Favorite Foods: Fruit, chicken, yogurt, turkey meatloaf, noodles.
Favorite Activities: Imitating Naomi, driving anything he sees as vehicular, dancing, playing instruments, flirting with women, watching kids run, playing in the laundry basket, putting caps and lids back on, transferring/collecting/pouring out items.
Favorite TV show: Nothing, although he'll notice music.
Height: 29.5" Weight: 19.3 lbs
Lucas
was a fairly easy, or straightforward, baby. I can already see that I'll have to adjust to him being a toddler. Nowadays, he's taken to tearing things apart, trying to play with plugs, relocating items as he deems proper, and terrorizing his sister. The absolute worst thing has been bedtime. I let him cry for 20 minutes the other night, came in to check, and he had beaten his face against the crib until it was completely covered in blood! I wanted to faint. Our kids just don't seem to care about causing themselves pain... I think we'll have to move him out of the crib now.
He started refusing the bottle recently...and milk altogether. He drinks water just fine from a sippy cup or straw cup. He's shrunk from 70th percentile to 5th percentile and hasn't gained much weight in the past three months. He handles and eats solid foods very well and still has two bm's a day, but he needs milkfat. I have tried goat milk, chocolate milk, lactose-free milk, toddler formula, vanilla and chocolate Pediasure, in a sippy cup, in a bottle, in a Nuby bottle, with a straw, in a bowl, with a spoon, mixed with cereal, heated, cold, room temp, and this is just in the past few days. It's all green eggs & ham. One day, I even denied him water to get him to be hungry or thirsty enough, but he just spit the milk out. He isn't making up for it through nursing either. I'll just keep trying.
Food is such a basic need, and it's affecting his sleep, so it makes the situation stressful. The doctor said he doesn't appear sick anymore and has put him on a high-calorie diet. He refuses nut butter, avocados, and cheese after a couple bites, but he'll take the two yogurts each day and eggs. And I'm supposed to give him butter on everything (eek) and attempt Pediasure again, too. If not Pediasure, there's a high-calorie version of Silk as well. I'm usually cook low-fat, semi-organic meals for the family, but like with Naomi at this age, I will have to make exceptions. The kids burn away all their calories. I sometimes will carry Lucas just to get him to stop moving. I know some of it is metabolism and genetics, too.
He's not saying much, just the occasional cry for mama, papa, nana (banana), ell (hello), and maybe all done. He makes sounds sometimes while pushing toys. He only signs "more" nowadays and shakes his head no quite a bit. I need to work harder on his vocabulary. Second child syndrome.
Lucas can walk across a room now before reverting to crawling. He also likes climbing, which sends me into a panic everyday. He is much more aware in this past month, so he doesn't just drift off to sleep anymore. As I said, he bangs his face and head against the crib every time I put him down and he has bruises all over his face, but the bloody face was the last straw. I feel so awful about it. :(
We chose to delay the MMR vaccine. The jury's still out on the link with autism and allergies, but if anything happened with Lucas, we'd like to eliminate the vaccine as a possible cause. Plus, I don't want to count out all the anecdotal evidence.
So many bruises from banging his head in the crib. :( This was before the bloody face night.
He started really walking about a week before his first birthday. Still soaking through bib after bib with that drool. He smells like dirty rags all the time, even five minutes after a bath. :(
First pizza. Nom nom nom nom.
Wrestling with Papa.
This is just some random goofy picture from a while ago, when he'd put on some weight again.
