Weekend Teething

Sorry no photo today. I'm updating from one of my dad's laptops. Just wanted to let you know that we haven't seen any actual teeth, but not only do I feel their corners pushing up under the gums, but he is chewing on his pacifier like crazy. This is significant because he lost interest in those things months ago. We had to scramble around looking for them when all this teething started. And the worst part is that at the end of the day, he gets quite uncomfortable and has difficulty falling asleep because he feels so lousy. Poor Boo-Boo. Would Tordol for teething be going overboard?

Well-Baby Bonus Round!

Up till today, Bo was clinging to the bottom of the growth curve, @ the 3rd percentile. As of today, he's been promoted to the 5th percentile for both height and weight! Of course, it is no optical illusion that he has a big noggin; ringing in at a stupendous 25th percentile, which, relatively speaking, is huge. Big head, big brain, right? Bonus: no shots!

Cousins!

This is Bo and his next older cousin, Violet. She came over to play a few weeks ago.

Bo has his next well-baby (get vaccinated) appointment today. I hope I can find his vaccine card. It's always sliding around some pile of documents or other.

Two Cats, A Dog and A Baby- this is not the opening line of a joke

Murray officially has Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease. It's as painful and annoying and impossible to understand as infant kidney stones. So now she needs more fluid in her diet. At least this is an easy one; give her soft food. And Prozac? We'll see...

Ming, Mom and Bumper are here. Maybe Bumper set it off.

Bo is so excited to see my mom and sister!

Milky, milky... right?

Aside from an hour's episode before bed last night, Bo has been in high spirits. We may never know if it was the yogurt, or teething (when will this kid ever get his teeth?) or residual kidney stuff? But I'm just grateful that it passed.

We had a lovely visit from good friends in town who brought Bo some new books (hooray, and thank you!) which makes reading with Bo so much better. I've memorized the first 30 board books already. AND we went to the new independent kids' book store next to our neighborhood grocer. I love our neighborhood.

What a great weekend we are having. And we somehow squeaked by without a blizzard landing on us this week! Have a great weekend!!

Three's a Charm

We think Bo passed his last of 3 kidney stones last night. He was pretty upset, but we were prepared. A small dose of Tordol and extra fluids seemed to hasten the process from several days to one. So, he had his IV nutrition (aka TPN), his lipids (the Omegaven that saved his life), and the lactated ringers (extra fluids) which meant that we had a triple splitter (Y-connector) hooked up to his catheter. The triple splitters we have are pretty cheap; made of thin plastic, so whenever he rolled over, it would clamp itself off and all three pumps would start alarming.

So we didn't get very good quality sleep last night. But it was still a hundred times better than waking up to him gagging, choking and retching. And we only had one night of this, rather than the 4-6 days the other two stones took.

Bo actually slept through all those pumps beeping. I guess he's used to it from all the nights he's spent in the hospital. He woke up in great spirits today and was so happy and cheerful all day. He is such a great guy!

Happy 9 Month Birthday!

We are officially out of the literature. Since there aren't that many recorded cases of MID, we're already working with a limited knowledge-base. But of those recorded cases, most of those stories tragically end by nine months. As of today, we have even less literature to reference for Bo. I won't say that we beat the odds, but that there are no numbers available to even calculate them now.

I went out and bought both size 3 and 4 overnight diapers, giddy with optimism.