Konner has been home 1 month today!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Mama Said.....
Every morning I think to myself when Konner takes his nap I'm going to update the blog, but I end up taking that time to try to clean up this house which used to look half way decent. My mom always had a picture hanging in the dining room that I used to think was odd, but I completely understand it now, it goes something like this: Cleaning the house while the kids are still growing, is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. This is so true!
I will try to get everyone up to date on how things have been going and I promise to try to keep things current so it doesn't look like we fell off the face of the earth! I'll start from where I left off on the last post....
Konner has slept great since we got him home. I think it had a lot to do with the sleep deprivation in Moscow from cutting teeth and coughing all night long. We have been amazed at how quickly he gotten into his sleeping and napping habits. He wakes up promptly at 7:20 a.m everyday and is VERY impatient waiting for breakfast to be fixed, he eats lunch by 11:45 and naps from 12:00 to 2:00 and is normally in bed between 8:00-8:30 p.m. depending on when he gets done with his bath. It is very hard to get him out of the bathtub now without him getting mad, but we've finally found out that if you let the water out he will get out willingly.
We were told repeatedly before and after we left Russia that we had 30 days to get his immunizations up to date, so we had that done the 2nd week he was home. All I can say is OUCH! By law the most that they can give a kid at one time is 5 shots, so that's how many he had, 2 in one leg & 3 in the other. I felt so sorry for him. His legs swelled up & were hurting, he ran a fever all night long and Alan and I didn't get hardly any sleep that night. Good thing I'm out of work or I wouldn't have been able to function the next day. We have an appointment to get the rest of his shots the end of May and they said he would have 5 that day also, so looks like I need to take off work the next day.
I think we are progressing pretty well with the attachment issues. He still goes to almost anyone, but he immediately wants to come back to Mama or Daddy unless we are with family. Nobody else exists in the world if his PawPaw is around though, I'm pretty sure he is thinking "Mama Who?"! He loves playing with his sisters when they are here and they are very good with him. I think he realized pretty quickly that all he has to do is point at a toy and these sweet girls bring it to him! We've nicknamed him Konner the Con Artist!
He has picked up on some English. The only thing he can really say that we definitely know he understands what it means is bye bye. He starts waving anytime someone says it and starts walking toward the door and if you don't get up and take him outside he is going to be VERY mad! He LOVES the outdoors and it's very hard to get him back inside the house. It used to be a little easier when he was terrified of the cat and dog, but he has now figured out that they are more scared of him than he is of them. The first couple of weeks every time he would see them he would start shrieking in horror, but now he may yell at them, but no serious fear of them. He was beating up on our poor 17 year old dog today. She had sticks and pine cones thrown at her, her ears pulled and he even tripped her a couple of times! Good thing she likes kids! The cat runs as quickly as he can when he sees Konner coming, I guess he doesn't like being smacked on the head & having his fur pulled out!
I have to go back to work on the 15th. I'm not really looking forward to leaving Konner at the daycare all day, but I like my job and I actually kind of miss it. I think I would love to just work part time and still be able to be with my little man most of the day. Konner's been to the daycare 3 times now, but he's only stayed twice. He seems to like it pretty good, he just gets upset when I first leave, but they said he stops crying after a few minutes if they get him interested in something else. He was ready to go when I got back the other day though because he picked up his jacket and waved bye to the teacher when I got there! His cousin Isaac also goes to the same daycare and most of the kids from our church, so it's not like he doesn't know anyone there.
I'm still trying to get all my pictures posted on here. I did add a slide show of our first trip & I plan on adding one for each of the other two trips also. I added another song to my playlist also, I find myself singing it to Konner a lot when he's mad because I can't get his food fixed quick enough or I want let him go outside because it's too cold! "Mama said there will be days like this......."
Glad I could get this song stuck in your head too! ;-)
I will try to get everyone up to date on how things have been going and I promise to try to keep things current so it doesn't look like we fell off the face of the earth! I'll start from where I left off on the last post....
Konner has slept great since we got him home. I think it had a lot to do with the sleep deprivation in Moscow from cutting teeth and coughing all night long. We have been amazed at how quickly he gotten into his sleeping and napping habits. He wakes up promptly at 7:20 a.m everyday and is VERY impatient waiting for breakfast to be fixed, he eats lunch by 11:45 and naps from 12:00 to 2:00 and is normally in bed between 8:00-8:30 p.m. depending on when he gets done with his bath. It is very hard to get him out of the bathtub now without him getting mad, but we've finally found out that if you let the water out he will get out willingly.
We were told repeatedly before and after we left Russia that we had 30 days to get his immunizations up to date, so we had that done the 2nd week he was home. All I can say is OUCH! By law the most that they can give a kid at one time is 5 shots, so that's how many he had, 2 in one leg & 3 in the other. I felt so sorry for him. His legs swelled up & were hurting, he ran a fever all night long and Alan and I didn't get hardly any sleep that night. Good thing I'm out of work or I wouldn't have been able to function the next day. We have an appointment to get the rest of his shots the end of May and they said he would have 5 that day also, so looks like I need to take off work the next day.
I think we are progressing pretty well with the attachment issues. He still goes to almost anyone, but he immediately wants to come back to Mama or Daddy unless we are with family. Nobody else exists in the world if his PawPaw is around though, I'm pretty sure he is thinking "Mama Who?"! He loves playing with his sisters when they are here and they are very good with him. I think he realized pretty quickly that all he has to do is point at a toy and these sweet girls bring it to him! We've nicknamed him Konner the Con Artist!
He has picked up on some English. The only thing he can really say that we definitely know he understands what it means is bye bye. He starts waving anytime someone says it and starts walking toward the door and if you don't get up and take him outside he is going to be VERY mad! He LOVES the outdoors and it's very hard to get him back inside the house. It used to be a little easier when he was terrified of the cat and dog, but he has now figured out that they are more scared of him than he is of them. The first couple of weeks every time he would see them he would start shrieking in horror, but now he may yell at them, but no serious fear of them. He was beating up on our poor 17 year old dog today. She had sticks and pine cones thrown at her, her ears pulled and he even tripped her a couple of times! Good thing she likes kids! The cat runs as quickly as he can when he sees Konner coming, I guess he doesn't like being smacked on the head & having his fur pulled out!
I have to go back to work on the 15th. I'm not really looking forward to leaving Konner at the daycare all day, but I like my job and I actually kind of miss it. I think I would love to just work part time and still be able to be with my little man most of the day. Konner's been to the daycare 3 times now, but he's only stayed twice. He seems to like it pretty good, he just gets upset when I first leave, but they said he stops crying after a few minutes if they get him interested in something else. He was ready to go when I got back the other day though because he picked up his jacket and waved bye to the teacher when I got there! His cousin Isaac also goes to the same daycare and most of the kids from our church, so it's not like he doesn't know anyone there.
I'm still trying to get all my pictures posted on here. I did add a slide show of our first trip & I plan on adding one for each of the other two trips also. I added another song to my playlist also, I find myself singing it to Konner a lot when he's mad because I can't get his food fixed quick enough or I want let him go outside because it's too cold! "Mama said there will be days like this......."
Glad I could get this song stuck in your head too! ;-)
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