Week 35

Grayson update

Crawling

Grayson is a lean mean crawling machine....well he is not really lean nor is he mean...but he is a crawling machine. One day, he just started crawling. He has been rocking back and forth for weeks now and acting like he would crawl, but somehow we missed the.."I'm learning to crawl" phase because he is super fast already. He also pulls himself up on everything and attracted to anything and everything that is not for him (computers, cords, TV, cable box, etc)

 

Pulling himself up & Climbing on everything

Here are some pictures of him pulling himself up on things. I think walking may be in our near future which is NUTS for me to think of. My world has already changed now that he can crawl; I cannot imagine when he walks!

Selfie funs

Just some random pics of us :)

 

Throwing fits

G is such a happy and oh so cute ALWAYS, but he has his fussy times. I decided to capture some of these moments. This was a very tired, cranky boy...

Collage fun

I downloaded some fun collage apps so here are a few of the ones I have messed around with :)

      

Faces of a boy that looks like he had something in his mouth

Swimming fun with a buddy

Just another morning for Mr. G

Video Camera fun..or not fun

Some fun pictures of a passed out G, trying to sleep G, or a very awake boy...

 

Matt update
Night float was my first rotation as a senior resident, meaning I was supervising an intern.  The essential structure is that we cover overnight for all the internal medicine team patients, ranging from 25-50 patients (usually about 30 on average), for any issues that come up.  Additionally, we admit 4 patients on our own without an attending (there is a hospitalist available for any questions and a general medicine attending available by phone).  I had a great intern working with me which was a fear of mine as most of our interns are from different medical schools so mostly a lot of the hangups early in the year are about learning system issues.  However, she was great and hit the ground running and her medical knowledge was great.  Hopefully, I was able to teach her and give her some guidance over the week.

We had a couple of very interesting cases which were great learning points and a few good issues to deal with on the coverage of the other patients.  I even learned a few things which will continue to happen for years to come.  I beat myself up about a few small decisions that I made which were corrected by faculty and probably did so more than I should have but I have worked through those.  My next rotation as a senior resident is medical ICU which will be nice because there is a lot more support with a fellow and attending at all times.

Currently, I am on nephrology (kidney) consults.  It is a great rotation and I have a great attending.  The consult service generally gets the exact same question when we are consulted which is a patient with reduced kidney function or absent kidney function and the teams needs help figuring out why and how to manage it but I have been learning a lot because every case is a little different.  I move on to clinic in 3 days which will be a nice change of pace compared to the last 3 weeks.

33 weeks

Days off

Matt had 5 days off between his intern year ending and his second year starting! I am sad my parents got all the rainy weather, but it was really nice that we had nice weather the whole time Matt was off. It was downright hot. It has been in the 90s here! I do not know how people survive without air conditioning here...even if you do not need it most of the year...the times you need it...would be AWFUL! We nap trained during his days off, and I am glad I had Matt. Monday, when Matt went back to work, G has been super clingy and hasn't been sleeping well. I hope it is not him manipulating me. He is a little stopped up and teething. Hopefully, he gets over that soon...

 On a family walk after my Zumba class

 Family pic

Playing and crawling

G loves playing with the newspaper, old coke bottles, and remotes. He is a little man of simple tastes. I do not know why we have any toys. We could have saved some money! haha He has yet to crawl forward, but still on all fours and rocking back and forth. He can also go backwards very well. I think he is really close now because he can push himself up into a sitting position. It is only a matter of time when he figures it out....

Sleep training

I was so reluctant to sleep train Grayson. I was hoping he would just naturally start sleeping longer on his own. Unfortunately, I was wrong, and we had to sleep trained...BEST IDEA EVER!

