Will at 7 months

Our Will is somehow 7 months old already!  He is still a happy baby and loves to be surrounded by his family.  He had a little regression in his sleep around Christmas and it got worse when I had my surgery, but he seems back to normal now AND we finally moved him to his room and he has more of a bedtime routine now.

He's schedule now goes like this--6:10 wake up (by me) and eat BM , baby food between 9-10, BM at noon, BM at 3, baby food at 5 and then 6:30 BM,  read books and in bed by 7pm.  He LOVES baby food and even has a sound now that he makes when he gets in his high chair to let me know he wants to EAT!  He reminds me of Alex, because he always wants more!!  Right now he eats 5 oz of baby food mixed with 3 tablespoons of rice cereal.  He has tried peas, green beans, carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, bananas, pears, prunes, squash, and peaches so far.  The only one he seemed to not like too much was peas.  I am also making some of his baby food, mainly just sweet potatoes, apples and bananas.

He is pretty much sitting up on his own now!  He can get up on all fours, but then can only go backwards.

He is still in 9 month sleepers and he is now in 6-9 month clothes.  6 month onies still fit him, but 6 month pants are too short.

He still does not have any teeth, but puts everything in his mouth and crews, so maybe soon!

Everyone loves his cheeks and hair.  He has such a great smile and I love his little giggle!

cute cousins

sitting up all on his own!

Kate put a clip in her hair

big sister feeding him

first music class

Will is such a mini Kate

Will's 6 month check up!

He was 18 lbs, 12 oz and 27 inches long.  Dr Owens said he looked great!!

Jill's sinus surgery

I had been battling a sinus infection since the end of September.  I went first to a primary care and got an antibiotic, felt better and then worse again!  Then I went to see my allergist, who I haven't seen since the removal of my bone spur from my nose 3 years ago.  He put me on another antibiotic and suggested blood work.  I ended up with a low count against the pneumococcal bacteria, so I ended up getting the pneumococcal vaccine.  I had a really bad local reaction to the vaccine, which really sucked.  But it did work--had another blood test and my levels went up!!  Then after 3rd antibiotic I was still feeling bad, so saw allergist again and he put me on a 20 day antibiotic and sent me to see the ENT again thinking I have chronic sinusitis.  Well got a CT scan of my sinus and sure enough I needed surgery!!  My CT was really awful!  We scheduled surgery for December 31 and I was put on another round of antibiotics!!!

Luckily, my Mom was able to come up to help us with the kids and take care of me after my surgery.  I was worried about Will because I knew I wouldn't be able to nurse him after surgery, but he did ok.  My sister took Kate the morning of my surgery and Gram and PawPaw took Alex the morning of my surgery so that made things much easier for my Mom and Mike only having to take care of me and the baby!  The surgery went very well!! Dr Hicks said I had years of built up inflammation.  I had a long talk with the anesthetist about how last time it took me 4 hours to wake up and I didn't want that to happen again this time!  He listened and I was actually up and ready to leave within 1 1/2 hours after surgery.  I remember my throat being sore from being intubated and my left eye was numb and I couldn't open it!  Funny!  I never really had much pain, but the drainage made me very sick to my stomach!!  I couldn't nurse with the pain medicine, oxycontin, and since it gave me insomnia, I stopped taking it the night of my surgery.  I didn't nurse Will the next day, to make sure the oxycontin was out of my system.  The next few days I didn't do much and I started back on the Adkins diet.  No sugar and low carbs for me now.  I have so much weight to lose!!

Last week I was still moving slow and my Mom left Wednesday so Thursday was a long day!!!  I felt so tired and weak.  I also started having lots of sinus pain on Wednesday on my right side.  Saw the doctor on Friday morning and found out I had a sinus infection on that side!!  I took an easy on Friday and Saturday, but finally Sunday I felt like my self again!!  Yeah!!!

I really hope this is the end of battling with sinus infections!!!

Christmas 2015

Our 6 month old refrigerator had been making noise and then it broke Christmas EVE!!!  yes, the night before we were having 15 people at our house for Christmas dinner the next day!!  We had just eaten dinner and Kristin noticed that it was not working anymore!!  We rushed the frozen food to Kristin's to their deep freeze--especially my supply of Milk!!  Then Mike brought the mini fridge from upstairs downstairs for the things in the refrigerator.  It was a mess, but we still made it to church Christmas Eve in time!! 

While we were gone, Santa left the kids matching PJs

cookies for santa

Santa came!!

Christmas morning

Our Santa ninja!

PawPaw, Gram, Beckham, Aberlee, Kristin and Blake came over and the fun began!

mini ninja

My parents and Brian and Jes came over in the afternoon

We had a great big dinner and an awesome Christmas DAY!!  We also got a fridge to put in our garage.  The fridge got fixed a few days later.

Painting with a Twist, the crazy Reindeer

Kristin's present to her Mom for Christmas was for her, Kristin and Aberlee to go painting together.  It was a surprise and Kate, Jes and I tagged along.  It was super fun and the girls did a great job!

They had these super cute canvas to do photo with!

Kate took this one!