18 Months

Height: 32.5 inches (50th percentile)

Weight: 23.5 (25th percentile)

Eating Habits:  Oliver has been acting as if he is "starving" for the last 3 months. He never seem to be done eating, when we take his bib off or try to take him out of his booster chair, he screams and clings to his bib and tray. At least O is not picky and has even started eating meats and cheese.
Diapers: Size 4

Nighttime Routine: 1-2 books and a bath every night with breathing treatments. Sleeping from 7:30 pm to 6:30 am

Accomplishments:
-Lots of words: apple, waffle, hot, cup, mine, me, eat, cracker, mine, wow, no, off, yes, moo, car, mommee, daddee, mmamma (for grandma and grandpa), milk, cookie, coat, shoes, baby, rock, tree, ho ho ho and phrases that sound like "I don't know,  uh-oh, thank you, you're welcome, and all gone".
-He can eat with a spoon. 
-He folds his arms for prayer.
-He loves to help clean up and put things away.
-He can point to his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands, feet, head, hair, and belly button. -And he can understand directions-I love this age, when they are so willing to put something in the garbage, pick up their toys, and pretty much do everything you ask.  Too bad it doesn't last longer, but its so cute to see him wipe his nose when we ask him too.

Ahh..."Bullen Hair"

Recap of the last three months:
Right around the 15 month mark, Oliver got some kind of stomach bug, he threw up multiple times during the month and constantly had diarrhea. This when on for about a month and half.  We finally took him into the doctor and they thought maybe he had some kid of super stomach bug so Dr. Fisher suggested "stool tests". Let me tell you that the most disgusting thing I have ever had to do was scoop poop into a test tub and even worse I had to ask the daycare to do it too.  We took Oliver off of milk, eggs, citrus and wheat just in case he was allergic to any of those things.  The stool collecting went on for about 2 weeks.  The results came back negative, but he was still having "stomach issues" A couple weeks later we went back to the doctor, only this time we went wtih Pink Eye and "stomach issues"  Dr. Letizia suggested that we do a blood test to rule out food allergies.  In the meantime we had switched Oliver over to Almond and Rice milk with minimal contact with foods that had gluten, eggs or citrus. Again the results came back negative for everything but a mild case of lactose intolerance.  

When we finally got the stomach issues under control in December. I bought pizza from Papa John's for everyone at the daycare for all the extra attention and love they had give to Oliver during this time. We alternate between rice and almond milk and slip him dairy every now and then at the doctors suggestion so he doesn't develop a life long intolerance to dairy. He has done relatively well on small amounts of yogurt, ice cream, milk and cheese.

The week of Christmas the daycare called to tell me that Oliver had a fever of 102.6. I was in a panic trying to get there fast enough. We we walked in the door, and saw that he was almost limp in he's teacher, Ms. Amanda's arms, I couldn't help but cry.  We went straight to the doctor and he had double ear infections and was wheezing. They asked if we had a family history of asthma which I do, Aunt Karla,Uncle John and Grandma Bullen all had childhood asthma. They did a breathing treatment with a Nebulizer and sent us home with our own Nebulizer to give him treatments morning and night.  2 weeks later we were back in the doctor's office with more ear infections and more breathing problems. Dr. Letizia diagnosed Oliver with Over-Reactive Airway Disease and we will have to use the Nebulizer the rest of the winter.

 

Good thing we don't live in Utah, can you imagine how his lungs would have been in the freezing temps?!?


Other than these minor health problems Oliver is doing great. He is a happy, fun loving little guy and we love him!