Growing too fast to wait another month!

Posted in Random by Theresa

Kanan is 4 1/2 months old now and the last two weeks, he has made some leaps that just crack me up. First of all, he has finally mastered the holding the feet trick and has even sucked on his toes a few times, but I haven’t taken a picture of that just yet. He practices as soon as he wakes up in his crib until the drowsy moments before he falls asleep. He just can’t get enough of his feet and Mike and I just can’t get enough of him playing with ’em.

Kanan has also figured out that when you have a book in your hand, you are supposed make a lot of noise out of your mouth (his perspective on reading). Now when he plays with his toys, he’ll make some coos and babbles here and there, but give him a book and he’ll talk your ear off. Click HERE for a video of him doing just that. Speaking of videos, we finally got one of him laughing. It’s not his full belly laugh that he has done a few times but just some giggling and very cute too. Click HERE if you would like a sample. 🙂

Kanan has reached all the milestones necessary for him to get the okay on eating solids, but because he is still a month and half away from the safe 6-month-zone, we are just having him try out stuff first and not making any solids big enough to be a meal. He has tried cereal for the last two weeks, but yesterday, he tried peas for the first time and he LOVES them! Who would have thought? Not me. But he opened his mouth over and over for more peas and I just couldn’t shovel it in fast enough to satisfy the little guy!

Kanan is moving better and better too. He is in the process of learning how to flip onto his stomach. He wanted to practice it so much today that he refused to go to sleep. He woke up at 4:45 AM to start practicing, was nice enough to sleep for 45 minutes about two hours later and then that was it. He wouldn’t take another nap no matter how hard Bobbi (his daycare provider) or I tried and he finally went down for a mere hour and a half around 3 pm. What position did he fall asleep in? You got it, a position somewhere in between his side and his stomach and boy did he wake up frustrated when he realized this. He has, however, mastered a physical movement that is causing great frustration with Mike and I and almost makes us laugh because it is so ridiculous. He has learned that he can arch his back and drop down to get out of things he doesn’t like–for example, his carseat. Trying to strap him down into his car seat feels like I’m putting him into a straight jacket!

He is getting so big and filling out so nicely that everyone thinks he is older than 4 months. We just love the little guy so much, we can’t get enough. I just want to nibble his cheeks and tell him it tastes like chicken.

22Jul2007

A Walk in the Barrio

Posted in memoirs, My Former Life Before Jesus by Theresa

Kanan and I take a walk through the barrio every morning and every late afternoon. It’s an enjoyable walk that is peaceful in the early hours and full of energy later in the day. Our morning walk happens around 7:30 A.M when the marine layer hasn’t yet burned off—giving the summer morning a cooler feel. I wear Kanan in a sling to make it a bit cozier. Together we smell the moist, salty air and feel the cool breeze off the shore. The cars in the streets are mostly gone, as their owners have left early to work. We look and smell all the flowers blooming from the random yards of homes not owned by slumlords. These flowers brighten up the neighborhood from the dull appearance it could have if every home looked like the one two doors down from us–Peeling paint, two cars parked on the dry dirt lawn with weeds tearing through the dead grass; rap music blaring through the windows and the coming and going of traffic through the doors from various people of all colors. That is until the cops come again and arrest them or threaten them for dealing drugs and then it is quiet again for a month or so. The neighborhood is rather a checkerboard. Every other square is a prideful palate of garden colors—greens and reds and yellows. Only broken up by the dull, yellow squares brought on not by humility, but by neglect.

On are way down to Division Road, we are about to pass the big house with the beautiful garden of lilies, roses, and bamboo, and hope to get a glimpse of the newborn kittens we saw two mornings prior. But are path is obstructed by our neighbors and my heart beats a little faster. A once hard-core Center Street gang member in his late 20’s is sitting in his wheel chair. His bullet wound scars splatter his body and explain why the rest of him looks the way he does. He has lost both his legs, and is paralyzed from the waist down, so he has to wear a colostomy bag. His gangster friend who pushes him around everywhere is next to him, kneeling down and waving a branch back and forth on the ground underneath the home’s rod iron fence. Once I see this, I know exactly what is going on and breathe a sigh of relief—it is unusual to see any gang member, former or active out at this hour and now it makes sense. I look again at my paralyzed neighbor and see his dark black clothes and arms scarred with prison tattoos juxtaposed by the soft, white and orange calico kitten wrapped snuggly between them. His friend is trying to entice the other kitten that is gleefully jumping from side to side and swatting at the branch. Maybe these guys aren’t as bad as they seem, I think, and break the awkward silence by telling Kanan that even grown men like kittens. They smile and we talk in English about animals and share stories about the pets of our past. Then we say goodbye and Kanan and I continue our walk through the neighborhood. Continue reading →

13Jul2007

Where’s a wig when you need one?

