Pooh butt is messy!

Check out this diaper cover!!! Its Winnie the Pooh! Don't you just absolutely LOVE it?

Here's the story. Back in 2005 I bought this Pooh bear diaper cover in anticipation of having a baby. We weren't trying to get pregnant or anything. I just knew one day I'd have a baby and I wanted that baby to wear this diaper cover! I totally forgot to put it on Maryam when she started crawling. I was NOT going to make that mistake again. NO WAY! So here it is, in all its Pooh diaper cover glory! RAD.

Jax DOES NOT LIKE Mandarin oranges! Nope, not even a little bit. He squeezed them into little pieces then put them in his hair. Don't know why. I had to snap a picture of him though. He's generally a messy eater, but this was on a messy level, even for Jax.

Day 2 and all is well!

We took Maryam off of her oxygen this morning around 9:30am. I waited for Brett to wake up before I took her cannula off. She tested well ALL day! This evening she tested at 99% for about 10 minutes! How GREAT is that? Right now she's being fed her last meal for the day and is starting to go to sleep. I noticed that the past 2 nights she has slept better. I'm wondering if that's because she is not getting medicine at night anymore. I'll have to ask her pediatrician if those prescriptions could affect her sleep.
Well, Maryam has certainly gotten use to not having her O2 tube attached! She's started cruising along the furniture in both directions! AND, she can walk if she holds both of my hands! All of a sudden, she just reached for my hands and took off! Her steps are awkward, unbalanced and clumsy, but she is definitely trying to figure out how to walk. I, of course, keep trying to get her to crawl. I'm not going to stop normal development, but I'm not going to overly encourage her to walk faster than necessary. I even put her lion walker toy in another room! But Maryam found it and dragged it out.
She drank 3 ounces of water tonight! She just gulped it down. She didn't drink much the rest of the day, so I guess she was making up for it.

Kleenex anyone?

Now that Maryam's free of her oxygen tube bindings, she is getting into EVERYTHING! She crawled behind the furniture and pulled the Kleenex box down and then proceeded to pull most of the tissue out of the box and throw it EVERYWHERE!

What a mess!

In this photo she just got finished tearing a piece of tissue apart and throwing each piece on either side of her.....silly baby.

We've done two sat readings today. The first was great! She stayed between 97-98%, just like yesterday. The second one was mostly at 95-96% and she was eating. I was tube feeding her and she was chewing on some Cheetos, pretzels and chips. So, Maybe the breaks in breathing for chewing or swallowing affected the reading? Most likely she uses more energy eating than she does doing nothing!
We got Maryam's new Mic-Key Buttons today. She's grown so much that she's had to move up a size in buttons. When the one she has wears out, I'll put the new one in.

Maryam helping Daddy baby proof the kitchen

Now that Maryam is crawling and getting into stuff, we have to make the house "baby proof." So, Daddy decided today would be the day, and Maryam decided that she needed to help!

As soon as she heard the drill start, Maryam high tailed it into the kitchen to see what the new noise was! Once she discovered the drill, she decided that she wanted to play with it too.

So, she took the drill away from Daddy. Daddy's smart though, he took the drill bit out before she got the chance to take it from him.

Aren't they just so cute?

Maryam crawling...finally caught on video!