Our funny boy

We tell many people that we can just sit back and watch Alex entertain us. This is what he did tonight.

Santa Video

In case some of you were wondering why we chose this pose, here's the video that goes along with the photoshoot. After I turned off the camera I told the camera man to take one with Santa looking at him because it didn't seem like he'd smile.

Santa Picture

Thanksgiving

Alex shares

dang blasted ear infections

On Thursday, the daycare lady said he was pulling at his ear all day. On the way home I noticed he was holding his ear. So I made an appt for Friday am. Patrick brought him and the DR said it was teething.

So last night, Alex woke up at 1230 and 430 and was just weird. It wasn't the normal wake up in the middle of the night. Then he got up again at 630 and was fussy and inconsolable and fidgety. So we're sitting on the couch watching Blues Clues and I see drainage coming out of his ears. Both ears.

How can a daycare worker and parent know he has an ear infection but a dr can't see it then the next day it's so bad it's draining?

I'm so mad....another copay.

Bathtime Fun

Starting to Walk

We're Home

We left this morning at 5:30. Alex was taken in at 7:30 and we were with him in recovery by 8:00. After he woke up he was cranky cranky. He was starving. The last bottle he had was at 1am and I woke him up for that one.

We spent about an hour trying to make Alex comfortable. He was flopping and flailing everywhere, screaming and just miserable. Nothing we did made him happy, except for when he played with Patrick's Sunglasses or the wire for the nurse call button. Finally we got the all clear to give him a bottle and then we had a much happier little boy. Now he's playing like normal and seems totally fine.

Surgery Tomorrow

Alex is getting tubes put in his ears tomorrow. He has had an ear infection for a month and a half. The hospital is supposed to call today and let us know what time it's scheduled for.

Happy Halloween

We did not Trick or Treat. Alex was in bed by 7. Plus, with him being sick I really didn't want to bring him out in the night air and cold.





Here is Alex's new favorite thing to do.

Thank goodness for ear drops and tylenol

Last night was so much better. He was up from 1-3 but it wasn't crying. He had a bottle then laid on my chest for about a half hour. I could not fall asleep or get comfortable so Patrick took over. He came to bed around 3 or 3:30.

I don't know what helped ease the pain but he's on a new antibiotic, some numbing eardrops and tylenol. We will be using that every night...:)

I got more sleep when Alex was newborn

Sunday night Alex was having breathing issues. Monday night he was up every hour from 8:30pm-6am. It was pure misery. Patrick was at work so I got to do all the fun stuff by myself. At 9pm he woke up screaming, I put him back to sleep. At 10:30pm same thing. About 10 minutes later, he was screaming again. I thought he was cold so I changed his PJ's. 10 minutes after I got him to sleep he was screaming again. Now it's about 11pm, he wakes up again. Now he's inconsolable, screaming, flailing, spitting, snotting, crying....it was really bad. At this point I'm walking around the house to calm him. I end up on the couch where he finally relaxes. We fall asleep. He's on my chest.

Patrick gets home from work at Midnight, offers to take care of him but I figured, no, Alex is settled, I don't want to wake him. Well, he still woke up every hour, still screaming, etc. Finally it was morning. I heard my alarm clock and got up. As soon as I moved off the couch, Alex's eyes popped open. I put him in his crib to play then as I got ready, Patrick took care of him.

I brought him to daycare and everything was fine.

Flash Forward to Tuesday night. Same thing except he started the waking later in the night 1:30am until about 3:10am he cried. He took a bottle from Patrick but afterwards, cried. We tried gas medicine, he spit it out. We tried tylenol, he spit it out (oh, I did gas medicine on Monday night and I thought it worked). He didn't want anything. At about 3am after listening to all the crying, I called the after hours number for the doctor. Of course, that was the cure for crying. I should have called the number at 2am. They called back and said to make an appt in the am. Well, at 4:30ish Alex was up again. I can't remember the details but I know at 5ish he ended up in the bed with us. At 5:30 he fell asleep. At 6 my alarm went off. At 6:30 I woke up and so did Alex....I woke up because Alex started to cry again. Expecting to get ready for the day, I take him out to change his diaper and he's burning up with fever. Since daycare won't accept them with fever I had to take off work. I took him to the dr and they said he has an upper respiratory infection, severe ear infection, and bronchiolitis (wheezing). He slept most of the day. He's totally not himself. He's lethargic and just pretty much staying in one place (TOTALLY NOT NORMAL FOR ALEX). After his nap I took his temp. It's 102.6. So, now I'm just waiting....

I suppose I'll be up again tonight. The dr gave us ear drops that should help with the pain and he's on a stronger antibiotic for the infection.

On a side note, on Wednesday, 11/5, Alex should be getting tubes in his ears. He's had an ear infection since 9/15. This is his 4th round of antibiotics. If Alex is still sick the surgery may be postponed.

Little Piggy

It seems like Alex is starting to not want jarred baby food. He had grits today for lunch (because I forgot about them at breakfast time) and for dinner I tried to give him jarred vegetable beef. He had about 3 bites then started doing raspberries. So I switched to corn and sweet potatoes which he loves and he only had a few bites of that. Then I decided to see if he would eat a waffle. He almost ate an entire waffle- of course it was plain.

Now I'm going to have to start actually planning and cooking.

Cute stuff

Alex has a new tooth. His 5th one cut through. It's the tooth to the left of his top middle teeth.

Tonight after his bath, I pulled the towel off his head and he had a mohawk so I had to take a picture. Then I realized he was posing and smiling. Check them out.




P.S.- Sorry about the sideways picture and the baby porn. I thought I had his penis all covered. Oh well.

Some firsts

Alex went to the park for the first time yesterday.Link to pictures....click me!

He said "Mama" tonight.

He's been standing on his own up to 20 seconds at a time.

I have some video I will try to upload.

Updates

It's been very hard the last few weeks to keep up. Alex is crawling and is into everything. He loves cords, laptops, cell phones and remotes. I wonder if we used his toys all the time if he'd still like our things.

He's also standing by himself for a few seconds at a time. He's growing up so quickly. Last year at this time I was pregnant and now I have a baby who is close to walking.

He's starting to eat finger foods. He LOVES graham crackers. Today at daycare, he ate a whole pancake. He only likes his turkey or chicken mixed with fruit. He will not eat it otherwise. He loves cantaloupe but hates avocado. He can throw a mean temper tantrum too. Tonight I took his graham cracker away because his mouth was full and he wailed. Next time I'll have to get it on film.

His hair is growing fast too. At 6 months he hardly had any and now it's like an inch long.

JCPenney Pro Pics

If you want the link to order, email me. Here's the pics from his 9 month photo shoot.

My photoshop handiwork

I just created a collage. Hope you like it. Starts in the top left corner and goes counter-clockwise.

A new trick

I taught Alex how to do something!


Isn't it cute?