Missing Daddy for a Few Weeks

Spending quality time with Daddy before he leaves again for work

It turns out that Jim has to travel for about 3 weeks in a row for work (luckily he comes home for the weekends). This past week Brody kept me busy and definitely let me know that he was missing Daddy. I went to get him ready on Monday morning (a task that Jim normally does) and he pointed at his door and said "Da Da Da". It broke my heart to have to try to explain to him that Daddy was at work and wouldn't be home until the end of the week. With the realization that it was just Brody and I, he started to test the waters. Each night we went through a trial of him screaming for about 10 minutes after we came home and then an awful bedtime routine (I had to stand in his doorway each night until he fell asleep). To top it all off he fell/threw himself into a bench in the house after having to come in from outside on Wednesday night that resulted in a large bruise on his forehead! We also had to go to see the doctor on Thursday night to have a recheck on his ear infection and to receive a vaccine. Unfortunately for me, his ear infection had returned and I had to be the evil one holding him down on the table while he got his shot. Then it was off to wait about 30 minutes for our prescription at Walgreens (10 minutes in the store and then 20 in the car because Brody was taking EVERYTHING off the shelves (who was in such a hurry to have him walking?)). We were very thankful to see daddy come home late Thursday night!

Hey Mom - do you mind if I use your computer?

Hey! That's me!!!

Brody has been continuing to develop on schedule. At his last doctor's visit he weighed 23lbs and was 31 inches long (putting him the 25th percentile for both length and weight). We were a bit surprised to hear that he was only in the 25th percentile - it seems like he is pretty tall to us. We were all glad to hear that his head had not grown since they measured it in November (dropping him into the 95th percentile!). He has also started saying Mommy and Daddy (appropriately), ball and at times car and dog. At daycare they thought they even heard him say cracker - so I have a feeling that we will have a talker on our hands sometime soon. He is also constantly keeping us laughing - the newest routine is walking his pet mouse (video below).