Morton Arboretum
Lian's Play Bus!
New Bears shirt :)
New things Lian is up to:
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| Lian's "Funny Face" |
When we say "Funny Face", he grabs his ears and pulls on them to make a funny face. He also does a "Freeze Face" where he sticks his lower jaw out and has a freeze look but I haven't been able to get a picture yet. He sometimes does these 2 together for a "FUNNY FREEZE FACE".....HA, HA he cracks me up all the time :)
He also knows how to stomp, dances alot still, and says Ma-Ma to me now! :) He is trying to jump and run and screams REALLY loud when he's excited/happy. He knows how to brush his teeth and he's getting 2 new teeth in! I believe both of them are his canines, they are right at the gumline right now.
We also went to get his sleep study done. I really was optimistic about this at the beginning but it was let's say......ridiculous for a 16 month old. Here are some of the pics first:
First, the electrodes on his head would not stay on. Before the technician even finished putting all of them on, the ones she put on first started falling off. She used this waxlike substance to keep it in place and gauze over it. Lian was doing really well with this and the body monitors too. He got upset though when she tried putting the breathing monitor which is a tube that runs behind his ears and underneath his nose. He hated it and started crying. The tubing was not made for his face. There were 2 little pieces on the tubing that were meant to be under his nostrils, but the way his nose and lip is right now, when the tubing is on top of his lip, the 2 nostril pieces laid above his nostrils. She tried putting tape on his face to keep it in place but it didn't work. He was sweating and crying by this time and then more electrodes started falling off his head. The technician couldn't figure out which ones were for which part of his head since there were several off at this point. So she had to figure that out....then what seemed like forever, she said ok everything was where it was suppose to be. At this point we had to carry and walk him so that he would fall asleep, there was no other way. He finally fell asleep and was out. Then the technician comes in again to give us the bed rails, but says some electrodes are off and the nose tubing. She tries to fix it and of course Lian wakes up again! We did this whole dance again and there was no way these things were even going to stay where they needed to be. Lian was really stressed and crying and seemed to be traumatized. He really hated the nose tubing and tape on his face, it probably reminded him of his surgery in China. We told the technician that this wasn't going to work and that we were going to leave. She tried to keep us to stay but we said no....it wasn't worth it doing all this when he wasn't going to actually "sleep" there. And for a sleep study I don't know what data they would actually get if the monitors aren't even where they're suppose to be. And it wasn't worth traumatizing him even more. I felt so bad, he was crying so much during it and was so stressed :( There was nothing that could hurt him physically, but emotionally he just couldn't handle it. It was so heartbreaking to watch him cry and look to us for comfort and safety :( We might try to do this at a later point when he understands whats going on and will be ready to deal with it. But for right now he's not ready. So.......we headed back home and it was around midnight that he finally went to bed.
Just wanted to post this of Lian and his crib buddies waiting for him to wake up :)
We also went to get his sleep study done. I really was optimistic about this at the beginning but it was let's say......ridiculous for a 16 month old. Here are some of the pics first:
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| Lian finally asleep |
First, the electrodes on his head would not stay on. Before the technician even finished putting all of them on, the ones she put on first started falling off. She used this waxlike substance to keep it in place and gauze over it. Lian was doing really well with this and the body monitors too. He got upset though when she tried putting the breathing monitor which is a tube that runs behind his ears and underneath his nose. He hated it and started crying. The tubing was not made for his face. There were 2 little pieces on the tubing that were meant to be under his nostrils, but the way his nose and lip is right now, when the tubing is on top of his lip, the 2 nostril pieces laid above his nostrils. She tried putting tape on his face to keep it in place but it didn't work. He was sweating and crying by this time and then more electrodes started falling off his head. The technician couldn't figure out which ones were for which part of his head since there were several off at this point. So she had to figure that out....then what seemed like forever, she said ok everything was where it was suppose to be. At this point we had to carry and walk him so that he would fall asleep, there was no other way. He finally fell asleep and was out. Then the technician comes in again to give us the bed rails, but says some electrodes are off and the nose tubing. She tries to fix it and of course Lian wakes up again! We did this whole dance again and there was no way these things were even going to stay where they needed to be. Lian was really stressed and crying and seemed to be traumatized. He really hated the nose tubing and tape on his face, it probably reminded him of his surgery in China. We told the technician that this wasn't going to work and that we were going to leave. She tried to keep us to stay but we said no....it wasn't worth it doing all this when he wasn't going to actually "sleep" there. And for a sleep study I don't know what data they would actually get if the monitors aren't even where they're suppose to be. And it wasn't worth traumatizing him even more. I felt so bad, he was crying so much during it and was so stressed :( There was nothing that could hurt him physically, but emotionally he just couldn't handle it. It was so heartbreaking to watch him cry and look to us for comfort and safety :( We might try to do this at a later point when he understands whats going on and will be ready to deal with it. But for right now he's not ready. So.......we headed back home and it was around midnight that he finally went to bed.
Just wanted to post this of Lian and his crib buddies waiting for him to wake up :)
