Zoo, Milk, and Teeth Update

This is going to be a long post about many things. Hang in there because it's all good!

First, today we went to the Sunset Zoo in Manhattan. This was Wyatt's first zoo visit and it went well. He didn't seem overly happy or annoyed but just rather observant. The best part of the zoo was when we saw the flamingos. They were so noisy that he was really interested in them and what they were doing. It actually turned out pretty good because there were 2 flamingos fighting and so they were really noisy and flapping around and putting on a good show. We took a couple of photo ops with them and then moved onto the peacock that was sitting and posing for pictures. We tried to get a couple and Wyatt just wanted to keep looking at it as it walked away rather than the camera! Go figure!!

Posing with the peacock! As you can tell the peacock was way more interesting than the camera!

Second, today we also are on milk full time now! Dr. Rose said to start him on milk when we ran out of formula and today was the day! He has had 2 bottles of milk and at first he wasn't impressed. I thought it was because of the taste but it turns out that he doesn't like the ice cold milk. So we are nuking it in the microwave for a couple of seconds to just get the chill off it before he eats it and that seemed to work much better. I was hoping to start him on milk in a sippy cup exclusively so we could get rid of bottles but I don't see that happening any time soon. He really likes his 3 bottles he gets a day and the laying down with Momma when I feed him. Once he is feeling 100% from his teething then we'll try to get rid of the bottle. Fingers crossed!!

Third, we are still having teething trouble. He has been so clingy since Saturday when he was running his high fever and not doing anything but sitting on my lap and laying on my shoulder. He seems to think this should be the norm now and is so whiney when he's not on my hip or in my lap. Of course, I need to remember that at his doctor's appointment I was told that between 12-18 months is when children have the worst seperation anxiety! Uh oh!! We gots it bad. He will barely let Mike stay with him if I'm in the room or some place else in the house. So we'll see if this has to do with the teething or seperation anxiety. I'm really hoping that it's the first because he has always been such a good baby about going to other people and smiling and being friendly and I don't want him to lose that. We'll see!!

Okay, that is now the end and you can quit reading! :)