Our little boy is walking! And along with his wobbly legs comes lots of little falls. :) A couple days after he started walking all over the place he fell into the corner of our coffee table right below his eye and although the picture doesn't give his bruise justice he got a nice little "shine-r." But, it's finally official, our baby is completely mobile! A sad and super exciting thing all at the same time. I never thought I would get so emotional about my little boy growing up, yet, here I am feeling as emotional about it as ever. Oh, well.
We finally saw snow here in Orem on Saturday. And, boy it was quite the storm. And, yes, that is my camera strap hanging in our picture... opps.) This picture was taken right before we headed to the hospital to check Keaton in for dehydration. Boy, has it been quite the month. (Quite the start to a new year, if I do say so myself.) I'm not going to get into all the nitty gritty details, but I will tell you about why it has been quite the month for Keaton. He has had 2 ear infections so far this month (4 ear infections total in the past 6 months, 3 of those being in the last 2 months.) and over the last month or so has just decided he doesn't want to eat or drink ANYTHING. (Talk about being a stressed out mom, it a full-time job trying to get this kid to eat or drink! Good thing he is such a cute, sweet, good boy otherwise!) So, what happens when you don't drink anything over a long period of time? You get dehydrated, and stop having wet diapers, which leads to having to spend the night in the hospital with an iv. It was quite the experience let me just tell you... Keaton did a lot better than expected, but he still
hated it and
cried like crazy when any doctor or nurse came in to check on him, check his vitals, or especially when they had to place his iv. He finally fell asleep around 12:30 (after watching his new favorite show Elmo in Grouchland- he loves his new movie and could probably watch it over and over all day long if I let him.) in the morning and slept until 6:30, but it was quite the long night for
all of us. (Justin and I "slept" together on a very small, very uncomfortable couch-like fold out bed.) We came home from the hospital yesterday morning, which made our stay just a little over 12 hours, just enough time to get him nice and "tanked up" as all the doctors and nurses called it. So, needless to say Keaton has had way to many visits to the doctor in the past few months and it doesn't stop here, all his ear infections not resolving with antibiotics means it's time to get tubes in his ears. Sigh. I'm not looking forward to it, and if Keaton even had a little clue what he was going to have to go through this Thursday he certainly wouldn't be looking forward to it either, but if it helps him to feel better and maybe even eat and drink better than it will be worth it.
So, to all you experienced mom's out there- what are some tricks of the trade to get your toddler to eat or drink when they just simply refuse everything? (Oh, and believe me when I say I have tried just about everything...)
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