I lied! There is no sleeping through the night at my house for anyone. It happened for a short period and, poof it was gone.
Just posting some pics today, but will post more later. Mr. Christopher has a birthday coming up! I cannot believe that he is going to be 1! He is such a little man & crawling all over the place.

11 months!!!!

11 months today and . . . .

* WE FINALLY STARTED CRAWLING TODAY!!!! WOO HOO!
* 18lbs
* 29 inches long
* Eating solid food
* Sleeping through the night (most of the time, but don't tell anyone!)


I have offically lost my camera, planning to tear the home apart this week for the 2nd time. Please send positive finding thoughts our way.

Santa! Santa!

Christmas morning, I asked Christopher if he wanted to go see what Santa left him and this was his beautiful face. I just happened to catch it on camera at the right moment. Every time I would say, "Santa, Santa!" He would burst out laughing.

He always looks so different to me in pictures. He has so many different expressions and 1 minute he looks like a little baby and the next a big boy. We sure do love him!

The Sunday before Christmas, we got together with my college friends. Christopher loved being around all the other children and the best was that he got to see Santa again. He loves to pull on his beard and climb all over him. Santa made a special trip to the party to see all the children and brought a gift for everyone.

Later after Santa got to relax, Christopher was still so excited, that he dropped his drawers for him. It was hilarious! My friends turned the Christmas party into a mini surprise baby shower for Christopher. So he got double the gifts.

It seems as if Christopher is always fighting off some type of bug. When we got home on Christmas night, he woke up from a short nap with a 104.2 fever. Here we go again! We are back on breathing treatments and throwing up due to snot is once again a daily activity in our lives. How does a baby who mostly stays home get all these bugs? We are off to the doctor in the morning. What will the diagnosis be this time?

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Sick, sick, sick!

It started out rather slowly. The Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Christopher finished eating his dinner and started coughing. He then proceeded to throw up his dinner. I assumed he got choked and didn't think much else of it. He took his night time bottle and then went to bed.

The next morning, he started coughing again & threw up after his morning bottle. By mid morning, he had thrown up 2 more times. We called the pediatricians office and started the pedialyte for 12 hours. He slept most of the day and was listless but kept the pedialyte down.

During the night, he spiked a 103 fever and was up most of the night. We made an appt and went to the ped the next morning. Christopher acted happy and was all smiles for his doctor. She said it was probably viral and would run it's course. I asked about the flu and she said, "Oh, he doesn't have the flu, he is too happy for the flu. But we will swab him if you would like."

Well, guess what? He had the FLU and tested positive for both strains A & B. The office was impressed, they had not seen that yet this season. We were house bound on Thanksgiving and by that point I was not feeling too well. Our Thanksgiving dinner, consisted of chocolate chip cookies and vanilla ice cream.

By Friday, Christopher had spiked another 103.5 temp during the night and was getting Tylenol and Advil every 3 hours to keep the temp down. He was absolutely miserable and the coughing/throwing up episodes were happening at least twice a day and once during the night. He could not be laid down flat or he would start coughing which would result in throwing up in a matter of seconds. It didn't matter if he was awake or asleep. The throwing up was the worst, I cannot tell you how many times I had him practically upside down, trying to help him get it up and watching him gasp for air and turn blue. He scared me so many times.

Saturday, he woke up and his breathing had changed. He was wheezing pretty good and the throwing up continued. Thankfully, our ped is open half days on Saturday. He got a respiratory treatment in the office and then we got admitted to the hospital.

We spent Saturday and most of Sunday on the pediatric unit, where he got IV fluids and fought fluctuating 103.7 temp for 12 hours. Once we would get it down it would then shoot back up. Christopher hates any medicine. So, between taking meds every 3 hours, throwing up every couple of hours, resp treatments every 4 hours, vitals every 4 hours, lab draws, general crying and listlessness, there was no sleep - in a nutshell it was horrible and terrifying. There truely is nothing worse than a sick baby.

In the hospital, he still managed to find some play time after the fever was down.

Sick as a dog but still playing.

We changed our follow-up ped/hospital admission appt from Wed to Tues. due to another night of 103 + temps and a bout of bronchospasms that lasted about 20 mins the night before. Finally we got on an antibiotic and had our first night of 4 hours of sleep that night. They were afraid that after 7 days of fever that something else was starting to brew.

10 days later and finally life is getting somewhat back to normal. Christopher lost about 3 lbs during his illness but is almost back to eating the amt. he was before.

His 8th tooth also broke through during the whole flu fiasco and I never even noticed. I am sure it only made the fever worse.

Our new playtime activity, respiratory treatments.

We finally have our tree up and somewhat have the house decorated. I have done most of my shopping over the internet during the last week, and I hope to be done soon. Christopher is doing so much better and I hope that this is it for awhile. He has fought one infection after another since August and we are all so ready for a healthy baby.

Christmas photos up next!!!

Ear Tubes

Christopher got ear tubes today. We were there at 6 am but he didn't have the actual procedure done until 8:10 am. We had to delay the surgery cause the lovely nurse who did our pre registration told me I could give him a bottle up until 3 am. I asked twice and clarified, "Up to 3 am, he can have a bottle?" "Yes." I asked again and she wrote it on the pre op paperwork. Bottle til 3 am. WRONG! Only clear fluids til 3 am, which I knew was right but once again, I asked her TWICE. Oh, well!

The actual procedure lasted 10 min. I got my first real feeling of mommy panic when they said that the doctor would come and talk to us. About 10 bad case scenarios went flying through my brain in a 20 sec time period. But he did well, both ears had fluid in them and were drained. He was extremely fussy afterwards and broke out in a rash from the Atropine, so we were there for a little bit longer observing him. Any time he has had anything invasive done, he gets really pale and looks hypotensive, which freaks me out. He has some bloody drainage from the right ear, which is the one that was sooo bad in Vietnam. We came home and all 3 of us slept for 3 hours. Christopher was out of it. Hopefully, we will all start sleeping through the night now and there will be no more pulling and clawing at his ears. He is a real trooper and such a sweetie.

Our little Gun Slinger

"Enough with the pictures lady, don't make me call the posse!"

Christopher layed back after a long day on the range and let mommie collect the candy.

October Happenings

Halloween Preview

We took Christopher to the park the other day. He was more interested in the little girl swinging beside him than anything. But, mommie and daddy had fun.

He has been doing better, today was the last day of ANOTHER antibiotic. We have an ENT consult on Friday and the possibility of tubes look good. Hopefully, we can get him healthy before the winter season begins.

He is definetely getting bigger and the clothes he was wearing in VN are almost too short for him. He is not a great eater and cannot stand the canned fruits and hates rice cereal and oatmeal. Vegetables are ok, but still not too happy with the canned baby food overall.

Screams bloody murder most of the time. Meal time is fun! He much prefers table food, which I can't say I blame him.

Princess Leia?

Time to put the bouncy seat away. A couple of weeks ago, I came into the room and saw him completely leaned forward putting his head underneath the toy bar and laughing.