On Friday, I had my 4 week post op appointment... I found out that I had the start of an infection in a few spots & had to be put on a 5 day antibiotic to clear that up. I also had to go back to using antibiotic ointment on those areas instead of the scar cream stuff. Besides those spots, she said my scars are looking 8 weeks ahead of schedule & because of that, they will be really faint come here in a couple months! She explained how I had "two different peoples boobs" & two completely different operations & to expect that will go through different healing changes at different times, but in about 8 more weeks, they will be what they will be & should "match up"! Just be even in cup size is good for me & I'm already feeling so much better with that so I can't even imagine how happy I will be in that time! :) I am able to wear a more formed bra as long as it doesn't have underwire. Yay! Since I won't be seeing her for a couple months (unless the infection doesn't clear up), I asked her when it would be okay to start trying for another baby & she said, go for it... then hurried to say... but wait til your home. haha I just love her personality & how down to earth she is. Of course, Joey got all red-faced on that one. We are still going to wait until August though because of my school semesters & then all we can do is hope it happens quickly & that it works perfectly with my school. I'm such a planner though that God seems like to throw suprises or twists to my "perfect" plans all the time. (I know he is just teaching me to have patience & trust in him.) The BEST news about my whole appointment was that I am finally able to pick up my baby. That month about killed me! I still have to be very careful & not carry him very long or lift, push, pull or do anything repetative... still no vacuuming. Dang it, NOT! lol She said in a couple more weeks, I will be able to gage when I can start doing more upper body things & I'm really anxious for all that so I can get in shape now that I don't have huge knockers in the way!
After my appointment, I hurried home, left everything in the car, & ran in to hold my sweet little boy. I can't even begin to describe how good it made me feel to lift him up! It was almost as good as the first time I held him, seriously! I kept it together for a few minutes until my mother-in-law left & then I went crazy kissing him & crying. I'm sure Grant was thinking that I definately had lost my mind now! I spent the whole evening with him while Joey went out with my dad & brothers. It just felt so nice to actually feel like a mom again & to not have to be babysat while I was with him! It also felt nice to be able to tell my mother-in-law that she can finally sleep in & have a break. Poor thing was pretty worn out & sore after all of this. :( My mom finally got to have time for herself to as she had spent most of her spring break over here then for the following weeks worked really early in the morning then had Grant on alot of the evenings. Its just been a nice feeling all around & it worked out perfectly to be able to lift because Joey was on call this weekend so its pretty spontaneous when he gets calls & has to go so it would've been a mess trying to manage that!
In other news... we finally decided to get curbing done around our landscape. A guy is coming to do it on Tuesday & we are so excited. The front stuff will be colored similarly to the stone on the front of our house & the backyard will be regular cement color (its cheaper). It will be so nice for both of us because the grass was taking over my flower beds & making it a pain for Joey to mow. We finally hung some really pretty red drapes over our back door. Okay, Joey did the hanging, but I picked them out & used my birthday money so I can say "we" right?! We decided to do that instead of buying regular back door blinds because of price & decoration. Win, win. We hung drapes over Grant's window too because we think that the sun through the blinds in the morning has been making him wake up earlier so hopefully this helps! (We just did it today.) We also rearranged his room so that he can't pull the drapes off the wall from his crib & I LOVE the way it all looks now. We made our spare room more or a play room so that we could clear out some of the toys from his room & the living room & thats been really nice too! Our old coffee table that we put in the spare room while Grant was learning to walk & was so clumsy, has now turned into a car-playing area in the play room. Go figure, he's all boy!! While doing all this spring cleaning, we finally decided on how & what we are going to paint & I'm so excited! I'd explain, but its too confusing without pictures so I will post some when its all finished. That is, after we can afford the paint & have the time to do it. I'm hoping in May while I'm off school for a month.
Speaking of school, I just registered for my Summer & Fall classes. This summer I will have a computer class from 1-345 Mondays & Wednesdays & also take Humanities online. Then in the fall, I will have my next & FINAL math class on Mondays & Wednesdays from 1130-1245 & Ethics on Saturdays from 8-1045. After all that I will take Chemistry in the Spring & apply to the RN program!! Its going to be such a busy year, especially if all goes well with having another baby in the mix of all of that. I just keep telling myself how thankful I will be when it is done & it will be so nice to know that I got my RN when I was only 24 & raised a family while doing it. :) Not to toot my own horn or anything because after all it will have taken me a lonnnng time to actually finish & graduate!
