell the difference), so I asked Kadence to go check on him while I finished dishes. She came back and said "That baby is having fun. He doesn't need any help."

Uncle Natie was making a roast beef sandwich after we got home from picking him up from the Airport at the beginning of December. Kadence told him "Don't eat all our food, or we'll be mad at you." Apparently, Mommy said so. Lol. . .I've never said that. . .what she's heard me say before was "Don't drink all the Vitamin Water, or I'll be mad at you." Now I'm wondering how many times I've said that, cause it's been awhile since I did. 

Kadence randomly informed me in a surprised tone "Hey, Korvin's name starts with a "K" just like mine does!" I got all excited that she figured that out by herself, and asked her what everyone else's name started with. . .she sounded out everyone's name, and gave me the correct answer. Each time, I got excited and yelled "Yay! You got it!" After awhile she said "Why do you keep doing that?" Haha. . .then she asked me "What does "Oh" start with?" I said "O." She got all excited and yelled "Yay! You got it!" LOL

We went to the grocery store, and as I was buckling Korvin into the cart, Kadence informed me she had to go potty. I said "Seriously?" and she said "Yes. Why do you always ask me that?"  I really do ask her that every time she says that when we're out. lol

I need help. . .Patrick pointed out a buffalo in a field next to where we were driving, and I yelled "I want to eat you!" at it before I thought about it. . .I had just eaten an elk burger at Twisted Root. . .apparently, my need for game meat didn't go away when Korvin was born. Guess I'm gonna need to take up hunting. 

Patrick changed Korvin's poopy diaper a little while ago. When he got to the bathroom to dump the diaper and wash it out he said "Uh-oh! I lost his poop!" I nearly died laughing. Poop was found, so no worries. 

I put Korvin in the recliner while I made a bottle for him before his nap. Kadence was rubbing his face and talking softly to him. . .then she came into the kitchen and told me "I put him to sleep. I made him close his eyes, and I put him to sleep." I didn't believe her. . .so I checked. She put him to sleep. LOL

I told KK we were going to go through her toys, and pick some to give to a family with 7 boys and girls. I told her about how their mommy died when the last baby was born a few months ago, and that their daddy can't afford to get them things for Christmas, so we were going to share some of her toys with them. Now, I'm a mean mommy that doesn't let her play with all her new toys from her birthday and/or Christmas all at once, so she still has one Polly Pocket set from her birthday that she hasn't opened and played with yet. After I told her about these other kids, she thought about it for a few seconds and said "They can have my other Polly Pocket that I haven't opened yet." I told her she didn't have to give away her new birthday presents because she had plenty of other toys to share. . .and then I went and cried. I love that little girl's ♥.

Kadence to Patrick: Give me all your money, or I'm calling the police.
Me: Honey, that's not how a robbery works.

 

Patrick put together Kadence's new toy organizer today. While putting all her toys away, she put her canteen on the bottom right hand shelf. When I told her it didn't go there, she ran to the box, pointed and said "No! The 'structions say books and a canteen go on this shelf!"

 

I told Kadence she could have some animal crackers. She brought me a package to open, and then took it back and said "Oh, this is regular (it was snickerdoodle). I only eat chocolate." Then proceeded to go rummage in the pantry for a package of chocolate. Wow.

Kadence has been begging to watch Captain America for awhile now.
Kadence: I want to watch Captain America! He saves the world.
Me: Mommy doesn't want to watch that right now
Kadence: Well, then I think you should go to your room and go to sleep.

Kadence was looking for somewhere to put her toddler Rapunzel doll to take a nap. I told her to go put Rapunzel in her baby's bed. "But she's not a baby! She's Rapunzel! She's a kid!" Ok then.

Korvin was upset and crying for me to come get him. Before I got there, Kadence went over and knelt down in front of him and started crooning "It's ok lil' fella." He gets very angry when he's crying, and I'm laughing. LOL...couldn't help it.

366 Project: Week 1

I will be taking a picture each day of 2012. Each day I post the picture on Facebook, and each week I will post pictures on the blog. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, by the end of the year I will have 366000 words worth on this blog. I hope it doesn't completely have to take the place of all the writing I wish I were doing, but just don't always have time for. :)

Sunday (Day 1)
January 1, 2012

What's sweeter than a sleeping baby?

Monday (Day 2)

January 2, 2012

Yeah, Daddy will give her a bath. . .and turn her into a gnome in the process.

Tuesday (Day 3)
January 3, 2012

Sometimes, life is a blur.

