ljhar1013/Laura

Hi Tiffany!

I had a bunch of things to tell you too but I didn’t want to hijack your shrimp post so I’m glad you posted this one. I’m so happy for you that Seth has done well with all of that dairy – that is so great! Owen’s doing great on the soy milk still – keeping our fingers crossed – but it’s been a while now. He gets that first thing, and one or two cups in the day. The only time he gets alimentum is in a bottle at night but we’re thinking about weaning that once school’s out (my husband works in a school so it will be easier when he’s off for the summer). I like him getting it for the vitamins, etc. but also would like for him to not have any bottles any more too. It’s the same thing about the bedtime bottle – tonight I just mentioned it and he went CRAZY until we got it for him. I thought it would help if I brought him upstairs to get him in his pjs but he wouldn’t let me dress him and just screamed and kicked and fought until his dad came up with the bottle. It was nuts – and made me think he’s getting too dependant on it at this point.

We did drop one of his prevacid doses, although we haven’t told anyone about it until right now! We dropped it on Saturday, by mistake actually. We were out doing errands when I realized I had forgotten to give it to him in the morning and my husband said “well let’s just not give it to him” – so we didn’t. We’ve still been giving him his evening dose but nothing in the morning so I guess this is the 4th day of his not getting it in the AM. That means he’s down to about 7.5 mg a day, so I don’t know if that even does anything for him. We totally weren’t planning on doing it but figured why not! I’ll let you know how that goes.

He’s having soy yogurt now without a problem too, so that’s a very good thing. I think we’ll probably try dairy in a month or so, if this medicine thing works ok.

Owen actually hasn’t been throwing food (and he’s in a booster too) but he has been chewing it up and then spitting it out on the floor up to an hour after a meal – now that’s gross! He did it at the bank the other day – half a granola bar spit onto the floor. It totally looked like he had thrown up on the rug and I bet anyone who saw it thought he did, but it isn’t – he just spits. It is the grossest thing ever and I don’t know how to stop it. When he does it at home I make him clean it up and he hates it – and of course he does since it’s gross!! So I have to say that I would take throwing food over this new habit of his.

So is Seth still waking up a lot in the night? Does he seem really uncomfortable? I’m sorry for you that he’s still doing that – you guys must be exhausted!!