So we are all on what seems to be “death’s door” right now. Kade has an ear infection and is now the proud owner of a special child’s inhaler thanks to his “wheezing”. Poor Berlin has had colds on and off since Christmas and I have a sneaking suspicion she might be getting an ear infection too. We’ll see what the doc says tomorrow. I have the same cold but am unable to take any medication – partly because of breastfeeding, but mostly because all cold medicines mess me up worse than the actual cold. No matter if it’s NyQuil or Airborne or Sudafed, whatever…my body goes into overdrive when I take them. My nerves tingle and I FEEL my skin and my heart races and my mind CANNOT stop jumping from one thing to the next. Does this happen to anyone else? I just keep thinking I can’t be the only person on the planet who can’t take cold meds, but I’ve yet to figure out a different remedy. I’ll gladly take suggestions…
But in the midst of all this, Berlin turned 5 months old! So I wanted to get some pics up for you to see how adorable she is and how much she’s growing. She’s just over 13 pounds and all the way up to the 13%! This is a huge milestone for her and I think you can really tell she’s starting to fill out. She almost has real rolls on those tiny legs!
Being sick certainly doesn’t stop her smiling! She is just such a happy baby. This last month she rolled over from back to front and front to back, but it hasn’t really stuck as a habit yet. We’ve also started her on some solids – baby cereals and fruits so far. She didn’t mind bananas too much, but the face she made about applesauce was priceless!
I think these flirty eyes are going to get her into some trouble one day, but they sure do the trick to make Dad’s heart melt. He really is such a softy! Happy Birthday sweet baby girl – you bring us incredible joy each day and are an amazing blessing to our family.
The best thing about all this has been Kade’s attitude. He is so excited about learning and trying new things. In fact, just about every day he wakes up from naptime and asks, “You have a surprise for me??” One day the surprise was me putting blue painters tape down on the floor all throughout the house and then we walked around on it, sometimes tip-toeing, sometimes running, sometimes jumping, sometimes singing, sometimes backwards. A couple of days we’ve played “the cutting game”, which means he gets to use his very own scissors and cut up an 8 1/2″ x 11″ piece of construction paper into hundreds of tiny pieces. On this particular day, we taped a bunch of paper together and had him lay down on it. I traced around his body and then we colored “Kade”. He did the face and made sure to give him a belt and a watch. He then turned the paper over and traced around his teddy bear and then colored that, too. We still have “Paper Kade” taped up on the wall and in the mornings he will come out and give him a High-5 and say “Good Morning Kade! How’s your day?”