Sorry for the rambling... just needed to catch up!!
Monday, April 18, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Grant at 20 months
As of the 23rd, my boy is 20 months old! I'm still wondering where all the time went! He has grown up so much these last few months & is no longer looking like a baby, but more & more like a little boy. He is one handsome little guy or should I say tall guy & he fills our lives with so much joy & laughter...
He is still doing really well potty-training & is now using the regular toilet without even a potty seat on it. He very rarely has accidents & is now telling us "pee pee" or "poo" when he has to go!
He is talking more & more all the time. I can't even list all the words he says now, but his new favorites are "goggles" & he loves to wear motorcyle goggles around the house (imagine that...I'm DOOMED)! He also say's "plane" & will sit at a window, outside, or in the car & spot them from far away...usually before we even do. He also points out the "sun" & the moon". He will randomly mimic things, such as "turtle" (yesterday at the zoo) & picks up on things so quickly. The joke around here is that he is going to wait to say grandma until he's about ten because he knows its driving his grandmas crazy! (We have quietly heard it a few times though). In the last few days, I've loved how often he is saying momma! Even the "momma, momma, momma...hi" thing isn't driving me crazy yet, & it always just melts my heart. We laugh at how sweetly he says "ugh.. no" to things. "Mine" is now another favorite word... Its pretty cute, but not one of my favorites lol.
He knows pretty much all animals & the sounds they make too. I think his favorite animal right now is a kitty. I might be "doomed" with him having motorcyles someday, but Joey is doomed for having a cat one of these days too!
He makes the silliest faces... when we say smile, he squints his eyes & scrunches up his face. When we say pretty eyes, he starts blinking non stop. He also makes different faces depending on which animal we ask him about.
He knows the gestures for a few different songs & will randomly start doing them so that you can sing with him. His daddy has him mixed up with "If you happy & you know it" Instead of doing one verse "clap your hands" & the next verse "stomp your feet", he does it all in one..."clap your hands, STOMP your feet". So on Monday at library story time (my first time going with him & his grammy since I'm usually in class), while everyone was doing the first verse "clap your hands", Grant gets up & is clapping his hands while stomping his feet. All the moms & grandmas got a good laugh out of it. Another new one he learned from my mom the other day (a not so popular one) goes like "shoe a horsey, shoe a mare, shoe a cody... bear, bear, bear" & while its being sung, you slap the bottoms of his feet. Well my mom had taught him it in the morning, while I was sleeping & later that night he starts slapping his feet & trying to sing & when I didn't know all the words, he hands me my phone... almost as if to tell me to call grandma & ask. So we did. Then the next morning when he was with his grammy (Joey's mom), he starts slapping his feet & she was wondering why. It just makes me laugh at how quick he picks up on things.
He still signs "please" instead of saying it with words. Its the only thing he signs anymore & I'm totally fine with it... just as long as he's saying it in some form!
He has a new obsession with babies & loves to point them out & sweetly says "baby". I guess its a sign that he wants mommy to have one... right? ;) We plan to start trying for one of those towards the end of summer. (The timing works best for my school semesters or we'd start sooner).
He loves to be outside & doesn't care what the weather is like... he'd be out there all day, everyday, if it was up to him. He will randomly start saying "bye bye" & get his shoes & jacket & then proceed to get ours too. If he doesn't get to go right then or if you tell him we will, but its not RIGHT NOW, then he gets pretty upset.
He's starting to throw little temper tantrums every now & then, but he gets over them pretty quickly. Please don't tell me that we are already starting "terrible twos"? They usually happen over things he wants, like going outside or a bottle.
He's still having a bottle & he is pretty attached to it. I figure I'll break it around 2 years. Thats what our doctor reccommends & I figure I can only do one thing at a time... We broke the binky right after his first birthday & are now potty training so I just don't think its fair to do too much growing up at once. Plus he needs & loves it! :)
He's a good little sleeper & will usually sleep 10 to 12 hours at night then around 2 hours at naptime. Every so often, he absolutely refuses his nap & we just put him to bed earlier. He's starting to drag out bedtime by trying to distract us... its actually pretty funny. The last few nights its been taking him awhile to fall asleep & he fusses a little longer than usual. I figure/hope its just another stage of testing his limits & we don't give in unless we think there is something really bothering him & we can usually tell by the cry he makes or the things he's mumbling about.
