a Poopy update

It's been awhile since we've updated last. We've been quite lazy with this journal lately.

First off, I wanted to update on Maddox bowel movements (lol). Since he was about 2 months old we've had issues with him not being able to poop frequent enough and then when he does, they are hard and he has a really hard time getting them out.

After not pooping for over a week and struggling to for 3 days, Maddox finally did get something out on Friday. After that, he still had more in him and a large mass on the left side of his belly. He continued to struggle all Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Sunday afternoon the poor boy was in tears as he was trying to go again so we called the clinic and brought him to be checked out. The mass he had on his left side was even larger and now Maddox required an enema. Sunday night we started him on the prescription Miralax and gave him an enema. About 45 minutes after the enema, he pooped. He ended up bruising his butt in the process. :(

The good news is that Wednesday afternoon he went again on his own and it wasn't hard and he has gone today as well. I think the two jars of mandarin oranges that I bought him are helping alot too. We were supposed to give him another enema on Tuesday, but we didn't get a chance to and because he went on his own on Wednesday, we didn't have to give it.

Hopefully he keeps this up. He has a doctor's appointment on the 4th of September. Hopefully he will be able to eat normal foods after that. Right now he can not have any thing with Dairy. No milk, no cheese, no yogurt, etc. He cannot have Apples or Banana's and he is supposed to eat high fiber foods. We already try to buy him products that have a high amount of Fiber in them, but we've never restricted Dairy (limited cheese of course). He really wants cheese and yogurt though and hopefully he will be able to eat those again... soon!

We had to bring Maddox into the doctor the week before too. Not for pooping issues, but he has been rubbing his eye for months. He rubbed it non-stop, all day long for the first month, took about a week break and then started rubbing again. Something that his Grandma Diane wears or gives off (her dander?) causes Maddox irritation. He reacts the same way at our friend's, Krista, house and when the doctor came in the room. He also reacted really bad when we went to the MN Zoo on August 12th. He is on a trial of Zyrtec, which has actually been working great! He also has a sample of some eyedrops (can't remember the name right now), but he's only had to use those once. He has two prescriptions (one for the Zyrtec and one for the eye drops) and I'll be filling both of them. He had a runny nose the other day when Grandma Diane came home, but other than that, he's been runny nose and itchy eye free since he started the meds!

Anyways! Not a whole lot else is going on. His vocabulary is growing so much! You can tell when he is learning new stuff because he starts to stutter a little. But he says the most interesting things and his newest thing is "I have an idea!" He also tells me "If you want to play trains, you can!" and he will continue to tell me "you can! you can! you can!" until I play with him. He also comes up with really creative plans - like when we all wanted Dairy Queen and Maddox just wanted to stay home and play with Grandma Diane... He said that it would be "OK" if Mommy and Bepaw went to Dairy Queen. He didn't want anything, he just wanted Grandma to stay home. So Uncle, Bepaw, and I went to Dairy Queen while Maddox and Grandma stayed home to play "Croquet Ball".

But now onto the pictures! I know that is why you all *really* come here!





Mom: "Maddox, Whatcha doing?!" Maddox: "I'm working!"


I painted Maddox's nails (at his request!)


and you'd think I beat my kid.... poor thing!


The Vulcan's Strike again!

He made it!

Till 11am that is. At about 11:11am, he pee'd again. He stops what he is doing, looks down and says "uh oh". Now he is in a diaper for the rest of the day. I'll put him on the potty before naptime and before bedtime and see how he does.

10:10

10:10 AM - Maddox Pee's again. He is now in his last pair of undies. And I think they will be the last for today.

He appears to know what is going on.. and the fact that he can (usually) pee on the potty when he is asked to, is fantastic. I'm positive that he has no control over holding it in though. His body has not physically matured to that point yet.

But here are some cute booty shots!

Training Pants and Undies

Today we are trying training pants and some Diego undies. We sat on the potty (nothing - he tried though) and then put training undies on around 9am and he pee'd at about 9:12am. He didn't even notice. I felt him and he was wet. We took those off and put on the Diego undies (which we was quiet fond of) and those he wet at about 9:35am. He stopped playing as soon as it happened and when I asked him what was wrong, he patted himself and told me he was wet. We went into the bathroom, took off the undies and cleaned him up. He wanted his Diego undies on again, so we got another pair. Now he is in his second pair of undies. We have one pair of undies left and a couple pairs of training undies. I don't know that I want to put the training undies back on because he doesn't notice when anything happens in those. We are going to try for 2 hours in undies (to 11am), but if he wets too soon in his last pair, I think we'll put the diaper back on for the day.

Potty Time!

Maddox sat on the toilet two times in the past two days. Maddox has, intentionally, gone pee in his potty two times in the past two days. I am so proud of my little guy!

Friday afternoon, Maddox sat on his toilet after we got out of the shower. He sat and he waited. I asked "Are you going to go pee in the potty?" and he answered "mm hmm!", I asked "Do you know how to go pee in the potty?" and with a huge smile on his face, he pointed down to his penis. We waited some more and then I asked "Did you go pee?" and he answered "mm hmm!", I asked "can I see?" Then he sat, tightened up his belly and grunted a little. He got up, said "I did it!" and there was pee in his potty! We did a little dance and sang a little song and went up stairs to make popcorn.

