Zach is doing very well and although he's still not crawling he's finding creative ways to deal with it. He will often roll many feet to get to something he wants to "stick in his mouth" or otherwise explore. He's finally started going forward in his walker so he's zooming all over the place these days. He's able to sit up with some help he's just now starting to be able to correct more to sit w/out as much support. He still loves to whack on the keyboard and play WoW and gets very upset if you don't let him hit the keys when you're on hehe. He's still enjoying his jumper and jumping very high in it and gets really excited when you bounce with him hehe.
On Aug 31st, 2009 he said Mama several times. Now I don't quite think he has the understanding that Mama is me yet but at least he's saying it. He's started doing da da di daaa a lot to but not quite dada yet. He's laughing a lot more for random funny things people do not just when tickled etc. For the most part he's a pretty happy, fun loving kid. He's been cutting another tooth next to his bottom two and that's been causing some late night crying, wake ups and down right miserable evenings. It's to be expected I just wish he would like cold stuff in his mouth to help. I guess the Orajel and Tylenol will have to do for now.
Zach can eat all sorts of things now and he usually eats Stage 2-3 baby food plus anything we're eating we can squish up well for him. He loves to chew on things with the 2 teeth he has but we still have to be careful. Zach's getting very efficient at feeding himself cookies, cheese doodles etc. He loves his Dad's brisket purred with sweet potatoes and gets upset when it's all gone. He's definitely a good eater! He's getting to be a big boy and really filling out his size 9 mo clothing.
Actual age right now is 10 months adjusted is 7 months. His cognitive is closer to his actual age and motor skills around 6-7 months. I'm not too concerned with him not crawling 1. because preemies love extension and not flexing and you see that in everything he does which makes crawling difficult. 2. Alexis never crawled not a day in her life.. she would get up on her knees and rock back and forth and just stay in one spot. One day she just picked herself up and started walking. Alexis is perfectly fine and I didn't notice anything odd with that, one nice thing was she wasn't too hard to watch because she was fairly stationary. Zach though he finds ways to move around the whole room.
Another thing he's been doing lately is "escape aristing". Meaning ... he has this rocker/chair fairly large and it will accommodate up to a toddler, it has straps to keep them in etc. So one day he was being pretty quiet and mind you he sits not 1 foot from me so I didn't think much of it.. just thought he was playing with the hanging down toys and maybe falling asleep. Well 2 mins later I hear him playing on the floor with his other toys and I had to take a double take. How he got down from the chair which is 8 or so inches off the floor down to about 4 feet away to where his toys were. He was just staring up at me smiling and having a great time.
So. next time I made sure to strap him in better and he just screamed and carried on. He eventually quieted down then I watched him this time when he wasn't looking. He would turn his entire body sideways. Hold onto the bar that goes over top that has the toys dangling down.. Shimmy down a bit slowly, turn more, shimmy down.. readjust hands .. keep doing this for 1-2 mins till he gently sets himself down usually facing the chair (he learned how to not hit his head)... then he'd gently set himself down and then roll to his toys. I was pretty amazed when I saw him do that because that's a pretty complex action that he had to come up with on his own. So we call him an escape artist now because that was pretty impressive. He does it nearly every time he's in the chair now.
It's funny if you put him on the floor he doesn't want to be there on his mat with his toys.. So you put him in the chair.. after 3 mins he gets bored and shimmies down to play on the floor then he's happy. :P I guess he's just going to be one of those kids.. if he didn't come up with it forget it :)
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Zachary Update 8-19-2009
Zach had another appointment with the Pedi on Friday. He's up to 15.8 lbs almost 16 lbs !! That boy is a good eater. He's barely touching the full-term growth chart and about 6-7 months adjusted in age. His Pedi is so happy with his progress we don't have to go back and see him until Zach is 1 yr old. We haven't gotten labs back but it should no longer show some slight anemia we've been giving him high iron foods and putting vitamin in with iron for a while now.
He's playing with his toes/feet a lot more and loves to feed himself finger foods. He's now grabbing at the spoon a lot trying to feed himself (I guess we go too slow).
I'm still breastfeeding him and I'll continue it at least until he's gestationally 1 yr old or as long as I can. He's got a 2 toothy grin now it's really cute when he laughs. I've been trying to get a photo of it but every time I get the camera ready for a shot he makes a weird face at the camera lol.
He's spent a pretty good summer with Alexis and I and it's going to be hard when she goes back to school. She's been a real help with him while I work during the day!
