January 5, 2009:
It’s a new year, but we’re still dealing with the same problems. In the last 5 weeks, you’ve had 3 double ear infections. At your 2-week “check-up” appt. where the doctor wanted to make sure you were all cleared up from your 5th ear infection, you were put on Amoxicillin because you had the start of yet another ear infection. We caught it early, so for the most part, you didn’t seem to experience any pain. However, it is my belief that the antibiotics didn’t work and your 6th ear infection turned into a bad cough and then a bad cold and then led into your 7th ear infection. That’s right. 7!!! It’s utterly exhausting these days. You barely sleep now. So used to waking up with pain in your ears, or a bad cough, or a ton of mucus at the back of your throat, you have NO idea what it’s like to sleep more than 4 hours at a time, which of course perpetuates your inability to heal properly. It’s sad to watch you in pain, and it’s difficult to be a productive person when I’m working on 6 hours of jumbled, split hours of sleep a night.
You are slowly becoming a little boy, though. You change a lot each week. Learning more and more. You are filled with personality and charm and smiles. During the day, you are a fun baby. You don’t like going down for a nap any more than you like sleeping through the night, so you get overtired and you now have the intelligence, determination, and strength to fight us when we try to rock you to sleep. Although you are very needy, impatient, and strong-willed, you are the cutest baby that has the best charisma, personality, and character. You are the love of our lives and we hope we can heal you so that you don’t have to go through so many ear infections anymore!
January 27, 2009:
It’s Mere and Pere’s anniversary today. Yeah! I can’t express how fast you are changing these days. 5 weeks ago, you were still doing the military crawl, pulling yourself forward with the intense strength of your arms. A week later, you were up all on fours, trying to get coordinated enough to move fast. In a week, you were a pro at crawling up on all fours and speed was your best friend. Within days, you started pulling yourself up, standing on two feet. Now, only 2 weeks later, you are standing all the time, pulling yourself up with ease, holding on with one hand while playing w/a toy with the other hand. You eat a lot more table food now. That too has matured leaps and bounds in the last couple of weeks. You went from eating small, miniscule bites to whole pieces in just days. You are also saying “ball” even though the “L” sound is almost mute. You have an acute fondness for balls now. You can throw, roll, and palm a fairly large-sized ball. You offer us toys and then wait for us to say “Thank You”. Then hold your hand out for the return favor. You say “dat” and point to EVERYTHING, mimicking your parents as we used to say “What’s that?” to you all the time. Now, instead of asking the question to you, we answer you as you point to everything in existence, “Table, Chair, Window, Photo, Dust Bunny”. And your newest thing…you turn your palms upwards towards the ceiling and say “dat” or “ball”. It’s hilarious. You even have the correct questioning expression to go with the hand gesture. You are learning so fast, your body can’t quite keep up. You can put a ball in a jar and know to reach into the jar to get it out, but don’t always have the coordination to get the ball out of the jar. You still love music and bang away on pots and pans like the best baby drummer, and play your pianos full of gusto. You laugh at every weird facial expression your dad and I give you. I called you Fonzy last night and you squealed in delight. And better than all that, you are FINALLY sleeping through the night. Though you wake up at least once and yell at us for 5 or 10 minutes, you manage to get yourself back to sleep, waking usually around 5:30 am. In one month’s time, you will have tubes in your ears in hopes of slowing down the double-ear infections that have plagued our house since you were 3 months old. I love you more than words can say and hope one day this journal helps you understand just how much joy and entertainment you bring to our lives.
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