Scar

Corin is all boy. He runs, jumps, tumbles and... damages himself. He's got a few scars, like the one on his forehead from bashing it into the table.

This one will put the others to shame.

It was the first day of school. It's about 1:00. I'm done exercising. I grabbed a quick bite to eat. He's in full-on "I need to nap but I won't so I'm going to go crazy instead" mode. He's jumping on the couch. This is normal. He's jumping from the half-wall to the couch. Again, it's normal. He's jumping from the narrow back of the couch to the couch. This is unnerving. He's getting closer to the table. I ask him to get down before he bashes his head.

He decides to dismount and try to get extra style points.

SMACK!
Crying.
Blood.

I end up sitting on the stairs with him on my chest calling Chrys to come get us and take us to the ER. We went down to Dell Children's and OMGTheyRockMyWorld as far as ED's go. We were in and out in a couple of hours. He had about a 1-1.5" gash in his head. It took 6 staples to close up.

We got the staples out yesterday. It seems like the left side was very nicely closed. There's barely a line where the skin meets. The right is very scabbed over and may not fare as well. I guess we'll see.

Boys. Oy.

Well-check...and penis talk

Corin's three year well-check was today. He's 38" tall and 34.9lbs, both 75% for his age. HIs blood pressure was 96/50.

We met with the NP for the first time today. She checked him out and pronounced him healthy. She was a bit concerned that he only nurses once a day and drinks only a bit of milk. Then, we talked about his love of cheese and yogurt and everything was ok.

She retracted his foreskin more than I was comfortable with, though. I've seen him retract it quite a bit and it doesn't change the color. She did it and it turned purple/red and angry and he was trying to move her hand. She mentioned that we needed to retract it to clean it every day to stretch things out and clean. He does a bit of that in the tub every night so I'm not concerned. She said we needed to do it. I'm not really comfortable with retracting his penis myself because I don't want to pull it back further than it's comfortable for him. I don't mind encouraging him to clean things and clean what he can get to, but I'm not ok with me doing it because that's not what I've been told about intact penises. My understanding is that they will fully retract as he plays with it and ages, not as I stretch it out a bit every night. Just not comfortable with her. If you have to qualify 'forcibly', I'm not a happy mama.

Oh well, I was going to go doctor shopping since Chrys and I just got a letter from our doc that she was leaving. That's the second one in the last 3 years so time to look elsewhere.

8:02 on 8/02. Happy 3rd birthday my beautiful boy.

You are turning into such an amazing person. You talk a ton. You are very active. You seem to be good with the potty training (no dirty underwear in over a week). You still nurse once or twice a day (morning and the occasional nap). You still nap occasionally but not daily. You have a little set of friends from school and the Y. You are beginning to tell stories about your day and about the abstract. You still cuddle. You are fiercely independent. You tug on your ears when you're tired.

You amaze me. I love you.

What's better?

Flyder or Glider?

Personally, I'm pretty smitten with the word flyder. It conveys the meaning as he understands it. A paper airplane that flies. Daddy calls it a glider so we have to put the -der on the end. He doesn't know the difference between flying and gliding. It works. :) Plus, he sounds cute saying it.

Voices

Corin has developed play voices. He has a deep man voice and a squeaky little girl voice. He uses them both during various play times. It's really cute. If I can figure out how to get the recording off my phone, I'll upload it.