Thursday, April 09, 2009
Nothing to Worry About
I mentioned a month or so ago that Jason's pediatrician had some concerns about his eyes and his speech development at his last checkup. So she had referred me to an opthomologist and an ear, nose and throat doc as well and wanted him checked out by both.
Last Tuesday I took him to Dr. Pachman, the opthomologist. Jason had a great time running in circles around the waiting room, especially after they dilated his eyes. There was this adorable baby girl in the waiting room with us and she was laughing her butt off at him. Apparently little boys running around in circles are very funny. Anyway, the doctor looked at his eyes and said there isn't anything wrong that he can see. I actually hadn't really ever seen anything myself but I figured I would just have it checked out since Jason's pedi seemed concerned. So that was a relief. That night Jason came down with some sort of stomach bug :-( After reading Amanda's blog I'm wondering if it had anything to do with his eyes being dilated...although he was running a fever, so maybe not. Either way it was sad and gross all at the same time.
Today we went and visited the ear, nose and throat doc, Dr. Mancuso. One of my friends from work had taken her son to him before and had told me all sorts of wonderful things about him and sure enough, he was great. Jason gave him two hugs while we were there and overall he was just very calm and reassuring. He looked in Jason's ears, nose and mouth and then sent us to go get a hearing test done. After much struggling and a lollipop later, we managed to get it done. Jason also managed to drool cherry lollipop all over my work cloths. Thankfully a good splashing of water and plenty of air drying on the way back to work got it out. According to Dr. Mancuso Jason's ears are fine and he hears everything I say. So his speech delay could be pure stubbornness or just the fact that he's lacked social interaction so far.
Which brings me to the next big announcement...I enrolled Jason in Preschool!! He starts on Tuesday and will attend every week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I'm hoping (and the doctor agrees) that the interaction with other children will help him with his speech. I'm so excited for my little guy to get to play with kids and hopefully learn a little too!
Last Tuesday I took him to Dr. Pachman, the opthomologist. Jason had a great time running in circles around the waiting room, especially after they dilated his eyes. There was this adorable baby girl in the waiting room with us and she was laughing her butt off at him. Apparently little boys running around in circles are very funny. Anyway, the doctor looked at his eyes and said there isn't anything wrong that he can see. I actually hadn't really ever seen anything myself but I figured I would just have it checked out since Jason's pedi seemed concerned. So that was a relief. That night Jason came down with some sort of stomach bug :-( After reading Amanda's blog I'm wondering if it had anything to do with his eyes being dilated...although he was running a fever, so maybe not. Either way it was sad and gross all at the same time.
Today we went and visited the ear, nose and throat doc, Dr. Mancuso. One of my friends from work had taken her son to him before and had told me all sorts of wonderful things about him and sure enough, he was great. Jason gave him two hugs while we were there and overall he was just very calm and reassuring. He looked in Jason's ears, nose and mouth and then sent us to go get a hearing test done. After much struggling and a lollipop later, we managed to get it done. Jason also managed to drool cherry lollipop all over my work cloths. Thankfully a good splashing of water and plenty of air drying on the way back to work got it out. According to Dr. Mancuso Jason's ears are fine and he hears everything I say. So his speech delay could be pure stubbornness or just the fact that he's lacked social interaction so far.
Which brings me to the next big announcement...I enrolled Jason in Preschool!! He starts on Tuesday and will attend every week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I'm hoping (and the doctor agrees) that the interaction with other children will help him with his speech. I'm so excited for my little guy to get to play with kids and hopefully learn a little too!
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Air Show
A few weeks back the Thunderbirds were flying so we took Jason to see them. I'm still experimenting with the new video camera and I quickly learned that it is terribly difficult to take video of flying objects when it is very bright and sunny outside. It took a couple of tries but we finally got some semi-decent video of the planes. There is also a little video of Jason and I watching the planes fly.
I officially really suck at this whole video posting thing so the videos are actually in their own seperate posts...oh well!!
I officially really suck at this whole video posting thing so the videos are actually in their own seperate posts...oh well!!
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Purple Video Camera
So I finally went out and bought myself a video camera. I've been saying I needed one of these since before Jason was born. I didn't want to miss out on recording him when he was small...well I did. :-( Oh well, I have one now so hopefully I can make up for lost time. And it's a really pretty purple color too :-)
Here is a video I took of him the other day just walking around and being silly:
Here is a video I took of him the other day just walking around and being silly:
In case anyone cares I started this entry last Saturday and just now realized that I never actually published it! Sheesh...
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Worried?
Jason had his 15 month checkup a couple of weeks ago...yes I know, I'm super behind as usual.
Anyhow, he seems to be growing like a normal child. He weighs 23 and some odd pounds. I don't know how tall he is or anything because I can never understand the nurse and the doctor isn't much better. But she's really nice...
I was so excited that he was finally walking when we went because I was sure she was going to be concerned if he wasn't. But instead she was concerned about other things.
Jason doesn't talk...he makes a lot of babbling noises and coos but he never says 'mama' or 'dada' or any other little words that babies his age should say. She suggested that maybe it's because he gets what he wants by pointing, but he also doesn't point. I also mentioned that he stopped waving bye bye. He does a lot of learning to do something and then quitting. He also did that with blowing raspberries and dancing. He did those things for a little while and then just quit.
The point of all that is I guess is that she wants him to see a speech therapist. Just to make sure there isn't something going on. I've had several people ask me if I think he can hear OK. As far as I know he can. He comes when I call him, he always looks up at airplanes when he hears them, etc. etc. I've had a couple of suggestions for testing his hearing, like sneaking up behind him and dropping a pan...I'm not about to scare the living hell out of my child just to see if he can hear. I think we'll wait until I get the referral from the doctor for the speech therapist and go from there.
