A year ago, I was still in the hospital. This summer has been so amazingly different! I was able to go OUTSIDE! I experienced WEATHER! We spent so much time in Okoboji, and a weekend in Minnesota. In June, Jon and I were able to take a trip to Puerto Vallarta with my parents and Patrick spent his first nights away at Gramma Vickie's house. Of COURSE he got his first ear infection while we were gone.
Patrick has been doing great. He's crawling everywhere! He pulls himself up and gets into all kinds of things he shouldn't. There was a week where he was sleeping in his Pack N Play because we were worried he'd pull himself out of his crib, which had to be pulled apart to lower the mattress.
In less than a week, it'll be Patrick's first birthday! We're planning a party, and I can't believe it's been an entire year. I can't believe I was in the hospital for that long and didn't (completely) lose my mind!
He'll have his 1 year check up next week. Last month we caught up with his eye doctor, and things look good there. We're expecting him to be far sighted by the way his eyes look, and we don't really have to have another check for him until he goes to school. He might need glasses at that point, definitely later on.
On his big NICU follow up, he was doing well. Pretty much everything we could have expected. His hearing was fine, his motor skills were okay, his language skills were ok, and his size was a little small. I have a hard time believing the small stuff anymore! Right now, we're putting him in 18 month clothes, and some of those are too small!
I think we have a new routine, and Patrick has been doing okay with sleeping through the night. Still working on that.
He can make a clicking noise with his tongue, and that's the new coolest thing ever for him! He has two bottom teeth, and a top one working through.
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