The Whisler Life

Two items of business to attend to: 1) Owen’s procedure has been scheduled for Monday at 7:45am. We have to check-in at the hospital by 6:15am. If the endoscopy alone is supposed to take 45 minutes or so, we should know by 9am whether or not Owen will need to undergo surgery. We will do our best to keep everyone posted on Monday; 2) Owen turned 8 months old yesterday! The time is just flying by! He is fully able to get up on his hands and knees, sometimes even hands and toes and rocks back and forth while yelling to us all (probably translates into, “Look! Look! Look at me! I’m doing it!!!”). I think he’ll be able to actually travel via crawling within the next two weeks or so. He has lots of motivation with all of Ayden’s tempting toys strewn about every room. He likes to think that he can communicate with everyone in the family by yell-grunting in your general direction, after which he fully expects you to make the same noise back. He will do this vocal volleying with you for minutes at a time… until something better or more interesting happens in the room. It’s very entertaining! He is very much enjoying the discovery of his feet and toes…especially when they’re warm and wet in the bathtub and he can suck on them - which seems to work well until he decides to sink his 7 chompers into his big toe - and then the howling commences! He’s eating veggie puree cereal like a champ and is only nursing two or three times a day at most. He’s just too busy and nosy checking everything out in his world around him. He’s turning out to be an incredibly happy and smiley little boy… in spite of the health issues that have been going on.  Please keep your thoughts positive and your fingers crossed for Owen this coming Monday… we’ll keep you posted.