Sick

Sitting on daddy's lap on the bus tour at the Zoo

It was bound to happen at some point. Last weekend we had a tough time... you didn't sleep well on Saturday night after we took you to the Zoo, but I didn't think much of it. Sunday afternoon you got a small fever about 100. Then a few hours later we went to Baba & Deda's house to celebrate their 40th anniversary (my parents) and you were super hot, it must have gotten to about 103. We gave you Motrin and you fussed and fussed like never before. Something was clearly bothering you. You went to bed, and then at 3am the Motrin wore off and you were burning up, I measured it then and it was 102. 9. Wow! I gave you more Motrin and you nursed for a bit. You did not feel well and did not want to go to sleep, so I tried to rock you in the chair and comfort you. Around 5am, you finally dozed off. Then 6am Monday morning I woke up to get ready for work, but decided to not wake you up and call in sick so I can take you to the doctor. We went that morning and it turns out you have gotten a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection). Not sure how, or why, but the doctor said it's more common in girls, still you're so little ... and a UTI? I picked up the antibiotic she perscribed and she asked to see her back if it doesn't get 100% better by Wednesday. Oh and I was wrong about your weight, you were 15 lbs at the doctors office... so our scale is off, and you did not gain 3 lbs in such little time like I thought, I knew it looked wrong. So I kept giving you Motrin on Monday because the fever was still high and the antibiotic hadn't kicked in yet. That was an exhausting day. Tuesday the fever dropped and stayed around 99. 5 all day. Wednesday you were back to your normal self and slept through the night. You haven't been drinking milk very well at times, but I think it's because you're trying to drop a feeding again and go from 5 to 4. We'll see what happens with that. I don't think it's related to your sickness. Also I usually try to give you antibiotic after you eat, and I've been tricking you by getting you to open your mouth when I give you a sippy cup and then quickly stick the syringe into your mouth and administer it little by little. Well you've gotten pretty smart and now avoid the sippy cup when you see me hold the medicine as well. You press your lips shut and don't want the sippy cup! Nice work... thanks for making my job harder. 

Your newest trick is trying to sit up on your own. You get a bit off the ground, and you try to grab onto stuff to pull yourself up higher. Especially on the changing table, you get a hold of the sides and start grunting, with a little bit of help you get up to sitting. Good ab work out!

The other funny thing has been your gargling, you lay down and start chatting and then all the sudden it's a gargle noise that's coming out.

I found this fascinating. How do babies differentiate from adults to kids? You love kids! Anytime there is a kid in the room or someone younger, your attention immediately goes to them. Especially your cousin Aaron, you just love him, and now you're big enough where he's not too scared to hold you. It's very cute, he tries to play with you and you stare at him and giggle and it's like there is no one else in the room. 

Ok, well lets hope you don't get any more UTIs because then I'll have to worry that there is something wrong with your kidneys.

First Words

I'm a girly girl!

Yep, I let mommy put that in my hair!

Sascha's hair is not the only thing that's growing. I tried to get your weight the other day and according to our scale you're about 17lbs, I was shocked! That's more than 3 lbs gain in less than 2 months. I wonder if that's right? You definitely seem heavier. You love your solid food & milk. I've introduced so many things to you now. I make all of them fresh and freeze left overs for later. For veggies you eat: carrots, sweet potatoes, squash and now peas. Fruits you absolutely love: pears, apples, plums, prunes, apricots, peaches and bananas. You've tried oatmeal, rice cereal and mixed cereal that has some barley in it. Also I gave you some yogurt a week ago, not milk based, it was goat yogurt... you made funny faces eating it because it was a bit sour, so I just mixed it with fruit to make it sweeter for you. So you have no problems eating, that's for sure. 

Also you're getting pretty good at drinking water out of a sippy cup, you don't realize yet that you have to tip it up to get water out... sometimes it just happens by accident. The newest thing has been rotating. I place you on your tummy and you can rotate 180 degrees to your toys, it's pretty cool, you look like you're on a mission to get to your toys. 

