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Winter 2008-2009

Snow Days, Fun Days

We had two snow days this week and Nolan was able to play in the snow for the first time! We had him quite bundled up, and he seriously wasn't able to put his arms down. We had a few issues with him falling over in every which direction because he was so bundled up!

Update

Guess who's off medicine and feeling more chipper?! The new medicine did okay for a day, but then the vomitting and diarrhea returned. Brian took him to the dr. yesterday to see if his ear infection was gone, and there is only a little fluid remaining in both ears, so the dr. went ahead and stopped meds. Yay!

Sleepy Family

On Thursday night, Nolan came home from the sitter's in an unusual mood. It's very rare for him to want to sit - on someone's lap or alone. Well, he did nothing, but sit on my lap and cry for 3 hours. He's typically a very happy baby, so I knew something was wrong. He'd had a cold all week, and I was concerned about his breathing a couple of times, but during that period he was acting just fine. Thurs. night was a different story. He was pulling on his ear saying "eawwwr". So automatically I figured we were in for an infection. Brian took him to the dr. Friday (which he was in a MUCH better mood from the moment he woke up). Turns out he has a pretty bad ear infection and bronchialitis with wheezing. So, he was put on Augmentin for the ear and given an inhaler with spacer for the wheezing. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Augmentin, but it was nothing short of a nightmare for us. He threw up an hour or so after taking it Friday. I called Paige to see if Tyler had any problems on it since they are experienced "ear-infectioners". She warned me of the major problems that would occur from his other end. Sure enough, yesterday was full of problems...literally. We ended up going to a b-day party at the YMCA because he had been in a wonderful mood. Of course at the party is where these occurrences had to happen. Did I mention he also vomited there??? And, of course, it had to be after we were finished playing and everyone was enjoying cupcakes! He's still acting fine, but that medicine is a disaster. I called the exchange and they prescribed Suprax for him, which he was just given his first dose this a.m. He got sick again last night at 3:00 a.m. in his crib, so he had a bath at 3 in the morning, then slept with me (he slept while I feared being thrown up on). So far so good with this medicine, but we'll see. For future reference he is not to be put on Augmentin because his stomach cannot tolerate per dr's orders. This is suppose to be somewhat rough on the tummy, too...so we'll see. As for now, we're spending the remainder of our long weekend with a welted bottom, and BRAT diet to help the medicine stay down. Keep your fingers crossed!
Oh yeah...and Nolan's up a pound since 18 months...he's now at a whopping 22 lbs. My little Munchkin.

Better Late than Never

Finally some holiday photos!
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Tis the Season '08

Here's to 2009

Okay, so I've been somewhat behind on my blogging, and I have no excuse. We just got back to school from Christmas break yesterday, and then today we had a snow day! However, I did get a new camera for Christmas, and I have some great pics that I want to upload on here, but when I went to do it I realized it won't work on our old, hunk-of-crap computer...so pictures from Christmas & New Year's will soon follow.

Nolan had a great Christmas. It was a little weird since it was our first Christmas where we did not travel on Christmas Eve & Christmas day. It was nice being home, and it'll be nice for Nolan to have Santa come to his house (although he still didn't quite get the gist of it yet). We went and looked at the lights at The Shrine on Christmas Eve, and on Christmas day my family came. Nolan received many gifts and we've had to clean out his toy box of smaller toys to make room for the new, big toys! I'm starting to think that with all of the toys and baby items I own that I could easily run a daycare!

Nolan is 3 months away from his 2nd Birthday! I can't believe it. He's getting so big and so much more talkative. We here "Mommy", "Daddy", and "Heyyy" about 1,000 times a day, but it's absolutely amazing to see the things he now notices...the smallest of things. He's picking up on everything so quickly it almost baffles us. For example, he was taking a shower with Brian the other day and he started saying "Daddy...ba-it ball" (basketball). Brian could not figure out where this was coming from, finally Nolan took Brian's face in his hands and turned it in the direction of Brian's soap...which sure enough had a tiny picture of a guy's arm shooting a basketball! Parenthood has been wonderful and we cannot wait to see what 2009 holds for us. We wish you happiness, good health, & a fabulous 2009!