Cade: "Baby in momma's belly"
Me: "Yep"
Cade: "Baby in mama's bra?"
Me: "Nope, the baby is lower in momma's belly."
Cade: "Baby in momma's undies?"
Me: "Well, the baby is underneath momma's undies"
Cade: "Baby in momma's belly"
Me: "Yep"
Cade: leans over and smells my belly and says "you sniff the baby" (you = me or I)
Cade: "Baby needs milk"
Me: "Well, not really"
Cade: "Baby needs milk"
Me: "OK", then Cade lifts my shirt and tries to pour milk on me. I then took the milk and pretended that the baby was drinking.
Cade: "More"
So, I had to repeat giving the baby milk until I said that the baby was full
Then, Cade leaned over and kissed the baby.
Cade: "Baby in momma's belly"
Me: "yep"
Cade: "Momma get scissors?"
Me: "Why?"
Cade: "Take the baby out"
Then he thought about it and said, "No, cut baby finger, owie"
Cade: "Baby in momma's belly"
Me: "yep"
Cade lifts up my shirt and says "take baby out" as he grabs at my belly and pulls his cupped hands away
Me: "Is the baby out?"
Cade: "uh-huh"
Cade: "Baby all gone"
Me: "where did the baby go?"
Cade shrugs his shoulders
Sean comes in the room and I told him that Cade took the baby out. Then, Cade says, "Baby in ear" and points at his ear.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Catching up
I know that it's been way too long since my last post. There are exciting things happening in the Bober household. This most important one is that Cade is going to be a big brother before the end of the year. My official due date is Dec 24th but I doubt that we will get that far. I'm positive that this baby will not come as early as Cade but I also think there is a high likelihood that baby will come somewhat early. My doc says if I make it to 34 weeks we should all have a drink :) So far everything has been going great. Baby is healthy and my cervix is holding steady (maybe that's too much info but it's very important info). I had a cerclage placed at 14 weeks and am now at 19 weeks. I'm am having ultrasounds every 2 weeks to check on my cervix and baby so they should be able to catch if anything starts changing. The other big news about baby B is that it's a boy! Yes, I will be surrounded by males but I'm really excited that Cade will have a brother.
Cade has had his own exciting news too. Last week, we had a neuro appointment and the CT showed that his ventricles are still compressed (no change from last time). This is great news and means that his shunt setting was changed again up to 200 from 170. A setting of 200 means that the shunt is essentially shut off. His body is doing all of the draining of fluid from his brain that he needs. We will follow-up in 3 months to make sure everything still looks good. Then, we will wait a year and see if everything holds steady. If so, there is a chance that the shunt can be taken out. This news really surprised me because everything that we had been told previously was that the shunt would stay in no matter what. I guess when the time comes we will have to weight the risks of another surgery with the advantages of not having the shunt.
More news from Cade is that we have started potty training. It's been about 3 weeks now and I think he is starting to revolt a little. But, he can go pee pee on the potty and has even been successful at telling us he needs to go. I guess it's just a work in progress.
Cade is continuing to learn new words. Some of the ones that surprised me are helicopter and motorcycle since they each have 4 syllables. He is so into vehicles and often sees "auntie Marcy's car" or "grandpas truck" or "Daddy's car". He still loves when Sean gets home to see his daddy and to also go play in mommy or daddy's car. He often speaks in 5-6 word sentences. It's so fun to have him tell me the story of his day. It's interesting to hear what he finds important. He's started to really love jumping (on the bed, off of the bottom stair in the basement, in the pool). We did have a visit from ECSE this month and they said that Cade was going to put them out of business. He's doing so well. The next big step is for him to move to a "big boy bed" but I'm holding off a little because his bedtimes have not been going so well this summer. He's back to wanting us in the room with him until he falls asleep. Sometimes, that isn't until 10:00 which is starting to drive me a little nuts. We are hoping, as the sun starts to go down earlier, he will start going down earlier.
We are having a great summer so far. We had the chance to spend more time at the cabin with family over the 4th, actually made it up to Chisholm for Father's day and have been busy with our ECFE friends and Amy, Evan and Ben. We've been to the zoo, have hung out with Andy, Jill and Phillip and have hung out with Marcy and JR. Marcy and JR are getting married! So, I guess he's uncle JR now. We got a chance to see my mom to celebrate her birthday and are headed to the cabin again in August to celebrate with my dad. Last week, Fran and Kathy were down for the day and we had a great time. Cade woke up the next morning saying "Fran turn the car on?" "Kathy bye bye?" We were all sad to see them leave but hopefully we will see them (and Heather) again this summer.
Filling the pool
Splash pad at the zoo
Watching the otters swim
Up close and personal with the bear
Cade has had his own exciting news too. Last week, we had a neuro appointment and the CT showed that his ventricles are still compressed (no change from last time). This is great news and means that his shunt setting was changed again up to 200 from 170. A setting of 200 means that the shunt is essentially shut off. His body is doing all of the draining of fluid from his brain that he needs. We will follow-up in 3 months to make sure everything still looks good. Then, we will wait a year and see if everything holds steady. If so, there is a chance that the shunt can be taken out. This news really surprised me because everything that we had been told previously was that the shunt would stay in no matter what. I guess when the time comes we will have to weight the risks of another surgery with the advantages of not having the shunt.
