My poor baby! Posted 12/22/2008 6:44:27 AM It's a sucky day. Well, okay, it's fine now. He's happy and sleeping, got to eat a great lunch with mom at a place I've wanted to go to for forever but wasn't sure Pax would like, and we're going to look at a beautiful house later on. But... :(Today I accidentally dislocated Pax's elbow. Or he did it. Or gravity did it. I don't know! He ran out of the play area and I went out to fetch him, held his hand to walk him back in, he thew himself to the floor and I held on tight so he wouldn't hit his head on the hard tiles (I just let go in the padded play area). Next thing I know he's grabbing his arm and SCREAMING and sobbing and his face is read and his arm is limp :(Luckily the doctor is only a 5 minute drive max away from there and they worked us in right away, had to move two appointments for us. Pax was just sobbing the whole way, holding on tight in the waiting room and crying into my shoulder. :( I felt like crap. The doctor was able to just pop it back in and after a minute of listening to my mom talk on the phone he calmed down. His arm was fine, the doctor talked to me for a few minutes and said it's common, he's done it himself to his own daughter and they see it a lot. I still feel awful though. If y'all had only seen the look on his face... :( Oy. At least we have Grammy/My mom. Pax has flipflopped to loving daddy again and just barely being able to stand mommy, which is normal, but I wanted to give him a treat so I called mom up and asked for a visit. We went to her office for a bit, then went out to lunch. Pax was so happy to see his grammy! My mom noted that I might also need some "mom time" after that experience. Not like it's an abnormal experience, and it's something we'll probably go through again (ie, if it pops out once it'll probably pop out many times), but it's still my first "medical emergency" y'know? A busted lip made me feel bad enough! *Sigh*Okay, venting/whining a bit has made me feel better. Pax has been down about an hour and a half. I hope he gets a full 3 hours today. I'm sure he needs it with all the stress of this morning, and I'm running three loads of wash while he's down. There's a park right near the house we're going to see so whenever he's up I might just take him out there to play for a bit. Or maybe I'll keep him locked up. I'm so nervous about hurting him now! (0) Comments

My poor baby! Posted 12/22/2008 6:43:28 AM It's a sucky day. Well, okay, it's fine now. He's happy and sleeping, got to eat a great lunch with mom at a place I've wanted to go to for forever but wasn't sure Pax would like, and we're going to look at a beautiful house later on. But... :(Today I accidentally dislocated Pax's elbow. Or he did it. Or gravity did it. I don't know! He ran out of the play area and I went out to fetch him, held his hand to walk him back in, he thew himself to the floor and I held on tight so he wouldn't hit his head on the hard tiles (I just let go in the padded play area). Next thing I know he's grabbing his arm and SCREAMING and sobbing and his face is read and his arm is limp :(Luckily the doctor is only a 5 minute drive max away from there and they worked us in right away, had to move two appointments for us. Pax was just sobbing the whole way, holding on tight in the waiting room and crying into my shoulder. :( I felt like crap. The doctor was able to just pop it back in and after a minute of listening to my mom talk on the phone he calmed down. His arm was fine, the doctor talked to me for a few minutes and said it's common, he's done it himself to his own daughter and they see it a lot. I still feel awful though. If y'all had only seen the look on his face... :( Oy. At least we have Grammy/My mom. Pax has flipflopped to loving daddy again and just barely being able to stand mommy, which is normal, but I wanted to give him a treat so I called mom up and asked for a visit. We went to her office for a bit, then went out to lunch. Pax was so happy to see his grammy! My mom noted that I might also need some "mom time" after that experience. Not like it's an abnormal experience, and it's something we'll probably go through again (ie, if it pops out once it'll probably pop out many times), but it's still my first "medical emergency" y'know? A busted lip made me feel bad enough! *Sigh*Okay, venting/whining a bit has made me feel better. Pax has been down about an hour and a half. I hope he gets a full 3 hours today. I'm sure he needs it with all the stress of this morning, and I'm running three loads of wash while he's down. There's a park right near the house we're going to see so whenever he's up I might just take him out there to play for a bit. Or maybe I'll keep him locked up. I'm so nervous about hurting him now! (0) Comments

