Oscar - Week Forty Six

Oscar is REALLY wanting to walk!  He always wants to be standing, he can pull himself up on just about anything and he's getting really good at walking with moving objects like a push toy, a tv tray, or a laundry basket.  He tries to chase Hank around the house but Hank is still faster - for now! 

Oscar is also babbling a lot more now. He will have babble conversations with you and he will definitely tell you when he is mad.  He knows how to shout!  He also has sad mumbly babbles when he falls down.  I love hearing his tiny thoughts.

Wednesday we went to see my grandparents.  He was wanting to walk around their house too and he showed them how mad he can get at dinner time when there's not enough food on his tray.  He was very shouty that day. 

This weekend Oscar and I went to the Art Museum on Saturday and then we all went to the Science Center on Sunday with some friends.  Oscar 'saw' his first movie "Blue Whales" at the Omnimax - which really meant he drank a bottle during the previews and fell asleep in the first 5 minutes of the movie. Which actually worked out well for me because I just held him and watched the movie. We also saw the dinos and played with the blocks in the engineering area.  It was fun to go with friends!  We tried to go to the Discovery room again but they were all sold out that day.  

After we got home from the Science Center on Sunday I was in the kitchen putting salami on my frozen pizza - gotta jazz it up a little - and Oscar was scoot crawling to the kitchen and he was babbling (probably about how much fun he had at the Sci) and I heard him practicing his M sounds and I said to him, "Can you say Mama?" and HE DID!!!!!  He said 'mama' for the very first time!  Jose was there too, he can vouch for me!  I for sure started crying!  It was so amazing hearing my title in his little voice.  It filled me right up.  He of course hasn't said it again - not even another M sound but now I know he can do it!

Today, it was pouring down rain when it was time to go to daycare and work and of course my umbrella was in the car.  So I grabbed all the bags, my purse, my lunch bag, Oscar's diaper bag, and Oscar's school bag and ran out to the car in the pouring rain.  I threw everything in the car, grabbed the umbrella and jumped back out to go to the door to get Oscar.  Jose handed Oscar to me - at which point I learned that Oscar is scared of the umbrella.  He looked up at it and gripped my arm so tight and started making a scared pout face.  It was pretty loud under there from all the pouring rain but I'm still going to use an umbrella so we said goodbye to Jose and went out to the car.  Oscar was crying by the time I had him all strapped in.  The moving car is soothing so I got on the road right away.  

When we got to daycare I grabbed Oscar's bag and realized I forgot to put the Bottle Bag into the daycare bag.  So Oscar had no milk or bottles for the day.  I walked into daycare fully prepared to go to the store after but when I told them what had happened they told me they have extra bottles and formula for these types of situations, a different formula than we normally use, but still formula.  I was so relieved and I went to work like normal. 

10am rolls around and I check on Oscar via the app that daycare uses and he had not had any milk yet even though they had offered him a bottle.  I messaged them and asked about it and they said he was happy and playing.  I told them that if he had not eaten by my lunch break that I would go to the store and buy him some of our brand of formula.   At 11:30 they reported that they offered him another bottle and he did not take any of it.  So I went back out into the rain, went to Costco - they were out of the Costco Brand which is annoying because it's half as expensive - bought the Enfamil, and brought it to daycare.  After I left, they gave him another bottle and he only ate 2 oz.  He didn't drink another drop the whole time at daycare.  

We were planning on going to my friend's house after work so on the way we stopped at Target and got a bottle and right next to it was a sippy cup bottle so I got that too.  At my friend's house I made him a bottle right away and he still only drank one ounce.  So I tried putting it in the sippy cup bottle - he didn't quite get the whole straw concept but he kept trying it.  My friend also had a couple other types of sippy cups so we tried those too.  Nothing.  So we gave him a cup of applesauce, a yogurt packet, a couple cheese balls, and then he was pretty happy so we just let him crawl around the house for a while.  

About an hour later he was getting kind of whiny so I grabbed the bottle out of the fridge and he drank the whole thing.  I don't know what his deal was all day but he was happy after that bottle.  We all ate our pizza dinner. He had a couple bites of my pizza and then laid down on my arm on the couch and fell right to sleep while we were talking and the other kids were playing all around him.  I guess he was pretty tired too.  Hopefully this doesn't become a thing...