He's Coming Alive, and Other Hot Topics!

We have seriously had about 18 days of blissful peace here at the Etue Estate.  Tyler has decided to change all that today!!  He is awake more, and fussy more.  As his sisters would say "mom, he's crying again, go get him!", as if I cannot hear his wails too!  I suppose the every four hour feeds followed by the three hour naps couldn't last forever.  If they did, I am sure the world would be overpopulated with "Dugger-like" families because child rearing would be far too easy.  I don't really mind he is awake more, but come on boy, get content with something!  He seems to hate the swing, the vibrating chair, and most of all his sisters jumping around.  For the last few weeks he has spent alot of time in his quiet room, with soft music playing while he snoozes away.  That room has seemed to work well when the Etue girls are home and rowdy.  But today, all my strategies are about to change.  Although, he seems to like blogging, since he is asleep in my lap as I try to type.  Maybe its just a weekend thing, the girls used to only drop naps on the weekends, so maybe he is starting his weekend gig early in life. 

Now lets turn our thoughts to taping a two week olds face!  Sounds easy right!  It is a pain in mommy's behind!  Everytime I turn around the tape is loose, off completely, or is saturated in formula!  Nice right?  My OCD is in overdrive trying to keep the tape not only on his upper lip, but tight so it can do its job.  We do see improvement in only one week of taping, but the RN in me believes we are wishing seeing!  Our trip to the cleft clinic on April 21st will give us our answer if we are doing a good job at the taping.  It is then too, when we will meet the Dr who will preform miracles on little Tyler.  I am sure to him its just all in a days work, but to us, it is the beginning of the end to this crazy phase we are in. 

What about genetics??  U of M has offered us a consult with the genetics department which is standard for all cleft affected families.  Derek and I are just not so sure we even want to go there.  We are totally done reproducing, and we feel it is Tyler's decision when he is older to make.  I suppose all the kids will need to make a genetic decision when they are older if they want to know their makeup before having babies.  I would hope we are not grandchildrenless due to the possiblility of another cleft affected Etue baby.  But I guess that will be out of our hands!  Let me be clear now, if I had these three brats and none of them give me a grandchild based on a broken lip, they are going to hear about it!  I tried to sugar these kids up and send them home, and my own door bell just kept ringing, so I better be able to do this for real someday in my future!  Oh, but I forgot to mention, Mommy didn't lose her virginity until she was 28, and I expect that out of all three kids too!!  High standards around this Etue Estate!! 

One last random thought, I haven't been out to get him a baby book yet, do you think blogging is the new virtual baby book of the 2011 generation??