He's a social butterfly & says "hi" & "bye" to complete strangers. He has no problem making friends with kids we see at the park or wherever else. This is something he definately gets from his daddy because I was a very shy little girl. (These are the kinds of things that make me so curious to have another baby). The other day while we were out at lunch & he was totally flirting with a girl sitting at the next booth & when we got up to pay he was high-fiving a group of elderly couples that were next to the register. They were "ooing & ahhing" at his big brown eyes & he totally knew what they were saying & was showing off.
I never noticed how tall he really is for his age until recently with being around more kids. Since birth, he's always been somewhere in the 90th percentile for height & was 98% at his last appointment. Another thing he obviously gets from his dad.
We took him for the first time this year, yesterday, & he loved all the animals & learning the sounds they all make. He was totally content with it all, until the very end. He was feeding goats & sheep & I stood back to take a picture (a family friend, Lindsey & his aunt Amanda were with him) & the sheep got irritated at the goats because they were hogging all the food so it "baaaad" really loud & Grant jumped like 5 feet then started screaming/crying. My first reaction was to laugh because the situation was so funny, but then I felt like the worst mom ever when I realized how upset he was. We told the sheep "no no" & it seemed to make him feel better. At the time, his grammy was in the bathroom so when she came walking up, he had to tell her all about it. It was pretty funny & went something like "baaaa... NO NO". He was pretty timid/nervous the rest of the trip so thankfully that happened towards the end.
One last thing he's been doing lately is telling anything that gets him, bonks him, or trips him, "no no". Its probably not the best thing to teach him.... that everything that happens to him is that things fault, but it gets his mind off it quickly & we all get a good laugh. He'll bonk his head on a chair & turn around and tell the chair "no no". The only issue we've ran into with this one is when we are trying to tell him no for something, but he'll turn around like we are talking to something else & start saying it too.
We sure love this little guy & get so many laughs out of the things he does. I feel so blessed to have such a healthy & smart little boy & I don't think it gets better than that.
I had originally planned to add pictures, but I'm feeling to lazy for that & they are all on facebook usually anyway!
He is still doing really well potty-training & is now using the regular toilet without even a potty seat on it. He very rarely has accidents & is now telling us "pee pee" or "poo" when he has to go!
He is talking more & more all the time. I can't even list all the words he says now, but his new favorites are "goggles" & he loves to wear motorcyle goggles around the house (imagine that...I'm DOOMED)! He also say's "plane" & will sit at a window, outside, or in the car & spot them from far away...usually before we even do. He also points out the "sun" & the moon". He will randomly mimic things, such as "turtle" (yesterday at the zoo) & picks up on things so quickly. The joke around here is that he is going to wait to say grandma until he's about ten because he knows its driving his grandmas crazy! (We have quietly heard it a few times though). In the last few days, I've loved how often he is saying momma! Even the "momma, momma, momma...hi" thing isn't driving me crazy yet, & it always just melts my heart. We laugh at how sweetly he says "ugh.. no" to things. "Mine" is now another favorite word... Its pretty cute, but not one of my favorites lol.
He knows pretty much all animals & the sounds they make too. I think his favorite animal right now is a kitty. I might be "doomed" with him having motorcyles someday, but Joey is doomed for having a cat one of these days too!
He makes the silliest faces... when we say smile, he squints his eyes & scrunches up his face. When we say pretty eyes, he starts blinking non stop. He also makes different faces depending on which animal we ask him about.