Posted in personal stuff by Theresa

I can’t stand finding dog hair on the carpet. But of course, when Mike adopted his parents’ two adorable Welsh Corgies, I knew that I would have to deal with it. These dogs shed all year long. I’d have to vaccuum 3 times a day if I wanted the carpets to look clean. I complain when Mike lets the dogs jump on our bed because I find it disgusting to sleep or make love without an interupting dog hair getting stuck on my tongue or in my eye. The irony of all this is that now a few months after I have given birth to my son, my hair is falling out. I am shedding at the rate of or worse than my two Corgies.

After I put my hair up in a ponytail (my typical easy mommy hairdo) and run my hands down my tail to straighten it out, I have about 5 or 6 hairs left on my hand. Mike says that he’ll feel a tickle and think he has a bug on his back or neck and go to swat it, but only find one of my “crooky” hairs there instead. When I take a shower and run my fingers through my hair, my fingers look like a dense spider web of black hair. I have to pull it out between my fingers and stick it to the wall so it doesn’t clog our pipes, but I still can’t catch the few stragglers that have slid down my soaped back and found their way to the drain. But thats not all. After I grab the hair off the wall and throw it in the trash I proceed with my after shower ritual—standard teeth brushing, body lotion, deodorant, and hair brushing. As I rub lotion on my legs, I have to stop here and there to pull of a hair that went sliding down my back but didn’t make it to the drain and instead set up camp on the back of my thigh or around my ankle. And when I brush my hair, I am constantly having to clean my brush because of the hair build up on the bristles. This is not funny…..its scary. What is happening to me? Well of course, those who know me know that I will not just shrug my shoulders and move on. I do my research. And low and behold….I find that the 9 months of pregnancy that led to me growing a thick, gorgeous head of dark waves was because my hormones stopped my hair from falling out those months. The typical person loses about a hundred hairs a day. Multiply a hundred by 30 and we have 3, 000 hairs. Multiply that by 9 months and we have 27, 000 hairs that stayed rooted to my scalp. Well, after a couple of months post partum while the body is reorganizing it’s hormones, the hormone that took a vacation emerges and has to play catchup. All 27, 000 hairs that didn’t fall out for 9 months are now falling out at a rate that is probably more like 500 hairs a day. I feel like Christine Taylor on the teen film The Craft after one of the witches casts a spell on her for her hair to fall out. I actually had to apologize ahead of time to our maid so that when she swept the floor or vacuumed the carpet and found tons of long brown hairs amongst the short dog fur, she didn’t think I was ill.

Well, now that I know, I give fair warning to my mommy-to-be friends out there. Enjoy your thick hair during pregnancy because it will be gone when your done.

11Jul2007

Kanan is 4 months old!

Posted in Kanan news, My Former Life Before Jesus by Theresa

We are over and past the hump (or the slump)!! The most difficult time of infancy is over and gone—no more floppy head, or lots of crying, or a baby who only eats, sleeps, and defecates. We have a happy baby now. A baby who still eats, sleeps, and defecates, but also loves to laugh, squeel, babble, kick, stand, suck on his hands, put anything and everything into his mouth, go for walks in his stroller, go swimming, go to the beach and let the white water crash on his feet, go shopping with mommy while he tags along in his sling and gets the googlie eye from every man , woman, and child in the store. It is so much fun having the little guy around it’s ridiculous. Mike and I play fight over who gets to greet Kanan in his crib when he wakes up from his nap. When we go out to eat, we just eat and stare at Kanan or talk to him the whole time. Yeah, we are hooked! For more pics of this month please click HERE! Or just place your cursor over it and wait for a box to appear. Then wait a few more section and my pics will show up individually in the box and you can scroll through it that way without having to go to the website.

Kanan’s Milestones:

Eating-–While still breastfeeding, when he does take a bottle, he can drink up to 7 oz in one sitting now! He is now drinking formula before bedtime to help him sleep a little longer. It is working too! He has slept through the night once so far and that was a few days ago. He is getting easily distracted now during his day feeds, making eating take longer because I have to keep his interest long enough to take a full feed. A dark room helps if its immediately after he wakes.

