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Random thoughts

2008-07-04T01:09:00Z

Cleaning up a carseat full of puke is the universe’s way of repaying you for all the evil things you did to your parents when you were young.

Fingerpainting!

2008-06-27T05:46:00Z

His first instinct was to eat the blue gooey paint, but quickly discovered the wonders of fingerpaint. I think his highchair yogurt painting experience came in handy. We won’t discuss the red paint all over the feet and floor.

Our first refrigerator art!

All hail the duplos.

2008-06-24T22:35:00Z

Freaking loves the “bocks”. But more than the “bocks” (Lego Duplos), he loves the “guy” as we call him. We need to get some back-up “guys” because he’s going to freak-out when the “guy” gets lost. When I can’t find him, we go around the house calling “guuuuuy!, guuuuuuy!”. Unfortunately, he never makes it easy and answers back.

Like father, like son.

2008-06-24T05:43:00Z

Who knew sleeping like this was genetic?

18 months

2008-06-24T05:14:00Z

Can you believe he’s already on his way to 2 years old?!

Last Monday we went for his 18 month check up. The stats:

Weight: 19lbs, 13 oz.
Height 32 inches
Head circumference = 45.5cm.

Never going to hit 20lb consistently. Taking a look at the growth chart, you might notice he’s waaay down below the lowest weight line. That line is for the 5th percentile.

Of course, him being preemie didn’t help, but by now he should have made some progress on catching up on weight gain (by 2 years old caught up). Unfortunately (or fortunately, I can’t really tell anymore) he prefers low-calorie foods over high calorie foods. If given the choice between a blueberry and some ice cream, he’ll take the blueberry without question. This isn’t helping at all. That combined with childhood sicknesses (Hand, foot, and mouth 2 weeks ago, and apparently Roseola this weekend) he isn’t exactly packing on the pounds. The pediatrician ran some tests (blood counts, liver enzymes, electrolytes, thyroid, and celiac disease test). All came out totally fine. Going to check for malabsorption (I won’t tell you the fun details of that), but I’m sure it will be fine. The last remote thing to check for would be cystic fibrosis, which would be unlikely since he has no other symptoms really.

So we continue, trying to maximize the calories with our finicky, fruit-eating, ice-cream shunning, toddler who runs around like crazy burning off every last calorie that enters his lightweight body.

After the doctor’s visit, blood draw, and shots.

Some site updates

2008-06-09T14:38:00Z

Some changes to the site include links to Blip.tv (newer videos) and Youtube videos (older videos) on the right sidebar. In addition to our Flickr photos, these place often get new bits of Averyness even there isn’t a post on the blog. I also added a couple of links for places we go and also a link to the Amazon baby registry which is where we put anything we’re thinking of getting for him until we actually buy it.

The last month as been very busy for us, but hopefully things are slowing down a little so I’ll have a chance to post more. Avery is going for his 18month checkup next week so there will be new stats soon..

Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvac---cuuum!

2008-06-05T14:38:00Z

He actually says it like that. Sometimes he outdoes himself on the lead in. VvvvvvVvvvvVVvvvVvac! Avery is literally obsessed with the vacuum cleaner. He remembers where it is when the door is closed and can literally entertain himself with it for an hour. When he gets woken up unexpectedly sometimes, he wakes up and says “vac!” which makes me think he dreams about the vacuum too.

Actually, he’s kind of at the age where cleaning seems like a ton of fun because he loves the broom too, and putting things, anything in the trash can (toy or otherwise). He also likes to carry a bag of paper recycling down to the blue bin. He was freaking ecstatic the whole walk to the recycling bin carrying the paper bag, putting the stuff that fell out back in. He copies one of the older kids at daycare and says “i’m cleanin’” while he pushes the broom around. This weekend at the toy store we picked up a kid sized broom and dustpan. At another toy store I’ve seen a vacuum cleaner toy (has a girl on the box of course), but it was almost $30 so I let Ave play with it a while and then passed.

They also had real, but kid-sized rakes, shovels, and hoes, but that seemed like an emergency room visit waiting to happen.

Busy Weekend

2008-05-12T13:30:00Z

He really likes the blueberry and cheese danishes from Guglhupf.

