Party Time

Well, Dad's going to get back to find a pair of raccoon-eye loved ones at home.  Bubeaner and Momma continue to have problems sleeping through the night.  We are not sure why Bubeaner is not sleeping through the night: not getting his full afternoon nap, needing two naps instead of one, missing Dad?  We are not sure how he is going to react to Daylight Saving Time.  Momma's reasons are missing Dad and Bubita growing and growing and growing.  There really just isn't a comfortable position anymore.  Not sure how we are going to spend the next 3.5 months...

Bubeaner sharing Momma's lunch.

The morning was spent quietly at home.  We really did not have to be anywhere until lunch time when we picked up aunt Lari at the airport.  Bubeaner was delighted to see her.  We indulged in a delicious lunch.  The problem was that we also OVERindulged in the French pastries available at the restaurant.  It was hard to resist since Dad had enticed Momma in the wee hours of the morning texting details of the delicious chocolate croissant he had enjoyed for breakfast.  (This is not a great idea when there is a baby in the tummy....  overindulging may lead to major, all-day-long indigestion.)

Preppy Bubeaner waiting for Momma's pastry order

After a late nap time, we rushed to little Lauren's 1-year birthday party.  Bubeaner used to get really happy when he saw her picture and insisted on giving the "bebe's" picture kisses.  He was indifferent when he first saw her.  But that changed after we were there a little while.  He then insisted on sitting next to her when she opened her presents.  Bubeaner even showed her all the details of one of her new dolls.  And Lauren also appeared to enjoy Bubeaner's presence.

Bubeaner showing Lauren her new doll's bottle.

He also found plenty of books to read. 

Bubita continues her belly Taekwondo work outs.  She'll probably be ready for her black belt at birth.  She has also modified her dramatic reaction to hiccups.  And more importantly, she allowed aunt Lari to feel her move!  Bubeaner was not as cooperative when he was in the belly despite the fact that aunt Lari had spent the entire summer with us.

Bubeaner enjoying dinner with aunt Lari.

TGIF

We are another day closer to having Dad back with us.  YAY!  We miss him terribly.  But we are so happy because we are having more visitors!  Aunt Lari, uncle Ivan and Sarah are coming for a visit!!!

Bubeaner not sure about this supper of Momma's cereal. 

We were able to chat with him via Skype today.  Bubeaner was quiet and unhappy for the first few minutes.  He tends to do this when he's not happy with someone, and he was not happy with Dad for leaving.  But after a while he forgave Dad.  Bubeaner spent some time showing Dad how his Coupe worked in case he had forgotten during his trip.  Bubeaner then spent some time "typing" while he chatted.  It was wonderful to see him even though it was through the computer screen.

But then again, food is food.

The rest of the day was spent quietly at home.  Bubeaner again woke up extremely early today.  And actually needed two, albeit short, naps again.  We were still able to take a nice stroll through the neighborhood enjoying our wonderful spring weather.  Sandy was even able to join us.

But his true love are his "NaNas"

Today we also had a an inspection from a childproofing company.  We had considered doing it a while back, but when Bubeaner had his little Poison Control incident, it cemented our decision to go ahead and have another set of eyes look over our home.  Overall, our home appears to be pretty safe.  However, there were a few items that we can change to make it just a little safer.  This news made us feel better about Bubeaner and Bubita playing at home.

As to Bubita, we are not sure exactly what she is up to inside the belly.  Bubita appears to be stretching her arms and legs to their full extent.  She stretches so much that it's actually uncomfortable at times, but we love to see and feel her moving.  And so far today, she has not had any more bad hiccups.

No Dad, No Sleep

Goodness, goodness, goodness!  We miss Dad a lot.  And Dad misses us too.  It appears that other than Sandy, no one else is getting a full decent night's sleep because we are apart.  Although Bubeaner did sleep a little longer today.  It's funny how 5a sounds so much more decent recently.  He did manage to take a little nap and not really start the day until 730a. 

Silly Bubeaner looking like a little man.

We have completely given up on attending daily mass this week.  Bubeaner has been behaving a lot better; we have not had a repeat major tantrum, but we've decided to take it a little easier.  And since we were running around so much this morning, we thought it best to not take Bubeaner to the church group for a visit.  Of course, we may have cleared that by the group grandmothers first.  They were not pleased not to have a Bubeaner visit.  Bubeaner will most definitely be stopping by next week.  You don't mess with grandmothers... or any type.

