Developmentalizing

We had our obligatory new parent urgent care visit this weekend. I was playing peek-a-boo and blowing raspberries on Chunko's tummy when a bone poked me in the face! I freaked out thinking my son had broken his sternum or that his tummy was trying to crawl out of his chest... or worse... my baby ate a spider and it nested in his ribcage and now the egg sac was about to explode with tiny little spider babies! Yeah, I watch too many movies...

I call the after hours nurse and she thinks it's a bug bite or a swelling on the outside of his body... No stupid, it's a bone inside!! Then she can't get over that he's 21 pounds and 29 inches and only 3 months old... Come on lady, I'm having a breakdown!

So after I convinced my love that our baby was dying (not really but he still let me take him) we rushed to the urgent care facility. The nurse checks him in and tells us it's probably his sternum and he's just developementalizing.... He's what? Really? Developmentalizing? (Now say it 3 times fast!)

The doctor comes in checks for hernias and ulcers. Of course Chunko refused to do the trick that made this bone stick out more prominently! She pokes him, he laughs and tries to roll over... Come to find out it's his xiphoid process. Okay fine, it's weird and we have to be careful when doing CPR on him but for the most part, he's amazingly healthy.... with a slight cold.

Chunko is growing up way too fast... He's learning something new everyday and I can't get over how smart he is!

My amazing adopted mom got Chunko this stuffed Tigger which is his absolute best friend in the world. Almost as cool as his auntie... almost. He has to have Tigger within eyesight at all times or he will have a fit. He likes to take Tigger rolling with him or sometimes he just watches TV while chewing on Tigger's toes.

Chunko holds his own bottle!!!! He grabs a hold of it and holds on and if it falls out he can put it right back in! Sometimes he gets so excited about this new trick that when we give him a bottle he'll put it in his mouth and then pull it out. He'll look at us as if asking "Am I doing this right?" and then laugh. Of course, eating can be a very serious business so that's when we get the "back off" look.

He loves sitting at the table with us during dinner time. He sits in his booster and usually tries to convince us that babies should have steak or chicken nuggets. I can't wait until he's old enough where we can give him a few scraps!! That was one of my favorite stages when Geekers was a baby.We used to strap him to the chair with a tea towel (no high chair) and hand him crackers and pretzel sticks. He would have one in each hand and two hidden in his fat rolls... I'll have to find that picture, it was too cute!! 

Chunko usually gets to eat his green beans or sweet potatoes (sometimes Mommy slips him mashed potatoes, shhhh) or he'll get mad because we aren't sharing and he'll fall asleep.

Chunko has found his toes... and has decided they belong in my nose. Silly baby toes do not belong in Mommy's nose. If I won't let him sneak a toe in my nose, he'll just chew on them himself. Last night I was chewing on a foot and he was chewing on a foot and he thought that was the greatest game of them all!

Chunko has decided that he can crawl. Our new (uber awesome super duper cool as ever) babysitter has an 8 month old who's crawling and Chunko seems to think that he can, too. He gets on all fours and rocks. He'll scream and he'll yell if he doesn't go anywhere and then eventually he throws himself forward in the hopes that he's going to go flying across the room. He does not like it when Mommy and Daddy laughs at his efforts.

I'm sure next time I write he'll be racing across our new house.... Oh yeah... wait I've to tell you about that... Um.... maybe next time....