Shot, shot, shot...

Well, that describes Nicholas' afternoon. No, I didn't take him to the local bar, but we did hit up the Waukesha Department of Health!

Back story (insert dream sequence hands here) - Nicholas' first year doctor appointment ended up being closer to his 13 month birthday due to my forgetfulness of scheduling. When we finally had his appointment, Nicholas ears were a little red so they said we would have to wait for his shots until after he has been healthy for 2 weeks. The boy kept getting colds, but finally he was healthy!

Today we went to DHS for his shots. I was thinking 2 of his 12 month shots and then the flu shot. Since we are close to his 15 month birthday they said we could just do those shots today as well, 6 in total. I told her to go for it (side note: this conversation was going on in the waiting area. Nicholas was busy waving and high fiving everyone in the room. After she said 6 shots, I told Nicholas he wasn't going to be happy in a few minutes and everyone in the waiting room was laughing). He did cry at the shots, but luckily mom came prepared with a bottle to ease the pain.

Afterwards I decided to reward Nicholas (and get food to make dinner). I took Nicholas to the little toy area they have. There was a duck and a frog he liked so I held them both in front of him and asked which one he wanted. He grabbed them both at the same time. I told him, "Which ever one you stop playing with first we will put it away." He played with them both until it was time to check out so I had to get him both!

1st Dentist Visit

Since Nicholas has his 11th tooth poking through, we figured it was time to take Nicholas to the dentist! He loves brushing his teeth so I was hoping it would go well, and it did.

They said his teeth looked good, although their could be future crowding on the bottom. They said at his next appointment he will probably double his teeth, but I can't see him having 22 teeth by August. Guess you will have to stay tuned to know if they were right!

2 cute things:
  1- when Nicholas was waiting for the dentist he was running around, pointing at everything and saying dada.
  2- the two tables beside Nicholas were two little sisters dressed the same. We ended up getting done the same time as them and rode the elevator out together.
     Girl to me: 'Your baby is really cute'
     Me to girl: 'Thanks, you two are cute too. Are you twins?'
     Girl to me: 'No, we are 17 months apart.'
     Me to girl: 'My sister and I are 18 months apart. We used to dress the same too.'
     Girl to me: 'That's funny.'
 

Back again

So, I keep saying I am going to get better at blogging and I just keep getting worse. Rather than going through the past 2 months I am skipping to the present.

This month we have been lucky enough to have visitors come to Wisconsin and hang out with us! I think Eric loves it the most when people visit, because he gets a clean house out of the deal.

FEBRUARY

The first weekend Alex came out for a long visit. Friday night we went out to dinner. Saturday we hit up the local favorite, The Steaming Cup, for breakfast. After naptime we went to the home brewing store, saw the Fonz downtown and went to the Mars' Cheese Castle. Sunday we went to brunch at Perkins and then just hung out until the Super Bowl and Glee. Alex left in the morning.



This past weeked, Rae, Alison and Ashley came out to visit. Nick stayed back in Iowa since Eric had reserves and would be gone most of the weekend. We spent a few hours shopping on Saturday, followed by a late lunch at Applebee's. That night I made taco pizza and we watched Despicable Me. Sunday morning Ali, Ashley and I went to a couple craft stores so they would have projects to work on for the ride home. They headed back around 1.

Since the last post Nicholas has just been getting cuter and cuter. He is a walking fool and really only crawls when he is trying to get up and down the stairs. He has 10 teeth or so... we think that number 11 may be peeking it's way through. He does have a few words down: mama, dada, nana (that's banana), sometimes there is a word that sounds like Tink... the rest of his talking is just babbling, but he is pretty convinced he is having a conversation with us!!