Eric recently got a pair of glasses. His eye doctor says he needs them for his severe astigmatism, but not to worry, with these glasses, it should get corrected and he may not ever have to wear glasses in the future. He does have slight nearsightedness but nothing bad enough for glasses at the moment. The only catch is....Eric has to actually keep them on his face in order for them to correct anything!!
He yanks them off and down around his chin. They are the smallest glasses that Dean McGee Eye Institute makes and carries. Therefore, I didn't really get to choose a frame. We had to just take what they had. So they are very round and make him look like the little boy on Jerry McGuire or Chicken Little with his hair that sticks up in the back!
Eric also got a cowboy hat from Crutchers! He looks so handsome! As soon as I can find him a pair of boots we are going to take some professional pictures of him. We haven't done that in a while. Meanwhile, I did take some good ones of him at home.
I was going to post pics of his glasses and the hat today, but blogger won't let me upload the pictures this morning. I will try again this evening. Sorry!!
Friday, July 20, 2007
Thursday, July 05, 2007
New words!
Eric has really been trying to talk lately. He has a few words that he is saying now! Of course, they are baby talk, but he knows what he is trying to say and is associating the word to the correct item!!!! They are: Dog, Ball, Book, and Star. Of course these words are added to the old ones he was saying: Momma, Dadadada, Papapapa, bobbob (Robert), abbba (Aunt Brandy), and occasionally Nana.
He has also been pulling up on things and standing up. I think if all goes well, he should try to start walking by the end of the month. He has been crawling all over the place. His play dates with Jonas and John Mark have really helped his development and is strongly encouraged by his doctors and Sooner Start ECI.
Eric has also dicovered popscicles! He LOVES them! He also loves sweet corn and apples that are the Gerber graduates freeze dried fruit and veggies. Last night, he tried watermelon and like his mommy, LOVES it too. Except he can't put salt on it like me! He really likes water which is good. Eric still has no teeth, so we are running into problems with him eating. In his mind, he is old enough for teeth and wants food that we eat. But, since there are no teeth in his mouth, he should really eat baby food. He REFUSES, so mostly he gets his bottles, which he is starting to get tired of.
He has also been pulling up on things and standing up. I think if all goes well, he should try to start walking by the end of the month. He has been crawling all over the place. His play dates with Jonas and John Mark have really helped his development and is strongly encouraged by his doctors and Sooner Start ECI.
Eric has also dicovered popscicles! He LOVES them! He also loves sweet corn and apples that are the Gerber graduates freeze dried fruit and veggies. Last night, he tried watermelon and like his mommy, LOVES it too. Except he can't put salt on it like me! He really likes water which is good. Eric still has no teeth, so we are running into problems with him eating. In his mind, he is old enough for teeth and wants food that we eat. But, since there are no teeth in his mouth, he should really eat baby food. He REFUSES, so mostly he gets his bottles, which he is starting to get tired of.
Happy 4th of July!!!!!
As always we went to my sister's house for the 4th. This year Eric was much better than last. Last year he had caulic and fussed and cried all night! This year..he PLAYED! He had a blast! His buddy Jonas came over to play with him and Eric soaked up the sun. The fireworks made him a little nervous but overall, he liked them. He really liked the sparkler Robert brought over for him. I had my friends and family with me this year and that made it a great holiday!
Here are some pictures!
Here are some pictures!
Infusaport
On Monday, July 2nd, Baby Eric had his first surgery. He had an infusaport put in so that blood draws are much easier on him. This allows the doctors to put numbing cream on his skin and poke him ONE time and have access to an artery without the pain that normally come along with artery sticks. Blood drawn from arteries give a much more pure lab result because the blood is more free flowing from the artery, which means less clotting. Because we need to check Eric's potassium less clotting is what we need. When your blood clots, potassium is one of the things that shows up in larger quantities. It helps your blood clot....so, when clotting happens when we draw labs on Eric, it shows that his potassium is much higher than it really is, which means more blood sticks and panic for everyone. We don't want it to be too high.
Anyway, back to the surgery! Surgery went well. They had to put in the port by cutting near his neck and then check it by running a wire on each side of his chest to make sure the artery was found and that it goes through to the heart. Surgery was an outpatient procedure so as soon as he woke up and drank 3 ounces of juice, we got to go home. Because he is so little, they couldn't give him over a certain amount of anesthesia, so he woke up a little to early. They said it was right as they were taking him from surgery to recovery. Surgery was over, but too soon to wake up and not get sick. He was given pain medication that is safe for the kidneys. For him, that medicine worked really fast and it didn't take much at all. That medicine knocked him out cold for about an hour and a half. He got a second dose when we moved from recovery to the almost home room. So, he looks really drugged in these pictures...because he is!
I got to take off his bandages yesterday morning and his port seems to be just a small bulge under his right nipple. I don't know how swollen it is, so it may go down a little when it is all said and done. He doesn't seem to hurt unless he bumps it or if we bump it. It is very difficult to pick him up because his chest is sore. I have been giving him tylenol because that is all he can take. The pain medicine at the hospital is like morphine, so unfourtunately, they couldn't send that home with us. So, the only non narcotic that he can take is tylenol. Which means baby Eric is tough as a boot!
He now weighs 14 pounds 2 ounces with his jammies and a clean diaper on. He is also 25.5 inches long! He is growing!!!!!
Anyway, back to the surgery! Surgery went well. They had to put in the port by cutting near his neck and then check it by running a wire on each side of his chest to make sure the artery was found and that it goes through to the heart. Surgery was an outpatient procedure so as soon as he woke up and drank 3 ounces of juice, we got to go home. Because he is so little, they couldn't give him over a certain amount of anesthesia, so he woke up a little to early. They said it was right as they were taking him from surgery to recovery. Surgery was over, but too soon to wake up and not get sick. He was given pain medication that is safe for the kidneys. For him, that medicine worked really fast and it didn't take much at all. That medicine knocked him out cold for about an hour and a half. He got a second dose when we moved from recovery to the almost home room. So, he looks really drugged in these pictures...because he is!
I got to take off his bandages yesterday morning and his port seems to be just a small bulge under his right nipple. I don't know how swollen it is, so it may go down a little when it is all said and done. He doesn't seem to hurt unless he bumps it or if we bump it. It is very difficult to pick him up because his chest is sore. I have been giving him tylenol because that is all he can take. The pain medicine at the hospital is like morphine, so unfourtunately, they couldn't send that home with us. So, the only non narcotic that he can take is tylenol. Which means baby Eric is tough as a boot!
He now weighs 14 pounds 2 ounces with his jammies and a clean diaper on. He is also 25.5 inches long! He is growing!!!!!
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