He is also showing great interest in solid food. He watches us eat and opens his mouth like he wants to try it too. When his grandma showed him a piece of tomato on her finger from her marinara sauce, the little guy dived down and snatched it off her finger and swallowed it like he hadn’t eaten in a month! Sooooo…I’ve tried giving him rice cereal twice to see how things would go. The first time, he ate like a champ. He didn’t push it out with his tongue, seemed to enjoy it and ate like 4 teaspoons full. The second time, he didn’t seem to like it, was pushing it out with his tongue and barely got in 2 teaspoons full before I decided to put it away and try again in a week. Either way, he has a high chair now in which we use primarily for him to sit in the kitchen while I eat, or cook, or wash dishes.

Activity–Kanan is babbling now! And his first babble word is (drum roll please….) “MUM”! It’s adorable! Of course Mike is jealous. And of course I tell him that Kanan doesn’t know what it means. But of course, I am secretly thrilled! He is also starting to laugh. He started with me about a week ago when I was tickling him. He did it again this weekend when his favorite cousin Breanna was flirting with him. And he did it again when his grandpa Don was tickling him. And squeeling has been a consistent vocal practice of the little guy for a little over a month. He loves to kick. As a matter of a fact, we believe he will be running before he crawls, he loves to “stand” and kick so much. His favorite toys are his fish rattle and my wood bracelettes. His favorite book is “Snappy Little Dinasours.”

Physical Growth— Not sure of his exact weight yet, but I’m guessing close to 16 lbs. We will find out for sure when he gets his shots here in a few days. His neck is solid strong. Doesn’t wobble or flop at all. He can roll over from front to back and is very close to getting back to front. He is starting to grab his feet, which excites me because I love a baby that can suck on his toes. We also think he is teething—He has episodes of drooling, biting, poor appetite, pulling on ear, fussing—tylenol helps…hmmmmm

Sleep–He has slept through the night once!!! Otherwise he is down to waking up once in the night to eat. He does have nights still where he wakes up more than once though, but usually, a pacifier quites him. His naps consist of two long naps (1.5-2 hours) and one cat nap of 45 minutes.

8Jul2007

Kanan gets some sun and a mohawk

Posted in Kanan news, My Former Life Before Jesus by Theresa

Kanan officially has a mohawk courtesy of his eager father. We have since trimmed it since we took the photos as it flopped over a bit from the length. People our age love it. Grandparents hate it of course. We figure we should jack up his hair now while he is still too young to care.

He got to show off his new do unofficially at the Matzke family reunion last weekend although when his great grandmother asked if we were enlisting him in the military, we decided it was a little too high and tight and not enough hawkish, so we sinced cut it more and that is what makes the reunion the unofficial debut of Kanan’s hawk. He also got to meet some more family that day including his second cousin Noah who is 7 months older than him. They were both too busy analyzing eachother during the family picture that they didn’t even bother to look at the camera. It was wonderful seeing family we haven’t seen in a long time. My cousins DJ, Tyler, and Trevor were there with my uncle Tim and his wife. I hadn’t seen the cousins for 15 years atleast—back when I would never had guessed I would have a son with a mohawk!

Kanan got to show off the official hawk at his third cousin Robert’s 3rd birthday party by the pool in Pacific Beach. Kanan got to go in a pool for the first time and seemed to enjoy it as it was a very hot and sunny day. We slathered him in SPF 45 and dressed him a waterproof diaper, sunhat, and regular clothes because we lost his newly purchased swim trunks. Afterward he played in his pack and play for a bit instead of napping because there was way too much activity by the pool. We finally got him to go to sleep by taking him into the dark and quite Sauna in the back of the poolhouse. Don’t worry, it was turned off. He slept there for an hour and a half. I went back and checked on him every 5 minutes of course. After he woke up he was super happy and socialized with everyone. Toward the end of our stay, he got to try cake frosting for the first time although he was so exhausted by that point, I don’t think he truly enjoyed it as much as he could. All in all it was a fabulous day.

