Eating... or Not Eating

The whole eating experiment last night was a lot more calm than I expected it to be. It pretty much just involved beating the spoon on the highchair. All the preparation and no food ended up on the garbage bag or floor, just on my shoes.

The set up.....

The video....

The end result....

Today was a low key day. Thank goodness Dr. was home. He let me sleep in until about 8:30 when I had to get Chuck to nap. Chuck then granted us with a 3 1/2 hour nap. I felt so bad I don't know what I would have done if Dr. was working. Chuck and Dr. are now crashed out for the night ( they were actually down for the count at about 5). I am still coughing up my lungs but I think I might have gotten rid of my fever. I have got to get some things picked up before I actually can call it a night.

Under the Weather

I haven't posted in a while but I have good reason. So where did I leave off? Oh yes, so Monday, Chuck was still wheezing. One of our friends is a doctor at a medical clinic just down the road. We snuck Chuck in to see her, thru the back door past the 15 people in line. We wanted a chest x-ray to see if there was anything in his lungs. He had tested negative for everything else so this was our last hope. Anyways, the chest x-ray showed a touch of pneumonia. Chuck is currently feeling great and taking antibiotics and some other type of medicine to try and get those lungs cleared out. Marmee drove down late Monday night and got to spend time with the Chuckster on Tuesday and Wednesday while mom and dad worked. By the time Marmee left on Wednesday night, Chuck was following her around and didn't much care for mom. They had inside jokes and he is even understanding when to wave now! They must have had a grand ol' time. He was able to return to daycare on Thursday.

Now, mom is sick. I knew that I couldn't skip the sickness after the amount of kisses I have gotten and the amount of drool that has made it into my mouth when he is using me as a climbing gym. Luckily, today was a snow day for me. I was still able to get Chuck to daycare so I got to get some much needed rest on the couch with my fat kitty cat.

We woke up an hour later than normal this morning so while I was getting the car warmed up, Dora came on. Like I said, Chuck loves Dora. ( and yes, that's the graceful fat kitty in the background)

Chuck is back to his old inquisitive self and sporting an early Valentines present form his Aunt Koko. He looks like such a big boy in his new sweatshirt.

Tonight you should get some video. I was really wondering if Chuck should be able to use a spoon by now. Whenever I feed him, he gets his own spoon so he won't grab mine. Well, he is going to get to experiment tonight so bring on the mess, bring on the food thrown across the kitchen, bring on the fun. I am going to let him experiment so he can start working on those motor skills. Pray for us.

On the Mends

This morning Chuck woke up and was incredibly wheezy. I was wondering if he was actually getting enough air. Dr. said that if he was still like that when he headed to work tonight that CHuck and I would go with him and get his saturation levels checked.... see how much oxygen he was actually getting.

As the day went on, Chuck improved. He has been almost 40 hours without vomiting. He started eating again today and started napping on his normal schedule. He did all this on his own. I didn't force him to do anything today. He was back to his little busy body self..... which means he was everywhere. Not back to 100% but looking like he will be able to go to daycare on Tuesday. Not sure when his chest will actually clear up. Seems like he will be wheezing for a while.

So we will chill out at home tomorrow and spend some quality time licking everything in sight (hmmm maybe that's why he is sick). His curriculum at daycare that they were working with him this past month was "dropping things on purpose". Now, I thought the daycare was supposed to be on mama's side but I tell you what..... There is one little boy who is about to drive his mama crazy! So tomorrow, I guess we will continue to learn about cause and effect and continue to drop stuff on purpose just so mama can work on her abs and bend over to pick it up. Now, we just need to work on "uh oh" so the whole dropping things can be cute.

Chuck helped mom fix some lunch. ( I think he really saw the Blue Moon Beer in the back of the fridge.)

Helped mom get the clothes out of the dryer (Did I mention I found Molly in there yesterday? I wonder who shut her in there? Probably the little guy who she follows constantly.)

He also helped make sure the dryer was set to the right settings.