Liam hasn't been his self again this weekend. It started off with him screaming at me for giving him bananas and avocados, which he has normally enjoyed. I thought it might just be that he wasn't digging the texture and made him some peas to eat instead. He yelled at me about those too. So I just fed him a bottle and he did fine. But after that he really wasn't his happy go lucky self anymore. We went through the whole weekend with him not really wanting to do anything and when Monday came around he didn't want to cooperate for his OT at all. She pretty much spent the entire time holding him. Not very effective therapy, well I guess it can be, but not in our situation. He's also been back to gagging again like he was before the Erythromycin.

Same thing happened today, too. Liam had PT this morning and he didn't want to work at all. That isn't like him. Cathy can usually push Liam and get him going but he didn't want to do much. When Marcia, our vision teacher, came by, Liam cried almost the entire time! She could tell right away he was not his usual self.

Mimi was over this evening though and Liam really seemed to snap out of his funk with her. She had him giggling so hard he got the hiccups and threw up. Mimi thought that was funny. So, while he was in a good mood I took advantage and started working with him and he did really well tonight pushing on his arms and getting his head up. I am praying he is over his little attitude and we can get back to business. I do NOT deal well when Liam is not well. When he's happy I am wonderful but when he isn't doing well, I am a bear.

It's getting more difficult to shop these days with Liam. When he was smaller it was great to put him in my Baby Bjorn and carry him in the front. He could work on his head control and I had two arms free to shop. Now that he's bigger, my back doesn't like the load he puts on it and quite frankly I keep forgetting to get it out when I am headed into the store. Normally I just carry him in front of me so he can look around but then my back gets sore and I try putting him on my hip. He doesn't do too bad for a kid with no head control and low trunk tone. He likes to suck on my shoulder and he does a decent job of sitting on my hip. Invariably I will get asked Liam's age or someone will comment on how tired he must be (because his head is down) and I just dance around the questions. The other day this nice little lady came up and started talking to Liam while I was holding him as he faced out from me. She bent down to get in his line of sight and was saying things to him. Liam, not once, looked at her or quit sucking on his hand the entire time. She then said to me that he must be really focused because he didn't pay her any attention. I just nodded and let her walk away. I didn't feel like telling her he couldn't see her.

I had a quick trip into Target and wanted to put Liam in his stroller. He only tolerates the car seat for so long and gets disgruntled if we are shopping and he is stuck in it. So I went to get his stroller from the back of the suburban and lo and behold, it wasn't there. UGH. My back is already sore from my trip into Target two days ago and I wasn't happy to see my stroller missing. I laid Liam in the bottom of the cart for a while and he was happy to stare at the red squares of the cart. But then I hit on this great idea:



I put a bean bag chair in the cart and Liam loved it. He got to sit up high and see around. As we shopped through the store people kept commenting on how cute he looked. Too bad it took up the whole cart and didn't leave any room for stuff!

This post is part of "Hi/Lo Thursday" on the Riggs Family Blog. Check out their blog to read everyone else's "Hi/Lo" posts and get your link on their site.

This isn't something I do every week since I don't like to complain. But here is my hi/lo Thursday post:

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This was the two year anniversary of Kyle Ann's birth and death. I was doing awesome with that until I posted my little memorial for her on the blog. It made me sad and I hate feeling sad. I won't watch sad movies or listen to sad songs. Even commercials can tear me up. I chalk most of that up to hormones that have increasingly taken over my body in the recent years. I am not the girl I once was!

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Liam is moving on to 2nd foods and doing pretty well. He is now eating chicken and turkey and he is keeping his food down! The thanks going to Erythromycin! He used to throw up while I fed him (I would catch it and re-feed him. It's gross I know but with the calorie booster in it I hated to see it go to waste and it isn't like it was digested food. It was still fresh! lol) and first thing in the morning but that has all subsided and he is feeling great!

Happy Birthday, sweet baby girl.
We miss you so much!

Born two years ago today at 1 lb 5 oz. and at 26 weeks you weighed 10 grams less than your older brother Liam who was only 23 weeks when he was born! You look so much like Aidan and Liam. You are beautiful and perfect in every way and we are thankful that you are forever our daughter.