Wednesday (Day 4)
January 4, 2012

He was a very determined little dude...who was very angry when I took the package of animal crackers away after all his hard work getting it, and trying to open it.

Thursday (Day 5)
January 5, 2012

Cold baby + pile of warm laundry = happy baby. His little feet poking out were just so darn cute.

Friday (Day 6)
January 6, 2012

First time she was brave enough to make it to the top.

Saturday (Day 7)
January 7, 2012

First (and hopefully not last) date of 2012.

Korvin update

I have 4 months worth of stuff to catch up on...

Korvin had a procedure done by Dr. Oser to release his class 4 anterior tongue, posterior tongue, and lip tie when he was 8 days old. The procedure should have taken 15 minutes, but took over 40 because of how bad it was. He was NOT happy about it, and it was torturous to hear him scream about it the whole time.

After they finished and brought him back to me, Kathy O'Brien (the lactation consultant present to help babies re-learn how to nurse) helped us start nursing. I had mastitis, and shredded nipples by that point, so it was painful. . .but sooo much easier. He nursed for 45 minutes, and then passed out for 4 hours. 

We had to do exercises on his tongue and lip for 2 weeks to keep the ties from re-attaching. . .4 times a day. . .and he screamed so hard he stopped breathing pretty much every time.

Once his tongue was all healed up, I noticed something weird about the way he was when he was on his side. It was like he was trying to touch his butt with the back of his head. He also never turned his head to the left. So we called his dr and took him in a week after his 1 month check up (at which he measured 8 lbs, 15.5 oz and 22 inches) to ask for a prescription to physical therapy. He thought it was just torticollis, and that stretching his neck would fix it. I insisted on PT, and since he said it wouldn't hurt he agreed to send us. 

At his PT evaluation, the therapist told us it wasn't exactly torticollis. More specifically, the right side of his neck and the right side of his pelvis were locked, the soft tissue in his mouth was too tight, and the left side of his jaw was too tight. Because he always turned his head to the right, the right side of his head was also larger than the left. 

He HATES physical therapy...for awhile I had to feed him the whole time to keep him from screaming. One day when he was about 2 months old he'd already nursed before hand, and then drank 8 oz which was all I had with me. He was still crying like he was hungry, even though I knew he wasn't. The 2 therapists working on him were convinced that he was still hungry, and couldn't continue working on him when he was screaming and tensed up. So we decided to end the session, and I would take him to the car and nurse. As soon as we walked out of the office and got on the elevator, he started grinning and laughing. . .and passed out when we got to the car.


He's made amazing progress though. He has full range of motion, his jaw relaxed, and the soft tissue in his mouth is much better. His head is still uneven, although greatly improved.


He also started teething way early, and about a week after he turned 2 months, the tip of a molar broke through. About the same time he started refusing to nurse, and would pull away and cry. On one side, he would routinely growl like a puppy, and shake me like a piece of meat when he was nursing. Eventually he refused to nurse at all unless he was pretty much asleep, and now won't even do that.


I've been pumping so he still get's breastmilk, but I can't pump as much as he needs, regardless of what I try. So since he had to have formula, I make it myself so I know what's in it, and where it all came from. Sounds like a lot of work, but my peace of mind is worth it...so is his health. Starting out he only needed about an extra bottle a day, so we were just giving him goat's milk and poly vi sol. Once he significantly increased the amount he needed per day, I started making formula, and slowly switched him over to using cow's milk.


Gradually he started refusing bottles too, and would cry and scream while eating, and sleeping. . .but not all the time. We took him back to the dr when he was 3 months old (where he measured 13 lb, 4 oz and 25 inches), and they started him on reflux meds. Previously, he didn't spit up a whole lot, but once we started medicine, he started throwing up. The dr wanted an update a week later, so when I called and told him what was going on, he decided to switch medicines and see if that helped. That made it worse. He started choking and aspirating when eating and puking.


His dr decided he needed to see a gastrointerologist to see if something else was going on. I had mentioned several times both to his dr, and other people that I thought it was because of the way he was swallowing. He would swallow giant air bubbles, and they, of course, cause gas and spitting up. We took him for his GI consult the day after his 4 month check up (where he measured 15 lbs 13 oz and 26 3/4 inches. . .pretty darn good considering all the issues), where the dr agreed with me that it was his swallow. His eating pattern usually goes: suck, suck, swallow, pull away and cry.


He is going for a swallow function test on Wednesday. Hopefully, they will figure out a solution, and he can start sleeping and eating without crying about it.


And those are the major updates on Korvin. Next post will be more entertaining, I promise. :)