The Car Ride

On our trip to Williamsburg we left very early in the morning and tried to get driving done while Xander slept. This worked pretty well, but there was some awake time in the late morning and early afternoon. To entertain himself, Xander would:

Show off his four fancy teeth



Play with his penguin



Chew on his toes

jogging stroller

So what do you do when you take your kid for a jog and he falls asleep in the jogging stroller? Option A: Do you wake them up and bring them inside and risk crying? Option B: Or do you just take them into the backyard and let them keep on sleeping in the stroller? We did the latter. We aren't bad parents, are we?

Well, I guess I should add details to Option B because Amanda went upstairs and showered and I went inside and had breakfast. I was watching him, really.

no wrists or ankles

Xander still doesn't have wrists or ankles. He has the chubbiest forearms I've ever seen in my entire life! We should call him Popeye. Look at those things!

Terrible Teething

Xander has two little teeth popping out on the bottom. You can see them if he smiles on his own, but if you try to make him smile or pull his bottom lip to see, he sticks his tongue out.

It started out ok, but for the past four or five days he has a hissy all afternoon. He doesn't seem particularly inclined to chew on anything. We'd give him some Infant Tylenol, but I didn't want to run to the store for baby Oragel or teething tabs. I wasn't going to try the cold spoon pressed on the gums and I was slightly tempted to rub rum on his gums, but we don't have any. I did try a cold washcloth and that worked some of the time. Any other remedies I have missed?

At least most nights he still slept well. Ah, sweet peace.

He tried his first vegetable yesterday. The peas were ok but the consistancy threw him and he choked a little bit. And seeing a baby spitting up mushy green is kind of gross (as opposed to all of the other things about a baby that aren't gross, right?).

Right now he is jumping in his jumperoo and yelling. Until I look at him, then he grins at me. What a little punk.

They're heeeeeeere

Xander's bottom front teeth are coming in. He won't let us see them, let alone get a picture. But you can definitely feel them and catch little glimpses when two people pin him down and try to see.

To the Eye Doctor

At some point I was told about the InfantSee program and was interested in Xander participating. Fortunately my new doctor is involved in the program. So I today I took Xander in for his first of (probably) many trips to the eye doctor.

Genetically, Xander's eye sight will likely plummet around 5th grade. Nothing we can do about that. InfantSee is more to catch lazy eye and other little problems. So Xander sat in my lap and kept getting distracted, but the doctor looked at his eyes and checked them for tracking. No problem.

I did not know the doctor would give Xander eye drops, but we went ahead and did it. Xander was tired and a little cranky, but took it pretty well since I walked around with him. The doctor did a few more tests of looking in his eyes and pronounced him a 10 out of 10.

Meanwhile Xander had charmed the office ladies with a few smiles and eye sparkles (their words, not mine).