Williams First birthday video at Pop and Lulu’s

Baby teeth suck(for a better term)

Our youngest son, William, is getting his teeth in and we are going through(once again) the challenge of “"Should we go in and comfort him” versus “He needs to be able to deal with a little pain himself”.  You really want to go in and comfort him but you know that if you do that, he will wake up every hour wanting attention(from our experience with Ashton).  Last night William got up at 11:30 and we let him cry for about 10 – 15 minutes and he finally put himself to sleep.  I think he only woke up one more time last night so hopefully we can get him back to sleeping through the night again(mainly for Melanie’s sake since she has been getting up with him). 

A short video of William

I filmed this on Saturday.

http://www.mikeandmel.com/videos/MVI_1058.AVI

A funny thing Ashton has been doing lately….

Whenever we let the dogs in, Ashton has been saying “Oh God” over and over again.  We think its because he’s getting the G and the D confused or maybe he is seeing something we don’t see.    I just thought it was funny.

Note to self. Don’t change baby formula if the baby is happy.

Last weekend we decided to see if the special Enfamil formula we were using was really making a difference so we moved William back to the previous formula he was on.  Well that was a big mistake.  He cried for basically nine hours straight due to gas problems.  At nine in the evening we decided that it had to be the formula that was making him fussy so I ran to the store and got back in time for his last feeding with the old formla.  It took a day for him to get back to being less fussy but he was much better.  We decided that the formula is definitely worth the price.

This is not the face of a happy baby

We have had a tough couple of days with William. He has been gassy, grumpy and hadn’t wanted to sleep at night. After discussing the problems with the doctor at his one month checkup they had us switch from the Enfamil Prosobee formula over to the Enfamil Nutramigen. So far we haven’t noticed any dramatic change but we are going to give it a couple of days. Since this formula is double the price of the Prosobee formula I’m expecting great results or we’ll be moving back to the cheaper formula. We also think that some of the issues may be from the oatmeal we are adding to the formula for the reflux. It’s a real guessing game. You try something for a couple of days and if it works then you go with it else you try something different. Its very frustrating but we know that it will get better.

As far as his one month visit, William is now ten pounds and is twenty one inches tall. It’s really amazing how much they grow in a couple of weeks.

Baby is doing well

It’s been a little over 3 weeks now and we are all doing well.  William developed reflux after the second week but we have been giving him Zantac and weighting his formula down with oatmeal cereal and now he isn’t having any screaming fits after he eats.   For a day or so we thought he might have colic like Ashton but we were very, very relieved that it was reflux(not that we like that he has this either)

 Melanie is hanging tough watching William from 11:30 or so until the morning.  She usually goes to bed around 9 to get a little sleep and I watch William until after the 10:30 feeding which usually ends after 11.  I wish we could go ahead and move William into his crib but he has to sleep in the car carrier at night and Melanie worries about him choking(which luckily he hasn’t had that happen yet).  As soon as he out grows the reflux we will move him into his crib and hopefully we can rotate some of the feedings.

One noteworthy item is William has started to smile a little.  I haven’t been able to time it right to get a picture but I hope to get one up soon of his smiling little face.

Big Boy Walkin….

Here is the promised walking video. Ashton started walking on September 11, 2006.

Ashton is now 10 months old

He is now pulling himself up and has four top front teeth coming in. He is also starting to eat food off of our plates when we go out to eat. He really likes Moe’s cheese quesadilla’s.

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Rub a Dub Dub, I like my Tub

Ashton was having a good time in the tub so I thought I get some video.

http://picasaweb.google.com/smithatlanta/AshtonDecember172005/photo#5090449484358730274

http://picasaweb.google.com/smithatlanta/AshtonDecember172005/photo#5090449583142978098

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