The other worry was that the pediatrician thinks she sees Jason's eyes wandering. When he was much younger I had mentioned my concern about that since Jason's dad had issues with his eyes wandering when he was younger. But at the time she said that all little babies have a bit of that problem because the muscles are so underdeveloped. She had given me a referral to an opthamologist at that time but I never used it since it seemed to get better. Apparently it's starting to come back again and now the doctor wants me to actually go see the opthamologist. Again, just to make sure everything is alright. I guess Jason's dad had also noticed this was happening occasionally but never mentioned it to me until I told him what the doctor said. Great, don't I feel like the crappy inattentive mother of the year...
Anyhow, he seems to be growing like a normal child. He weighs 23 and some odd pounds. I don't know how tall he is or anything because I can never understand the nurse and the doctor isn't much better. But she's really nice...
I was so excited that he was finally walking when we went because I was sure she was going to be concerned if he wasn't. But instead she was concerned about other things.
Jason doesn't talk...he makes a lot of babbling noises and coos but he never says 'mama' or 'dada' or any other little words that babies his age should say. She suggested that maybe it's because he gets what he wants by pointing, but he also doesn't point. I also mentioned that he stopped waving bye bye. He does a lot of learning to do something and then quitting. He also did that with blowing raspberries and dancing. He did those things for a little while and then just quit.
The point of all that is I guess is that she wants him to see a speech therapist. Just to make sure there isn't something going on. I've had several people ask me if I think he can hear OK. As far as I know he can. He comes when I call him, he always looks up at airplanes when he hears them, etc. etc. I've had a couple of suggestions for testing his hearing, like sneaking up behind him and dropping a pan...I'm not about to scare the living hell out of my child just to see if he can hear. I think we'll wait until I get the referral from the doctor for the speech therapist and go from there.
The other worry was that the pediatrician thinks she sees Jason's eyes wandering. When he was much younger I had mentioned my concern about that since Jason's dad had issues with his eyes wandering when he was younger. But at the time she said that all little babies have a bit of that problem because the muscles are so underdeveloped. She had given me a referral to an opthamologist at that time but I never used it since it seemed to get better. Apparently it's starting to come back again and now the doctor wants me to actually go see the opthamologist. Again, just to make sure everything is alright. I guess Jason's dad had also noticed this was happening occasionally but never mentioned it to me until I told him what the doctor said. Great, don't I feel like the crappy inattentive mother of the year...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Jason's First Haircut!
Today Jason got his very first haircut! He was starting to develop a bit of a baby mullet...and I wasn't having that!
Yippee for Jason!
Yippee for Jason!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Some incredibly exciting news...
JASON CAN WALK!!!
He started really cruising around on his own this past weekend. I brought him over to my friend Erin's parent's house to visit and he just starting walking all over the place.
When they asked if he was walking yet, I gave the same response I generally give to everyone "He'll take a couple of steps between the furniture but that's pretty much it." Not 30 minutes after we got there he stood himself up and then turned and started walking across the living room. By the time we left he was going all the way across the living room, down the hall and into the kitchen! I just couldn't believe it.
He's really proud of himself and sometimes he gets super excited and tries to run. Of course he then falls down. But that's OK, he's getting the hang of it.
We took him to the mall the other night to play in the play area with the other kids and he was so excited. He kept trying to walk but then he would start waving his arms and shrieking and squealing at the other kids and just fall over. Once he calmed down he was doing fine.
I'm so proud of my little man!!
He started really cruising around on his own this past weekend. I brought him over to my friend Erin's parent's house to visit and he just starting walking all over the place.
When they asked if he was walking yet, I gave the same response I generally give to everyone "He'll take a couple of steps between the furniture but that's pretty much it." Not 30 minutes after we got there he stood himself up and then turned and started walking across the living room. By the time we left he was going all the way across the living room, down the hall and into the kitchen! I just couldn't believe it.
He's really proud of himself and sometimes he gets super excited and tries to run. Of course he then falls down. But that's OK, he's getting the hang of it.
We took him to the mall the other night to play in the play area with the other kids and he was so excited. He kept trying to walk but then he would start waving his arms and shrieking and squealing at the other kids and just fall over. Once he calmed down he was doing fine.
I'm so proud of my little man!!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I Swear...
That this haircut really does look really good on me!! These photos I keep getting are just not flattering...maybe I should try taking one in the morning after I get ready for work instead of at night. Considering I work 8 hours a day, come home and chase my son around for several hours and then do laundry and whatever other housework I need done after he goes to bed, maybe that's why I look so darn tired and just not right:
At least it's parted a little better in that one...ugh!!
Anywho, I've been slacking on the blogging front. So here's a few exciting/interesting highlights:
- Jason had his first ear infection...actually a double ear infection. I'm crossing fingers and toes that this isn't a reoccurring event, as I apparently had a terrible time with ear infections when I was his age.
- Jason has taken a couple of unassisted steps between couches and tables. He still refuses to try and walk any sort of long distance (i.e. 5 feet).
- He appears to have about 3 teeth coming in at the same time. Two more on bottom and one that's still working its way through on top. He chews his fingers (and my cell phone and car keys) constantly these days.
- I really need to take some new pictures of him. Hoping to buy myself a decent camera with tax return money. Maybe spending a little chunk of cash on something like that will motivate me to use it more.
- I won EOQ for the 4th quarter of 2008 at my job. Could have knocked me over with a feather. That's the second time I've won that award (first time was 1st quarter of 2007) but since the last time I won it they've doubled the cash prize you get with that. I plan on spending it on clothes :-)
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