We finished the night off by sleeping in the RV camper that night. Kanan, me, and Mike up on the bed and Smokey and Bandito down below in living area. The next morning, Kanan, who is not used to sleeping in the same bed as Mom and Dad, was so cute. He woke up smiling and kept looking back and forth at us as if to be thinking, “Dadda Mama, Dadda Mama.” I think he may of liked sleeping with us because last night when he was back in his crib for the night, he woke up every 1-2 hours all night long and boycotted sleeping entirely from 130-330. Of course by that time, I sent Mike in for a shift and when I went in to help him out, Kanan was all smiles and giggles as if that was his motive the entire time—to get Mom and Dad in his room for a slumber party.

Our little monster. We love him still. 🙂

28Jun2007

A Pretty Darn Close-to-Perfect Day!

Posted in Kanan news, My Former Life Before Jesus, personal stuff by Theresa

When I woke up this morning and saw the cornflower blue sky balloon over me and heard the redheaded finches outside singing with their chics in our Plum tree, I should have known it was a sign that today would be extra special. Kanan woke up at twenty ’till 7 am on his own and happy. He had woken up only once prior to that at 515 and went back down easily with his pacifier. I fed him and for the first time in a week, he ate eagerly and well (his appetite went way down this last week and made me quite worried). I then brought him back into bed with Mike and I and we cuddled with him as he eagerly sucked his fingers and let out squeels of delight and excitement.

Then we went for our morning walk around the block and Kanan turned his head left and right and stared at everything he could while sucking on his fingers again as I carried him around him his infant carrier. We noticed a few newly bloomed flowers in the neighbors yard and both stopped to smell them. Kanan actually has gotten so used to this routine, he bent his head down for a second sniff of the orange flower’s perfume. It was a little cool, so the house felt cozy and warm when we returned and perfect for winding Kanan down for his mid-morning nap.

When he woke up, he ate a little and then Mike and I took him to the beach. We wanted him to try out the water so we put him in some waterproof diapers and some hawaiian shorts his Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Linda bought him. He LOVED the ocean. At first, he was a little unsure, but after a couple of times of feeling the waves crash on his legs and hearing Mike and I talk excitedly and assuringly, he squeeled again and again everytime a new wave headed toward his feet (we were on the sand right where the white water meets it so it was super shallow). We then went home and Kanan napped again and then woke up and had a big lunch which really excited me because this has been the time that he has often refused to eat over the last week.

Mike had some free time to spend with me for a few hours, so after Kanan nursed, we took him over to Bobbi’s, his new caregiver we hired (she is awesome by the way and posed with Kanan in this pic to the right!), with a bag of frozen breastmilk, his blankie, binky, and rattle. While he was having a great time, taking a long nap and playing with Bobbi and her grandaughter Elizabeth, Mike and I rode our bikes down to the beach again, sunbathed and went swimming in the ocean. I got a little tan-line from my tank top because I am not ready to show off my flabby tummy and linea nigra that is still there, but it feels good to get some good healthy color.

When we came home we cleaned up and even made out a bit before Mike had to head off to see a friend! Funny thing is, when Mike took off, he took off with my car keys and the carseat. Of course I didn’t notice until he was an hour down the freeway and it was time for me to pick up Kanan. Luckily Bobbi was able to bring him to me and I thanked her again and again.

When I brought Kanan inside, I knew he needed to adjust to the transition before he went down for his last nap of the day, so after I walked him around the house a bit, I layed him on my bed and started tickling him a little. Well what do you know, he laughed! He laughed everytime I put my fingers near his armpits! It was adorable! I knew he was on the verge of laughing and am so excited he did it so many times right then and there. Of course, I took out my cellphone and video taped him laughing and sent it out to Mike, my sister, and my mom. I was still gleeing from his laugh when I put him down for his nap, and felt even more warm when I watched Kanan turn to his left and cuddle with his blankie while touching the bumper of his crib and staring at his hands and talking to himself. Then it was quiet and I looked in and saw he was sleeping!

The books say to circle your baby’s 4-month-birthday because that is the day, you will see a drastic change in your baby’s development. Well I’m marking today, June 27th too. Because not only did Kanan take a leap in so many ways, it was the first day that I felt like my life was going back to normal. I take that back–better than normal. I have a beautiful growing little boy who brings me so much joy, a handsome, driven man for a partner and father to my child, two mischevious dogs, and even a picket fence around my home near the beach. Ahhhhhhhhh…..yeah, I’m bragging now. 🙂

11Jun2007

Kanan is 3 Months Old!

