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Before having Isaac, I didn’t really believe moms who said they had trouble getting their kids to sit still to change their diapers.  I figured it was somehow their failing to get the child to be still.  I mean, how could a little 15# kid best a full grown adult?  Well, I admit it.  I was wrong.  I never had a problem with Ethan, yeah he squirmed sometimes but overall he sat pretty still for that and I could control him.  Isaac is an entirely different child.  He is just about the squirmiest kid I have ever seen in my life!  He rarely sits still for more than a few seconds at a time, and since he has recently started pulling himself up on furniture and cruising around it, he sits even less than before.  So he makes diaper changing time, let’s just say it’s more interesting.  I usually can keep him still long enough to undo his diaper and get it partway off before he starts flipping himself over, not fun when most diapers contain at least some #2 (he also does this more than most kids I’ve ever met!).  The kid only weighs just over 15# (he actually lost about half a pound while he was sick last week, not the best for an already small peanut) but he has the strength of, well, almost of me.  I feel like I’m going to wrench his poor little hip out of socket while I’m trying to keep his legs still to wipe him down!  And of course any sort of restraint just infuriates him.  He doesn’t get it yet that if he would just hold still for a few seconds he would be done and could get down in about half the time.  Instead we spend twice as long trying to hold him still enough to get the job done.  Of course, we knew his squirminess would be an issue from the moment I first felt him move, a full month before his brother, and the intensity of the kicks.   It is fun to watch him get around though, he started crawling around 6 months and has only gotten faster since.  Ryan predicts he’ll be walking within the next 3 weeks, we’ll see!  His health is doing much better now, the final diagnosis was pneumonia.  And he actually did really well for all the nebulizer treatments.  I didn’t think he would sit still for those since they took about 20 minutes each, but he sat still the whole time.  And it wasn’t because he wasn’t feeling well, because except for his cough you couldn’t even tell he was sick!  But now, 6 visits to the pediatrician later, he has been declared well.  Until he picks up another virus, probably tomorrow.