Bubeaner out for an afternoon stroll 

around the neighborhood.

A reason for Bubeaner's better mood might be that three of his molars have cut through.  YAY!  The fourth one looks about to cut through at any moment.  But now it his incisors are also almost ready to come out too!  In a couple of weeks, Bubeaner may truly have a mouth full of teeth!  And hopefully, he will also feel a lot better by then too.

Petting (or smacking the heck out of) Sandy saying night-night.

Notice her thrilled expression.

Today during his afternoon stroll we visited with Mr. Jimmy.  He was thrilled to see Bubeaner out and about.  Bubeaner showed him how well he could use his little toy walker.  He then proceeded to visit with a little neighbor girl.  She was thrilled to be playing with "her baby".  Bubeaner spent the rest of this stroll picking (destroying) little yellow flowers (weeds), torturing a little unfortunate flying bug that landed near us, and trying to pick up a lady bug (Momma intervened on the last one). 

Bubeaner and Momma cuddling before bedtime.

Thanks to aunt Pau today we deciphered another one of Bubeaner's favorite words.  He goes around saying "NaNa NaNa" throughout the day.  We just assumed it was a sound he liked.  But it turns out it means "naranja" (orange)!  And he loves oranges.  Actually he likes anything in the citrus family specially if it happens to be orange: oranges, clementines, mandarins, grapefruits.  He loves them all and can't get enough of them.  He eats about a 5lb bag of clementines in 10 days.  Bubeaner also said "Meme" today which thrilled Meme'Licia.  He didn't repeat it, but it was pretty clearly anunciated.  We'll be paying even closer attention to all the babbling he does trying to decipher more words.  It turns out we are learning a language too, not just Bubeaner.

Missing Dad

Guests or no guests, we did not sleep well last night without Dad.  Momma could not go to sleep til late missing Dad. 

Solemn Bubeaner

Bubeaner appeared to be on UK time like Dad and woke up ridiculously early.  We all "enjoyed" his very loud monologue that started with calling out for Dad but continued for at least two hours.  He was not crying, was safe in the crib, and it was still too RIDICULOUSLY early to get him up and start the day... even by Bubeaner standards.  However, Momma later felt horrible when she realized he might have been cold (forgot to change the heater on) and he had a wet, wet diaper.  Sigh.  We are not likely to let Bubeaner self-soothe in the future without first checking his diaper and room temperature even if he's not crying or fussing. 

 Absolutely adorable face!

Bubita was also not immune either.  Most of the night she suffered from what can only be the longest bout of hiccups in history.  Poor munchkin would be shaken so much Momma's entire belly would shake.

Bubeaner was thrilled 

to spend some time playing after running errands.

The only one that slept undistubed was Sandy.  Momma woke up to find her snoring on the bed (she's NOT allowed on the bed) sleeping on Dad's pillow! Silly, spoiled dog.  She takes her guardian dog status seriously too.  She's been extra sensative to any noise/sound.

The rest of the day was spent running errands.  We did have a late start because of the unexpected severe thunderstorms which included pea-size hail; according to the weather forecasts we only had 10% chance for showers!  But we managed to get our grocery shopping done as well as get Momma a new phone (finally).

 He even enjoyed spending some time reading.

Bubeaner was thrilled when he finally got time to play with his toys.  He also love getting some loving and cuddling from Meme'Licia.  And after dinner, Momma and Bubeaner spent a good amount of time cuddling before bedtime. 

Change and More Change

Well, we start our next two weeks of change today with people coming and going.

Bubeaner decided it was good day to get up extra special early.  But we couldn't get upset since it gave him additional bonding time with Dad.  And today that was even more important.  Dad left on a business trip.  We are not sure if Bubeaner sensed it, but he was much better behaved today.  We still did not attempt church today because of other preparations we had to make for Dad's trip and our first set of visitors.

Bubeaner spent most of the day playing and over all we did not have any major tantrums.  He was reprimanded a few times by Meme'Licia, Dad and Momma for throwing toys down in frustration.  His impatience flares his temper.  But he needs to learn that is not appropriate behavior.  After each incident and reprimand, he resumed playing normally.

