Graham had a cold a couple weeks ago and weathered it without ear infections. We had his 6 week checkup for the tubes and everything looks great. He has been sleeping great the last few weeks. This is partly due to feeling better (i.e. no ear infection) and also just that he is better at making himself fall back asleep. Occasionally we will hear him stir in the middle of the night and make some noises, but he almost always goes right back to sleep on his own. When we put him to bed at night, he is usually drowsy after his bottle but not entirely out, and he falls asleep great on his own. He has also been sleeping later! The norm had always been around 5:30 am, but lately we have been getting more like 7:00, so that means almost a 12 hour night. The only downside to this is that sleeping later in the morning means a morning nap is not entirely necessary, so that may be falling by the wayside if he keeps it up.
We had trouble getting Graham to smile this time for some reason. And he pulled of the number 11 and tried to eat it, so not our most successful photo shoot. You may also notice the drool rash on his chin. This is has fluctuating between bad and worse all winter. Most weekends it would get better and then when he went back to daycare it would get worse again. They stopped feeding him bananas because that seems to aggravate it. My latest solution is twice daily applications of cortisone cream and using Cetaphil lotion, so we'll see how that fares.
The kid loves to eat! Graham has a good, healthy appetite and likes anything we give him. He has also discovered a way to entertain himself when he's full...rewarding his good buddy Otis.
Graham would much prefer to play with "real stuff" than his toys and generally tries to get into any cabinet possible. He has his waving down pat and can clap now too. I often times sing patty cake when changing his diaper and used to clap his hands together for him. Now when I start singing it, he claps his own hands, so smart! He is also starting to learn to blow kisses.
This is one of the few toys Graham will sit and play with
He makes this Ooh Ooh sound whenever he is excited...when we walk in the room, when he wants a toy, when we feed him
He still loves to go for the stairs and knows to turn around and go backwards to come down.
Around and around the dining room, a favorite game (please ignore the mess on the table, lots of projects going on at the time)
Just cute to watch him munch away
Graham has been wearing 18 month size clothes for a few weeks now and wears a size 4 diaper. His hair just keeps getting longer and sometimes we think the back is starting to curl, so we shall see...
We love our Grammy (as Parker calls him)!
