Update

Tubes are in! Hopefully this will mean no more (almost) weekly trips to the pediatrician's after-hours clinic or calls from the day care saying "come get your kid; his ears are draining." Hopefully we'll all get some good sleep! Thanks to everybody for their words of encouragement!

Fun on the Farm

To celebrate Andy's, his mother's, and his brother-in-law's birthday (yes, they all share a birthday), we took the kids to Dreamfield Farms in Bullock County. Good times ...

Poor kid

Alex got another ear infection, which (again) burst through his ear drum. He's got an appointment next week with an ENT doctor. Looks like he'll be getting tubes. I'm feeling a little sad, but also a little hopeful. This lack of sleep for the last two months has been hell.

BOO!

Latest Pics of the Kiddo

Still not crazy ...

... Alex still has his ear infection (actually two). So on Friday he began a round of antibiotic shots. He's not crazy about the shots, but he already seems to be feeling much better. His cold has even seemed to clear up. His eyes aren't puffy and goopy anymore. He gets his last shot this afternoon. In his appointment on Friday the doctor actually said things like "I don't want to sound like an alarmist" and "we'll need to have a heart-to-heart about tubes" and "now, don't go all teary-eyed on me." Needless to say, I felt pretty crummy. But at least (yet again) my suspicions were confirmed that he still had an ear infection and that my little boy wasn't crying "just because." That makes me feel better. If only I could get baby to feel better too!

Late Bloomer

My name is Janice and my son is a late bloomer. There, I said it! Actually, I don't know if this is really true, but I think it is important that if it is true, I need to work on getting over it now. We're going to a wedding in Michigan on New Year's Eve and I was really hoping that Alex could stand/walk/dance by then. But here we are, on the verge of 10 months, and he still army crawls. He's not even really working on pulling up (unless you count the way he sits and yanks on the fireplace door handles). He seems perfectly content, especially now that he figured out how to sit up on his own (just last week). He doesn't eat baby food very well. Though he seems to really like trying to eat puffs. His manual dexterity is surprisingly good. He manages to pick up every speck of whatever the vacuum cleaner doesn't get (and, yes, we have a Dyson). Luckily, he's more interested in playing with his treasures than eating them. But he's still the only kid in his class that doesn't crawl up on his knees (several are walking by now). Maybe this means he'll just have a more laid-back approach to life. If that's the case, I'm totally down with this. If only his "laid-backness" extended to his nightly sleeping patterns. Sigh. One of these days we'll get to again bask in the luxury of uninterrupted sleep. Damn us for not enjoying those two months in which Alex actually slept through the night. We won't make that mistake again.