Bubeaner has not yet appreciated that Dad is not home.  He spent a lot of time with Dad in the morning and we were even able to share lunch together before the flight.  And Bubeaner is usually asleep by the time Dad gets home....  Although he did look up excited when aunt Pau got home today; he expected it to be Dad.  Tomorrow may be a completely different story.  (Sandy has already been moping around the house.  She was sitting by the garage door this afternoon waiting for Dad to get home.) 

But since this trip also coincides with several friends/family members vacations/spring breaks we are blessed with lots of visitors on and off throughout the next two weeks.  A full house will go a long way to distracting Bubeaner from missing Dad.  Although the mornings will probably still be the hardests for him.

Maybe Bubeaner will demonstrate to them his new trick.  Dad pretends to be talking to him from a helicopter radio when changing his diapers in the mornings (i.e. "Daddy copter here" Breep "Super Stinky Pants" Breep.... similar to dialogue on Black Hawk Down).  Well, today Bubeaner kept making that "breep" sound when people were speaking with him.

And on Bubita news, we rearranged the closet in the nursery!  We are planning on keeping Bubeaner and Bubita in the nursery together.  At least, that is the original plan.  We'll see how it ends up working once they are both in there.  Hopefully, they won't be waking each other up.  Thankfully that is still a ways away specially considering Bubita will be in the master bedroom until at least 4 months old if not a little longer.  In any case, we were able to rearrange and organize some items in the closet.  Now, Bubeaner AND Bubita will both have the same amount of closet space.  And we won't have to move the changing table from the closet either!

Rainy Fussy Monday

Oh, best laid plans....  Bubeaner slept til 715a this morning.  He was able to see Dad before he left for work, but there was not time for a family breakfast today.  This was just as well since Bubeaner was in quite a mood.  He was fussy and throwing little tantrum after little tantrum during breakfast.  He would stop once he realized Momma was ignoring these outbursts.  And then he would try winking at Momma to win her over.  He tried this until Meme'Licia arrived.  We decided today was not a good day to attempt mass.

He was a little better the rest of the morning.  But since Bubeaner did not get his full afternoon nap, the fussiness started again in the afternoon.

Bubeaner using his Coupe as a walker.

Bubeaner melt down... not sure what actually cause it.

Sadly, it took Momma a while to figure out that the fussiness might be caused by his teeth.  Poor baby boy!  It's amazing what some medicine and cuddling can do for Bubeaner.  He was much better behaved and in a much better mood the rest of the evening.  He still tried a little crying with aunt Pau when she wouldn't give him ALL her fries.  But these episodes we short lived.  We assume that part of this fussiness/tantrums is normal toddler behavior testing the limits, but sadly part of it appears to be caused by teething.  We sure wish those teeth would finally get here so Bubeaner would not be in so much pain.

B@byOr@jel makes life so much better.

Bubeaner cuddling with Momma feeling a little better.

Weekend Adventures

Our days have been starting really early as of late.  OK, Dad and Bubeaner are normally awake by this time, but Momma (NOT a morning person) has been joining them too.  We have been working on making breakfast our family meal since Dad can't get home by the time Bubeaner needs to eat.  And so far it has been working great.  We get to spend quality time together as a family while sharing a meal together.  Saturday, for example, we were all up by 6a and happily eating Nutella crepes with mango by 630a.  Both boys LOVE their nuss nougat crepes.

Flirting with an "older woman" at the playground

 

He insisted on going up the steps on his own

  

In the afternoon, Dad and aunt Pau joined us for a trip to our "new" playground.  Bubeaner was hilarious.  He insisted on doing a little perimeter check.  He then went down the BIG slide all by himself!!!  But it was too stressful for the adults, so we moved on to the little slide.  Bubeaner decided to make it more challenging by going down face first and then trying to crawl back up the slide.  Of course, he is definitely his mother's child and would get distracted halfway up by the rocks that were obviously NOT supposed to be there.

But he needed help getting into the slide... 
he usually wants to go face first.

 

His father's son:

Bubeaner insisted on putting all the rocks, 

one by one, back where they belonged. 

