Kristi Maristi

29
Jun
There’s a Party In My Bed….

No! Not that kind of party, get your head out of the gutter.

For the past month or so I’ve been doing “bed dates” with Milo. We grab the lap top & head to my room, get cozy in my bed with our blankies & pillows, turn down the light & find something to watch on Netflix. Sometimes it’s a movie, last night happened to be an episode of Yo Gabba Gabba!

It’s nice to cuddle with my little boy & he LOVES this time. We co-slept a little in the first few months Milo was a fresh bebeh but, it was just something that never really worked for us. He was most comfortable & happy sleeping on his own, & we were happy not sleeping on the edges of our queen bed to ensure he had enough space. He thinks it’s really neat to hang out in our bed & runs to our room & jumps in our bed – pulling the covers over himself when I ask him if he wants to watch a movie in our bed. I hope that he continues to enjoy this as much as I do for at least a few more years!

I love that something so simple makes both of us so happy.

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28
Apr
Doctor! Doctor! Give Me The News:

via: weheartit

Today was Milo’s 2 year well nugget visit. For Milo’s first year of life we had Kaiser which was great but our coverage ended & we had to go with a bit of a more budget friendly plan since we have to pay 100% for health coverage. Unfortunately I had to switch Doctors for him as well. The past year with that has been a bumpy road. I some how picked a bad Doctor for him & had to switch Doctors again. So, Today was his first visit at his new Doctors office.

He hates the Doctors office. Like, pretty much everything to do with it besides the Finding Nemo playing in the waiting room & the free stickers. Otherwise…the Doctor can SUCK IT as far as he is concerned. The only part Milo cooperated with was taking stickers & having his ears checked. Everything else he pretty much made the Doctor work for.

Overall he is perfect. (duh!) Doesn’t seem to show any apparent health concerns or learning delays. His picky eating is OK. We need to lose the paci though. Our plan is to toss them this weekend & pray to baby paci jesus for the best!

We didn’t end up getting any immunizations today. We have to go back next week for them because we are waiting for his official med records to be sent to the new office. Which we were OK with. Gives me a bit more time to decide what immunizations to get first. I don’t talk about it a lot on here but, we’ve had a bit of a “custom” vaccine schedule. He will get most of his vaccines but, when we choose. He’s only had the DTAP & Polio so far. Once at 6 months & once at 1 yr. So we are a bit behind on the boosters for those because we’ve had a crazy time finding a good Doctor. But, I think I really like this new Doctor. They made me comfortable about our vaccine choices & not like a crazy hippy. Now that Milo is two, I’m more comfortable with him receiving vaccines. I just really wanted him to have a good immune system built up before he received some of the vaccines. And he is a healthy-healthy boy! So, I’m more comfortable with it all now. I still only like him to get one vaccine at a time. So we might have a couple of pokey visits coming up, which I’m sure will make him hate the Doctor even more.

OK, the nitty gritty. This is a close approximation because Milo wasn’t overly cooperative with the office visit, remember:

Height: 36” 95%

Weight: 29lbs. (with shoes on) 77%

Head: 19” 52% (that’s like the lowest yet I think. His body finally caught up to his giant noggin.)

I forgot to ask percentiles & they didn’t offer them up, it was a hectic visit to say the least. But I found this handy calculator so the above percentiles have been created according to it.

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25
Apr
This Guy

May very well have a touch of OCD. Or he could be just a normal kiddo. I don’t really have any other kiddos to compare him to seeing as he is our first.

He is so funny some times. He can be Very particular about the way he likes things. The other night Mercer spun his tray of food around for him to focus on his chicken, & he freaked. Quickly spun it back into the spot it was before Mercer had touched it. Saturday afternoon we were at an Antique store shopping for a gift for someone & it was a nerving experience. (never take a 2yr old in an antique shop.) So of course he had to hold our hands at all times. Except he didn’t want anything to do with holding my hand, he had to hold Mercer’s hand at all times, & it had to be his right hand. If Mercer grabbed his hand with his left hand he got upset, & demanded his right hand. So strange to me that he even pays attention to things like that. He does a lot of little things like this that I find so funny!

He is now repeating absolutely everything we say. Yeah, everything! So we’ve been trying to really watch what we say around him but that is harder than I thought it was going to be.

He’s always liked to wear sunglasses but lately I’m starting to think it’s almost a security thing for him. This weekend we were around Mercer’s family a lot. We don’t get together with them all that often like my family does so he’s still a bit shy around all of them. He wore his glasses constantly over Saturday & Sunday. Even at the dinner table during parts of Easter dinner. I let him. I think it’s cute. The Easter bunny brought him new red glasses, their his new faves. He is 2 & has approximately 5 different sunglasses in his rotation.

Also? We just grow more & more obsessively in love with him daily. It is a great feeling. He is so lucky to have two parents that are absolutely proud, never afraid to show it, & would do absolutely ANYthing to help him or get a giggle out of him.

He has his 2 year dr. appt later on in the week with a brand new doc. I’m excited for it, I feel like he hasn’t had a doctors appt in a real long time.

A little Milo update. I need to do these more often.

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17
Apr
iLife

Eating sushi at our favorite spot. Milo loves sushi now.

Early morning us. I’m pretty scary but who cares because it’s all about MJ anyway. We send Mercer these kinds of pictures all through out the day while he’s at work.