Dickerson Park Zoo

Last Wednesday, Trey and I loaded up and went to the Springfield Zoo with Mom and Joey, Regina and her kids, and the Beckers. I hadn't ever been to the zoo in Springfield since we usually go to Tulsa, but I really enjoyed it. It was kind of nice to visit somewhere new. :-)

Trey's continued obsession with birds was pretty humorous. He wasn't overly impressed with the elephants but got really excited about the nearby robins. :-)

We also got to feed the giraffes. I didn't realize that they snort air at you. Trey didn't like that much!

Trey spent most of the time either walking or being carried, so he was nicely worn out by the time we headed back home and slept almost the whole way back.  Although it's bittersweet watching my baby grow up, I love seeing things through his eyes. I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of the zoo this summer!

Feeling Better

I think THINK think we are finally done with the sickies around here.  Shortly after my last post, Trey caught Round 2, which he so kindly shared with his momma.  We both tested positive for the flu and toughed it out for another week or two until we finally started getting better.  We both had to get the flu swab, and that was definitely NOT my favorite appointment of the year.  Ouch.  Poor Trey ended up with another beginning of an ear infection, so he ended up on a fourth round of antibiotics - azithromycin, cefdinir, azithromycin, cefdinir.  We definitely preferred the cefdinir.  Didn't make him puke, and he took it really easy.  At his last appointment, he was back up to just over 20 pounds, but after they drew blood, they determined his white cell count was up (ear infection?) and he was anemic, so he's been on Poly-Vi-Sol vitamins, and we've been trying to watch his diet to make sure the calories are up and he's getting all the nutrients he needs.  We have also made a temporary switch to goat's milk to see if that would help him clear up from the runny nose/cough/congestion.  I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but he got sick with all this for the first time right after he weaned and has pretty much been sick since the beginning of the year.  We'll continue the goat's milk for a while longer and then switch back to whole milk.  If we start having problems again, we'll see about a more permanent switch.  Unfortunately, goat's milk is $4/quart at Walmart (almost $20/gallon), and the cheapest I've been able to find it was in powdered form on Amazon for almost half the cost.  If Trey needs it and it helps him stay healthy, it's definitely an expense we'll take, but if he doesn't have a problem with the cow's milk, then I don't really want to be spending $10-20 for a gallon of milk unnecessarily! :-)
We've pretty much just been camped out at home trying not to share our germs or get any new ones, so I am ready to start seeing people again! :-)  We finally got out to church yesterday - I think this was the third time I've been to church since January.  We have plans to go to the zoo on Wednesday but are kind of playing that one by ear.  I'm definitely not an extroverted person, but after a month and a half of being stuck at home sick, I miss spending time with my family!  I did discover how hard it is to be a sick mom though.  Wow.  The Saturday I came down with the flu, Steve worked until after 10, so I was on my own with a fever and terrible body aches and a sick baby.  Not fun!  Thankfully he was home Sunday to help, but even through the first of that week, I just felt like crud.  Needless to say, my poor house went to pieces.  I had managed to keep laundry done, and at one point had no dirty laundry in the hampers, but all the clean stuff was in one huge mound in my bedroom floor.  I haven't been sick in forever (thank you, teacher immunities), but this one knocked me on my rear!  Trey took about another week after me to get all his yuckies cleared up, but has been feeling much better for the last week.  He's still on a probiotic and has developed a yeast rash from all those antibiotics, so hopefully we can get all that cleared up soon.  Poor baby has been through a rough last few months! 

The sun is finally out here though, so we are spending as much time as possible playing outside.  We're taking my car to the shop this week to figure out why it won't start sometimes, and once that's done and I can stop driving the black truck, we're going to sell the truck.  Instead of waiting until next summer to put up a privacy fence, we'll use part of the money from the truck to put one up this summer.  Between our neighbors' noise and pitbull they let loose and Trey preferring to run toward the street that borders our yard on THREE sides, I will be a much happier momma with a big fence.  Hopefully I'll be posting pictures of our beautiful fence soon!

And because no post is complete without a picture:

Smarty Pants!

I started this a week or so ago and never got back to it.  Unfortunately, we're on round 2 of whatever that nasty virus is, so I thought I'd better get it up before I forget again!

Brown Bear (as in the book by Bill Martin, Jr.) - beh beh
drink - dee
Dada
Mama
Snack - nak
bird - buh
book - sounds a lot like bird :-)
Knows the following body parts:
hair
eyes (squints)
nose (blows air in and out of nose)
feet/foot
toes
hand
fingers
teeth (clicks teeth together)

Working on:
ears (confuses with hair)
tongue (holds up his feet)
tummy
etc.

Also knows:
Where's your shirt? - he pulls at his shirt
Do you want down? - lifts arms up to get out of high chair
outside - runs to the door!  We already have to spell this one.


Learned to drink out of a straw - 2/25/12
Picked a flower and gave it to me - 2/27/12 :-)

If he's in a goofy mood, he thinks things are just hilarious.  He was trying to chew on Steve's shoe (wow, say that three times fast!) the other day, and I said "ewwwwwww!" in a high pitched, silly voice, and so he started squealing back at me as high as he could and just giggling!  He is also really ticklish.  In the evenings, he runs around talking jibberish.

When we ran to town to run some errands today, we let him walk around while we were in Kohl's, and I'm pretty sure that was more enjoyable than the park!  There was no getting anywhere fast because he kept doing circles around the clothing racks and stopping to talk to other shoppers.  Boy is he a ham!

I have a few videos and pictures I need to get posted, but I'm too lazy to plug my phone and/or memory card into the laptop to get all that done. :-)  Maybe after we're all caught back up on sleep and Trey's content to play without me holding him and will actually take naps longer than 15 minutes in his crib!