Posted in Kanan news, My Former Life Before Jesus by Theresa

Kanan is 3 months old today! It’s hard to believe that just three months ago I heard his first cry in the operating room after my cessarian section. A lot has happend this month. He started off the month getting his vaccinations and everything seemed to change after that. He went from sleeping until 3-530 in the morning before waking up to waking up atleast twice everynight starting at 130 in the morning. We think it was first a reaction to the vaccinations. Then the next week it was probably a growth spurt. And the week after that it was probably just habit from the two weeks prior. In the meantime, he was also getting really bad acid reflux to the point where we have recently started to medicate him with an infant dose of Zantac. He has been on Zantac for four days now. The first three days on Zantac he slept until atleast 4 in the morning. Last night, he woke up once at 230 am but stayed asleep after that. So far so good. But, I started eating dairy again after being off of it a week and the last two days Kanan has been a bit fussier in the day and very cranky around naptime. I’m getting off the dairy again tomorrow and will stay off for atleast two weeks to see if it makes a difference. Oh the price I must pay so that I can breastfeed my son. 🙂

He has still been growing and learning this month despite how tired he has left Mike and I. He is “talking” all the time and loves his newly discovered hands. Since he discovered his hands he is always analyzing them, playing with his fingers, sucking on them, grabbing my hair, holding toys, and pulling on his shirt. He is also outgrowing his hatred for car rides and is having more and more good days where he sits in his carseat quietly and sucks on his hands, looks at the dangling Zebra I hang from the handle, or out the window. Because he has gotten so observant and has strengthened his neck muscles as well, I decided to test him out in the big kid seat of his stroller instead of putting him in his carseat and he LOVES his walks now. We go everyday in the afternoon and Kanan looks around at everything while eagerly sucking on his hands or trying to eat his hooded sweatshirt while we stroll along. Today we went again during one of his fussy episodes and it was the only 15 minutes that he didn’t whine! 😛

Most days though, Kanan is in a good mood and smiles and coos all day long. He does have his fussy moments but nothing that is difficult to handle. Overall we have decided that he is a sensitive baby and in effect, is easily overstimulated by anything from a new toy to too much light coming through his window when its time to take a nap. So we do have to be careful about this or else his naps are affected. He has Mike’s intense desire to be on the move constantly and his ease at being distracted, and he has my love of color and conversation. As far as looks go, he has my bottom lip and my crooked toe. Thats it and thats all. The rest is Mike Mike Mike.

For links to more pics click HERE and for links to great videos including one of Kanan caught farting and pooping and others of him playing with his dad or of him picking up and trying to eat his rattle, click HERE.

3Jun2007

My Little Boy is Growing Up

Posted in Kanan news, My Former Life Before Jesus by Theresa

Since Kanan started losing his hair about two and half weeks ago, he has also started showing me more and more of his personality as his milestones are helping him communicate more. He has gained much more control of his hands lately and while I already discovered a month ago that he really loves his satin blanket (I call it his silky, Mike calls it his softy) Kanan most recently showed that not only does he like to cuddle with it when he falls asleep, he also likes to put it over his head, I’m assuming to block out the light, which he finds very distracting at nap time. About three days ago, Kanan made it clear that he did not want to be swaddled for his afternoon nap. I was having a hard time getting him to relax enough to fall asleep that I thought maybe his Silky would help. He cuddled with it, pulled it over his head and passed out. When I pulled it off his head in fear he would suffocate, he whined and pulled it back over his head. So I let him do it and just periodically peak into his crib and make sure he is getting enough air under the blanket by lifting an edge up and tucking it over the top of his crib bumper. His Grammy Joella and his father both wear sunglasses until dusk because they are so sensitive to the sunlight. Looks like Kanan got that gene as well. I’m going to get some black out curtains for his room I think, so the little balding boy can relax a little easier without creating fear in his Mama.

31May2007

My Little Life

Posted in My Former Life Before Jesus, personal stuff by Theresa

I remember when I was pregnant, people who were parents would tell me how much my life would change once I had a child. It seemed to be a bittersweet comment. They seemed to be moved by how much joy their child has brought them, but also seemed to warn me that I would never go out again. Well Kanan is almost 3 months old now and I officially went “out” for the first time since I found out I was pregnant. Coincidentally, my last time on the town was memorial weekend of last year and it happend again this year. I left Mike on Friday night with frozen breastmilk dethawing in the fridge and I kissed him and our son goodbye. My friend Kelley had her bachelorette party that night at Ole Madrid in downtown San Diego. We are posing in the first picture together at the restaurant.