Three Months Posted 12/17/2008 9:44:11 PM Pax has now been home for three months. Wow. Hard to believe that just three months ago he was screaming when Nik left him alone with me and eating cereal bars 24/7. He's come a long way so fast...Latest development? Terrible twos. Oh yeah, my boy's got 'em. The last couple weeks have been a bit, er, testy. I remember reading another woman's blog, someone who adopted 2 kids from Liberia and one from Guatemala and they all came home last year. Her Guatemalan son suddenly hit the terrible twos and she said it was like a switch had been turned on and suddenly he was a different boy. I gotta say i was slightly skeptical but, yeah, that's how it happened here too. They say when you adopt a kid they fall directly to an emotional age of zero. [FIC] The Herald 6/?. . Some say they grow from that age chronologically, but I'm a fan of the theory that different kids will catch up at different rates, some lagging for a long time and some catching up quickly. Pax did have a lot in common with an infant when he first came home despite his independent nature. He had certain cries and sounds that were more like a child under a year, and just seemed younger. Not anymore. My son has caught up to where he's supposed to be and full on toddler. For any of you who play World of Warcraft. . Drivin' me nuts I swear! He's FAST! He's BRAVE! He's into everything! He's violent and loud and emotional and cuddly and happy and talkative and very, very, very smart which I'm sure will be great when he's older but OMG they boy figures out everything! And he looooves to push my buttons too. I know it will ease up once all those mollars finally come in, but he's being "all boy" as they say, rough and rowdy, and very quick. Of course, objectively I'm so happy about this. I couldn't have asked for more, really. When I'm tired and cranky, though? All I can think is "why couldn't I have had one of the dumb or quiet ones!" Eh, maybe next time :)As for the house thing, we're still looking around. The houses in the area we want to live seem to be getting snatched up very quickly. dane cook. . Misquoting Jesus. . There's one I just saw today that's priced too high for the market over there. In fact it's priced more than $30K above tax value. Uh huh, yeah, even if someone is dumb enough to offer you what you're asking you really think their realtor would let them close with that? It looks very nice, though. In a quiet cul-de-sac, high fence, all new floors, paint and appliances, and no one's lived in it for almost a year (it was a foreclosure that a company fixed up). We're going to ask for a walkthrough on the hopes that unlike the other houses it won't have had an offer yet, and if we like it we'll put down an offer, and on the hopes that they aren't idiots they'll take that or a second reasonable offer to get it off their hands since we'll offer above tax value for the convenience of moving into a home we don't need to fix. So, that's today's plan. We'll see what tomorrow's plan is then :). (0) Comments

*sigh* Posted 12/15/2008 6:26:59 PM So tonight while getting Pax ready for bed we put Vapor Rub on his feet. Nothing abnormal there, works well on a congested toddler to put Vapor Rub on their feet under their blanket sleeper. Pax, like me, is congested (had a slight fever this morning too) so that and a humidifier are helping out right now.Anywho, while rubbing it on his feet, Nik looks me in the eye and says "you know, I put some on my feet and it didn't do anything for me. Not sure it's working." He was totally serious. It was one of those head slap moments. Never mind that my husband isn't congested yet he keeps rubbing this stuff on his chest...Trying not to laugh I calmly explain that the point of putting it on his feet under his blanket sleeper is that he'll be able to smell it, since the sleeper is all one clothing item, and the stronger adult dose we're giving him will help him better than the children's dose but shouldn't be put on his chest. So there's no reason for an adult to put it on his feet. That's just silly.Nik nodded like he understood then mentioned that he'd keep on with the normal Vapor Rub schedule of putting it on at night and in the morning."In the morning? Under his socks?""Yeah, why?""... honey, that doesn't do anything but get his feet wet..."Never mind the fact that Nik today was complaining about how hard his ankle socks are to fold over at the top and how he thinks he should maybe stop doing it. Gee, I dunno honey, they're obviously too high up...*sigh* Men. I keep him in my life to amuse me, neh? (0) Comments

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