Busy Busy Busy

So we are super busy in this house. Mike is finishing up school stuff that must be done before we head to Texas in a few days. I am busy getting photo CDs together (I have 6 to get out before we leave), cleaning, and trying to start packing. Meanwhile- my not-even-six-month-old son is CRAWLING!!!! It is an army crawl but he is SUPER QUICK at it. (I will try and get a recent video and post it since the one I have is a few weeks old and he was just starting to get it down.)

Just a few updates- Mike is healing well from his wreck but he is still SUPER sore. He will not be up for normal Mikey play when we go to Texas- yet, I don't think he will let that stop him. I am sure he will tickle, wrestle, chase, and more. He has already promised Vigo non-stop tickles.

Grayson had his six month appointment. He wieghed in at only 13 lbs 7 oz (although right before leaving to go I weighed him on the baby scale at 13 lbs 15 oz and my scale is usually UNDER the drs). His length was 24 1/4 (or maybe it was 3/4)". His head was 17 1/2". So- His head is in the 59th percentile, while both weight and height are in the 3rd percentile. According to his doctor he is PERFECTLY PROPORTIONED! I was worried because we can not get him to eat any more than 22 oz of breastmilk and formula combined in one day. The pediatrician assured me that he is getting plenty and if he ate too much more he would probably be overweight for his height. This doctor has started going by the WHO guidelines which take the weight by height into consideration. Grayson was too young to get the flu shot, but I was not going to have him get it anyways since I am still breastfeeding.

On the solids front. Grayson was very interested in them at first. We got through quite a few foods. Now he doesn't seem interested. So, I am kind of excited. Knowing he does not have allergies we are going to be able to really explore Baby Led Weaning. (Not weaning from nursing) Also, Grayson is quite distracted during the day and as such, he was not nursing well. I developed a few clogged ducts over the last month or so and the last one was in the "beginning stages of mastitis" according to the LC. I spent Tuesday and most of Wednesday sick with a fever, chills and more. Luckily, I was able to catch it early enough to treat it with natural healing methods. Grayson is now eating more- but at night. He is waking every 2 hours again! This is known as reverse cycling and I don't mind it too much right now but I am not sure if I will want to keep this up for too long.

I had a birthday last week....Mike and I are using Texas as our presents this year and so my birthday was pretty low key. My sister had a candle party on my birthday and so I went to that.

Finally, this week Grayson enjoyed- for the most part- his first Hockey Game. He did really well for the first part but then the noise, etc seemed to get to him. We got to see one really good fight but the score was zip to zip when we left 10 minutes early.

I hope to get on and do a few updates from Texas. Especially since we will have Grayson's 6 month/half birthday when we are there, Mike's birthday, and so much more.