More news from Cade is that we have started potty training. It's been about 3 weeks now and I think he is starting to revolt a little. But, he can go pee pee on the potty and has even been successful at telling us he needs to go. I guess it's just a work in progress.
Cade is continuing to learn new words. Some of the ones that surprised me are helicopter and motorcycle since they each have 4 syllables. He is so into vehicles and often sees "auntie Marcy's car" or "grandpas truck" or "Daddy's car". He still loves when Sean gets home to see his daddy and to also go play in mommy or daddy's car. He often speaks in 5-6 word sentences. It's so fun to have him tell me the story of his day. It's interesting to hear what he finds important. He's started to really love jumping (on the bed, off of the bottom stair in the basement, in the pool). We did have a visit from ECSE this month and they said that Cade was going to put them out of business. He's doing so well. The next big step is for him to move to a "big boy bed" but I'm holding off a little because his bedtimes have not been going so well this summer. He's back to wanting us in the room with him until he falls asleep. Sometimes, that isn't until 10:00 which is starting to drive me a little nuts. We are hoping, as the sun starts to go down earlier, he will start going down earlier.
We are having a great summer so far. We had the chance to spend more time at the cabin with family over the 4th, actually made it up to Chisholm for Father's day and have been busy with our ECFE friends and Amy, Evan and Ben. We've been to the zoo, have hung out with Andy, Jill and Phillip and have hung out with Marcy and JR. Marcy and JR are getting married! So, I guess he's uncle JR now. We got a chance to see my mom to celebrate her birthday and are headed to the cabin again in August to celebrate with my dad. Last week, Fran and Kathy were down for the day and we had a great time. Cade woke up the next morning saying "Fran turn the car on?" "Kathy bye bye?" We were all sad to see them leave but hopefully we will see them (and Heather) again this summer.
Little undie butt
Filling the pool
Splash pad at the zoo
Watching the otters swim
Up close and personal with the bear
Friday, June 4, 2010
The start of summer
I haven't been doing a very good job of posting lately. Things are busy as usual. All of the weekends in May were booked with fun family and friend time. Mother's day weekend my parents came down on Friday and stayed through Saturday afternoon. Then, on Sunday we took Cade to the zoo. The next weekend was opening fishing so Cade and I tagged along with Sean and he dropped us off at the cabin before he headed up to Lake Vermilion to have his annual guys weekend with a bunch of his Chisholm friends. Cade and I had a great time with Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie Marcy, JR, Great-aunt Susan and Great-uncle Jerry. Cade got to go in his pool for the first time of the year and got to have a boat ride. The next weekend, Grandpa Phil came into town on Friday so we got to have dinner and Cade spent some quality time with him on Saturday morning before he had to leave to babysit Phillip. Then in the afternoon, we got to meet Kristie, Tom and Brooke at the Como Zoo. We missed seeing Ashley because she was with her grandma but it was nice just to have the 2 year olds to watch. Kristie and I got a chance to catch up and have some family fun. The on Sunday afternoon, my parents were back in town for a grad party and we had dinner with them and Marcy and JR. Memorial day weekend we headed up to the cabin. Sean took Friday off so we could stop in Proctor and meet our newest little friend Hannah Grace who was born on May 2nd to Heather and Chris. Sean wasn't feeling well so he took a nap and Cade and I got to meet Hannah. She is a little sweetheart. She has red hair just like her momma but looks alot like her daddy. So cute :) Cade even had to give her a kiss and touch her hair. We were out at the cabin by dinner on Friday night. All of us (12 adults, 3 kids and 7 dogs) were there by Saturday at lunch time. So, it was a busy, crazy and fun weekend. The weekend project was painting the new bedrooms in the basement addition. It will be so great once everything is done. Four more bedrooms to fill up with all of us. Unfortunately, Sean was sick all weekend and ended up sleeping most of the time but by Monday afternoon he felt a little better and even got in some painting. Cade got alot of quality time with Grandma while I helped out with the painting and getting meals together for all of us.
"What's this big wheel for?"
Walking up the hill.
Luckily, he didn't mind his life jacket.
First pool time of 2010
Playing with his own minnows.
I gave him 2 in his own bucket so he wouldn't kill all of the rest.
Boat ride!
We took the fishing boat out for a spin and Cade wanted to sit on grandpa Reg's lap.
Notice he has pjs on :)
Sophie was enjoying the ride too.
Just a cute picture with "monk."
Feeding the goats at the MN Zoo
"What's this big wheel for?"
Walking up the hill. Luckily, he didn't mind his life jacket.
First pool time of 2010
Playing with his own minnows.I gave him 2 in his own bucket so he wouldn't kill all of the rest.
Boat ride!We took the fishing boat out for a spin and Cade wanted to sit on grandpa Reg's lap.
Notice he has pjs on :)
Sophie was enjoying the ride too.
Just a cute picture with "monk."
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
2 year stats....a little late
Here's the stats from our visit to the NICU follow-up clinic on April 27.
Head circumference: 19 in
Length: 34 in (about 40th percentile)
Weight: 23 lb 2 oz (about 5th percentile)
Head circumference: 19 in
Length: 34 in (about 40th percentile)
Weight: 23 lb 2 oz (about 5th percentile)
Monday, May 10, 2010
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