A Hard Couple of Weeks

(James asleep crossed legged in his crib, trying to lean against the missing bumper -- the bumber was in the wash bc he had vomitted all over it and his bed -- he missed being able to snuggle! But was so exhausted that he did sleep a little!)

Well its been a trying couple of weeks. James had ear infection #3 a little over two weeks ago and was put on a strong antibiotic. He seemed to be doing better and a week after starting the medication he was on the mend. We had his six month check-up and found out that James is now 17 pounds 3 ounces (48th percentile)and 27 1/2 ounces (95th percentile)! The doctor was certainly pleased that James is finally starting to gain weight and is ahead of his developmental goals. Even better James' ears were starting to clear up!

We had to lower James' crib over the last two weeks because James can now pull himself up and we found him pulling himself over his aquarium! Scary to think of him falling out.

We had a pretty good week this week until Wed. night and when we went back to the Dr. on Friday we found out that James' ear infection was back. Now James has to have 2 shots in his legs for three days. Hopefully this antibiotic works -- we are keeping our fingers crossed. Because, if he doesn't he will need to go see the ENT :( . On top of all this poor James is teething, the tooth is almost completely broken. Hopefully once the tooth comes in we will get some sleep and poor baby James will start eating, smiling and sleeping again!

On a positive note, James through all of this is developmentally doing well. He is pulling up and even "army" crawling, pulling himself around the room. Its very amazing how fast he can get around the room by rolling and pulling himself. He also loves this toy that a colleague of mine handed down to us. Amazingly at six months old he loves to close the pop ups. He is fascinated with the "rubber ducky" song!