Busy times

Busy week so far! On Monday morning Victor managed to scratch his eye before I could catch him. I kept an eye on it, and it kept getting red and puffy, so I called the doctor's office and they recommended that I bring him in. Of course it was fine as soon as I called them. But I brought him in, and they checked it, and there was indeed a little scratch on his poor little eye! That was fun for me to watch--they put a yellow drop into his eye, and then used a black light to check it out. His eye glowed! Nifty! Of course it somehow managed to leak over into his nose and he had orange boogers for a while. But they gave him an antibiotic to put in there just in case, then had me bring him back on Tuesday to get checked. Aaaand he was perfectly fine, no scratch! So that was $70 for peace of mind. Oh well, anything for my baby ;)

The good news there was that Victor's tummy medicine FINALLY seems to have kicked back in again, and he's his usual talkative happy self instead of the crying meltdown baby. Lesson learned! We're keeping him on the medicine at least until we come back alive from our big trip east.

Strangely, though, he only weighed in at 13 lbs, 1 oz, which is rather less than they were expecting, since his weighed 12 lb, 4 oz on May 10, over a month ago. I think it was probably because he was crying so much and not eating as much as he might have, either because his tummy was upset or because I couldn't distinguish his hungry crying from all the other crying he was doing. Since then, though, his appetite has resurged with a vengeance--I haven't been able to keep up!

Wednesday morning my mom flew back into town! Commence the walking and the ice cream and the grammy cuddles, stat. Victor has been showing her all his new tricks, including rolling over, picking up and eating his blankets and toys, pulling his ball down from the velcro strap, and sucking on his first two fingers and his big toes. He has also showered her with affection in the form of spit up. Such a considerate baby! :)