AGH.....

So we were all set to start trying to wean Ari and get him to sleep in his own bed... and then what do you know he got sick - Ari is my healthy baby (not that I have any other babies to compare him to, But I pride myself with how fortunate we are that he has been so healthy- no ear infections, diaper rashes, food allergies, teething trouble, etc)
Aside from a few pretty minor sniffels and fevers Ari has been so healthy - he even sailed through his surgery and post op like a champ

ARI IS SICK
I might be overreacting because like I said - "we have an extremely healthy baby" I don't know how to take care of sick babies, or diaper rash.... etc

ARI IS SICK
It all started last Saturday, Ari started getting a runny nose..." could be teething, or allergies" we said to each other
Sunday he was horrible - snot nose, couldn't put him down, crying all the time, it was like someone had switched my baby the night before and I was now dealing with an entirely different person.... odd I tell you
Monday morning I woke up to hear my baby coughing - I immediately sat him up and started to tap his back - Ari thanked me by puking all over our bed
THANK GOODNESS THE PEDIATRICIAN DOES NOT TAKE MLK Jr. DAY OFF..

So we ran him over to the DR and got a perscription for ammoxacillian (sp?)
great I thought ten days, two doses a day - and we will be done with this -
OH except Ari won't take the medicine (he is so good with tylenol and such)
I tried every hold, position and trick in the book, blew in his mouth, plugged his nose - EVERYTHING
finally we asked a pharmacist if I could put the medicine in some yogurt - and that seems to be working although to make sure Ari actually gets all the medicine I now have to administer it to him 6 times a day (smaller doses)

BUT WAIT IT GETS BETTER

Ari has a diaper rash - and again - we have no experience in diaper rash so we really have no idea what we are doing - but we have tried it all - Balmex, cornstarch, vaseline, babypowder....
My baby screams at me every time I reach for the diapers- he pushes away from me so hard when I lay him down for a change .... he is in such pain and it is killing me
right now we are using Balmex after each diaper change, using a warm bowl of water and a cloth instead of wipes and letting Ari have an hour or two a day of diaper free time - which was so much easier when he was NOT mobile .... now its just real messy

OH WAIT THERE IS MORE

I am not sure if this is part of Ari being sick or a result of the medication BUT Ari seems to have diareha - which makes a diaper rash that much better I am sure... I am not really sure its actually diarreha since because Ari is sick he won't eat any thing (other then the small amount of yogurt I basically force down) so he is on a pretty much strickly breastfed diet AGAIN - (so much for weaning) so his poop is pretty much exactly what it was when he was a strictly breastfed baby ... We are making sure he is drinking alot to keep him hydrated

so who knows what is going on with our little boy - the ammoxicillian says its side effects could be diarehha and diaper rash so that might be our villian or they could be unrelated - what ever it is we have a really really unhappy little guy


OH I FORGOT IT IS EVEN BETTER THEN THAT
*** Ryan also has a bad sinus infection - so he is out of commission - and today I have had the worst upset stomach .... priceless

few and far between

posts may be few and far between for a while - I am attempting to wean Ari and get him to sleep in his own bed - so my days are full

just wait til you have kids .....

so this is what they mean -


I am a picky eater, anyone who knows me knows I am a picky eater.... I wouldn't say I am the pickiest eater (so I don't like ground meat, or really meat in general, and I won't eat chicken off the bone, or chicken that looks funny, I don't like chunky peanut butter, I don't eat seafood at all and I order a grilled cheese at In n Out) I hardly believe I am the World's Pickiest Eater ( oh but wouldn't it be nice to be the world's something even if it was pickiest eater... I should look into that)

ANYWAY ....

I was thinking about how when I was growing up, and probably you have all heard this at one time or another - how whenever you are displaying a possible character flaw, say being a picky eater... someone will say "just wait til you have kids"
people say it all the time- a little girl will talk back to her mom and in response her mom will say "just wait, someday you will have a little girl and she will be 10x's as sassy as you are to me...just wait" and on and on
all my life I have heard people say "just wait til you have kids" pretty much as a response to almost anything

here are some examples:
"I just love staying out til 3am, makes me feel ALIVE"
... "just wait til you have kids"

"sleeping in on Saturdays is awesome - I can stay in bed til 4pm"
..."just wait til you have kids"

"I could never leave the house without showering, putting on makeup, doing my hair, etc."
..."just wait til you have kids"

"I love to travel"
..."just wait til you have kids"

"$400 for a purse is reasonable"
..."just wait til you have kids"


okay so you get the point
BUT ALAS - I think I understand part of this whole - ..."just wait til you have kids"
threat-
I have always been a picky eater and what do you know - I got a picky litter eater in return

Since Ari turned 6 months I have been in a constant battle to get him to EAT - eat anything really
this kid got his first two teeth at 4 months and now he has 10 (that I know of) - chewing is not the issue (although at first I thought maybe it was)
Other moms talk about their babies being so excited for food, finishing the whole jar, crying for more.... NOT my Ari
I have tried everything, baby food, grown up food, feeding him, letting him feed himself, sitting in his high chair, TV on, TV off, sitting on my lap... airplane noises, train noises, making noises like I am enjoying the food way too much, even with holding nursing - EVERYTHING

sometimes he will eat, most times he will not
every once and a while he will eat up whatever we serve him (never a whole jar) and we will get excited and get him another helping- by the time we get back with his second course - well he is done

sometimes he will seem to like a particular food or flavor and we will have a streak of good luck where he might eat two meals in a row and so we will run out and purchase every jar the stores have in that particular flavor- just to return home, fix his next meal and have it rejected

I watch babies at chuch and envy their parents as they give them gold fish and cheerios and fruit snacks and watch the little ones gobble them up - I offer Ari a gold fish and he acts like I have handed him a turd (actually worse then I turd... atleast he tries to play with his turds....)

And don't even get me started with sippy cups - we have tried whole milk, white grape juice, apple juice, sunny delight, water, vanilla rice milk, etc and Ari is completely indifferent about them all ** all juice is watered down of course, what kind of mom do you think I am

We have tried soft sippys, hard sippys, sippys with straws, spill proof sippys, sippys that pour freely (what a mess!!!) bottles (even though it was against everything I believed it - I was desperate- I don't want Ari to wean from breast to bottle, I would rather he go breast to cup...but I am desperate)

No luck with the cups either ... I mean we can get a sip or two but again I watch these other babies drinking out of their cups and I wonder "whats it going to take"

Ari can eat.. he will eat chocolate, and cookies, and tapioca pudding
oh and he will drink - chocolate milk

so it seems I have a picky eater on my hands - guess its poetic justice