So Halloween was a bust this year, although we still managed to be the House of Horrors. On Friday morning I decided to take Jack to Dr. Cambria because his cough did not seem to be getting any better. As soon as she heard him cough she said it was in his chest and that we'd give him antibiotics, and then she looked in his ear and said "And that ear is infected" and I thought I heard her wrong. How could this be? No fever, no ear tugging, how's a mom to know?!? And then she looked in his other ear and said "And this ear is infected too". ARGH!!!
(Sidenote: since this was a last minute visit, I had both boys on my own, for the most part they were spectacular - there was one point where they were both wailing, but Dr. Cambria took Declan (bless her! BEST pediatrician ever!) and I had Jack, reciting Brown Bear over and over....)
So Jack never got to bust out the zebra costume (zeh-bra!) but fortunately our playgroup is having our halloween celebration this Friday since everyone was sick. Back to our house of horrors - then Friday night I had fever and chills - went to the doctor on Saturday (Summit Medical Group - on call doctors on weekends - love them!) and I have mastitis and an ear infection. (Where are these ear infections coming from and how come I NEVER know about them?!?) So I'm on antibiotics too...
BUT... DRUMROLL PLEASE! Declan slept through the night last night! I'm talking from 9:30pm to 7:30am - straight!!! 10 hours - hooray! Yay yay yay! The night before he went from 8:30 - 4 and I was happy with that, but never expected something so wonderful! I'm hopeful for tonight, but never plan on anything. For future reference I think the following things help: (1) we put a humidifier in the room, we should have done that ages ago, even if it didn't make a difference; (2) I've been better about saline drops up the nose; (3) Declan gets a bottle of half formula, half breastmilk before bed; (4) General rule of thumb: 5 minutes of crying, visit and soothe, 5 minutes of crying; (5) No feeding if it's been less than 6 hours since his bedtime feeding (if possible).
This morning we went to the Turtleback zoo - Declan pretty much slept through the whole thing. It was cool because Jack actually took notice of the animals and he was smiling and enthralled. When we saw a brightly colored pheasant from China and were oooohing and aaahing over him, Jack copied us and said "wooooow". It was awesome. Overall, Jack is a little ape - copies everything we do. This past week he was helping rake leaves and put them in the barrel - he uses a small rake, but then he wanted to put on the gardening gloves and and it was the cutest thing to see him acting so grown up - afterward we came in from the chilly fall day and we made Jack's first hot chocolate. (sorry Declan - you were sleeping again - but we love you and you are the cutest baby ever!)
Declan's milestones: Sitting up on his own (will attach video) and he's crawling like crazy. I think it's going to be challenging because he crawls up to Jack and tries to play with whatever toy Jack is using. So far Jack has tolerated it pretty well, but I predict trouble in the near future. Javier says we're going to have to buy two of everything, but I say they will just have to learn to share sooner rather than later. (Why do I think we'll have two of everything?!?!)
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They will have to learn to share sooner than later! This is a perfect opportunity for them to learn this most important lesson!!! (Triple exclamation marks) :D I mean Declan can have a few of his own toys too, but this a good experience for them!
I think it is cute that Declan is crawling up to Jack. Yay, he's a crawler!
Congrats on the full night of sleep! See, eventually it was going to happen.
I was just thinking about gardening gloves the other day when I was planting my bulbs! I need some more. I can imagine Jack copying everything! :)
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