Alexander's First Year

Nathan and I decided that we wanted to make photo books for every year of our kids' lives.  I am not good at scrapbooking, so we decided to do the books on a photo site.  This weekend, instead of doing schoolwork, like I should have been doing, I made the first book.  This is the book for the year that Alexander was born.  It didn't take me very long at all and I think it turned out really good.  I hope you enjoy looking at it.

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Sickness

This month has been a very bad month in our house.  We can't seem to get healthy!  It all started with Alexander getting sick last week.  He was sick for about 4 days with a 104 fever.  We even ended up at Urgent Care one evening.  I got a little freaked out when his fever spiked to 104 and he started complaining of neck pain.  The first thought that went through my head was, "OH MY GOD! He has meningitis!"  Luckily that wasn't the problem and I was a little crazy, but I felt it was better to be safe.  His diagnosis was tonsillitis. 

Then on Sunday, Julia started running a fever.  The fever went away on Monday.  She went to daycare on Wednesday.  Then wouldn't sleep at all on Wednesday night.  We sent her to daycare on Thursday because she seemed fine and didn't have a fever.  We figured that she didn't sleep because she had teeth coming in.  Apparently we were wrong.  I got the dreaded call from daycare a 3:00 today.  Julia was throwing up.  I felt so bad and immediately left to go pick her up.  We got home and she threw up 2 more times and was running a fever of 102.  I called the doctor and talked to the nurse.  They thought it would be a good idea for her to be seen, so we took a trip to the doctor's office.  We ended up with a diagnosis of some summertime virus that kids are getting now.  I guess they develop a rash, throw up, and get diarrhea with this virus.  It is also very contagious.  Lucky us!  So Julia has a completely different illness than Alexander had and he will probably catch it too.

So, we need some prayers that this illness will leave our house without Alexander or anyone else catching it.  We also hope that no one at daycare catches it either.

9 Months Old (A little late)

Julia turned 9 months old on October 24.  I waited until this week to write about it because I wanted to have her most recent stats from her doctor appointment.  It also has been really crazy around here.  I can't believe that she is already 9 months old.  When I stop to think about it, I get really sad.  I love that she is growing up, she is healthy, and she really is thriving, but I will miss having a small baby around.  I am not going to dwell on that though.

Julia is growing so well.  She weighed 21 pounds, 4 ounces at her doctor appointment.  She is in the 89th percentile for weight.  She was 28 1/2 inches long, which is the 78th percentile.  She is a lot bigger than her brother was at this age.  I have already started shopping for a convertible carseat because she is going to outgrow the length limit of her infant carseat soon.

She is a happy baby.  She loves to follow her brother around and is getting into everything.  She is pulling up on all of the furniture and walking all along all of the furniture.  She is using her baby walker to get around too. 

She is eating really well too.  She loves to eat her baby food.  I make most of the food myself, but feed her store bought food for dinners and when we travel.  She still won't eat from a bottle, so we mix breastmilk in with her baby food at daycare.  She is still nursing in the morning and at night.

We have been enjoying this time so much.  We love this age and how her personality is really starting to come out.  Keep growing and doing well little girl!  We love you!