June-August 2011

Hey all, getting sometime to put out the baby update after realizing that the last one was in May.

So here goes a quick recap that will match some pictures that have already gone out and will be going out shortly

June ended a long school year and our time with Ms. Nancy, our awesome day care lady. We stuck with her for the whole month even though school was out because I had tech stuff to deal with at school and Carolyn had one of those week long 8-4 grad classes at Goucher. Prior to C starting her grad class, we took a nice trip to Solomon’s Island MD where every restaurant we went to someone was the center of the waitress’s attention, nice to know I still have it.

July sent me to Hog Island Audubon camp for the second summer in a row; this time as a volunteer. While I was in Maine, Acadia had a doctorr’s appointment. The doctor was a little worried that she had hit a plateau regarding weight gain for her height.  So with that we started her on formula and picked up the feeding schedule to include cereal and baby food three times a day.  It also meant more tests and two appointments in August one with our regular pediatrician and one with a specialist down at UMAB. 

Mom and baby flew up and joined me in Maine in mid July and we spent several days exploring Acadia national park, which included a trip to her namesake trail/mountain. The trail is way too steep to take her up so we settled on a few shots at the trail head.

We drove home over several days making sure to take a whole day to drive the coast of Maine and spend sometime at Hog Island, which meant someone’s first boat ride.

August brought the dreaded preparation for going back to school. Acadia started with her new daycare lady Ms. Barb in mid August. After a few rough days of not eating and being fussy she has settled into her routine and is doing well.  We had two more doctor’s appointments focusing on weight gain and making sure there are no “issues” preventing her from gaining weight. She had gained 1 pound since her appointment in July, which was good and the specialist we saw at UMAB is not worried and just had us meet with a nutritionist who gave us a plan for increasing her calorie intake, basically feeding her more formula. So it was a bit of a relief after discussing her eating habits with the specialists that it just came down to feeding her more, though my idea of introducing bacon was shot down. Better yet being at UMAB gave me an excuse to take the ladies to Trinacria Macaroni works on

Paca Street

for sandwiches and wine shopping.

The summer also saw Acadia get two front teeth, sit up on her own, a haircut, and a trip to the pool at Barb and Harris’, as well as an invite from the Gordon’s to the pool they belong to in Mt. Washington. She is also becoming incredibly mobile, to the point I want a bell on her so I don’t step on her while she is busy untying my shoe laces. I’m also thinking of putting swiffer cleaning pads on her clothes so she can at least clean up a little as she crawls.