Out-of-sequence Pooklet updates

Things have been busy and I've been tired this past weekend, and this blog is dangerously close to being an idol sometimes, I swear. I just told my wife that I can't chat with her because "I have to blog." Truthfully, though, I just want to paste what I'd already text'd into my blackberry over the past few days. Be right there, Pookie!!


4.3.08
Pooklet was mind-numbingly cute when he arrived in the car after work yesterday. It's amazingly heart-warming to be giggled at by a 4-month-old with no teeth.

He still fusses when I hold him, though, as he reminded me after his dinner that evening. He likes to hold his own bottle, by the way, and only needs a little bit of help with that, even with the long, glass ones. He also sometimes clings to one of my fingers for dear life while drinking. Heh. Cute.

One of the precautions we've adopted lately is putting socks on his hands (OK, part precaution, part entertainment). He has little scratches on his face cuz he claws at himself when he sleeps. Despite the eczema that has shown up on his body, it doesn't appear that he's scratching an itch in this instance. He's just being a weirdo.

Plugging his mouth with a pacifier (binkification) is often difficult even when he's not scratching, cuz he keeps his fists against his face when he's waking or falling asleep. It's like playing the windmill in miniature golf, trying to get the binky in the mouth.

4.4.08
Pooklet's been talking more the last week or so, with more robust sounds and different combinations of sounds. I can’t wait for him to grow into his exuberance and get an actual English vocabulary.

Today he had his long-awaited GI specialist appointment in Sacramento, and it was a relief to learn that occasional (weekly-biweekly) bits of bright red blood in his diapie is no cause for alarm if he’s eating and eliminating normally. Good to hear.

Here are the latest stats, too:

15lbs, 13oz., and 66cm. = 26"

He does, however, have some “legions,” broken skin around his, um, diaper area, so for 10 days, we have to alternate nystatin (for legions/fungus prevention), and desitin (to kill bacteria), each twice a day, and air his butt out for an hour after changing each diapie. We’ve already cut that down to almost nil drying time.

We also got the go-ahead to start the pooklet on rice cereals at 6 months. The specialist also recommends 2-3 yrs of breast milk in the bottle, since it’s his best defense.

4.5.08
I learned that simply moving Pooklet’s arms laterally, and not necessarily making him tickle himself, makes him giggle. It also helps if you get him started by giggling yourself.