Almost one year...

It's hard for me to believe, but Caleb is going to be one year old next week. Time flies by so much more quickly with the second baby. It flies by no matter what, but I feel like I blinked and it's been a year. He is doing well. He crawls around like a little mad man or "cruises" along the furniture. No steps by himself yet, but I'm sure it won't be long. He says, "Mama," "Dada," "Hi," "Bye," and "Up." He has a head full of curly, brown hair and the cutest little smile. He is super interested in whatever Evan has or is doing. He loves to snuggle more than Evan ever did. He's my little love bug. :-)

6 month stats - a little late

I get busy and forget to post when things actually happen, so I'm a little late on this. Caleb had his six month check-up on February 14th. He was almost 28 inches long (we measured closer to 29 at home) and 19 lbs 5 oz. He is staying right about a pound heavier and an inch longer than Evan, which was their birth difference, too. (Evan was 26.5 inches and 18 lbs 8 oz at his 6 month appointment.) He's been sick this last week with the pukes. I took him Wednesday because he hadn't had a wet diaper all day. They checked him for dehydration. He was a little dehydrated, but not horribly so. They gave him Zofran to stop the vomiting and had me giving Pedialyte to keep him hydrated. He seems better but he's still a bit abnormal. He'll be 7 months old in 2 days. He still isn't completely stable when sitting. He'll sit for a bit and then slowly tip over, but he is always trying to stand up. He stiffens his legs out and won't bend them. Definitely a funny kid.

RSV and bronchiolitis - yuck!

I was bad at keeping up with my blog for Evan, but I am REALLY bad at Caleb's. Seems like I am super busy all the time. Caleb is growing and learning and amazing me everyday. He rolls over both ways and is close to being able to sit up. Hard to believe that he will be six months old in about a week and a half. Time surely flies! Two weeks ago this Friday, I was driving home from visiting my mom in the hospital in Columbus, and Bev called from daycare and said Caleb was running a fever. So I took him to Urgent Care when I got home and saw Dr. S at Gallipolis. He had an ear infection and conjunctivitis (pink eye - yuck!), but he was still his happy and cheerful self. He weighed 19 pounds! Wowzer! Over the weekend, he seemed like he got worse and even started wheezing on Sunday evening. So, Monday morning, I called and made an appointment with Dr. K. He checked him over, did a chest x-ray and a nasal swab, and decided he had bronchiolitis as a complication of RSV. They gave him a breathing treatment while we were there and checked his O2 levels, but they were still pretty good, so they sent us home with instructions for breathing treatments. We trucked along for a few days, and Tony and I took turns staying home with him. On Thursday morning, I had every intention of working and sending him back to daycare, but his breathing was so rough that it scared me. So I called and made another appointment with Dr. K, and Caleb was admitted to the hospital for observation and oxygen. They gave him round the clock breathing treatments, and he spent as much time as possible in an oxygen tent. We had a mostly positive experience with just a few awkward moments with some all-too-familiar nurse aids. And after much confusion and frustration about when he would be released, they finally let us go home late Saturday afternoon. He had a recheck with Dr. K this afternoon, and other than losing a whole pound in the last week and a half, he is doing well. We were told to discontinue breathing treatments and only do them on an as needed basis, much to my relief! Other than that, Caleb is pretty normal. He doesn't sleep well yet, but we are working on that, slowly but surely.