WORK
I haven’t been a good blogger or blog friend lately. My laptop at home is almost completely conked.
Lots of goings on at work. My BFF at work gave her notice. We’ve been talking about it for months, so I knew all along. But I’m still sad. She’s going to be working the same hours and making about 3x as much money. People always make more money when they leave here, but it’s not “about the money” that sparks you to leave, it’s feeling “underappreciated” – maybe the two do go hand in hand.
I’m working on trying to get some of her client work and also getting my work completed (or at least ball out of my court) before I leave for my SLC/So. Cal. trip (6 days away)
The trip is sneaking up on me. I need to pull stuff from the attic this weekend to be prepared for SLC weather and So.Cal. weather, including both ski stuff and golf attire.
I’m very excited about the trip! At least the SLC part will be more of a “vacation”! And I can’t wait to throw a few cold ones back with the group out there!
THE BOY’S HEALTH
The boy had his 12 month well visit on Tuesday. We love our pediatrician. Remember how Lois picks doctors based on their looks. Andrew has a super cute doctor.
She was happy with all of his progress, but she was worried about his speech. He doesn’t say mama or dada or baba. He definitely babbles a great deal, but we can’t tell if he ever says anything intentionally. We think he’s said “car” or “dog” on more than one occasion, but we are not sure.
She mentioned this program for him to get a speech therapist. After talking to other people, it would be very hard to get him in there based on that being his only need. But we are getting info from people to really work on him with it.
As for everything else, he was just fine.
His stats = 23 lbs 13 ounces and 29 inches long
SHOES
As for the shoes, Nurse J. called me after my big shoe post and read from one of her textbooks. Apparently, either shoes or R*beez are fine. The preference for shoes from a pediatric standpoint appears to be more geared towards protecting their feet from ouchies than for support. And yes, barefoot or R*beez help them feel the ground with their feet.
We are still happy with our decision to get the shoes because he’s already walked outside and because they are so damn cute.
Plus, he’s really doing well in them!
I don’t know why my living room is so dark on video. I need to work on that.
MY VALENTINE
We don’t do anything for Valentine’s Day. First of all, Lois hates the idea of “wasting” money on boxes of chocolates we don’t need or flowers we will just kill.
So I got her a card from Andrew with a “coopon” for a night to herself while Andrew stays home and watches me. And I gave her a coupon for a “weekend getaway with or without the boy with no expiration date.” She gave me a card from Andrew (same card – great minds think alike), a musical rose that Andrew loved and a Take 5 bar.
While I’m not into the whole holiday part of V-day, I will take this opportunity to tell the world how wonderful my wife is.
I am definitely not the easiest person in the world. She is so low maintenance and she puts up with all of my crap. She is the world’s best mother and does everything for Andrew and I.
I look at her sometimes and wonder how I got so lucky. What the hell does she possibly see in me?!?!
She is beautiful, sexy and wonderful in every way. She just sucks people in with her genuine charm and modest smile. I am eternally grateful for everything she does and everything she is.
I absolutely adore everything about her! My wife, my love, my Valentine.
I hate that I will be spending 9 days away from her. Sigh.
pourlebebe said,
February 15, 2008 at 3:36 pm
It sounds like Andrew is really doing fine, but if your pediatrician recommended having his speech looked at you probably should see what’s out there. If this birthtothree thing is early intervention, paid for by the state, then they should come out to your house and evaluate Andrew to see how his speech and sounds are. They’ll have some games and tests (fun ones, not scary ones) to check out all the sounds that he makes and the way that he communicates his needs with you. Then, after looking at all of that, they should be able to tell you an age range for his skills and then let you know if they are up to speed or delayed to a degree that he would qualify for services. Don’t let people tell you he wouldn’t qualify without meeting him and checking out his skills! At this age, services would probably be a speech therapist coming to your house (or his daycare) for half and hour once a week or so to work with him and play games. Totally non-invasive and just something extra that couldn’t hurt.
