Why, yes we can!
Seb's new thing is spelling out words. Not too sure when exactly this started but he now will just state a word, for example, "drop" and spell it out phonetically. He does this all over the place. For example, we'll be in the car and he'll say a word and then attempt to spell it out or we'll be at the dinner table. He requires some assistance at times but for the most part, he's doing a pretty good job!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
This morning
Me: "Good morning sunshine"
Seb: "Good morning momshine"
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Rite of Passage
This morning as Sebastian was walking upstairs with a piece of paper in one hand and tape in the other he slipped and knocked his chin on the stair. I could tell by the cry that it wasn't going to be pretty and sure enough he split open his chin. After doing all the standard first aid stuff I took one look at it and knew that stitches were required. So off to the emergency we went.
I've had stitches in the past so I recall the horrible needle you get to freeze the area as being the worst part of the experience but luckily they now use a topical ointment to freeze the area, so Seb didn't have to experience the agony of the "hugest mosquito in the whole wide world sucking your blood" pain that the old needles caused.
It took 4 stitches to fix him up and we didn't even have to wait for eons to be seen, which was really nice. The longest part was waiting the 20 minutes for the freezing to take effect.
When we arrived home Seb asked if he had missed gymnastics today, which he did. When told that yes we missed class he said, "Good. I didn't want to go." Let's hope next time he doesn't want to do something he can just tell us as opposed to making us take him to the emergency! =)
I've had stitches in the past so I recall the horrible needle you get to freeze the area as being the worst part of the experience but luckily they now use a topical ointment to freeze the area, so Seb didn't have to experience the agony of the "hugest mosquito in the whole wide world sucking your blood" pain that the old needles caused.It took 4 stitches to fix him up and we didn't even have to wait for eons to be seen, which was really nice. The longest part was waiting the 20 minutes for the freezing to take effect.
When we arrived home Seb asked if he had missed gymnastics today, which he did. When told that yes we missed class he said, "Good. I didn't want to go." Let's hope next time he doesn't want to do something he can just tell us as opposed to making us take him to the emergency! =)
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Family pics
On Sunday we had some family portraits done. This was the first time we had professional pics taken of the 3 of us and I wanted to share.
To see some of the pics, please click the link here. These are just pics from the photographers personal website so when we get the actual pics I'll post more.
To see some of the pics, please click the link here. These are just pics from the photographers personal website so when we get the actual pics I'll post more.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
He Skates!!
Wow. My first blog post of 2011 and we're already in February! I'll try to do a quick summary of what's been happening....
Our holidays were marked with Sebastian being ill prior to the actual holiday and we're still following up medically with him. So far we've been to two ultrasounds and he's had blood taken out twice. We have one more round of bloodwork to do within the next couple of weeks and another follow up ultrasound in 6 months. Not too sure what exactly is going on, but when he was sick his white blood cell count was really low and then with his second blood work was done his hemoglobin and platelets were high. We're also keeping an eye on the lymph nodes in his abdomen because they are enlarged. Their size hadn't changed between ultrasounds so I'm hoping that he just has large lymph nodes. However, we're not too sure exactly what this means but it's being watched, so I guess that's a good thing and I'm doing my best to stay away from the Internet at the moment as I'm sure if I were to read something it would send me into a whirlwind of what could possibly be wrong. For now we'll just wait and see and since he seems pretty healthy we're okay with that.
Other than that, our holidays were wonderful. It was a smaller group than normal for Christmas but it was still nice. I was on call on both the 24th and 25th from 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. and luckily didn't have any emergencies nor a lot of calls to deal with so I was able to spend the time with my family. The holidays were then followed up with having friends & family over for New Year's, which is something we haven't really done since Sebastian's birth! We actually managed to stay up until 1 and it reminded me of old times, without quite as much alcohol! The children even went to bed at their regular times which left the full evening for us to visit. It was great! Will definitely be doing this again next year!
We then headed down to Fort Erie to see my family, which was very nice.
{Oh right, this blog is supposed to be about Sebastian!!}
Okay, so back to Seb...
The main reason why I even started this blog post was to make a note about skating. Sebastian started taking skating lessons in the fall and the first few sessions were basically him sitting on the ice learning how to stand on his skates without falling. Once standing he would stay that way for a minute, if that, before falling and/or choosing to fall.
On January 22, 2011 he got up and stayed up!
Anyways, that's Seb in the dark blue.
Our holidays were marked with Sebastian being ill prior to the actual holiday and we're still following up medically with him. So far we've been to two ultrasounds and he's had blood taken out twice. We have one more round of bloodwork to do within the next couple of weeks and another follow up ultrasound in 6 months. Not too sure what exactly is going on, but when he was sick his white blood cell count was really low and then with his second blood work was done his hemoglobin and platelets were high. We're also keeping an eye on the lymph nodes in his abdomen because they are enlarged. Their size hadn't changed between ultrasounds so I'm hoping that he just has large lymph nodes. However, we're not too sure exactly what this means but it's being watched, so I guess that's a good thing and I'm doing my best to stay away from the Internet at the moment as I'm sure if I were to read something it would send me into a whirlwind of what could possibly be wrong. For now we'll just wait and see and since he seems pretty healthy we're okay with that.
Other than that, our holidays were wonderful. It was a smaller group than normal for Christmas but it was still nice. I was on call on both the 24th and 25th from 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. and luckily didn't have any emergencies nor a lot of calls to deal with so I was able to spend the time with my family. The holidays were then followed up with having friends & family over for New Year's, which is something we haven't really done since Sebastian's birth! We actually managed to stay up until 1 and it reminded me of old times, without quite as much alcohol! The children even went to bed at their regular times which left the full evening for us to visit. It was great! Will definitely be doing this again next year!
We then headed down to Fort Erie to see my family, which was very nice.
{Oh right, this blog is supposed to be about Sebastian!!}
Okay, so back to Seb...
The main reason why I even started this blog post was to make a note about skating. Sebastian started taking skating lessons in the fall and the first few sessions were basically him sitting on the ice learning how to stand on his skates without falling. Once standing he would stay that way for a minute, if that, before falling and/or choosing to fall.
On January 22, 2011 he got up and stayed up!
Anyways, that's Seb in the dark blue.
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