I was getting Sean’s dinner ready tonight, and he was nibbling on some of his favorite, goldfish crackers. I put his food in the microwave, and turned back around to talk with him while his food was warming up. When I turned around, he was coughing because a goldfish must have went down the wrong way. I patted him on the back to try to help him, like I do when he coughs like that sometimes, and then after a second, I realized that he wasn’t breathing. The look on his face will stay with me for a long time; complete terror. Without even thinking, I grabbed him out of the highchair, flung him upside down over my arm and whacked his back. After three whacks, he started coughing and he spit out the goldfish.
Of course, he cried for a long time, which I didn’t realize until later when my mom and I were talking about it, that he was probably also crying because it was the first time I had ever struck him. Mommy hit me!!! 🙁 I cuddled and played with him for hours after that and gave him thousands of kisses to make sure he knew that I still loved him. Poor guy.
Advise for anyone pregnant or with little ones: Take a child/infant CPR class. I’m sure glad I did.
While i did not let Emily edit them yet, i knew people were waiting for them. Emily has a couple of videos to edit and upload as well. Click the pic below to go to the 13 Month gallery with the pics!
Ok, so I had a big post written up about Sean’s birthday and stuff, but then Paul told me that the gallery isn’t actually up and running (at least we can’t add new pictures yet), so I can’t put birthday pictures up yet. SORRY!!! I did put a couple on Facebook, if you can get on there.
I’ll try to get them up as soon as possible. Here’s one that Paul was able to get on here, but that’s it. More later…
1)He is officially a walker now. He’s been on the 5-10 step in a row walking stage for a few weeks, but this week decided to become a “walker.” He barely crawls anymore. Just walks, walks, walks. He even carries things like an empty gallon jug when he walks with no problem!
2)Sean’s 4th tooth came in last night. It’s the top middle/left one.
3) Sean really likes to feed himself with a spoon now. I bought these toddler type spoons from Gerber. They are all rubber and have a deep rubber part where the food goes. It’s nice because its flexible and the handle is super chunky so it’s easy for him to grip. We now eat dinner with me loading up the spoon, him taking the spoon, sucking the food out, and handing the spoon back to me. He ends up a HUGE mess, but it’s really cute, and he’s getting really good at it, so it’s worth it 🙂 I have some pictures, but Paul doesn’t have the gallery up yet…
4) Sean has acquires some new dance moves. Instead of just bouncing up and down and squatting, he now twists at the waist back and forth. He also shakes his head from side to side. He can really get going when some of his favorite songs are on!
5) And last but not least, Sean has a new game we started tonight. I put him in the front hall behind a little wall, and “hide” his kitty in the living room. Then I say “Sean, where’s the kitty?” and he comes in laughing and looks for it until he finds it. It’s of course, in a pretty obvious spot like on the couch, sitting on top of hte tv, on a shelf, etc, but he cackles when he finds it. Pretty cool game, and I was suprised that he caught on so quickly!
Sean has enjoyed walking in and out of one of our gates for a long time, but we have a new game that makes it even more fun! Sean cracks up laughing as he tries to shut me out of the gate. I crawl to his same side and pretend to chase him, and he runs to the other side and slams the gate shut.
Sean has always loved cats, especially Ginger, Oma and Opa’s cat in New York. We were in the mall today and passed by the FAO Schwartz display in Macy’s. We were letting Sean snuggle up to all the giant stuffed animals 🙂
We were on our way out, and we passed by a large rack of small stuffed animals. Sean pointed toward it and said “Dat!” (that). He was pointing at a cute gray and black kitty. We gave it to him and he laughed so hard, and snuggled it to death. He wouldn’t put it down. Yes, we ended up buying it for him 🙂
He held it tight with both hands all the way out of the mall to the car, and all the way home. He took a nap with it when we got home and carried it all around the house toinght. He loves when we “meow” at him with it and make the kitty jump around. So cute.
I decided to try to make some progress on our 3rd floor today. Our goal is to move our office from the 2nd to the 3rd floor. We want to make 1/2 of the 3rd floor the office, and the other 1/2 a play area for Sean. It’s a very large space, so it will work well. That way, we can do some work on the computers, and he can play. Check out his side, which is pretty much done except for babyproofing the outlets and getting the gate up, which I ordered today.
Also, a few pictures of Sean playing before bed last night in his awesome firetruck jammies. 🙂
We finally got it! Sean was in his jammies ready for bed, but was still bursting with energy and walking from toy to toy so we decided to go ahead and try to get the video you’ve all been waiting for! It turned out great, and the last part of the video was his longest walk yet! Luckily I’m off work tomorrow, so I’ll be babyproofing the house for sure!
Sean has diaper rash pretty bad, so I decided to give him a long bath early tonight, instead of waiting until bedtime. I had his diaper already off, so I just brought him into the bathroom and he stood by the tub like always, watching the water fill the tub. When I went to take his shirt off, I noticed that he was standing in a big puddle…doh! He peed on the floor! Got the floor cleaned up, and got him in the bath. He was having a grand time, like always, then I noticed about 15 minutes later, he was grunting. Yes, when I pushed the bubbles aside, he had pooped in the bath….niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. Got him showered off and downstairs, and waited for Paul to get home so I could give the tub and toys a nice Clorox bath 🙂
Sean is walking. He is spontaneously letting go of things and walking 2-3 feet to things, or us. Tonight, he took about 9 steps to me. Of course, our video camera was deader than a doornail, so we’ll have to try to get a video tomorrow night. It’s unbelievable. Better get babyproofing!!!