  

 

We have been telling Bubeaner that Bebe is in Momma's tummy.  He actually will go and pat the tummy and give it kisses saying "bebe, bebe".  Well lately, as well as calling Momma by her given name, he's also started calling her Bebe.  Sigh.  On the bright side, he has started using some new words.  He now calls for his lovey by name.  And, almost like he knows she'll be visiting soon, Bubeaner keeps calling out for aunt Lari.

 

Exhausted parents

Energizer Bubeaner wants to keep going

  

Sunday we decided to take it easy and go to the later, 9a mass.  This gave Dad and Bubeaner more playing time.  We are not sure what happened or if this is just the new norm, but Bubeaner was difficult during mass.  He actually had two throw-himself-on-the-ground-kicking-and-screaming tantrums! TWO!!  

The first one was while we were sitting at the pew and Bubeaner actually hit his head against the pew in front.  Thankfully, it was right as we were getting up for communion.  And he LOVES to walk down the aisle so that stopped that tantrum.  Right after communion he started fussing again so we got up and stepped out onto the atrium where the second one occurred.  As we just watched him kicking on the ground, we looked at another couple with their own 1-2 year old in the middle of a fit and realized their resigned, beat-down expression mirrored our feelings.  We are now THAT couple.  You know, the one with the misbehaving kid, with the worn-down expression you feel sorry for in the restaurant/church/store.  Where did our well-behaved little boy go?

OK, so Bubeaner is still an easy-going and pretty obedient child.  Actually, more than most children we've encountered, which is probably why these little incidents take us so much by surprise.  Sigh. (We've also found ourselves sighing more lately.)

Enjoying his sushi rolls

"Man, this is finger-licking good!"

  

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful except for the fact that Bubeaner refused to take an afternoon nap.  Instead he opted for playing with Dad and aunt Pau.  We decided to have an early dinner at our favorite Asian restaurant since we expected Bubeaner would not last long.  Bubeaner loved his sushi rolls.  He could not get enough.  Our waiter was amused at how much Bubeaner was actually enjoying it.  He was so stuffed, that soon after we got home Bubeaner was ready for bed without any fuss or protests. 

"I am so STUFFED I can't even move"

 

As to Bubita, today we reached 23 weeks!  She continues to kick, kick and kick.  She does it more and more at ALL times of the day and night now.  And she is getting even stronger!  Bubita's current entertainment includes kicking back where ever Momma puts her hand on the belly.  Well, that, and also kicking Momma's bladder as hard as possible.  So far we have not had any other "incidents" of vertigo/dizziness.  And Momma's blood pressure continues to be great.  The only big noticeable thing is Momma's belly.  Even though Momma weighs less than with Bubeaner at this stage, the belly is HUMONGOUS!  It's a little unsettling to think how much bigger it might get by 37 weeks (the time Bubita is allowed to make her grand entrance).

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Although sometimes it feels like one step forward, two steps back.  Bubeaner is doing great.  And he was actually talking a lot when we left the grandparents' homes.  However, as of late, he has reverted back to grunting and limiting the words he actually uses.  It's not surprising; it's actually been expected.  During the holidays and the visit to the grandparents, Bubeaner mainly heard Spanish.  Momma still speaks to him in Spanish.  But now that Meme'Licia is helping us out, he's also hearing English just as much.  So, it's really not surprising that he's not really sure what words (language) to use.  Dr. Z mentioned this was possible.

Bubeaner cruising around the neighborhood.

Wednesday we tried church again.  He was LOUD!  Extremelly loud.  We had to step outside to the atrium for most of the mass.  Bubeaner was not really interested in the service... until people started lining up for communion.  Then he grabbed on to Momma's hand and sped through to get to the line.  He walked down the line and took the compliments (and blessing) from the priest.  He loves that part of mass.  Unfortunately, we did not make it to mass the rest of the week because of other morning commitments.  We hope to get back on schedule next week.

Bubeaner dinner time fussiness...

 

 ...and when that did not work, "winking" at Momma...

  

... OK, maybe cuteness wins out.