He's also 26 inches now and wearing 9mo - 12mo clothing so he's getting big fast!
He's not yet crawling but he's getting close. The OT got him to sit tripod today on his own so that was a great achievement. Hopefully, he'll be able to do more than just prop up on his arms soon but that's better than he's been. He's a little behind motor skill wise but cognitive he's advanced even for actual age. The OT believes his love of eating is helping that along.
So all in all he's doing quite well and he's starting to get bored with a lot of his toys etc we're going to have to get some upgrades soon to keep him occupied :).
Z
He's playing with his toes/feet a lot more and loves to feed himself finger foods. He's now grabbing at the spoon a lot trying to feed himself (I guess we go too slow).
I'm still breastfeeding him and I'll continue it at least until he's gestationally 1 yr old or as long as I can. He's got a 2 toothy grin now it's really cute when he laughs. I've been trying to get a photo of it but every time I get the camera ready for a shot he makes a weird face at the camera lol.
He's spent a pretty good summer with Alexis and I and it's going to be hard when she goes back to school. She's been a real help with him while I work during the day!
He's also 26 inches now and wearing 9mo - 12mo clothing so he's getting big fast!
He's not yet crawling but he's getting close. The OT got him to sit tripod today on his own so that was a great achievement. Hopefully, he'll be able to do more than just prop up on his arms soon but that's better than he's been. He's a little behind motor skill wise but cognitive he's advanced even for actual age. The OT believes his love of eating is helping that along.
So all in all he's doing quite well and he's starting to get bored with a lot of his toys etc we're going to have to get some upgrades soon to keep him occupied :).
Z
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Zachary Update 7-28.2009
Hi all,
Just a heads up I uploaded the Corpus Christi/S. Padre photos for Zach.
Zach Slideshow
Also, he cut his second tooth on 7/18/2009 I thought for sure he was cutting another this weekend but I didn't see any evidence of another. His 2 are coming in pretty well they're a good amount past the gum line now and he's enjoying chewing everything :).
He's about 15.5 lbs atm and he'll go for his next checkup mid August. He's been doing very well with the OT every week and she's started him on some simple table foods since he was showing the interest of feeding himself. He isn't crawling yet but still tries very hard. He can sit up with support not quite on his own yet. He's definitely becoming more independent.
He still really likes his boob time and I don't see that ending any time soon but at least he's starting to eat more solids. He's really smart and communicates well and the only time he gets cranky is when he's teething badly.
S
Just a heads up I uploaded the Corpus Christi/S. Padre photos for Zach.
Zach Slideshow
Also, he cut his second tooth on 7/18/2009 I thought for sure he was cutting another this weekend but I didn't see any evidence of another. His 2 are coming in pretty well they're a good amount past the gum line now and he's enjoying chewing everything :).
He's about 15.5 lbs atm and he'll go for his next checkup mid August. He's been doing very well with the OT every week and she's started him on some simple table foods since he was showing the interest of feeding himself. He isn't crawling yet but still tries very hard. He can sit up with support not quite on his own yet. He's definitely becoming more independent.
He still really likes his boob time and I don't see that ending any time soon but at least he's starting to eat more solids. He's really smart and communicates well and the only time he gets cranky is when he's teething badly.
S
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Zachary Update 7-11-2009
Officially Zachary has cut his first tooth July 11th 2009. No amount of oragel, tylenol or hugs would appease him. We eventually just went to breakfast and he fell asleep on the ride there. He's doing great and I'm pretty sure he's cutting a few more.
I tried to get some photos but the lighting wouldn't cooperate.
Just wanted to let you all know about his first tooth! Hope you're all having a fantastic July!
Sarah
I tried to get some photos but the lighting wouldn't cooperate.
Just wanted to let you all know about his first tooth! Hope you're all having a fantastic July!
Sarah
Monday, June 29, 2009
Zachary Update 6-29-2009
Hi all thought I'd do another update since he had a doctor's appointment last week.
He's offically 14 lbs and officially hitting the full-term growth chart.. He's about 10% in for head circumference, 5% for length and 1% for weight. This boy is a great eater and doesn't have the nickname "beefcake" for nothing. He's gestationally 5 months actually 8 months.
I had to swap out his clothes to the 6-9 months size today and he's fitting perfectly the 6 mo. He grows any more and he'll be onto the next set already o.O. That drives me nuts I think I can wait a little longer and make his clothes last .. and BAM .. already almost getting tight lol. He's a growing weed.
