6 months old!

Our First Family Portraits

This sounds so cliche, but time sure does fly!

Ethan is 6 months old now and a lot has been happening in his life since we last updated the blog.

There was a big lull in our lives for about two weeks back in April, because first I got sick from an Upper Respiratory Tract Infection type thing, and then I passed it on to Ethan:( I know that I felt misserable and so I can't imagine how it felt being in his little body. For about a week no one else in the house showed any signs or symptoms of feeling sick, but then it hit. Ethan began to have a runny nose and then low grade fevers. He became real fussy and pale:( He wasn't eating as much and continued to have diarrhea but didn't show any signs of dehydration. We had read that when a breast fed baby catches a bug from the mother that it often isn't as severe nor does it last as long because he has ingested the antibodies her body has already produced towards it. So we tried to wait it out, but he only got worse. We ended up taking Ethan in to see the MD twice and the second time Ethan was placed on oral Prednisone and Albuterol nebulizer treatments. He did not enjoy these treatments, but he stopped wheezing and started sleeping a little bit better during the nights. The MD had also instructed us to start him on a lactose free formula with the suspision that he was lactose intolerant. His diarrhea went away in a couple of days! Sheesh poor fella.

Andrew escaped getting sick but had to endure his first polygraph test at his work. This was very draining for him but he made it and the people running his test agreed that he is not a spy

We are now over being sick but Andrew and I just can't seem to get caught up with stuff around the house and with friends. Plus Ethan had only been waking up once during the night prior to getting sick and then afterwards starting waking up about 4 times a night. We just feel very tired.

We celebrated Ethan's first Easter here at home and had my Mom, Grandma and Stephen over for an Easter feast!

I have started going back to the Mother Goose mommy/baby group on Wednesdays and just started attending a Mother/Baby stroller group on Tuesdays and Thursdays to get some exercise and fresh air.

Ethan is now rolling over like crazy from his back to his stomach, enjoys playing with his feet, and is eating three solid food meals a day. We make his baby food half the time and the other half we use pre-packaged. I think that once we are sure of what he is alergic to or not then we will start making more of his food. He is eating rice cereal, squash, carrots, peas, pears, zuchini, and sweet potatoes. He really likes eating:)

We got to have a dedication of Ethan to the Lord this last Sunday at our church and it was good to have our families present with us for this public commitment.