Friday there was a crazy thunderstorm with marble sized hail. Saturday started with a trip to the strawberry farm, brunch at one of the daycare kids house, lunch with friends at weaver street, surprise going away party for a friend in the afternoon, followed by a temporarily quiet mommy and daddy coffee break while the little man slept. He was all tuckered out after all the playing with other people’s toys and dancing to show off at the surprise party. Sunday started out with running up and down the hallls at Carr Mill followed by breakfast at Guglhupf in Durham and a lazy day until a graduation party for a friend. Avery throughly enjoyed all of it and we discovered two things: 1) he is really outgoing and 2) he like to get down and boogie.

First kiss :)

2008-05-06T14:42:00Z

Sunday we went to the playground at the farmer’s market after watching the water baloon tossing contest at Carrboro Day. We ran into Shauna and Miles, whose spot we snagged at our daycare last year since she decided to stay home. Miles is about the same age as Avery. Both of us moms ran around making sure there were no head dives off the play structure or getting run over by the bigger kids. We were talking about the daycare (Miles is coming to our daycare in August this year) when we noticed that Avery and Miles faces were very close together. I was almost afraid Avery was biting him or something. They were kissing! I’m pretty sure there was tongue since they are both open mouth slobberers. Avery just learned how to kiss and apparently Miles had just learned too. They figured they’d test it out. It was so cute! I only wish I’d gotten a picture! This is the type of photographic embarrassment that would come in handy when he’s 16..

Arcade Fire on the Carrboro Town Commons

2008-05-05T15:09:00Z

Friday we went to the Change Rocks/Obama Early Vote concert, where Arcade Fire and SuperChunk played. Please excuse the people in front of us but this is the best picture I got while toddler wrangling and trying to enjoy Arcade Fire. Time to get some kid ear muffs for future events like this.

Avery's first political rally

2008-04-29T15:02:00Z

Last night we went to the Early Vote/Obama Rally. Avery was pretty good. He LOVED the warm up band and danced and entertained the people behind us. Luckily they entertained him too. He loved clapping when everyone clapped. We had to break out the emergency lollipop at some point and he slept about 45 minutes (thanks Lisa!) before waking up for Obama.

Hives

2008-04-22T02:25:00Z

Saturday afternoon, when we changing his slobber covered shirt, we discovered a quickly spreading rash all over his stomach and shoulder. We called the nurse line, they said probably “something viral”, maybe fifth disease, and wait it will go away in a few days. It didn’t seem to both him at all. He’d had a cold all week and maybe a low fever so some sort of random toddler rash was suspected. By bath and bedtime most of it was gone, and we thought not much of it. Until the next day, when it struck again. We were at a friends eating some passover leftovers when the whole back of his head broke out with the rash again. Since it was weekend walk-in hours at the pediatricians, we opted to have it checked out. After 2hrs of waiting at the peds (it went away and came back again in that time), our doc came in and said “hives”. The only thing is that we have no idea where it came from. He hasn’t had any new foods, and the context of each appearance of the hives was completely different. Doc gave him a dose of benadryl and said to give more if they show up again. He slept for almost 4 hrs after that benadryl, woke up for an hour to eat, and almost feel back asleep in my arms before sleeping the full night. Today again before and after daycare, we saw small patches of them but nothing covering large parts of his body, gave him a little more benadryl. Currently, we’re stumped as to what is causing them, though recent discredited suspects have been weeds, new shoes, pineapple, seasonal allergies?

Post-benadryl baby (didn’t even make in 2 minutes in the car):

I think these two pictures summarize why we don't have time to post much these days..

2008-04-14T03:32:00Z

Teeth = 7.

2008-03-24T02:55:00Z

Popsicles are good for teething. And they taste good. Especially locopops. Good thing he’s ecstatic about teethbrushing.

Egg hunting.

2008-03-24T02:42:00Z

We didn’t really do anything for Easter, but Avery is at the perfect age for anything that involves finding stuff and putting found stuff into container. And we happened to have some plastic eggs leftover from a purim party 2 years ago. Let the egg hunt begin!