To beat the traffic and allow myself to have a couple of first time drinks before I returned home, my friend Merideth and I took the train to San Diego and then took a trolley into town. It took us a while because we were so busy talking we missed our stop—twice! But when we got there we shared pictures with a flamboyant gay couple at the bar and then had a great girly time eating dinner with Kelley and her friends and raved over how great Kelley’s legs and hair looked that night. After dinner the gang left to go nightclubbing, but the last train left for home at midnight so Meredith and I skipped out on the dancing and went home. It was a fun home even though it took an hour because all the Padres fans riding the train were talkative and some were still tipsy from their beers making people watching quite fun. A guy sitting across from us took a picture of Meredith and I making a joke modeling picture.

I got home at about 1:15 am just in time to hear little Kanan cry out that he was awake–I wonder if he sensed I was home? He missed a feeding with his father because he had such a difficult time napping that when it was shortly time for him to eat, Mike didn’t want to have to wake him up again. It was suprisingly okay though because I really missed the little guy and wanted some contact with him before I went to bed. Its funny how this last couple of months, I’ve hinted to Mike about how I can’t wait for Kanan to take a bottle so I can go out once in a while. And then I go out and I can’t wait to get home to see him. I must have looked at his pictures in my phone like ten times and I called Mike so much he threatened not to answer it if I called again.

On Sunday, my sister and I went to Kelley’s sunset wedding at the harbor in San Diego and had a great time with my friends there. I did forget my breastpump so we had to leave just when the dancing was starting to get fun because the engorgement was rather painful. But this time, I made it home before Mike was in bed and in time for Kanan’s late night feeding—to smell his sweet skin and kiss him goodnight. I layed in bed quite content from being able to see my friends, but also very happy to be home and eager to see my family again the next morning. Ahhh, my little life. Isn’t it grand?

21May2007

Making my Baby Happy

Posted in Kanan news, My Former Life Before Jesus by Theresa

Kanan had his 2 month vaccinations today. Not pretty. The pobresito hurt so bad, he did the silent scream. You know the kind when you are in such pain that no noise can even come out of your mouth even though your face is contorted into scream position? That was Kanan todayat the doctor’s office while the nurse stuck four-3-inch-long seperate needles into his thighs. But I was prepared today. I went out and bought a ring sling yesterday and Kanan was able to have the biggest case of Mamitas today while saving my arms from his constant weight. He cried when I first put him in it, but within a few seconds, he settled himself and hung out in it for a couple of hours today and was even able to crack a few smiles here and there. Aside from hanging around the house in the sling, we took a walk and smelled all the spring flowers in neighborhood front yards. Kanan’s favorite ones to smell were the Jasmine and his favorite ones to look at were the bright fusia flowers across the street. We also bought some vegetables from the produce cart down the street. Then I left him with his Dad while I went out to get a video from Blockbuster and returned to see Kanan in the kitchen sitting in his bouncer with his shirt off while watching his father make tacos and dance to the music on the stereo. He even let me eat dinner while he watched from his bouncer and held his tshirt and sucked on his pink pacifier. Then I nursed him and put him to bed around 730. I was sooo impressed! I’m prepared to wake up a bit more tonight if Kanan isn’t feeling well. But so far, without the Babywise routine, Kanan woke up only once last night at around 330am. 🙂

I had to check his temperature a few times today to monitor his fever though. But instead of using the temporal thermometer, I had to use the rectal. It was my first time taking his temperature this way. But with Mike holding the little guy’s feet and a little bit of KY on the wand, Kanan didn’t seem to mind.

The doctor did notice that one side of Kanan’s head is flatter than the other, so we will have to start having him sleep on one side instead of on his back since he tends to turn his head to the right when he sleeps. If we don’t, Kanan’s face could change shape and we would have to have him wear one of those helmets we see some kids crawling around in these days.

On the brighter side, Kanans new stats include.

Weight: 14.5 lbs
Height: 24.5 inches

His head circumfrence is in the 75th percentile. And both his weight and height are in the 90-95th percentiles still. So looks like he is getting enough to eat from Mommy’s milk. He will be able to sport those chunky thighs at the beach this summer, while I hide the 8 pounds of pregnancy weight and my linea nigra I still have in a tankini. Until the heat rises though, we will both go fully clothed minus the socks. Kanan loves to feel the wet sand between his toes—just like his Mama.