First PT Appt

Teague had his first PT appointment today.  Last week he was evaluated and it was determined he needs to go 2x per week with at least 2x for 30 minutes a day of at home PT.  

I can't tell you enough how much of an improvement I have witnessed already &I we have only been doing the exercises for one week!

Today was a harder day for him.  They did a lot of massaging of the left lumbar muscle and by his shoulder in hopes that it would release some of the tightness.  She was worried his shoulder was stuck but thankfully it wasn't! 

He went on the stability ball.  An almost 10 month old on a stability ball, who knew!  

His scoliosis is causing several instabilities throughout his body.  The thoracic curve is causing his left arm to be week compared to his right.  

Crawling is never a necessity for a baby but in his situation it needs to become that.  Crawling promotes core strength  and strong core is needed for walking.  

He is still doing some things that he should not be doing at his age.  For in stance, when you hold him by the arms to walk he doesn't instantly want to put his legs down immediately and he stabilizes himself using mostly his right grip not his left.   

When you lift him on his side he doesn't always lift his head to try to be upright.  He should be trying to lift his body upright.  

Babies are born with their abdominal muscles not fully attached but as they get stronger the muscles kinda "merge".  This happens when they use their core.  Teagues are not merging as fast as a "normal" infant.  

However, even with these delays he will do just fine developmentally down the road!  Yeah 😄

I am so grateful for his PT referral.  

Happy Birthday

Last week my knee developed a click when I squat. I am attributing it to the fact that I am 32 as of today.  Wow that feels old.  

I spent the day I appointments.  It started out with Teagues 2 month well check.  He weighs 12lbs 6 ounces and he's 24 inches long.  He is very advanced (responding to voices by smiling with his entire face and following people/things).  

Massey came down with a cold last night so he got to see the doctor too.  He sat on the bench, observing everything that was done to Teague and him.  The doctor even pointed out his observing.  I managed to score a happy birthday sticker thanks to the nurses at the boys doctors.

Next we went to get some immunizations and vaccines.  The two boys and I got the flu shots.  Teague had three other immunizations and Massey had one.  Teague cried for a couple of seconds and Massey didn't cry at all.  He even waiting in his seat patiently to go first!  

The last appointment of the day was my appointment at the podiatrists.  My poor planters wart was in need of being evicted.  The doctor said I wasn't a smoker and I asked him how he knew that.  He said because one cigarette depletes the body of 70% of its circulation for 4 hours.  I have good circulation 👍🏼

I ended my birthday night with Pizza Hut brought to our house by the Gokeys, an adult coloring book (get your mind out of the gutter), $1.00 from my sweet nephew  & cake and ice cream from my parents.  

Can't wait to see what surprises 32 brings. 

Teague-6 days old!

I am so in love with this little man!

Barn

Masseys barn is finally finished!  After months of it sitting idol after I drew it and painted the bright red, it's done!  Mom finished the white and brick red and it looks great.  Now to add some artificial straw.  

My sunshine

I had such a great day with Mass yesterday!  I love spending Wednesdays with him so much.  He got his hair cut and sat there like such a big boy.  He sucked on his sucker and smiled the entire time :-). Than he helped me wash big bulky comforters at the laundry mat.  He kept pointing to the different colored dryers saying green, yellow, green, yellow.  He is becoming such a big helper.  He helped shove the blankets in the washer.  We picked up a couple of things from the grocery store.  He told me he was tired and layed down in the grocery cart.  Sure looks comfy ;-). We ended our little outing with slushes from the DQ...he requested a pink one, LOL. 

A very delayed update

I completely forgot to post after our 28 week u/s.  We had to have another u/s at 28 weeks because of a lowline placenta. Great news the placenta moved up to over 5cm!  Yeah :-)  The u/s tech informed us that we have a rather large baby.  He was measuring almost 1w6d ahead in his size.  He weighed 3 lbs 4 ounces already.  I guess this is heavy, lol.  She wanted us to have another u/s to see his size.  We waited to meet with the doctor kinda worried that we may have an elephant on our hands.  The doctor told us the u/s looked great and the only reason to have another u/s would be to see if I wanted to push out a larger baby. We said "no thanks" and she laughed.  She told us that the road has been paved by Massey ;-). eek! She also said that the larger babies eat better and sleeping longer so I guess this isn't too bad. Haha.  She said that we shouldn't expect anything less than an 8lb baby! So on the that note...being on our big boy 💙 and we will see how accurate that u/s is 😉

My first purchase

I went shopping with my sister today.  Meijer had 40% off Carter clothing.  Up until now I haven't purchased anything for the little mister.  I was scared that if I did something would go horribly wrong and I would have reminders everywhere.  My sister noticed some adorable onesies and encouraged me to buy them.  I placed them in my cart and the entire time I was questioning if I should be buying them. I did and I feel good about it, even a little more excited about our little mister.  I think it's one step in the right direction.