38 Weeks

Well this week was met with several firsts, like many of the others...haha!  G officially started crawling!  He'd been able to scoot a little bit, and had been pushing himself backwards for a little over a week, but could never get very far going forward.  Wednesday evening he started inching forward, and with each forward movement he'd become more and more confident.  He's now moving both knees forward and really crawling.  It's been so awesome to watch him figure all these things out!  He really seems to be mastering one thing right after another.  He's now working really hard on standing all by himself.  He's able to stand for a second or two before he falls over.  I have a feeling in another month or so we are going to have a walker...which is a little frightening to think about!

This week we also dealt with our first major baby illness.  G has had a terrible cold all week long.  He was terribly congested, but his nose was running like crazy at the same time.  The only thing to do for him was use the bulb to suck out his nose, but he hates it, and in turn would throw a fit and cry, making even more gunk.  It really seemed pretty counter productive, but he just looked and sounded so pitiful sniffling, that I had to do something.  Friday afternoon I picked him up from the sitter, and he was lying down for a 3rd nap for the day.  (NOT his usual by any means...) when she brought him to me, he felt kind of warm and was just not his normal self.  When we got home I took his temp and he had a fever of 101.2, our first official fever :o(  Thankfully one of the local hospitals has an "after hours" peds unit, so I called our pediatrician to see if we could get an appt with the after hrs. doctor.  Before I had the chance to mention it, the nurse I was talking to told me the after hrs clinic had an 6appt at 6:30 if we wanted to go, to which I immediately said yes.  Thankfully the after hours clinic is associated with the same hospital as our pediatrician, so all of his records were available through their computer system...makes things SO easy!    I called Matthew and let him know we had an appt at 6:30, then rocked with G until Matthew got home.  We haven't had good snuggle/cuddle time like that in a long time, so I really enjoyed it, I just didn't like that it was due to him being sick. 

We got to the after hours office, and thankfully his temp was back to normal, but I immediately had a fear that they wouldn't find anything wrong, and we'd be those "crazy" first time parents who brought their baby in for sniffles.  As soon as she looked in his ears it was very obvious that his fever was for a good reason...an ear infection.  He's definitely taking after his mommy.  We were given a prescription for antibiotics, and were on our way to the pharmacy. 

To say that G is not a fan of his medicine is a bit of an understatement.  It takes both of us to get the meds down him.  One to hold him down, the other to give him the meds.  It's not a pretty sight, that's for sure, and a good portion of the dose ends up dripping down his chin.  I just hope he's getting enough to get rid of the infection.  He's definitely feeling better, acting like his normal self, and his cold symptoms are improving as well.  I wouldn't be surprised if there was a sinus infection going on as well, but that's pretty hard to diagnose in an infant since they can't tell you if there is pressure in their sinuses or not.  Since he's had two full days of meds now, and the runny nose is starting to improve, I'd say the antibiotics are helping with that as well.  I'm just glad to have my happy little guy back! 

Hopefully this week is much better! 

Here's a video of our little crawling machine!

Cheeeeeeeeese!!!

Time for some football!

Reading my book

Trying to get Chester's tongue.  He wouldn't let me have it, and I was MAD!