  

Wednesday night Bubeaner and Momma had dinner with Lisa and Linne, Momma's high school friends.  We had not seen each other in years.  And more embarrasing was finding out we lived only 15 minutes away from each other!  Bubeaner, though shy at first, soon warmed up and flirted.  He even discovered Sammy, Lisa's cat.  They both eyed each other from a safe distance all night.  We had a wonderful time catching up with old friends.  And Bubeaner's bed time was delayed a little while, but soon fell asleep in his car seat and slept even after transfering him to his crib when we got home hours later.  Thankfully, that did not even affect his sleeping.  He slept until 7 the next morning.


Thursday Bubeaner joined Momma a little while at church group.  He was loved spending time with the grandmas, being the center of attention.  He played and laughed until Meme'Licia came by to pick him up allowing Momma to get some work done while he played at home.

Bubeaner thrilled to watch Dad prepare breakfast.

We've been blessed to enjoy family breakfast together most of the week.

We have been enjoying wonderful spring weather since Monday's deluge.  It's been so beautiful that we have made a few trips to the park.  Bubeaner has been enjoying the swing more, although he is still resistant to everything else.  Thursday, we went a little later than usual and found a pack of 10-15 children about 5-6 years old.  They were loud and moving up and down, running and jumping everywhere.  Bubeaner was enthralled by it.  He wanted to see everything they did, why, and how.  It was amusing, but also tiring since by the time we walked to wherever the kids had run to they were running back.  It made for an extremely tired and grumpy Bubeaner before bedtime.  But he did get to sleep well.

Today, we decided to try the church's playground.  It's made specifically for little children.  We were not sure if it would make a difference, but Bubeaner LOVED it.  He loved, the see-saw (eventually), could not get enough of the slides and was comfortable enough to crawl in and out of pretty much everything.  It looks like we have now found our new playground.  It probably also helps that there are no older children jumping and running around him startling him.  And the cute little blond girl playing with him did not hurt either.  Bubeaner was following her everywhere!  This is not good!!

We tried the see-saw first.  

 Bubeaner was not very convinced about this.

 

We had struggled every time we tried the slide.

He loves them at the new playground... 

he even smiled and giggled while he went down ALONE! 

 

He got so brave, Bubeaner even decided to go down face first!!!

What happened to my cautious boy?

Tonight Dad was able to get home a little earlier than usual.  And we decided to stretch Bubeaner's bed time just a little in order to spend time with Dad.  We even decided to go have a nice seafood dinner with aunt Pau.  Bubeaner ate like a little piglet.  He needed to replenish all that energy he spent at the playground. 

Terrible Two's Tuesday?

Is it too early for the Terrible Twos to hit at 17 months?  Ok, we are giving Bubeaner the benefit of the doubt and blaming it on teething.  The morning was a wonderful.  Momma and Dad woke up so early (430a) that we were able to get tons of things done before Bubeaner even woke up.  This allowed us to have a family breakfast!  Bubeaner was thrilled and giggly.

We also made it to mass this morning again.  Bubeaner wanted to prove his big-boy status by walking everywhere.  He walked up to communion with Momma and walked back.  Thankfully, we were at the end so we did not slow traffic too much.  And then he also insisted on walking out.  It took quite a long time since Momma and Bubeaner disagreed as to which direction we needed to go.  He drew a lot of attention.  But instead of smiling and flirting as usual, Bubeaner would give every lady that got close his "Nasty Look" (see above for an example).  He was in no mood to be disturbed.  Bubeaner also threw a little fit when we finally got to the car.  He was not ready to go home.

The rest of the day he was just a little ornery.  He was still loving and cuddling even giving kisses freely to his lovey, Momma and Meme'Licia.  But he was going to do what he wanted when he wanted the way he wanted.  Meme'Licia had to take a few toys away because he insisted on throwing them.  At one point we even had to take away his ballpit because he was insistent on emptying.

However, it was good night.  Dad had a doctor's appointment late this afternoon and was able to get home early enough to catch Bubeaner before bedtime.  Dad then took us to a family dinner.  We delayed his bedtime a little, but spending time with Dad was worth it.

Bubita has been a little quiet today probably because Momma has taken it a little slow too recuperating from yesterday.  But as usual she has been more active since nightfall.  The belly is now HUGE.  We can't imagine how much bigger it will get since Bubita is not allowed to make her grand appearance for at least 15 more weeks.

Long Dreary Monday

What a difference a day makes.  Today was cold, wet and dreary.  It did not stop raining all day long.  We are grateful for the rain (no one that has lived in the desert will ever complain about the rain), but it made running our errands just a little trickier. 