This evening we were getting ready for bed and I asked Maddox if he'd like to sit on the potty. He said no, twice, and then I told him to come with me to go potty. He sat on the toilet, I sat on the toilet. We waited. I went potty and he went potty. He got up and said "Hurray! I did it!" He looked inside and I looked inside and there was pee in his potty! I poured his pee into the big potty and he flushed and we high fived!

Maddox is really proud of himself and so am I!

Happy Independence Day!

We had a BBQ yesterday with family and some friends (which Maddox slept through mostly lol) and afterwards we went to the races! Maddox's Uncle Matt raced at Raceway Park in Shakopee, MN. It was alot of fun. Grandma Mary, George, Uncle Kerry, Auntie Amy, Dante, Ariana, and Kaden came with. Grandma Diane and BePaw Kirby invited Aunt Dawn, Emily, and BePaws friend Steve. Maddox wasn't so sure about the races. Throughout the entire thing he asked "Go Home?" He did have some good times though. Mostly, he just hated the ear plugs.

6.17.2007 - Maddox and Whitey McWhite-ster at the beach.


When his hair is full of sunblock, he looks like Gunther...


Playing with the sprinkler at home




6.20.2007 - Maddox insists that I take a picture of his fork.




6.22.2007 - We went to the Columbia Heights Parade. Maddox was Vulcanized.


6.24.2007 - Daddy likes to play golf in the yard. Maddox thought he'd have a go at it, with a real golf club set.






6.28.2007 - Yesterday, Maddox, Clayton, and I went to the baseball game. Twins Vs. Blue Jays. 8-to-5. It was a great game. I missed a little, Clayton missed a little. Torii had 2 home runs and another pretty cool catch (doesn't he always?!). We parked at Daddy's work and took the light rail over to the Metrodome. Maddox liked that.



More popcorn. I'm a little upset because I didn't realize we left the bucket from the last game at the dome and we didn't get one this time. I really wanted to bring it home.


And since we told Maddox he could only have Soda at baseball games, he was pretty much attached to it.




Carlos Silva #52

We've been really bad at updating lately. Pure laziness.

The month has been fairly uneventful so far. Maddox had a doctor's appointment on Monday, the 4th. He coughs A LOT everytime he sleeps. Nap or Bedtime. We were thinking allergies, so they drew blood, but everything came back normal and he IgE test came back at 9.something. Apparently anything between 0.4 and 300 and something is normal, so he was at the really low end, which means that it is highly unlikely that he has any allergies.

He did awesome at the doctors office. The only thing he said when they stuck the needle in his arm was "ow mommy, it hurts". No tears, no cries, no yelling, no screaming. The nurses were pretty entertained with his attitude towards everything and they gave him a mini blow up beach ball.

Friday, we dropped off our 4x6 proofs at the photographers to have them put into an album. We picked up 8x10's for our (Clayton and I) parents and we also got the CD with all of the images on it and permission to print as many, whenever, wherever. Maddox was crazy while we were there. He has been growling and raspberry-ing alot lately. Especially around strangers, when he is feeling nervous. I think it is his ice breaker.

This Monday we went to the North Mississippi Regional Park with Auntie Amy, Dante, Ariana, and Kaden. Our playgroup was there. We were going to meet Auntie there, but I forgot to get the car seat out of Clayton's car (so our friend Sara could come get us) so Auntie had to come get us. We made her children lunch as a trade. After we all played in the wading pool and at the park, we went to Aunties to cool off and then to Grandma Mary's.

We all went to Walmart and Maddox got some really cool stuff. Cousin Dante needed a baseball bat (he is playing T-Ball and the bat we had was too big and too heavy) and Maddox got a little jealous. He tried to pick out a real bat, glove, and ball, but they don't make them for 2.5 year olds, so he got a plastic and foam T-ball set. it's still a little too big for him, but he needs to play with it constantly.

He now has a
+ Football
+ Soccer ball
+ Golf set
+ Hockey set
+ T-Ball set

All the kid needs now is a basketball hoop and ball!

He's a sports superstar!

Anyways, onto the photos!

Maddox and Auntie in the wading pool (Maddox got his head shaved)


Getting ready to leave Dante's soccer practice - In his new hat, with his Diego backpack


Playing Baseball in his new baseball outfit!


Just pure cuteness!


Setting up his ball


Hitting his ball


We watched Bella today for a few hours. We got her all wet right before we sent her home!


That's all for now. I'm sure there will be more baseball pictures. He is so cute when he plays and I'm so proud of how well he does! So I have to take alot of pictures.

Pictures

It's been a little over a month and we haven't posted anything. Sorry about that, but I am sure you can forgive me, since Maddox's dad and I just got married!

Maddox, Daddy, and Mommy went fishing at Medicine Lake


Gardening with Mom






a cute, little, baby turtle that we found on the path


we let him go, Maddox was sad


Maddox found some inch worms




and he found a caterpillar


half mohawk, half bedhead


Yay for bubbles! My mom, surely, regrets buying this machine...




He's so cool


He enjoys Golf


He LOVES hockey!


and Puddles...


and SITTING in puddles...




and checking out ants


Memorial day, we went to a Twins game. Maddox loved it.




Johan Santana




My goofy boy


Out before we even made it to the car


Sorry the pics are so small this time, Flickr doesn't have the size I usually use.