Monday, February 15, 2010

Look Out, World!

I'm nearly a year old!!

Today is Jaxon's 10 month birthday! We had preemie clinic this afternoon. According to the occupational therapist and the doctor (I think he was in agreement anyways, it's hard to understand his accent sometimes), developmentally Jax is essentially measuring at the 10 months old that he is. This means we are ahead of the game (adjusted age wise) and right on track (chronological age wise).

He was 19 pounds even, and 27.75 inches long. Weight wise, he's apparently doing amazing, gaining at least 57 grams a day. (They expect 38 grams a day in weight gain) But he does eat constantly and anything that we will let him eat. "He does not have, how you say....fat tummy, so there's no need to worry," is what the doctor told me. That's a good thing, cuz he will eat all day every day if you let him!

As far as the rest life goes, he is crawling like crazy. Apparently, just crawling isn't fun enough for him and so he's also pulling himself up on furniture and today at the clinic he climbed a step on his own. He likes big people food better than mushy baby food but will eat whatever you put on a spoon. Everyday, Jax gets a little more independent. He doesn't like us to hold his bottle for him anymore, since he can do it himself. Jax now has 8 teeth and chews on everything. If he gets excited to see you, he'll cuddle up and then bite at you (a habit I hope doesn't last long ~ we've both been bit a few times!). I'm hoping that those bites evolve into the kisses he's learning to give!

Two more months and he's a year old....scary!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day

Jax got to see nearly the whole family over the course of his first Valentine's Day weekend. Yesterday, we went home to see my Grandpa Scott, Grandma Joy, and uncle Tanner.... Today, we had lunch with Grandpa Jim, Grandma Linda, aunt Tina and uncle Keith, and aunt Shannon (and Mary, Melvin, Raiden, Cin'Que, and LaNora). We covered nearly the whole family tree!



I'm glad we got to see the people we love!! :)

Monday, February 8, 2010

Round 2

Well, we didn't get rid of the ear infection like we thought. Saturday night/Sunday morning, Jax woke up pretty miserable and didn't sleep so well. I thought maybe he was just teething. Sunday morning, he almost threw up in our bed and then he DID throw up while I was getting ready for the day. I started to wonder about his ears...

Today was our 10 day check up for the ear infection and we discovered that the amoxicillin didn't do it's job and so Jax was prescribed augmentin (I think that's what it's called) ~ a stronger version of amoxicillin. 10 days of that and another recheck and we'll be back to normal! I hope.

Friday, February 5, 2010

The Results are In...

This morning they announced the Baby Idol contest. We didn't win. :( Oh well. Here's the link so you can check out the winners:

http://www.fm1051.net/pages/6115866.php?contentType=4&ContentId=5397633

They're nowhere near as cute as Jaxon ;) Maybe next time...

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Last Chance to Vote!

Voting for the Baby Idol contest ends today, the winner is announced tomorrow morning.... if you haven't done it yet, please vote! :)




Tuesday, February 2, 2010

VOTE!

One of the local radio stations, FM105.1 is doing a cute baby contest and so I entered Jax in it. I've sent out an email to friends and family asking them to vote, and so if I forgot you and you read this, this is me begging you to vote for Jaxon! Originally, you were going to be able to vote once a day, but it has been changed I guess to just one vote. All you have to do is go to the link below, choose the photo of Jaxon and click on the Vote button at the bottom of the page ~ no registering or anything like that. What could be easier!?!? So this is me and Jax fluttering our eyelashes at you and smiling sweetly and asking you to help us out and vote! :) Thank you!

http://www.fm1051.net/Baby-Idol-Contestants-2010/6161807