Fall's In The Air

We woke up to a nice cool fall day.  It actually helped speed us up this morning.  We were running a little behind getting to Bubita's 2-month appointment.  And that was before Momma realized both car seats had to be reinstalled after Coco's spa day (tune up and cleaning).  For some reason, it always takes twice as long to do it when we are in a hurry.

Someone is feeling a little left out perhaps? 

Dr. Z is going to fire us one day for being late.  We are hoping she's giving us a break since we used to be early when it was just Bubeaner.

Bubeaner did great today.  He was not scared, though he was not necessarily completely at ease with the nurses.  Bringing him in to the doctor's office when Bubita has the check ups has helped ease his anxiety about the place.  Today he even stayed in the room while Bubita got her vaccines, or her ouchies as Bubeaner called them; he was adorable and kissed her afterwards.

Still amazed he can fit his legs in the Bumbo.

Bubita is doing great.  Our little baby is not as little as we like to pretend.  She measures 25.5 inches in length; a little tall for her age since she's in the 95th percentile still.  But she has trimmed some of the extra weight, not that it's noticeable from the beautiful double chin, chubby cheeks and ticklish thunder thighs.  She's now almost 14 pounds putting her still above average in the 75th percentile.  Her noggin is still larger than most at 16.25 inches (75%) but not as large as Bubeaner's.  Everything else looked great: reflexes, eye contact, ears, nose, heart, throat, etc.  We were definitely able to confirm that two little bottom teeth are coming out.  We got a good view of them when she cried during her vaccines.

Ah, his father's son!

He must add salsa to everything.

Dr. Z gave us some tips on getting Bubita to take more naps during the day which we will try immediately.  She also gave the thumbs up on solid foods.  Bubita has already been taking 1/4 of a tablespoon of applesauce for almost a month with her Prilosec.  Now she can have 2-3 tablespoons once a day.  And we can start trying other foods!  Bubita is going to absolutely love it.  She complains every night  after she finishes her medicine.  It will also make it harder when we eat around her.  Bubita already makes us feel bad because she stares at our food and us eating during meals.  But she will probably already be upset with us because of the formula.  Dr. Z gave us some tips on getting Bubita used to drinking the formula hopefully allowing Dad and Momma to take a couple-only little break sometimes in the future.  She suggested we try combining a small amount of formula with breatmilk at least once a day slowly increasing the amount.  Dr. Z said that even if that did not work, Bubita would eventually give in and take the bottle if that was the only option.  We are still skeptical about this.

From her other symptoms, it appears that Bubita may just have some allergy issues rather than full out asthma.  Phew.  That means that for now we only have to worry about the lactate and soy allergies.  And this may be temporary just like Bubeaner who now enjoys eating cheese and yogurt every day, if not every meal.  (And who says God doesn't have a wicked sense of humor?)  This leads us to Bubita's BM problems of the last month.  Bubita now has normal BMs after trying the lactation consultant's suggestion of either pumping 5 minutes before nursing or starting nursing on the same side all day, alternating on the starting side every day rather than every feeding.  It appears she was getting not enough hind milk.  Of course, that still did not explain the green color.... at least it didn't until Dad caught Momma eating a chocolate bar last night and asked about the MILK chocolate she was ingesting!!!

Bubita being tormented tickled by her aunt.

About a month ago, about the time Bubita's problem started, Momma bought the candy for Bubeaner's birthday party and Halloween.  And since then she's been sneaking a piece of candy here and there.  For an intelligent woman who watches every ingredient of anything she puts in her mouth because of Bubita's allergies, this can only be explained as a brain fart.  Meme'Licia was nice and said it may just have been a subconscious block since Momma wanted chocolate.  Why couldn't the block have been over a nice blue cheese crumble on a steak instead.  Sigh.  So, Dr. Z was correct.  It was, in part, Momma's diet.  At least now we know and can address it.  For now no more chocolate for Momma, and hopefully no more problems for Bubita.

Bubita might have cared had she not been feeling poorly after her vaccines.  She gets a low grade fever and sleeps most of the day.  Poor munchkin.  We hate to see her unwell, but we do it hoping to prevent her even more problems.  This is also the reason we debated going to visit great aunt Raquel today.  But her sister great aunt Bani was in town visiting and she leaves tomorrow morning.  We don't know when we will be able to visit her so we made the 40-mile (60-90+ minutes, depending on traffic) drive.

 Now, this is the way to get love.

Bubita with aunt Raquel.

It's during these excursion that we remember how far away we actually now live.  But it was worth it to spend a little bit of time with them.  Bubeaner even behaved a little.  He entertained the aunts with his antics.  At one point he tried and finally succeed in seating himself in the Bumbo!  The boy has scrawny, but cute, legs.  And Bubita was in a pretty good mood too.  It did help that they had both had their baths before we left and were in their comfortable pajamas.  The nap on the way down probably did not hurt either.  Bubita napped for the entire 90 minutes.  Surprisingly it was not that difficult to leave; we were worried about Bubeaner having a meltdown and Bubita crying all the way back.  Bubita was asleep within minutes and Bubeaner was not far behind.  The transfer to their beds once we arrived was pretty easy too with minimal interruptions and problems.  Now, let's just hope for a restful and peaceful night's sleep for all.