Happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day weekend got off to a rough start. At 6pm on Friday, Luke started displaying the now oh so familiar signs of an ear infection. He was crying and screaming, inconsolable, resistant to sleep, not eating and had a fever. We were pretty sure he had another ear infection- his 3rd in exactly one month. The timing was particularly bad as my mother was due to arrive that evening to see Luke for the first time since Christmas. Ugh.

My mom and I took Luke to the doctor on Saturday morning- his 4th doctor's visit in one month. Turns out Luke has a perforated eardrum and an outer ear infection. My poor baby. He's on track for needing to get tubes in his ears, that's for sure! So, we are now on our 3rd round of antibiotics in a month. I hope this summer Luke can avoid illness while he's out of daycare. He's sure had his fair share! Little man has literally been sick more than he's been healthy since starting daycare in January. We all need a break.

Fortunately, Luke has seemingly rebounded from this one quickly, and managed to enjoy the weekend with his Grandmother. He even got in some good time with his Pop and Mom-mom too!




I had a very nice first Mother's Day! Luke gave me a framed picture of himself that "he" made at daycare, and then today managed to give me the best present ever- a 2.5 hour nap! That's a record, folks.
And, Daddy, Harley and Luke each gave me a card with some of my favorite candy and a dozen beautiful roses. I love Mother's Day!!!

7 Months!

How can it be that our little man is already 7 months old!?!? As you can see from the pictures, he's starting to look more and more like a little boy and less and less like a baby.

I have not been good about blogging lately, but there haven't really been that many new developments. We battled through yet another ear infection and are very hopeful that he'll make it through the last few weeks of daycare without getting sick. The poor little guy has been sick more than he's been healthy over the past 4 months. This last ear infection was particularly brutal. We had several sleepless nights and 4 days out of daycare. Thank goodness David and I both have flexibility at work!

Luke's now sitting in a high chair. We absolutely love the chair that Aunt Becky gave us. He really likes sitting up at the table. You can see how happy (and big) he looks in the pictures below.

He's still not crawling. Heck, he's not even rolling over. He has rolled over twice but doesn't even try to do it regularly. I'm not complaining. I like my sedentary baby.

We're still experimenting with different foods, but so far no luck. We have been successful at identifying what he doesn't like: avocados, broccoli, green beens, chicken. Pretty much, he doesn't like anything that's not sweet. (He takes after his mom!) I'm going to try peas next. At least they're sort of sweet.