06/21/09

Happy Father's Day to all the Father's out there!! ;)

Not a whole lot here going on. We have been just busy with swim lessons, which Korben loves but they wear both Korben & I completely out. We both pass out right afterwards. The first day he didn't do a whole lot, just held onto me. He tried to "jump" in but instead he would sit on his bottom & scoot until I pulled him in. The second day of class he watched a little boy use his arms to "walk the walls" by himself so Korben started doing that and now that is all he wants to do. I think he likes it because it is the only thing he can do in the water by himself & he is all about doing things himself these days. I do have him go under water a few times right after getting in the water & I am trying to get him to kick & paddle across the pool, he really doesn't care though & only has a one track mind & will scream "walk, wall" until I take him over there. He also screams & has a huge hissy fit every time we have to get out of the pool. 30 mins is just not enough time for him, I think he would stay in there all day if I let him!


Korben's new Mickey Clubhouse towel - kinda hard to tell in the pics but the hood has Mickey ears! So cute! He loves it! He has been using it at swim class to match the cute Disney bathing suit Grandma & Grandpa S. bought him last summer (just now fits.)



He is such a little ham!



Mommy let Korben take some pictures. He took one of Daddy's desk.

Here is down our hallway.

Then we asked Daddy to come pose for Korben. :)

Korben sits up in Daddy's lap before bedtime & drinks his milk & plays with Daddy.

This is his "what do you want?" face.


About to give Daddy a kiss.

Daddy got kisses.

Korben's first day of swim classes!!! These were taken before we got into the pool for the first time.


Holding on to Momma.


Laying on his back.


Loving the water!

Thursday Daddy got to do swim lessons with Korben! Daddy let him walk around the entire Olympic sized pool!

Swimming across the pool.

This past Sat. we went to my friend's son's 1st birthday party (he is one of the ones that comes over on Tuesday's for Mommy's Day Out.) It was outdoors at a park & Korben ran around the entire time. I have never seen him so sweaty!! His hair was soaked like he took a bath! It did not both him one bit though & he had a blast! He would come up to me every once in awhile & come ask for some juice, he drank his juice very quickly & we kept it refilled it with bottled water.

Playing on the playground at a birthday party.



Korben & Aiden playing together in Aiden's new ball pit.


Aiden just so happened to look right at me as he was opening our gifts. Adorable!

There were a few other big kids all standing around in a circle but they had run off by the time we got the camera out. Korben had to go & stand with them all to see what they were doing, it was a funny sight!

Korben all hot & sweaty.


Me feeding Korben a cupcake so he wouldn't get sticky - he just wanted to lick off the icing though!

Korben is still working on the potty training of course. He still won't go poopy on the potty but is starting to go pee more often on it. We bought him some big boy Thomas underwear & he LOVES them! In fact he threw a fit today right after his diaper change & neither Brent nor I could figure out what he was screaming for. Finally when he calmed down a bit I realized he was saying "Thomas underwear" he was mad because Daddy put him in a diaper! He really thinks he is a big boy now! He likes to do everything himself & when we go to restaurants he won't sit in a highchair anymore nor will he even sit in a booster seat because Mommy & Daddy don't do it & he wants to sit just like us. He screams bloody murder if we try to put him in a booster seat so we just let him sit. He has been more & more fussy for us but it is because his molars are pushing through big time. 2 of them finally broke through the gums but they are still pushing up & the top ones are so, so swollen. I feel so bad for him. He will tell us "teeth, owie" so at least we know what is bothering him. Sometimes when he is fussy, I don't think he knows what is wrong. We have been giving him motrin when it is really bad - esp. before bedtime & the Oragel really helps numb it enough for him to calm down, which is really helpful. When we put the Oragel on oneside he will point and say "other side" so we know he is hurting on both sides. His fussiness really wears on me & stresses me out though so we will be glad when this is over!!!

Korben's first time wearing his big boy underwear. No accidents in them so far! But we have only been wearing them around the house for short periods of time. In this picture I asked him to lift up his shirt so I could see his underwear - cute! Oh & when I went to go get the camera to take these pictures Korben ran ahead of me opened the drawer that I keep my camera in & handed me my camera - little smartypants I didn't even know he knew where I kept it! Speaking of smartypants, we started saying that after he named something correctly or said something that surprised us & now after he says something he says "smartypants" it is really cute. I don't think I have gotten it on film yet, will have to try to do that.



It makes me kinda sad to see him looking like such a big boy! I am glad we have another one on the way!

I asked Korben if he needed to go pee & sit on the potty - he said yes & stripped his clothes off in the living room before running to the potty - silly boy!

10/21/08

Well Korben has been as ornery as ever. Not a whole lot happened last week besides the normal stuff. Naps are still an issue and now bedtime has become an issue. He refuses to sleep instead he just plays and plays in his crib. It is making me nuts because I know he needs the sleep and he is terribly cranky in the evenings without a nap. I just don't know what to do. At first I thought it was his teething since that is what usually happens but it has been going on too long. I set up an appointment with his dr. for tomorrow to have his ears checked out. I want to make sure there is not an ear infection. I also had to set a different appointment to talk to the dr. about his speech and to talk about A.D.D. I want to know how soon you can test for it. Since Brent has it and I think Korben might have it too. The nurse said I could mention this stuff to the dr. tomorrow but they are on a time constraint with 'sick' visits so that is why I had to set up a separate consult visit. That appointment is not until Nov. 17th though. I really think he is going to have to start speech therapy and I think it would benefit him to start it earlier rather than waiting until he is 2, even though it is only a couple of months earlier. I told Brent I wish I would have trusted my instincts and pushed the issue more with Korben's dr. when he was 12 months old and I thought he might have a speech problem. Even then he was not babbling like a 'normal' baby, he hardly ever said mama and baba or gaga which are the main ones for babies. He only said dada and now almost everything has a 'd' sound.

