Last Day as an 11 Month Old

Check out those curls!

He's watching Daddy play with the dogs

He has 8 teeth now!

And the drooling makes me think more are coming soon!

The Gift of Medicine

Will got a gift early - bronchitis! I wish we could send it back, but alas we cannot. He has been coughing since Tuesday and it has gotten worse since then. He scared me Tuesday night by wheezing some and retracting a little, but that got better quickly. He's been in very good spirits and I thought all he needed was some cough medicine, so I called the nurse to see what to give him (I'm pretty much dumb when it comes to my own child, I seem to forget everything I've learned through the years). Of course she waited to call me back while I was in the shower (2 calls, actually!). They wanted me to bring him in to get checked out because of the wheezing and retractions, even though those symptoms had resolved.

Our regular doctor was out of town but we got to see a new one and I loved her! She was really great. We also found out that he has excema! I had noticed some rash-like places that popped up on his back and though he's probably had a few before, he's never had this many. So we left there with another nebulizer and our prescriptions. We had a machine in November when he had RSV but I took it back because I thought we were done with it. The doctor told me he could have these symptoms with any cold for up to a year after having RSV. Had I known that, I would have kept the first machine. We are just going to purchase this one and have it on hand for any future needs. I came home and gave him a treatment. He has not developed any more love for it than he had 5 months ago. And he's stronger now, so that was just tons of fun! If you had heard him, you would have thought I was torturing the poor guy!

We ran some errands after that and left Target with SEVEN (7!!!) medicines. I have to brag though - he was a complete angel all day (minus the neb treatment). I had him up for 5 hours between the doctor visit and running errands. He sacked out on the way home and is sleeping now. Hopefully we will get him better in time for the birthday party Saturday! I'll post a pic later of his last day as an 11 month old. I can't believe my BABY will be one tomorrow! :(

One year ago

The last preggo side view pic we have

My view looking down on Easter Sunday

My horrendous feet and "cankles" according to my sweet Dr.

The hammock - the last big baby item

One year ago this week I was as big as a house. At least I felt that way, and my feet were surely that way. Actually I couldn't see my feet unless they were propped up on the couch but they were sore and uncomfortable to say the least. A year ago I couldn't sleep through the night because I was getting up at least twice to go to the bathroom and I had a bad case of restless legs syndrome. Brad threatened divorce (joking of course) at least twice over my jerky legs. I even tried the old wives tale of a bar of soap under the sheets to get them to stop (didn't work). My belly would jerk rhythmically every day for several minutes while Will had the hiccups. I waddled. I got short of breath. I couldn't eat much before becoming full. I couldn't breathe deeply because of a baby booty in my ribs. A year ago I couldn't wait to meet my sweet baby boy, but I had no idea it would be so soon! We got our last big baby item - a hammock on Monday, found out I was 4cm dilated on Tuesday, turned in my FMLA papers Wednesday and went to the hospital Wednesday night. Sweet Will was born Thursday, 3 weeks ahead of schedule! I just can't believe it has been a year already! And I would do it all over again to be able to have my wonderful boy.

TGIS

THANK GOODNESS IT'S SATURDAY!
I finally got to spend some time with my boy this morning

There's nothing cuter to me than a diaper-fluffy baby bottom

Will likes to take a break and lie down on the floor from time to time.

Hold the phone! Guess who started doing this just this morning.

He likes to make the noise "Mwa-mwa" and blow bubbles

He loves to get all his toys down at one time

Then if he can get to the computer, he abandons all toys and starts pressing the keys. He can pop a key off in about 2 seconds.

I'm not sure what this means, but he often puts a hand up in the air and makes a 'Sss' or 'Ssth" sound.

One of his other favorite things to do is rearrange the dvds, which is extra fun now that we have a new tv console with cabinet doors. He can have the whole living room destroyed in about 30 minutes.

Check out my other pages

Here are the other pages I've made. Excuse the one that says "Birth Day" and is actually about me and Brad. Once you name the page, you can't change it.

http://www.howfasttheygrow.com/index.cfm?page=sharing&accountid=5879&uuid=5A8AE485-0BCA-E70F-3A61551EC1D02103

Afternoon at the park

Almost Famous!

I decided to do some digital scrapbooking to document Will's first year and I finished most of my pages last week just in time to catch a 20% off sale. The site contacted me and asked if they could post some of my pages to their gallery. They ended up using 3 of my pages! They'll only be up for a week, but I think its pretty neat! I guess they deleted the text from the Nature one and the Daddy page, so maybe they don't like my writing style? They aren't together, so you need to scroll through all of them to find ours.

http://www.howfasttheygrow.com/index.cfm?page=content&cid=5