....since JJ came home with us.
I am proud to say we have really started to get things down patt.
He was a bear all Tuesday night though. Didn't eat very well, was so clingy and started a three hour crying fit around 9 pm. I felt so bad for him because NOTHING seemed to help him. My biggest fear was that this was a "typical" behavior caused from "his past" (read between the lines okay) and so I was worried. He finally passed out with a bottle (that I had been trying to get him to eat for hours) around midnight. I sat down and did some research and I found that the Rotavirus vaccine can cause diarrhea and vomiting. He got that Tuesday morning so I think it's what made him so fussy, he did have diarrhea too.
As strange as this is, Makily LAUGHS....I mean BELLY LAUGHS when he cries.
She's a turd!
I am also REALLY trying to juggle when to pick him up and when to let him chill. He wants to be held all the time. He has been in several other homes before mine so I feel like I need to pick him up so he knows I am here for him. On the other hand I can't get anything done that way and it makes for a VERY spoiled little boy.
His social worker came over Wednesday and we chatted. She was impressed with him and how he is with me. He is very aware of where I am in the room if I am not holding him and she saw that he does not like it when I put him down. She said as long as I know him tummy is full and that his hiney is dry that I shouldn't pick him up every time. So we are working on that.
I borrowed an awesome baby sling from my friend Sarah today and HE LOVED IT. I ordered it online so when I am holding him I can at least get some other things done.
We have already totally fallen in love with this kid.
It's looking good on our end as far as keeping JJ long term. We are trying not to get our hopes up too high but what the social worker told me was VERY promising for us. All that being said things could change overnight when it comes to this sort of thing so we are VERY cautiously optimistic.
His cradle cap is pretty much gone now. YAY!
Makily had another field trip on Friday. It was to Chuckie Cheese. JJ and I went with her.
She rode several of the rides and had a BALL watching the crazy boys in her class dancing and being silly.
She is such a little peach.
It's amazing how she has become my big girl almost overnight. She honestly is my "easy" child if you can believe that one! She patts JJ when they sit together and today she was just talking and smiling at him.
They are too sweet together.
****By the way Keely, I LOOOOVED your suggestion to call JJ "Wilson" from Home Improvement. I swear I laughed OUT LOUD here in the den. That was hilarious! *****
**** Laurie....honey I have GOT to post that "Ken LEEEE" video on my blog. I know you love the name but I think we are sticking to JJ.*****
LOLOL
I am proud to say we have really started to get things down patt.
He was a bear all Tuesday night though. Didn't eat very well, was so clingy and started a three hour crying fit around 9 pm. I felt so bad for him because NOTHING seemed to help him. My biggest fear was that this was a "typical" behavior caused from "his past" (read between the lines okay) and so I was worried. He finally passed out with a bottle (that I had been trying to get him to eat for hours) around midnight. I sat down and did some research and I found that the Rotavirus vaccine can cause diarrhea and vomiting. He got that Tuesday morning so I think it's what made him so fussy, he did have diarrhea too.
As strange as this is, Makily LAUGHS....I mean BELLY LAUGHS when he cries.
She's a turd!
I am also REALLY trying to juggle when to pick him up and when to let him chill. He wants to be held all the time. He has been in several other homes before mine so I feel like I need to pick him up so he knows I am here for him. On the other hand I can't get anything done that way and it makes for a VERY spoiled little boy.
His social worker came over Wednesday and we chatted. She was impressed with him and how he is with me. He is very aware of where I am in the room if I am not holding him and she saw that he does not like it when I put him down. She said as long as I know him tummy is full and that his hiney is dry that I shouldn't pick him up every time. So we are working on that.
I borrowed an awesome baby sling from my friend Sarah today and HE LOVED IT. I ordered it online so when I am holding him I can at least get some other things done.
We have already totally fallen in love with this kid.
It's looking good on our end as far as keeping JJ long term. We are trying not to get our hopes up too high but what the social worker told me was VERY promising for us. All that being said things could change overnight when it comes to this sort of thing so we are VERY cautiously optimistic.
His cradle cap is pretty much gone now. YAY!
Makily had another field trip on Friday. It was to Chuckie Cheese. JJ and I went with her.
She rode several of the rides and had a BALL watching the crazy boys in her class dancing and being silly.
She is such a little peach.
It's amazing how she has become my big girl almost overnight. She honestly is my "easy" child if you can believe that one! She patts JJ when they sit together and today she was just talking and smiling at him.
They are too sweet together.
****By the way Keely, I LOOOOVED your suggestion to call JJ "Wilson" from Home Improvement. I swear I laughed OUT LOUD here in the den. That was hilarious! *****
**** Laurie....honey I have GOT to post that "Ken LEEEE" video on my blog. I know you love the name but I think we are sticking to JJ.*****
LOLOL
4 comments:
I am so happy for you and for makily..and for jj.. i think of you guys all the time and the good deeds that you are doing for that lil boy.. he is adorable.. so teeny.. take care
Happy Mother's Day, Trish! I love seeing the updates and the pics! They are both cutiepies! I am praying that things work out and you get to keep JJ.
Happy Mommy's day!!!! Love the photos! I know what you mean about Makily being your easy child, Little J is often my easy child as well as opposed to his typical sister!! I love the name Ken Lee, but I love JJ even more!!! It goes with my Little J and Princess J quite nicely!!!
Sending lots of prayers that you get to keep JJ long term. He is so blessed to have your family! Whatever those other people did to him, I hope Karma bites them in the butt huge and they don't deserve to have such a wonderful little boy!
sitting on that bumbo seat, it seems that jj is actually developmentally ahead. Isnt he only four months old? Look how strong he is!
I once took care of a two DAY old who would not stop crying for nothing. The little girl cried all dayyy long. Later I found out about her background- she was born with an addiciton to cocaine, and her daddy had died in six inches of water before she was even born. Poor angel, she had such struggles to overcome!
I wish I had known when I had her, because understanding might had made me a little better at caring for her. I was just a teenage babysitter at the time.
PS I also wait in eager anticipation for the CINDY LAUPER moment in that "we are the world video"
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