Last Wed. I took him to story time at the library and they were having baby sign language story time. As I was buckling Korben into mom's van I pulled a muscle in my back when I lifted Korben up into his seat. I think Korben's teeth were hurting him that day and we only ended up staying for about 20 mins. He didn't want to go into the story time room at all which is fine as there are kids and toys right outside the room so he played there. But he kept trying to run around the library and he kept screaming while doing so. We were disturbing everybody in the library and it was stressful and embarrassing for me so we left. Then he threw a fit because we left. So I had to pick him up and carry him and I was in terrible pain from my back. He stiffens his body and then starts flinging himself around. When we are at home I just set him on the floor and walk away but since we were outside it was not possible. I did try to get him to stand but then he took off running around the library into the muddy grass. So I picked him back up again. I set him down by the van to get the keys out of my pocket and he laid down on the ground. Once we got home both of us were much better. My back hurt the whole rest of the week though. :( I am going to try story time again tomorrow because I really think he needs more interaction with kids his age. I am sure it will be better this week.

Korben has been obsessed with Thomas the Train every since we went to see Thomas. He doesn't have much Thomas stuff....only the pillow Grandma & Grandpa S. got him, he has one book that I got from a online book swapping site (it came with some other books that I got for him so I didn't even realize he had a Thomas book until after we saw Thomas and Korb found it) and then he has the Thomas magnet that they gave us when we saw Thomas. He has to carry his Thomas book and his Thomas magnet (his pillow stays in his crib) with him everywhere throughout the day. I have him come into the bathroom with me so that he doesn't get into trouble and I say 'Come go potty with Momma' and he starts running around going "uh oh, uh oh" until he finds his Thomas book and magnet and only when he has both things will he come with me. Last week we did buy Korben a couple of X-Mas presents, we got him some Thomas bath toys and another Thomas book one that you push the buttons and it says things and plays music. Brent & I are curious to see if he is going to do that with Mickey Mouse and the other Disney characters after Disney World.

Oh I think I forgot to mention that my biopsies came back completely begin. So that was good news last week.

We didn't do anything this past weekend. Just hung out around the house and took it easy. On Sunday Brent was watching Korben and I went out to the kitchen for something and found Korben sitting in the middle of the table playing with the hockey charms that my mom and I made to sell at the Blazers Booster Club booth. Brent had forgotten to push in his chair at the table so Korben just climbed right up on it. Korben did it again today while I was watching him. I heard the chair move though and ran right in there just in time to see him climbing on the table. As I was pulling him off he swiped at the charms that we made last night and they went flying across the kitchen and hallway. He promptly went to time out and was very mad at me.

Yesterday Korben was getting ice out of the ice maker in the fridge door, he is tall enough to reach it now, and he spilled ice all over the floor. I went in there to tell him no and to clean up the mess and he was cracking up laughing because he was holding a piece of ice. My mom was in the kitchen too and I was trying to tell Korben no but then she started laughing because he was laughing and then of course I started laughing so I don't think he understood that he wasn't supposed to do that. Of course when he does something bad he does start hamming it up for you and tries to charm you. I think he really gets away with that with Grandma & Grandpa L. Yesterday he was also driving me crazy because he learned how to turn on the dishwasher, so all day long I had to keep turning it off. Then my mom left to go grocery shopping and Korben stood at the door looking out the little window on the door and kept saying "oh no, oh no" over and over and was crying because he wanted to go bye-bye too. I turned on one of the Thomas shows that Brent started taping for him and he ran to sit on my lap. I still don't like him watching tv and I don't usually let him watch it. But Brent does, he watches about half a Thomas show every day, that is all he will sit still for but during that time he becomes a zombie staring at the tv.

Sunday evening we went to the pumpkin patch to take pictures. We went to the same place that we went to last year. We couldn't get Korb to sit still so we had to put him behind all the pumpkins and then I took pictures as he climbed his way out of the pumpkins so he could run around again. Then we would pick him up and do it again, thankfully he thought it was fun and only got mad at us one time.

This morning Korben woke up at 6:40 and Brent was getting ready to walk out the door to go to work. I went to the restroom and to get Korben some milk and Brent had changed Korben's pull-up. Brent put Korben in bed with me so I could give him his milk and Korben was flinging himself around and wouldn't calm down. So I tried rubbing his belly and his legs and that usually works but this time I found that his jammies were soaked. He leaked out of his pull-up and Brent didn't realize it. So we pulled off his clothes and he immediately calmed down. We dressed him again then he drank his milk and feel back asleep. Poor little wet baby!

This coming weekend is going to be a busy one. Sat. there is so much free stuff going on that we are having to choose what we want to do. I think we have decided that we are going to the Affair of the Heart and then probably home for a nap - hopefully! Then we are going to go with my mom and my nephews and niece to a Halloween carnival that a church down the street is having. If Korben wakes up early enough we might go try to do the pancake breakfast before the local parade starts but if Korben lets us sleep in then we are going to. Then on Sunday we are heading to Tulsa.

Pics are of the pumpkin patch of course and pics of Korb in the overalls that Grandma & Grandpa S. got him. I thought I had better take pictures of him when I had them on him. I am not sure how often we will actually dress him in them as they are a pain to change his diaper in since there are no diaper snaps but they sure are cute! Korben was lining up his toys when I took those pictures, I took videos of that too which I will upload to YouTube one of these days.