He's doing better with his trying to crawl but still can't quite do it. He's kinda scoots around (pivots) but he's definately improving. He really enjoys scooting backwards in his walker and is sometimes (by accident) going forward. He's getting better at chewing on toys but still prefers fingers :). Today was the first time I've ever seen him take any signifcant amount from a bottle, a whole 3 ounces! That for him is a miracle. Ever since I introduced the sippy cup (one for 3 mo + where they kinda have to suck to get it out) he's been doing really well. He likes the sippy cup and does well with it. So I switched to fast nipples with the bottle and bam he's doing a lot better with it now. I can't say he'd always do well with it but we can hope :). Only problem is he will still only take a significant amount from the bottle from me and still gulps lots of air.
I'd like to say his Dtap shot last week went well but all I can say is it went "better" than last time. I don't think if I was sitting in the back with him if he'd of done so well. I had to stimulate him the whole way home to keep him breathing. Once I got him home and held him he was good. After 12 hours he was nearly back to normal just sleeping a lot. So not as scary as last time but still my poor kids just don't do well.
Zach has started doing something new which is just so cute and funny he started crying like he wanted something yesterday so Andy was holding him on his lap. As soon as Zach got to face the keyboard /monitor he started playing on the keyboard making the charc run around/jump etc. Just getting all excited and stopped crying immediately. Well Andy went to put him in his bouncer chair and he started wailing again .. Andy picks him back up and sure enough he starts using his fingers quite accurately on the jump/space bar then movement keys and starts laughing and happy noises. I just had to get video of it. If I find a decent place to upload it I'll post it for you all it's just too funny. He started playing on my keyboard about 1-2 weeks ago, at first I thought he was just liking the clickyness of the keys. But then I noticed he kept looking up at the monitor to see if it had any effect on my character in WoW lol. So now that's all he wants to do when he's in the office with us. I don't know too many 5 months old that want to play so badly in WoW .. it's kinda .. funny/weird etc. I was concerned too becuase I don't want him to have too much exposure to computers lol but well he wants what he wants. I guess the colors and key movements could be good for his reactions lol. He really does seek out certain keys on the keyboard this kid is sharp as a tack!
I'm going to upload a bunch of photos.. I've been lagging behind on the uploads :P
So overall other than some slight anemia he's doing well. Most of his labs have cleared up so well we won't need to get any more labs for those things. We just need to keep an eye on the iron now.
So hope you all are going to have a wonderful Fourth of July!
Sarah
He's offically 14 lbs and officially hitting the full-term growth chart.. He's about 10% in for head circumference, 5% for length and 1% for weight. This boy is a great eater and doesn't have the nickname "beefcake" for nothing. He's gestationally 5 months actually 8 months.
I had to swap out his clothes to the 6-9 months size today and he's fitting perfectly the 6 mo. He grows any more and he'll be onto the next set already o.O. That drives me nuts I think I can wait a little longer and make his clothes last .. and BAM .. already almost getting tight lol. He's a growing weed.
He's doing better with his trying to crawl but still can't quite do it. He's kinda scoots around (pivots) but he's definately improving. He really enjoys scooting backwards in his walker and is sometimes (by accident) going forward. He's getting better at chewing on toys but still prefers fingers :). Today was the first time I've ever seen him take any signifcant amount from a bottle, a whole 3 ounces! That for him is a miracle. Ever since I introduced the sippy cup (one for 3 mo + where they kinda have to suck to get it out) he's been doing really well. He likes the sippy cup and does well with it. So I switched to fast nipples with the bottle and bam he's doing a lot better with it now. I can't say he'd always do well with it but we can hope :). Only problem is he will still only take a significant amount from the bottle from me and still gulps lots of air.
I'd like to say his Dtap shot last week went well but all I can say is it went "better" than last time. I don't think if I was sitting in the back with him if he'd of done so well. I had to stimulate him the whole way home to keep him breathing. Once I got him home and held him he was good. After 12 hours he was nearly back to normal just sleeping a lot. So not as scary as last time but still my poor kids just don't do well.
