Bigger and Bigger!

David continues to keep growing! He amazes us every day with his smiles, giggles, funny faces, strengthening his neck muscles, and even working his leg muscles by holding his weight up for a bit! And, he makes us very happy by sleeping anywhere from 7-10 hours straight through the night - we are VERY spoiled! We just can't keep up with the blog for some reason, so here's another snap shot of the past few weeks. Enjoy!

Two weekends ago, Grandpa Dave and Grandma Peggy came to visit, along with Windsor! We had a fun weekend and went to Stillwater and then tried to go to the Apple Orchard but didn't want to stand in the extremely long line that had formed on a beautiful fall day. We hung around our house on Sunday and David and Windsor had a good time together! OK, so did Grandpa and I, having David ride Windsor like a horse!



We bundled David up for a walk this past week. He's not too keen of his stroller yet but he does like to ride in his front carrier with Dad! We went down a little nature trail by our house and David kept his eyes open so wide the entire time looking at all the trees and everything else around him! Hopefully we'll have a few more mild days yet this year!



David has been enjoying Tummy Time lately and has started to really lift his head up high! He usually has a long string of drool that extends from his mouth to the quilt. We need to start putting bibs on him during the day time because he has become quite the drooler!



He also likes to sit up in his infant chair. It has a higher back on it to support his neck, but he thinks he is big enough to hold his head up on his own most of the time! Here he is enjoying time with Dad!

Here's a fun video of him playing in the chair!

We had an appointment at Gillette today and will have 2 more before his lip surgery which is scheduled for November 17. The orthodonist is very happy with his progress and expressed her optimism for a good repair of the lip during surgery. David will also have ear tubes put in at the same time in November. We just finished a 10-day dose of amoxicillin from his first ear infection. Hopefully the tubes will help to drain the fluid that is in his ears - because he has a cleft palate, he doesn't have the muscles to drain the eustation tubes properly which causes ear infections.

We also stopped by his daycare today to touch base with them about his start date, surgery time, special needs with feeding, etc. The directors and teachers in the Infant room seemed very comfortable with everything which made me very relieved. I also spent about 45 minutes in the room with David getting to know the teachers and the routines for handling the infants, and I have to say that I was very happy with everything! It made me feel better about going back to work.....but I can't believe that I have less than 3 weeks left of leave. It will be so great to have David at daycare in my building downtown - at least we'll be able to stop in whenever we can to visit him. I have a feeling I will be there a lot :)