 We use to dread putting G to sleep because we would have to rock him or bounce him to sleep and he would only sleep 30 minutes. You can tell he was still tired but just did not have the skills to get back to sleep. NOW, he occasionally wakes after 30 minutes but he can get himself right back to sleep and sleep for another hour. His naps now are typically an hour-2 hours. Great for me because I can get a lot of my house work done and just decompress time. I plan on running a little more on my treadmill since I am not as motivated at running outside yet...so I am also doing that during his naps... I would love to do a 5K in the near future so let's get to running!

Fun pictures with our new video camera baby monitor
G sleeps in funny ways and we felt like sharing...

                                     

G looks like a demon baby when he is awake on the monitor

Buddies

Grayson has another new friend. This is Wat. His daddy is an internal medicine resident with Matt. He is 3 weeks old in this picture. Man have I forgot how little newborns are. It seems like years ago...not 7 months that G was that tiny. Grayson definitely likes eating lunch with us at the table and he loved looking at the baby. Such sweet boys!

Grayson loves playing with Blake. Blake's mommy is Cammie, one of my oldest and dearest friends. She lived down the street from me when I was little in El Paso. We would hang out all the time all summer long. It is crazy how we are both up in Oregon now and our little boys get to grow up together. She has another sweet little boy, Lucas, he is 5. Blake is almost 10 months and walking already. I have a feeling he will be teaching G a lot of stuff...both naughty and good! Cammie and her hubby just got word they got their dream home. I am stoked because she really really wanted it and is going to have a great yard for the boys to play in. I see us hanging out there a lot!

Teething

Grayson officially has 2 teeth. Thankfully he has not morphed into demon baby like he did with his first tooth. He is a little more fussy and clingy, but maybe it will only last a day or two. I hope this does not happen for every tooth, and I hope he does not get one tooth at a time....it will be a lot of looooong days if that happens. 

Eating

We are making a bigger effort to keeping G clean while he eats. He is not grabbing at the spoon as much and he loves picking up his puffs. He makes it to his mouth most of the time with the puffs and all the time with his Mum Mums which are bigger and longer, but dissolve easily as well. Grayson also loves drinking water. I am trying to teach him to hold it and lift up, so I took out the stopper allowing the liquid to flow out. He gets really wet, but loves drinking water! What a good little boy!

puffs

Sourdough is a bit too sour for G

Happy 4th of July

Matt was lucky and on clinic, so he had the day off! We just hung out around the house and we also went swimming at our neighbor's house. We had tons of fun and G loves the water!

 

Leiloni has also worked on teaching G to suck from a straw...he seemed to get it after a few tries!

Richards come to visit

Matt's parents came to visit us and Portland. They officially have seen more of Portland than we have. We are a little jealous that they have been able to explore more than us, but one day we will get out and around. Grayson is newly napped trained so it makes it hard to go anywhere for a long period of time so they did all their exploring on their own. They seem to have enjoyed it and now we can tell people where they should go when they come to visit :) 

Next on the visiting list: Amy and Damon...my aunt and uncle in August! Looking forward to it!

Random pictures

 Grayson loves sitting like this...this is how he starts to get into a crawl position...

 G barely fits in the infant carrier so we have had him in his convertible car seat for about 3 weeks....It is nuts to believe that he was once too small ...he now LOVES the car!! Yahoo

 Fun little sitting thing in a big boy bath....we usually still use his whale tub since it is less water, but he loved splashing in this...

 G getting ready for bed...I know it looks like he is ready for a baseball game...but it is bed for this guy!

 Grayson has a huge appetite ...He ate 2 oz of Avacado and 2 3 oz pouches....he took a long nap afterwards to digest!

 Mommy and me...we were getting ready to walk

 Grayson seems to like daycare now! No more tears and not having to be held the entire time!

Grayson trying to pull himself up...a little scary!!

Matt Update: 

Matt decided to shave and cut his hair...huge change!

Matt is finishing up his week in clinic and then he does night float and then renal consults. Each of those are a week long. First night float having a baby....I am sure it will be okay. Thank god for a great home security system!!