Zach has started doing something new which is just so cute and funny he started crying like he wanted something yesterday so Andy was holding him on his lap. As soon as Zach got to face the keyboard /monitor he started playing on the keyboard making the charc run around/jump etc. Just getting all excited and stopped crying immediately. Well Andy went to put him in his bouncer chair and he started wailing again .. Andy picks him back up and sure enough he starts using his fingers quite accurately on the jump/space bar then movement keys and starts laughing and happy noises. I just had to get video of it. If I find a decent place to upload it I'll post it for you all it's just too funny. He started playing on my keyboard about 1-2 weeks ago, at first I thought he was just liking the clickyness of the keys. But then I noticed he kept looking up at the monitor to see if it had any effect on my character in WoW lol. So now that's all he wants to do when he's in the office with us. I don't know too many 5 months old that want to play so badly in WoW .. it's kinda .. funny/weird etc. I was concerned too becuase I don't want him to have too much exposure to computers lol but well he wants what he wants. I guess the colors and key movements could be good for his reactions lol. He really does seek out certain keys on the keyboard this kid is sharp as a tack!
I'm going to upload a bunch of photos.. I've been lagging behind on the uploads :P
So overall other than some slight anemia he's doing well. Most of his labs have cleared up so well we won't need to get any more labs for those things. We just need to keep an eye on the iron now.
So hope you all are going to have a wonderful Fourth of July!
Sarah
Monday, June 8, 2009
Zachary Update 06-08-2009
Zach and I will fill this entry out together :)
(space bar smash with his foot)
Now that we got that out of the way hehe.
He's about 13 1/2 lbs and 4 1/2 mo old (gest) - 7 1/2 mo (actual).
Zach has been doing very well lately, he's starting to roll to the side from his back, roll from his tummy to his side then his back etc. He just started doing this in the past week and is mastering the skill quite well. He pulls up his legs and wiggles back and forth with his hips until he gets to the side he wants to roll onto. (thump another hit on the keyboard with his foot). I'm guessing he's approving of what I'm typing.
When he's on his tummy he's able to push up with his arms a good ways only for a few seconds but it's a start. He'll be crawling in no time if he keeps up this progress.
He's been teething a lot lately and grabbing whatever he can to his mouth. He loves chewing on fabric mostly his baby blankets. I got him a lot of teether rings and teether blankie that crinkles. He loves taking our fingers and shoving them in his mouth that's his favorite chew toy at the moment.
Zachary also loves his walker and propells himself backwards by leaning forward then jerking back against the back part of the seat and that makes him move fast. He's been coordinating his feet to push off at the same time and he can go pretty far on the floor that way.
I've not been feeling very well this past week due to a nasty head cold and ear infections but Zach has been doing great hasn't gotten sick just some allergy issues.
Overall, Zachary is doing pretty well he's a bit behind on his motor skills but when you adjust for his gestational age he's nearly right on target. We've been able to work out a lot of his stiffness through massage and exercises.
I'll be posting some photos on flickr shortly for all to enjoy.
Special Thanks to Laural for making Zachary the sweet book for his first 4 months of life. It's a wonderfully hard bound book that matches up his photos with blog entries of his progress. It's a special keepsake that I'm sure we'll enjoy for years to come.
Sarah
(space bar smash with his foot)
Now that we got that out of the way hehe.
He's about 13 1/2 lbs and 4 1/2 mo old (gest) - 7 1/2 mo (actual).
Zach has been doing very well lately, he's starting to roll to the side from his back, roll from his tummy to his side then his back etc. He just started doing this in the past week and is mastering the skill quite well. He pulls up his legs and wiggles back and forth with his hips until he gets to the side he wants to roll onto. (thump another hit on the keyboard with his foot). I'm guessing he's approving of what I'm typing.
When he's on his tummy he's able to push up with his arms a good ways only for a few seconds but it's a start. He'll be crawling in no time if he keeps up this progress.
He's been teething a lot lately and grabbing whatever he can to his mouth. He loves chewing on fabric mostly his baby blankets. I got him a lot of teether rings and teether blankie that crinkles. He loves taking our fingers and shoving them in his mouth that's his favorite chew toy at the moment.
Zachary also loves his walker and propells himself backwards by leaning forward then jerking back against the back part of the seat and that makes him move fast. He's been coordinating his feet to push off at the same time and he can go pretty far on the floor that way.
I've not been feeling very well this past week due to a nasty head cold and ear infections but Zach has been doing great hasn't gotten sick just some allergy issues.
Overall, Zachary is doing pretty well he's a bit behind on his motor skills but when you adjust for his gestational age he's nearly right on target. We've been able to work out a lot of his stiffness through massage and exercises.
I'll be posting some photos on flickr shortly for all to enjoy.
Special Thanks to Laural for making Zachary the sweet book for his first 4 months of life. It's a wonderfully hard bound book that matches up his photos with blog entries of his progress. It's a special keepsake that I'm sure we'll enjoy for years to come.
