Well, lets get the not fun and "exciting" things out first.
1) Lorelai is better! YAY!!!!
2) Gabriel isn't. His ear infection moved to both ears, so he is now on his second round of antibiotics.
3) Gabriel climbed out of his crib. Twice. So he has moved to a brand new toddler bed (we'll get him a bigger bed in the future, but this took us very much by surprise so I found a toddler bed on clearance for $20 at Target. Ya can't beat that! Especially on short notice.)
4) Gabriel is having a hard time transitioning to the new bed. Especially with being sick which means Brian and I have gotten VERY little sleep. We're talking like 2-3 hours of sleep a night for us. (And for Gabriel.)
5) We had Gabriel evaluated for his speech by ECI (Early Childhood Intervention). I will try to make this short...he qualified, but they fudged his numbers to make him qualify. I'm annoyed by this. They used his everyday vocabulary (about 5 words) rather than his full vocabulary (about 50). This put him in the 14 month category for speech development. Anyway...I know they were trying to do us a favor by marking him that way so we can get services for him, but I wanted him scored as he actually is. They didn't even count his animal sounds as words (which they're supposed to be). Okay...anyway, he will be having a speech therapist coming to see him once a week at the house, and we are working with him at home (all of the things they gave us to do are things we were already doing though so I just feel very frustrated by it all). We're doing it for now, and will see if we feel it is helping him at all or not.
Now, on to the zoo trip. We took a family visit to the Houston Zoo today. It was gorgeous. And despite the family's lack of sleep everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. I'm short on time so I'll just post the pictures with brief captions for you. :)
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| I believe he's looking at some sort of hoofed animal here. He loved walking up to the fences this time. |
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| This is a great one. :) And he was enjoying the pigs sooo much. |
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| But, we tore him away to go pet/brush some goats. He made it his goal to brush every single goat there. I think he did. |
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| When a goat would walk past him he would squeal with delight. |
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| Lorelai was there too! lol But, she slept in the carrier for the most part. |
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| Family shot. Sorry my hair is so crazy. It's funny because in the second version of this pose my hair looks fine. Weird. |
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| Gabriel enjoyed roaring at the lions. |
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| The elephants were also a hit. When we got home and I asked Gabriel what his favorite animal was at the zoo he made his elephant sound. |
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| He was practically diving out of Brian's arms trying to get to the elephants. But, he had to settle for this statue. |
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| Here he is making his elephant sound. He sticks his nose up in the air and goes "Ooooo.." (with an elephanty sound to it.). |
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| There were 2 baby elephants. :) |
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| On our way out we saw the Meerkats. Gabriel thinks they're a hoot. |
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| Staring contest! lol Actually he kept trying to kiss it through the glass, but the brim of his cap kept preventing him from doing it. |
All in all a great day, despite everyone being very tired from Gabriel's frequent night wakings. Fingers crossed that he gets over that soon and his ear infections go away.