He knows the gestures for a few different songs & will randomly start doing them so that you can sing with him. His daddy has him mixed up with "If you happy & you know it" Instead of doing one verse "clap your hands" & the next verse "stomp your feet", he does it all in one..."clap your hands, STOMP your feet". So on Monday at library story time (my first time going with him & his grammy since I'm usually in class), while everyone was doing the first verse "clap your hands", Grant gets up & is clapping his hands while stomping his feet. All the moms & grandmas got a good laugh out of it. Another new one he learned from my mom the other day (a not so popular one) goes like "shoe a horsey, shoe a mare, shoe a cody... bear, bear, bear" & while its being sung, you slap the bottoms of his feet. Well my mom had taught him it in the morning, while I was sleeping & later that night he starts slapping his feet & trying to sing & when I didn't know all the words, he hands me my phone... almost as if to tell me to call grandma & ask. So we did. Then the next morning when he was with his grammy (Joey's mom), he starts slapping his feet & she was wondering why. It just makes me laugh at how quick he picks up on things.
He still signs "please" instead of saying it with words. Its the only thing he signs anymore & I'm totally fine with it... just as long as he's saying it in some form!
He has a new obsession with babies & loves to point them out & sweetly says "baby". I guess its a sign that he wants mommy to have one... right? ;) We plan to start trying for one of those towards the end of summer. (The timing works best for my school semesters or we'd start sooner).
He loves to be outside & doesn't care what the weather is like... he'd be out there all day, everyday, if it was up to him. He will randomly start saying "bye bye" & get his shoes & jacket & then proceed to get ours too. If he doesn't get to go right then or if you tell him we will, but its not RIGHT NOW, then he gets pretty upset.
He's starting to throw little temper tantrums every now & then, but he gets over them pretty quickly. Please don't tell me that we are already starting "terrible twos"? They usually happen over things he wants, like going outside or a bottle.
He's still having a bottle & he is pretty attached to it. I figure I'll break it around 2 years. Thats what our doctor reccommends & I figure I can only do one thing at a time... We broke the binky right after his first birthday & are now potty training so I just don't think its fair to do too much growing up at once. Plus he needs & loves it! :)
He's a good little sleeper & will usually sleep 10 to 12 hours at night then around 2 hours at naptime. Every so often, he absolutely refuses his nap & we just put him to bed earlier. He's starting to drag out bedtime by trying to distract us... its actually pretty funny. The last few nights its been taking him awhile to fall asleep & he fusses a little longer than usual. I figure/hope its just another stage of testing his limits & we don't give in unless we think there is something really bothering him & we can usually tell by the cry he makes or the things he's mumbling about.
He's a social butterfly & says "hi" & "bye" to complete strangers. He has no problem making friends with kids we see at the park or wherever else. This is something he definately gets from his daddy because I was a very shy little girl. (These are the kinds of things that make me so curious to have another baby). The other day while we were out at lunch & he was totally flirting with a girl sitting at the next booth & when we got up to pay he was high-fiving a group of elderly couples that were next to the register. They were "ooing & ahhing" at his big brown eyes & he totally knew what they were saying & was showing off.
I never noticed how tall he really is for his age until recently with being around more kids. Since birth, he's always been somewhere in the 90th percentile for height & was 98% at his last appointment. Another thing he obviously gets from his dad.
We took him for the first time this year, yesterday, & he loved all the animals & learning the sounds they all make. He was totally content with it all, until the very end. He was feeding goats & sheep & I stood back to take a picture (a family friend, Lindsey & his aunt Amanda were with him) & the sheep got irritated at the goats because they were hogging all the food so it "baaaad" really loud & Grant jumped like 5 feet then started screaming/crying. My first reaction was to laugh because the situation was so funny, but then I felt like the worst mom ever when I realized how upset he was. We told the sheep "no no" & it seemed to make him feel better. At the time, his grammy was in the bathroom so when she came walking up, he had to tell her all about it. It was pretty funny & went something like "baaaa... NO NO". He was pretty timid/nervous the rest of the trip so thankfully that happened towards the end.
One last thing he's been doing lately is telling anything that gets him, bonks him, or trips him, "no no". Its probably not the best thing to teach him.... that everything that happens to him is that things fault, but it gets his mind off it quickly & we all get a good laugh. He'll bonk his head on a chair & turn around and tell the chair "no no". The only issue we've ran into with this one is when we are trying to tell him no for something, but he'll turn around like we are talking to something else & start saying it too.
We sure love this little guy & get so many laughs out of the things he does. I feel so blessed to have such a healthy & smart little boy & I don't think it gets better than that.
I had originally planned to add pictures, but I'm feeling to lazy for that & they are all on facebook usually anyway!
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