Asher highlights (weeks 14 & 15)

Week 14

Week 14

Week 14

Highlights from your 14th week of life (1.16. - 1.22.11)

• Wednesday (19th) we went to Bible study at Bethlehem and you went to the nursery for the first time.  They didn't even call me out!  Good work little man.
• Saturday (22nd) you stay with your first babysitter! Lauren Ellringer came to our house to play with you while we went to daddy's work party/supper. We had a nice time and Lauren said you were good (except the major blow-out, causing two baths in one night! -that's ok though, you like bath time). I think leaving you was MUCH harder on mommy than it was on you. I was actually rather nervous both Wed. and Sat. but both times went well.  This is good practice for us both.  I'm glad you like to be with different people. (Grammy and Aunties had watched you a couple of hours when they were up to visit a few months ago, but they are family).

Highlights from your 15th week of life (1.23. - 1.29.11)

• On Sunday the 23rd we were playing with you on the couch making silly faces (grumpy face, happy face, surprise face). Well you decided you really like the "surprise face" and when we did it- raising our eyebrows and making our mouth into a big O- you tried it out several times (not the eyebrow part yet, just the mouth). It was SO CUTE! And you've done it a few times since then too.  
• Monday we went to a the Wells house to visit and you loved watching and listening to the kids play and listen to them make noise. Sometimes you tried to join in. You seem fascinated by new places.
• At Bible study this Wednesday you didn't quite make it the whole time, but when I brought you up you were quiet enough for mommy to finish listening.
• Tummy time has improved a little.  We put colorful books and a couple toys out in front of you and it seems to work like an incentive for you to keep your head up. You are more entertained having them there, and you study each object closely. You love looking at your Freight Train book and eating your rings.
• We've been spending time iChatting with Grammy and Aunties and Landon, all at the same time some days. Grammy talks to you guys and reads you stories, and you love looking at them, it's better than TV! 



Week 15

• Thursday the 27th you woke up with a stuffy/clear runny nose and a small cough, later got diarrhea and very acidy vomit. :-(  This made mommy and daddy feel so bad for you.  We cuddled you and gave you baths and snuggles.  And then Friday you woke up with your first fever (low-grade, 100.0).  Since your nose is super stuffy/runny and you can't blow it mommy ordered a "Nosefrida The Snotsucker Nasal Aspirator" hopefully it will come soon so we can hep you out a little. 
• Friday and Saturday you came down with a super yucky croup. Mommy took you to the Dr Friday after you woke with a seal-like cough from your morning nap. You were having lots of trouble breathing. The Dr. thought the worst of it should be over soon... We spent most of Friday and all that night in the steamy bathroom and then bundled up out into the cold (to help the inner throat swelling go down). You were miserable Baby Bluvo. Your crying made it worse so when you cried, it got pretty scary for mommy and daddy. We felt terrible for you and wanted to take the hurt away. Daddy felt especially tender towards your pain. He loved up on you while holding you in the steam and cold night air. We came very close to going to the ER that night. You finally slept a couple hours on mommies chest. We ended up going back to the Dr. Sat. morning, and she gave you a steroid shot that helped tame everything down within 4-5 hours, so by the time evening rolled around the croup had dissipated and turned into a really yucky cold/cough. Phew. The worst was over.