Spring Break!

Spring Break is here! Where I work, we typically get the Thurs and Fri of spring break week off of work - and this year I took the rest of the week off too so that I could take care of Owen, since his daycare is closed. I ended up working most of Monday though, so Owen got to spend the day hangin out with Grandma!

The rest of the week has been spent pretty lazily - no better way - IMO! Just hung out with Granmuffin and played at home since the weather was not very nice! I do have some shopping fun planned for the weekend! Also, today my little guy had his tubes put in!

Today, we started our morning off very early as we had to be at Zeeland hospital by 6:30. Since he couldn't eat in the middle of the night, we had a very long night as he was awake and screaming from about 12:30 - 2:30. This is how we found him snuggled up this morning when we went in to wake him, complete with thumb in mouth (I hated to disturb such peacefulness!)



Surgery was scheduled for 7:30 - and we were home by 8:30! Grandma even came to be with him! The procedure went so quick and Owen did amazing, he cried when he came out of the anesthesia but as soon as he came back to us he nursed and did pretty darn good, considering that he just had surgery and hadn't eaten since 8pm last night!!

The doctor came out afterwards to let us know everything went well and said that he had TONS of fluid in his ears - he was suctioning his fluid out before putting in the tubes and couldn't believe how much there was and then once the tubes were in he said even more fluid came bubbling out. So - he definitely thought we did the right thing by getting the tubes. Once we got home O sat on my lap and played a little bit and went to sleep by a little after 9. We could already tell a difference in his hearing, he would respond to little noises, which he normally NEVER noticed before (clearing of a throat, footsteps, etc) and would turn his head right away when we called his name - where before he wouldn't always hear us. Now the true test will be how well he sleeps tonight!

Stay tuned...

In other news this week, Tuesday was the official 9 month old mark!!! And once again, I will have to say I can't believe how fast time is going, it seems like the time between each month gets shorter and shorter as Owen gets older!

Here's what he's been up to:

Wearing size 12-18 mo clothes
nicknames: buns, peanut, O, munch, mister, little man, buddy,
loves his sippy cup



has a fun time playing dress-up!



is now taking a bath in the regular tub



shows NO interest in any 'real' food other than baby food (with the exception of yogurt, applesauce, and ice cream) this is him checking out the strawberry puffs on his tray (soooo disgusted with them!)...



his favorite baby food is sweet potatoes with corn
can stand with little assistance
pretty much has given up his paci
loves looking out the front window
making new noises every day - mostly da, la, go, ga (no mama yet!)
loves to clap and dance
clasps his hands and twiddles his thumbs
loves to read
favorite toy is probably a small box filled with differnt toys (he loves to pull them out and play with the box)
enjoys Veggie Tales and Baby Einstein
has the most adorable cheekers...



As always, the froggy buddy pictures...

well, he wasn't exactly cooperating and was taking some aggression out on poor froggy buddy...





this is about the level of cooperation he was willing to provide...



so we had to do a re-shoot again today...

success...