Eating and ear infections

Liam,

You've never been a big eater. Even back when you were completely breastfed, you rarely nursed for longer than 10 minutes. (I had read that the norm was more like 20 minutes.) You never ate much babyfood, and now that you're eating all solid food, you don't eat much of those either. You finally went over 20 pounds last week! Yeah! I think you're still in the 4th percentile, but at least you're gaining! You don't realloy eat any vegetables. You'll chew them up, and right when I think that you'll swallow them, you spit them out. Mealtime is definitely a struggle. I think you'd be happy if you could just get by on cheese and peanut butter toast.

We went to Red Lobster yesterday, and you chowed down. You had a biscuit, chicken fingers, and fries. I don't think I've ever seen you eat so much in one sitting. :)

You're on amoxicillin twice a day for the next SIX weeks, for maintenance. You've had double ear infections for the last seven weeks. You first took amoxicillin, and then Augmentin, and then finally they did injections (three times in a week) of Rocephin. You poor, poor little guy. We'll see how they look six weeks from now- hopefully you won't have to get tubes.

I hope you start to talk soon. You jabber constantly, but no real words. I know that you have lots to say, and are trying so hard to talk to us. I konw that you'll do it soon.

Love,
Mommy