Good luck, it can be scary when someone says that there might be a delay happening, but if you just take things one step at a time you can explore your options and decide what works best for you!
KJand the Kids said,
February 15, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Andrew is PERFECT. He’s VERY interactive. I don’t think that because he’s not “talking” means anything is wrong.
ha ha
He will be JUST fine. Seriously. I had a friend who’s son didn’t say a WORD until he was 2 1/2 and then just started spitting sentences out.
I think people worry and that’s totally normally. I worry that my boys are NEAR where their sister was at their age. whatever.
I keep telling them that they will talk JUST as good as her when they are 15
He’s walking SOOO good.
Must be those shoes.
Stacey said,
February 15, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Wow, look at him walking! Way to go, Andrew! I’m sure the speech thing will fix itself. My brother didn’t talk much at that age. Mostly grunted.
Have fun on your vacation!
aradia said,
February 15, 2008 at 8:04 pm
OMG- He is so cute!! My boy cousins were slower to start talking than my girls were, so I wouldn’t worry too much. However, if you have a good resource like that then why not, huh?
Hope work gets better- sorry about the BFF~ Aradia
dismantledarmadillo said,
February 15, 2008 at 8:25 pm
As others have said Andrew is *totally* fine. Sumo is 14 months and just in the past two weeks has started saying dog cat and dada. He did plenty of babbling that didn’t sound like anythingbut it took him to now to get articulate… well, as articulate as you can be at that age.
Lois sounds like Burtle in so many ways when it comes to Valentine’s Day. She bought me a card, a rose and a thing of B*ayer Back Relief stuff. It does make sense though not spending money on things like massive amounts of candy and jewlery. Hell if she’s going to buy me something, I’d rather it was something more elctronically inclined like the video capture device I’m coveting… well, either that or a whole new computer. Ahem, this is why I don’t do the monies so much ;o)
Make sure and have tons of fun on your vacation! We shall all live vicariously through the pictures **hint, hint**
merr said,
February 15, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I wouldn’t worry about his speech. Cam didn’t talk for forever. I think he was 2 before he was really talking. He was just stubborn and obviously he is fine now.
Can’t wait for your vacation, and to meet you up close and in person!!!!
denise said,
February 15, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Aww that’s so cool how you go on and go about Lois and her qualities. Happy belated v day. Have fun on your trip, i wish that you were coming to No ca instead. Btw…. I took Cameron to stride rite yesterday for his news shoes. He went from a size 6 to an 8 in 6 months. $60.00 out the door ouch.
Ky said,
February 16, 2008 at 6:20 am
I didn’t talk until I was two and my first word were read off of a sign I saw out the window of the car. “No vacancy”. Put that in a baby book! J also didn’t talk much until he turned two either and now the boy reads words, talks in complete sentences and says things like, “Mom, that’s just Amazing!” at 2 1/2. He’s ok. If you feel in your heart that you should see a speech person then do it for your peace of mind. If you don’t, then I wouldn’t worry about your perfect little guy.
Mo said,
February 17, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Didn’t Andrew just recently turn a year? Wow, I guess I’m just way behind the times, but it doesn’t sound unusual at all to not be talking. My boy started talking at 27 months (ok, definitely a delay) and then in full sentences. The girl started with the language much earlier, but there still wasn’t much of anything at 12 months, as I remember. I wouldn’t go too much out of your way to get help now. Wait a few months and then decide. I remember that the girl had a complete verbal explosion around 18 months.
indigoscot said,
February 18, 2008 at 9:45 pm
good grief, baby indigoscot is already 20lbs and 28.5″ at 6 months!! he’s going to be giantor at a year!!!!!!
don’t worry about the speech thing, it’ll be fine. doctors like to use charts and averages too much sometimes i think.
meg said,
February 19, 2008 at 7:09 pm
My mom says I didn’t talk right away either… but once I did I was talking almost complete sentences. They say that kids that aren’t talking alot at first are just taking it all in and then once they start expressing what they have taken in they will be talking up a storm!!!!