Wow, for the last almost three weeks, deklen has been sick. He finished his medication tonight and is all better. Still cranky a bit tho i think with teeth. So he has been getting up to nurse like 3-5 times a night. And well it helps him feel better and get better faster too, so no harm. BUT now i am layin the smack down again. He wants me to lie him in his crib and rub his back or sit beside his crib - I HAVE TO BE IN SIGHT, or the howling starts. So no more and back to the old routine. So last night i put him in the crib and left him for 3 mins, went back to shh and lie him down and i left him for 5 mins. Went back in lied him down again. Left for 7 mins. Came back in (all the while he was crying and shreiking) i lied him down again and left the room. all went quiet within the first two minutes, and i checked in and he was asleep finally.

Tonight - I layed him in his crib, he shreiked as i was walking out, whined for 30 SECONDS and all was quiet - Ahhhh, sweet silence. He's figured out we are back to the old routine. smart boy.

It seems he also sleeps for longer periods at night when he falls asleep on his own. And when he wakes up in between feedings he can put himself back to sleep.

Below he was in the pantry while i was cooking, and got the lid off the flour. He likes to suck stuff off his hands - Bubbles, water,food, and yes the flour. he thought it was good. after me telling him no flour - he goes for the dog food.

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I went to pick up deklen from christies today and her two kids (ten and 6) and her, had wet his hair to give him a mowhawk. They have so much fun with him and he Loooooves going there his face just lights up when he sees the other kids and off he goes. So i had to do it again to his hair tonight when i got home. So so cute.
We also went to the doctor today for his chest congestion as he does two fast walk laps around the automan and he was wheezing. and you could hear the wheeze when he was regularly breathing. So it has been two weeks since he first got a cough then sniffles then fluid in his ears and now an actual infection. only a little one. He gave it his all to fight it off but it just stuck. So he is on amoxicillian and it tastes like strawberry / cherry and deklen quite likes it. he takes it and says MMmmm. On the road to recovery and back to our own beds. He he he.

I can't believe it was a year ago that i had deklen. Time does go by so fast especially when you aren't working. He was so small. Here he was only two weeks old.

Happy birthday deklen! Yes it was a nice birthday and cake and presents and lots of smiles. He did eat cake, and of course liked the icing, especially squishing it so it came out between his fingers.

The oh so cute cake my mom made just for deklen.

Yup, he is pretty much walking. He does this without thinking, and then realizes what he's doing and drops to crawl.

Just a pic of his bathtime tonight. he loves to splash.

Awww, today was deklen's first day at the dayhome all day. It was like he knew that as last night he went to bed at 8:25 and got up at midnight and nursed, i then put him back in the crib, and i woke to my alarm at 6:00!!! That was a first. And of course he was really, really good. he waved bye to me this morning and went right to kristie. He went outside and to the park and went on the swing, and was not quite sure of that. He ate A lot of food, and did not have his bottle! Yaay! i am trying to wean him off the lunch nursing, and told kristie if he can get by without it - great, if he has a meltdown , he can have it. but all went well. i should expect no less from my boy, he's a good baby.

Just a clip of deklen having a lick of ice cream. Cute as he sure loves his sweets although he gets hardly any.