Easter, a lazy day, and Mr. Gooey Face

Decided we needed an Easter picture. Caden here is chillin on the floor (still in his casts) in his Easter onesie, clearly not an unhappy child.

Here he is a couple days before that. His grandmother (my mom, bless her) has taught my boy how to suck his thumb. But why suck just one, when you can have both at the same time?

A couple of days after his casts came off, it was too warm in the apartment for snuggy clothes, but too cold for the AC. The solution? Bathrobe and bedslippers all afternoon :D That's a true man.

And last but not least, today we gave him his first try of baby cereal. He looked SO SMALL in the high chair! Little runt. So cute though. He was so patient just sitting there watch us get it ready, and then he nommed away. Only got about one out of every 4 mouthfuls actually in and down, but darn it was fun to watch him try.

Free!

Woohoo! We're out of the infernal casts! Hopefully for the very last time EVER. Here are a couple of pictures of him before his first soaky bath in 3 weeks. Bliss.

Can we all see the "thumbs up" in the one below? Yeah, we were excited. And just look at his beautiful feeties! They're SO straight now, and he can flex them all the way like they should. Amazing.

Ahoy!

So, I got a little trigger happy with the camera today. Bless his heart, he's not had hardly any sleep in the last 3 or 4 days, he's just been so uncomfortable in the casts that he couldn't settle into a deep enough sleep to STAY asleep. Finally last night we got the okay to give him some baby liquid Loratab, and that helped him enough that he slept like a dead thing. When he woke up he was happy, so I took a picture of him in his new sunhat (his one eye is wet looking because he's got a clogged tear-duct, not cause he's crying, hehe).

Took this one below the day before yesterday, when he was wide awake and had been for nearly 12 hours. He was "crabby" (friggin Garanimals onsies...)

He played in Grandma Bylund's swing for the first time the same day as the above picture was taken. Wasn't too sure what to make of it this time.

Knifed!

Ok, so the title makes it sound worse than it really was, hehe, but it was still surgery. Caden had both Achilles tendons cut and lengthened at Shriners on the 31st of March. Bless his heart, he was SO sore the day after, but he's still trying to be a happy boy. Kids are so tough, WAY tougher than mama is through all this, that's for sure!

Just some fun

So I realized I'd not updated this in a bit, at least not as far as putting up recent pictures goes. I managed to take some pretty cute ones in the last week, week and a half, so I'll slap 'em up below. This first one is what his new braces look like, the Mitchell Abduction Brace. SO much more baby friendly, with support that went all the way up the back of his calf instead of hackin at him right at the heel like the others did.

This is what the brace looks like with the bar detached. Yep, it snaps on and off. Again, so much nicer than the others where the bar didn't detach - we got a better fit with these cause we could put him in them just like regular shoes then slide the bar on. Poor kid, 2 months old here and already makin a fashion faux pas; socks and sandals...

This was what HE looked like after I put the bar back ON. His scowl is epic:

I took him up to get the mail again a couple days ago, but alas, in true Utah weather glory, it snowed that day. So I got him up in his Pooh snowsuit. He's a bit bigger than he was last time I tried this!

So there's a few updated pictures of my Nugget. He's getting so big! Early Intervention weighed and measured him on Monday, and he's now 11lbs 10oz, and a whopping 23 1/2 inches long. Heavyweight! Will update again with pictures and progress of Caden's tenotomy.