Sarah
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Zachary Update 5-19-2009
Zachary is doing well and growing big! He's 13 lbs now and getting long. Think last visit he was over 24 inches. His eyes are very brown now and more the color of his father's eyes. He wears 3-6 mo clothing and is starting to fit into the 6th months clothes. He grows like a weed! He's still bald as can be with some peach fuzz on the head.
He's babbling/talking more, we think he says I luv oooo which is cute! He does a lot of gaaa gooo as well we're not very sure what gaaaa gooo is but it's used for several situations with him. Sometimes he'll just randomly yell now Woaaaaah or Oweiiiii lol. Startles you if it's really quiet then he does that.
He's still mostly breastfeeding with a bit of solids mixed in. I'm going very slow with the table food because he can still greatly benefit from the breastmilk till he's gestationally 6 mo. He's gest about 3 3/4 months now.
All his doc visits have been good. The docs been impressed with his growth, he's almost on the full-term growth chart. The doc believes by the time he's 9 mo gest he'll have caught up. Preemies tend not tocatch up to their full-trem counterparts till they're 2 - 5 yrs old, so it's remarkable he's caught up so fast.
The other day I was dropping off some paperwork and the lady who was taking the papers was watching a girl that was born 3 days before Zach and full-term. Well she was 12 lbs and maybe 1-2 inches longer than Zach. Zach was nearly 2x her size width wize and they looked about the same age. Even though Zach is actually 6 mo old he's gestationally 3 mo at that time. However, put him with a full-term 6 mo old and they don't look too different in size and he was actually bigger 1lb bigger lol. The major thing you notice though is he's more appropriate activity level of a 3 mo old he's not crawling, or rolling and he's just now starting to batt at, grab for etc toys. Only in the last 2 weeks he's mastered thumb sucking for the first time ever. He still can't pull things to his mouth other than my hair lol but he's starting to try.
Ohhh and he's teething hardcore! Sometimes he gets low-grade fevers 99 or so and he's miserable but man he's trying to chew his fingers and yours off if you'll let him lol. I'm going to start calling him chompers lol.
He loves watching other babies he seems facinated by them. He's very curious and seems really smart. Cognitively he's at a 4-5 mo level, motor wise he's at a 3 mo level. He's slowly improving on the motor side. Communication is his strong suit and it continues to be where he excells.
He's pretty much like any other typical baby at this age and he's getting better about sleeping at night.
Sarah
He's babbling/talking more, we think he says I luv oooo which is cute! He does a lot of gaaa gooo as well we're not very sure what gaaaa gooo is but it's used for several situations with him. Sometimes he'll just randomly yell now Woaaaaah or Oweiiiii lol. Startles you if it's really quiet then he does that.
He's still mostly breastfeeding with a bit of solids mixed in. I'm going very slow with the table food because he can still greatly benefit from the breastmilk till he's gestationally 6 mo. He's gest about 3 3/4 months now.
All his doc visits have been good. The docs been impressed with his growth, he's almost on the full-term growth chart. The doc believes by the time he's 9 mo gest he'll have caught up. Preemies tend not tocatch up to their full-trem counterparts till they're 2 - 5 yrs old, so it's remarkable he's caught up so fast.
The other day I was dropping off some paperwork and the lady who was taking the papers was watching a girl that was born 3 days before Zach and full-term. Well she was 12 lbs and maybe 1-2 inches longer than Zach. Zach was nearly 2x her size width wize and they looked about the same age. Even though Zach is actually 6 mo old he's gestationally 3 mo at that time. However, put him with a full-term 6 mo old and they don't look too different in size and he was actually bigger 1lb bigger lol. The major thing you notice though is he's more appropriate activity level of a 3 mo old he's not crawling, or rolling and he's just now starting to batt at, grab for etc toys. Only in the last 2 weeks he's mastered thumb sucking for the first time ever. He still can't pull things to his mouth other than my hair lol but he's starting to try.
Ohhh and he's teething hardcore! Sometimes he gets low-grade fevers 99 or so and he's miserable but man he's trying to chew his fingers and yours off if you'll let him lol. I'm going to start calling him chompers lol.
He loves watching other babies he seems facinated by them. He's very curious and seems really smart. Cognitively he's at a 4-5 mo level, motor wise he's at a 3 mo level. He's slowly improving on the motor side. Communication is his strong suit and it continues to be where he excells.
He's pretty much like any other typical baby at this age and he's getting better about sleeping at night.
Sarah
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