Overdue Update on the Thomas Boys

Andrew

So it has been a while since the last post - for all of you (or should I say both of you) followers out there - so sorry! Things have been crazy. So, Andrew is less fussy - he is still a little bit of a screamer, but has MUCH more calm, awake times. After trying Enfamil AR, Similac RS, Similac Sensitive, Similac Advanced, Enfamil Gentlease, Enfamil Nutramigen, Neocate, and about every type of bottle you can imagine, we have decided that reflux or not, we just have a colicky babe. No gripe water, baby z's, hot water bottle, or voo doo will fix the fussiness, he will just have to grow out of it! And much to our delight - he is nearly there! Hooray! He smiles and coos (which is a lot of fun) and loves his bath. But above all, he sleeps.








The smiling and cooing are a close second to the sleeping.

He does love his bath! (he has filled out a lot since this photo was taken)

as evidenced by the photo below.

Luke

The Baby Fence

Luke is every bit of 13 months old. He is both fearless and insatiable when it comes to walking and despite the fact that he has had a lot of practice, we have still had our fair share of bruised heads and near misses. (note the healing purple bump over his right eye)

The tile in our house, that we LOVED so much when we moved in, has reeked havoc on our little one's forehead, and with another wild man close in tow behind, it is only a matter of time before a tooth falls victim to the cold unforgiving tile. So after a few, estimates to turn our house into a carpet wonderland (for a few grand), we spent 100$ and solved our problem! No more unsupervised play on the ceramic obstacle course. Thank you Baby Fence.

Where's the Chicken

This video is funny for a lot of reasons. First of all, while Luke happily finds the chicken, he just can't seem to get the piggy down. Secondly, and this has become really entertaining for our family lately - whenever Luke picks up an object to look at it, he almost throws it over his shoulder looking at it, and in fact actually does sometimes. This is no longer limited to the fisher price farmer people (thank you Tanja and Derek), but is used on a variety of objects, ball popper balls, guppies in the tub and puffs at the table.It's almost like he is showing it to someone behind him. Another thing that is funny about this video - is how forcefully he puts the people back in the bucket.

Sadly, since we have had Thomas boy number two, Luke misses out on getting his pic taken, so the videos will have to do for now. This one is a close up of the little guy without pants (just his onsie) - since daddy always takes off his "tight and uncomfortable church pants" after church.

Luke's Latest Tricks

Throwing

Luke has learned that his ball popper balls are good for more than popping out of that machine. As some of you have seen in some of the previous posts, first they were good for picking up two at a time - which was fun, until our little Newton discovered that watching them drop from his hands was even better than just holding them. And now the fun has evolved to throwing. Sadly, his new catch and release program, makes keeping up with the balls much more of a headache though. We started off this phase with 8 balls, and we are down to 4. Every once and a while, Luke still sits down for a few songs, but the fact of the matter is, the ball popper has lost a bit of it's luster. But fear not, ball popper - we managed to crank out another kid who gets closer to enjoying you every day!

Walking

We are still a little wobbly, but well on our way to walking a blue streak around the Thomas house. We are so thrilled that our little guy is walking. Mommy is even more thrilled when Luke is walking and there is an extra set of hands around to catch him since about 80% of the day Mommy's hands are tied up with another wobbly family member - one who's head is wobbly, not his feet (yet ) ... (thank goodness!)

Drinking From a Moving Object

This video and title is pretty self explanatory. (Thanks, Uncle Bob, for the fab water activity table)

Watering The Flowers (or His Face)

DISCLAIMER: We did not start out, in the front yard, with a onsie and some socks and shoes, we gradually lost the pants over the course of the evening as they got progressively more soaked from the watering hose!) At first, he wasn't to sure about the water, but by the time 7:45 rolled around we had to peel him away from it. Water bug! (Like his mom!)

A Warning to Parents About Jumperoos

may cause extreme drowsiness