You're continuing your "dada" chit chat... and a few days ago, daddy said he heard a "mama", I don't know I still have yet to hear it. I've given up the swaddling battle. You were having a really tough time sleeping without it, waking up every 3-4 hours, luckily most of the time you go back to sleep when I put the pacifier back in, but then I decided to go back to swaddling your arms only. Actually what happens is I swaddle and leave, you fight your way out of the swaddle and get really tired and not asleep, then I come back in and swaddle you again, and by then you're just too worn out to fight it, so I win. :) Ok hopefully you'll get better at sleeping without being swaddled in the near future, but at the moment I am just not willing to give up sleep over it.  

Plus you've been scratching yourself, you have little scratches next to your eyes and also in your ear. It's so hard to get your nails trimmed to where there is nothing left. I now end up cutting your nails and then trying to file down anything that's left sticking out that can cause damage. 

You are the cutest little munchkin on the planet!

7 Months

Sitting up like a big girl that I am

Look at my pretty dress...

Oh... who? me?

Your 7 month accomplishments include sitting up by yourself! Good job monkey! You can pick up  small objects and your grasp is very strong... just ask daddy, you try to pull all his arm hairs out. Guess what you don't like doing... rolling over! Not interested. You do it once in a while... but it's definitely not your favorite, you try scooting and you move in one spot and rotate around if you want to get to a particular toy, but I think crawling is still a few months away. We better start baby proofing soon!

You have developed quite a personality too. Just last week we noticed how you have a few of your favorite toys and I tried to pick you up while you were playing, and move you to a high chair for a meal, you got really mad that the toy was taken away from you. It was even worse when you were getting a bath... you just started playing with your bath toys, and you LOVE them! Daddy tried to take one out of your hands so that he can wash under your chin and you started screaming, you were really upset that once again your toy got taken away from you... I guess we have to be more careful now since you're a bit attached to some of them. Yesterday was a fun day, you were so talkative when I got home. The noises that you now make are more and more like baby talk. It actually sounded like "Dada", so I am not sure if we can say that it's your first word... but it certainty seems that way. I'll try and catch you in the act and get a video of it. Also you find it very funny when we go "Boo". I would look to the side and then quickly turn my head towards you and  go "Boo", you start laughing, then I turn away and you stop, then I repeat it a bunch of times, and every time you laugh. Sometimes you even get startled but you're not scared you just laugh harder, it's so adorable. We also took you to the pool twice over 4th of July weekend. You loved it! You kicked and splashed, it was a blast! I think we'll have to get a small kiddie pool for the back yard so I can take you all the time. I think you enjoyed it as much as the baths.

Here are your 7 month pictures that I took. I can photograph you all day long!

Grass? What's that?

 

 

What a curious little baby you are. I wanted to take some pictures of you on the grass and I had such a hard time trying to get you to look up, you were mesmerized by grass and of course you tried to eat it too. You didn't like falling on it though, that happened once or twice while you were sitting and you started crying each time. 

On another note you had a pretty strange week. On last Tuesday you ran a fever of 100.2 and didn't eat very well. The next day the fever was gone, but you still didn't eat as well as you usually do. I thought it was teething because you did drool a lot that day, but no signs of teeth yet. Then Saturday you started coughing. At first I thought it was just a fake cough that you do sometimes for attention, but later in the day you coughed a lot more and it didn't sound like a dry cough, also your nose was a bit stuffy. You still slept through the night, and there was no fever. Then two nights later you woke up 3 times, twice you went back to sleep with a pacifier and the 3rd time daddy brought you in our bed and you slept soundly for another hour, until I had to wake you up to feed you. May be it's because you got out of your swaddle... yes, you're still being Swaddled... you just won't sleep well until you are, hopefully you'll get out of that habit soon. I think you're getting much better, so it wasn't too terrible for your first little sickness. I wonder where you picked it up...