Aunt Pau and Momma spent almost all day running from store to store stocking up the pantry.  We really had not done this since we left to visit the grandparents.  It was sorely needed.  Sadly this meant that we did not spend that much time with Bubeaner today.  Momma was so exhausted at the end of the day that Meme'Licia even had to make and feed Bubeaner his dinner.  And it was heartbreaking.  Even though they are things that must be done, it's hard not to feel guilty about not spending that time with him.  Meme'Licia did mention that he had a good day which was comforting.

 And Momma and Bubeaner did spend a good morning together.  We were up early and were able to make it to weekday mass, even in the rain.  This is something we have wanted to get back in the habit of doing.  It's a little easier with Bubeaner toddling since Momma does not have to carry him everywhere.  That is getting harder to do with a growing belly.  Although, he does not appear to mind.  We've just come up with a different way of cuddling.

Hopefully, tomorrow will be a quieter day where we can spend some quality and quantity time together. 

Fun and Adventures

We've enjoyed a great weekend. 

Bubeaner woke up Friday morning crying and kept crying even though we held and cuddled with him.  A week of fussiness, and now this?  We decided to make sure we were not dealing with an ear infection or something else.  So on a cold and wet morning meant to be spent indoors, we ventured out to see Dr. Z.  Bubeaner enjoyed the little field trip.  He walked (holding Momma's hand) into the office and showed off for all the nurses.  He even used the "Big Boy" scale!  He now weighs 24 pounds.  He was fine until RN Sandra opened the door to the consultation room.  Bubeaner hit the brakes and would not budge.  He recognized the room; it's the same one we've had the last couple of times when he's received his vaccines.  Thankfully, Dr. Z said he was in fine, but that it really appeared to be just his molars finally cutting through.  So we are back to BabyOrajel.

We spent the rest of the day relaxing at home.  Bubeaner enjoyed some coloring time.  He's actually getting pretty good at it.  Momma needs to buy frames to display his works of art.  And he's also stopped trying to eat the crayons too.  YAY!

 

And as a rare treat we decided to watch a children's story in Spanish.  We thought Bubeaner had outgrown his facination with the TV cabinet.  However, this is what we found when trying to use the DVD player.  He gets credit for color coordination.

 

And, well, for being so cute too.  How could we get angry at him when he looks this adorable in his chair enjoying his afternoon snack while waiting for the movie to start.

Saturday morning greeted us with news of the earthquake in Chile.  Dad had spent some time in Chile last year, and Sally has several stores/employees in the country.  We were relieved that one of his coworkers had decided to delay his trip there by a day. 

And, of course, we spent the rest of the day anticipating the tsunami headed for Hawaii.  Uncle Tony had called earlier and informed us they were fine, were evacuating, and would call us when they had the all clear.  It was stressful waiting and waiting and waiting.  Thankfully, it turned out that uncle Tony and April just spent a long day "camping" a safe distance/elevation from the ocean.  The tsunami only ended up with some higher than usual surge but nothing too devastating.

After all the days events, we went to sleep quite early making for an even earlier than usual start on Sunday.  And since it promised to be another beautiful sunny day, we headed out for the early mass and then off for a family visit to the zoo.  We've enjoyed watching as Bubeaner shows more interest in the animals and exhibits.  This time we also had the benefit that all the animals were very active probably after having just been fed; we were there as the zoo opened. 

He was really facinated by watching the rhino eating, but even more enthralled by the white bengal tiger.  Although not as interested as the tiger was in us.

We wondered what the tiger was thinking... until he attempted to attack Dad and Bubeaner.  Yeah, we moved on to the next exhibit thankful for the safety of thick glass.

Bubeaner's favorite exhibit is still the aquarium.  We spent a bit of time there just letting him watch all the little fish swimming around.  

