The day to day existence has proven to be quite a challenge when it comes to doing everything that needs to be done and finding a moment to post. April spends her days feeding, pumping, changing, playing Brendan and repeat....and I have been doing the same only instead of pumping...I work. By the time the process breaks up a little bit that is the point we are supposed to attempt to sleep. So posting has been a challenge.
The Lee household has been adapting. Owen has continued to increase his feeds and his spit ups are almost none existent. Hurrah! He is gaining weight and even allows us to burp him successfully like your average infant. We have an appointment with the neurosurgeon in Madison on Thursday to see how everything is progressing from his perspective. I am sure Gramps Creeper will be compelled to play Knock Knock on Owen's head once again.
It is tough to tell what an infant should and should not be doing at this stage in his life...but Owen seems to be doing well. He kicks his legs and plays with his hands. He tracks somewhat with his eyes and I don't know if he is meeting the "standard" for the child of his age or not. We will probably find that out next week when the 0 to 3 representative visits our house. The way I see it is that he has defied so many odds in just one month that he needs a break from being phenomenal all of the time. We work with him flipping him on his stomach and working his legs and arms. As I mentioned...he seems to be doing everything well...but we are striving for greater head strength and mobility so we push him a little harder stimulate him a bit more. He does not enjoy tummy time...but Brendan did not at that age either. We attempt to avoid over analysis of his condition...he acts like a baby...we probably would not be worrying about anything had it not been for the first couple weeks of his life.
Brendan has been the life of the party. He has given up naps in lieu of extra time to chase us around the house. His nice 8 or 9 o'clock bedtime has been thrown completely out of whack and he likes to party at all hours of the night now. His new thing is that he gets super hyper close to bedtime and flies through the house at a million miles an hour until he eventually crashes. But sometimes, eventually does not come fast enough. He is warming up to Owen a little bit. He will sit with him when Owen is sitting in his chair. Brendan will get diapers for Owen and even attempt to give him his pacifier. He does not like feeding time and will usually try to distract us from giving Owen his bottle. We just get the ALL DONE statement and he tries to whisk us away. I still cannot believe he is only 22 months old. He is such a smarty pants. I looked forward to making tents out of chairs and sheets when he got older...but I don't have to look forward to it at all because we are already doing it. We made a tent out of the dining room table the other day and he had a blast! He would sit outside the "door" and say Open Sesame so I could open it up and let him inside. He can count to 3. His spanish vocabulary has expanded a bit. He is so witty! What an amazing little child...until he starts teaching Owen his more negative attributes. Like when he throws the food from his high chair into the dogs hair or when he tries to sneak out the back door to play in the yard.
Overall, we are just being a family for a while and it is challenging at times but fun. It is nice to be experiencing a period of time where things are going more as we envisioned them. Sure, we never sleep and often have synchronized screaming kids. It is much harder to accomplish things or go somewhere. Me time is almost non-existent or sleep is sacrificed in order to realize this luxury. But that is parenthood and there is really nothing I would rather be doing....and April shares that sentiment. We will let you know how Owen's appt. went later in the week.
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