Ryken's 6 month appointment & other news....

Yesterday my sweet baby boy had his 6 month well baby visit. He did great : )

He weighed in at 17lbs 2.5oz (45th percentile)
His length was 25 3/4 inches (25th percentile)
And his head was 17 inches (30th percentile)

So he is short and chunky. But we already knew that : )

He is right on track developmentally and a "gorgeous baby" according to his doctor. (At his last visit this same doctor told me that he hopes my husband and I are seriously considering more children because we make such nice ones...lol)

God has been faithful to answer some prayers for my little guy lately as well! When Ryken was born, he pooped like any other newborn......several times a day.....typical breastfed baby poo (yellow and "seedy" for those of you who aren't familiar.ha!)

Around 5 1/2 weeks old, he stopped pooping daily. First it was 3 days between poos. Then 4 more days. Then 7 days. Then 10 days. When he hadn't pooped for 10 days I called the doctor and they told me to bring him in. They checked him out and said that some breastfed babies just don't poop often and that it was fine. He told me to give him a suppository if I wanted to every 3-4 days...to keep him comfortable and so I knew he'd gone. So....ever since he was around 7 weeks old his pooping days have been Wednesday and Saturday, never on his own. At his 4 month appointment the doctor told me not to worry...that once he started baby food it would help him out. A few times I skipped his poop day and would let him go a week or longer with no intervention, just to see what would happen. And NOTHING would happen.

SOO...we started him on rice cereal about 2 weeks ago. And last Tuesday afternoon, for the first time in 4 months, he pooped! Totally on his own! Totally unprompted in anyway!

This turned out to be a very good thing, because since he pooped that one time on his own it has given us the ok to see how things work themselves out these next 3 months. His doctor said he would have sent us to a specialist if he hadn't gone that one time...but once is enough to show that everything is working!

The theory is that with the breastmilk he was just using ALL of it. This totally makes sense. Even with the suppository help, he was barely filling a diaper when he'd poop. And that was every 4 days. Now that he is eating some foods that will have more waste, he SHOULD start to go more! It's funny...I never thought that I'd daily be praying for poop, but that has been my prayer lately!

It gets even better though. Yesterday afternoon....exactly 1 week later...he pooped again! Yay! He picked the best time to do it, too. I was gone visiting a friend and her new baby and Chip was home with the kids. I think he decided to save it up for Daddy since he's been pretty much totally off the hook in the poop area so far with Ryken. So little Bubba really let him have it...a nice overflowing diaper...all the way up the back!

So God has been good and given us poopy diapers! Yahoo! We're just praying he keeps it up : )

Yesterday was busy. I took Ryken to the doctor and Chip took Kenzie to Bass Pro Shops. We all got home and I showered while Ryken took a nap. We ate a light lunch/snack and headed to Tempe Marketplace where we did some strolling and browing and made a few purchases with some gift card money. On the way home we had text messages from Chick-fil-a to get a free combo meal between 2pm-5pm...so we took advantage of that : ) We got home around 2:30 and put Kenzie down for a nap. I left to see my friend's new baby and Ryken pooped for Chip. I got home around 5 and the kids woke up and we got them around and took them over to Chip's parents house. We went out on a date....first to eat at Mango's in downtown Mesa. YUM!! A great little Mexican food place. Then we walked around for a bit. We ended our fabulous date with a trip to the grocery store. HA! We went and picked up the babies and came home and watched The Biggest Loser with our friend Becki....it's a Tuesday night tradition!

Today has been a good day too. Chip had to work from 9-5....so I started out the morning by getting the kids breakfast and then heading to Sprouts. We got all of our fruits and veggies and headed home. Ryken took a nap and Kenzie watched Sesame Street, ate snacks, and colored. I put groceries away and started some laundry and made baby food. I made squash, applesauce, and blueberry applesauce. I still have to do sweetpotatoes (but I am cheating and getting smoked sweet potatoes from Joe's!!), peas, peaches, and pears. I think I'll make a batch of blueberry pears too : ) Yum! I need to do green beans, but I think Iwant to buy the big frozen bag from Costco and cook those up...the ones at the store today were expensive and puny looking. We ate lunch.....mac n cheese, carrots, cottage cheese for Kenzie.....squash for Ryken...and leftover tomato soup for me. Then we sorted baby clothes to send to my sister who is about to have my newest nephew or niece SOON! The kids went down for a nap at 1:30 and I finished up the last of the baby food. Ryken woke up at 3 to eat. I fed him..then read I Samuel. My plan of having the Bible website as my homepage has been working GREAT! I have been reading everyday before anything other online activities : )

Now it is a little after 4. Ryken is back asleep. Kenzie is still asleep. I have laundry to fold and dinner to think about. So I better get going. So much is done....but there is always so much more to do! I am working on being a better "worker" in the home.....pray for me : )