After a nice lunch at one of our favorite restaurants, we headed home for a nice relaxing and LONG nap while Dad and uncle Jeff stressed over the USA v Canada hockey game.  Momma specially needed the rest.  As the zoo visit progressed, her walk slowly deteriorated into an unappealing duck waddle.  Yuck!  Bubita approved since she has been quite active since then.  This is good since she had given us a little scare Thursday.  She had not moved all day, and when Momma weighed herself she noticed she had gained 4.5+ pounds in a week and a half.  Not a good thing.  And then Momma started experiencing vertigo and dizziness.  It turned out to only be some inner ear issues.  Although that didn't really explain the weight gain, Dr. T was not too concerned about that since Momma's blood pressure was excellent.  We just need to keep an eye on it, probably lay off the salty foods, and continue hydrating.  

We also think Bubita may have shifted and may be now facing down.  She is now kicking/punching in the upper/lower abdomen rather than to the sides.  She still continues to have quite strong movements.  Momma's entire belly will move and shake as she moves.  Bubita also appears to have more of BisBis "vitamins".  She tends to be more active late at night rather than in the morning like Bubeaner.  We may end up with a night-owl Bubita.

Poison Control and Other Misadventures

The morning started in such a promising and calm way.  Bubeaner once again slept well and was able to play a little with Dad before he had to get ready for work.  He was in a good mood too.  Yesterday he was a little moody.  We are not sure if he may be coming down with something or if his molars finally cutting through.

Either way things were fine until Momma was getting dressed.  Bubeaner managed to grab a hold of one of the hand sanitizing bottles Momma and Dad keep at their bedside tables.  Thankfully, the sudden silence alerted Momma.  He had the bottle in his mouth and pumped it!  According to Poison Control, the main danger was from the alcohol in the sanitizer.  Since he appeared to have taken no more than 1 tsp (and probably less since some was on his pajamas and the carpet), we just had to give him something sweet to drink (alcohol lowers blood sugar in children) and watch for symptoms (think tipsy).

Bubeaner enjoyed a glass of strawberry Nesquik milk since that was the only sugary drink available at home.  Did you know there are 25g of sugar in the 'REDUCED SUGAR' strawberry powder?  It was a left over from a craving last pregnancy.  And as much as Bubeaner enjoyed it, there is no way he's drinking that much sugar on a regular basis... and probably not til he's in college.

Bubeaner was still able to enjoy his hearty breakfast.  And thankfully, there were still no symptoms an hour later when the Poison Control nurse called back.  Meme'Licia and Momma still kept a watchful eye on Bubeaner for the remainder of the morning.  He was even able to enjoy a brisk walk up and down the street.  It was freezing cold but he enjoyed walking holding on to our hands.

 

Unfortunately, the afternoon was a repeat of yesterday.  He was fussy and needy, melting down for no reason at all.  He wanted Momma and he wanted her NOW.  Bubeaner was a little better for a while after Momma applied some BabyOrajel, so it might be the molar after all.

 

Either way, if we have a repeat performance tomorrow, Dr. Z is getting a call just to make sure we are not dealing with an ear infection or something else.  It's very unlike Bubeaner to be so fussy for so long, let alone 2 days in a row.  Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day for him.

 

Vroom, Vroom

We noticed during our little trip that Bubeaner really, and we mean REALLY, likes cars even though he doesn't have any toy cars at home.  He found some toy cars at Bita's that he refused to put down.  And when he visited his little cousins, he immediately started playing with them.  Even Grandma found him some of Dad's old Matchbox cars.  He loved them. 

So it should not have come as a surprise the he LOVES his little coupe.  He adores it.  He can't make it go anywhere yet, but he demands to be in it all the time.  Yesterday, he was in it every moment we allowed him honking the horn, turning the steering wheel, and making vroom vroom noises.  He even gave Meme'Licia a nasty look when she tried to get him out, and it was to give him lunch!  Bubeaner gives up everything for food... at least, that used to be the case.  (Dad insists that's Momma's look when she's angry.)

Bubeaner has also taken on a new, not-appreciated-by-Momma habit.  He insists on calling out Momma's first name!  It's now been two days in a row that he insists on using it.  It is understandable considering he heard many people call Momma that during the last two weeks.  He thinks it's funny.  If he wasn't so cute...

On some great news, Bubeaner slept 12.5 hours straight last night.  He's been sleeping longer during the night which is what Dr. Z recommended.  Unfortunately, we are still working out the daytime naps.  It appears he's slowly working towards a single 2-3 hour midday nap.  But in the mean time it leaves a cranky sleepy boy during the day.