The dish ran away with the spoon

Okay, maybe not. But the week definitely did run away from us. We have had quite the eventful week and Kai has been quite a trooper. I'm so proud of him and am excited that he seems to be handling outings and minor schedule interruptions much better than he did when he was younger.

Monday was the only day that we have stayed in the house. Since then we have been running--maybe it's because I enjoy driving the new car so much?! Who knows?! Anyway, Tuesday we had lunch with a sister from the ward and had such a good time visiting. Poor Kai missed his mid-day nap and was exhausted. We finally had to leave when his grumpiness was hitting an all-time high. But who could blame him?? It had been five hours since he'd woken up from his last-nap and he was missing his toys! And Wednesday we made a relatively quick trip to Wal-Mart for some groceries and supplies for Thursday's enrichment and we (mostly Reid) did some marathon straightening up for the home teacher that visited us that evening.

Yesterday (Thursday) we had Kai's 9-month check-up. On the positive side, he's happy, healthy, and developmentally doing well. On the slightly concerning side, his weight has dropped from the 25th percentile to the 3rd percentile. He weighed in at a mere 16 pounds 2.5 ounces. So much for my goal of 17 pounds! I wonder how much of it had to do with his food strike that lasted for two days prior to his appointment. I guess I'll never know, but what I do know if that we need to get him eating. The big concern is that he may not be getting enough milk from nursing. So, I'm to pump after every nursing session to try to stimulate more milk. We're also expanding Kai's finger-food diet in order to find other foods that will entice him to eat. Yesterday after refusing his baby food lunch, he ate tortillas and cheese--almost a quesadilla! It was fun to have him eating in his chair while I was eating my lunch at the table. The other thing that I have decided to do is to make the B-I-N-K-Y disappear. I figure if he doesn't have that to suck on, he may nurse for longer and help with the milk production. It's now been over 24-hours since the aforementioned item has disappeared and he's doing fairly well. Yesterday's morning nap was the hardest with almost 40 minutes of sobbing. By the afternoon he was so tired that it was only 30 minutes. And by bedtime he was so wiped out that there was no crying at all. Even the two times he woke up last night (around midnight and five am) were pretty much tear free. I have replaced the missing object with a new one--his blankie and am hoping that he'll form an attachment to that that will be soothing for him.
One last item of note...the frog is in the closet--literally! After spending a good 45 minutes on Monday repeatedly having to push the buttons on the frog to get him to sing and light up, we have benched the poor Tad. Maybe when Kai is older and can figure out how to push the buttons himself, we'll pull the poor thing out of his dark abyss. So for now, it's farewell little Tad.