Mary's Visit

Well, we have had a busy week and the near future is not looking any less busy for us anytime soon! Mary was out here since Tuesday evening and we had a great time, she even taught Jalen to do "high five" and he now does it with both hands, he gets so excited and proud of himself after he does it too. He is starting to wave hi and bye too, it is not every time but here and there he does try to squeeze his hand and flap his arm. I took Jalen to the doctor's because he was really congested, rubbing his eyes more than normal, sneezing and coughing so I thought he might have allergies. The doctor said he sounded and looked good and to just continue the cool mist humidifier and saline nasal spray with suctioning to work out the congestion. He is getting 2 more bottom teeth in and wants to bite everything, and it hurts!!! We bought him a t-shirt that says "beware, I bite", I'll get a picture of him in it soon. He now weighs 18 lbs 14oz and is still in the 25th percentile, so all of you who think he is chubby, he is, but he is still smaller than 75% of the population his age. He is crawling more and more too but still prefers to belly crawl in between. His crib is now at the lowest setting it can be and he can pull himself up on our legs and his stroller too in addition to his crib. He loves his exersaucer and jumps in it so much we might have to try the Johnny Jump Up again soon.

Because of his teething, he is not napping well and is getting up sometimes in the middle of the night to nurse so I am very stressed out right now with trying to study for boards and having no time to do it. It also doesn't help that Jalen only wants me to hold him when I am in the room and that Jason still cannot really help a lot due to his restrictions from his shoulder surgery. I also found out that I have a herniated disc between L4-L5 and a bulged disc between L5-S1 which explains my bad back pain the past few weeks but that is not helping the situation either. I did finish my presentation at school on Friday and will be graduating next Saturday...1 more week until I am Dr. O'Neal to some of you :) After that I "just" have my boards to pass and then I can start working in OK, keep your fingers crossed.

Saying good-bye to Auntie Mary

Yay high-five


After 2 hours of swimming on Friday



Crawling around and laughing at the dogs


Playing on the laptop

Mary and her new best friend (that she thought would bite her head off at first)

I will try to keep up with updating the blog as much as I can, it will have to be late at night when I can't retain PT info anymore but need some outlet to decompress before bed.