outdoors

gearing up

A lot of things will be happening in July. I will go back to work full-time. Chris will go to daycare full-time. I'm in a wedding July 3 in Oregon. And Doug will have to travel for work some time during the month. Our lease for this house is also up at the end of July. However, it would be a lot more convenient to move next month while I'm still home.

At one year, Chris will be old enough for the 12-15 month toddler room, but one of the requirements for that room is that the baby must be walking, and Chris isn't there. Not even close. The babies in that room also need to be on table food, and Chris is still on baby food purees. He's not too good at chewing (gumming) yet either. So, he will go to the infant room until he masters those skills. I'm okay with the infant room. I went back to the daycare to pick up some paperwork and tour the infant room, and I liked it better than I did before. There are mats on the floor, and lots of age appropriate toys. The teachers in the room seemed nice. Chris will also have a little friend in the infant room. There is a resident in my program who has two kids at the daycare, and one of her kids is in the infant room.

hospital stay for bronchiolitis

So. . . Chris has had a rough week. He got a cold a week ago. I figured, I'm a doctor, it's a cold, and I can handle it at home. Then this Tuesday night, his breathing got a lot worse. I heard Chris making noise on the monitor, and when I picked him up, he was breathing really fast. It was as if he was panting. I checked his respiratory rate, and it was 100 breaths per minute. That's really, really fast. A kid his age should breathe 50 times per minute or less. So, we took him into the ER, where he got breathing treatments. He was much better after the nebs, but was still breathing hard, so he was admitted. We spent yesterday in the hospital, and came home today. He is now doing just fine. There was no pneumonia- just bronchiolitis. Now he has home oxygen at night until he's completely better, but he doesn't need it during the day. We also now have a nebulizer machine.

mother's day

Yesterday I enjoyed my first mother's day. Probably the best start to a day ever- Doug let me sleep in until 9am. We just hung out at home all day. Chris is recovering from a cold, and now Doug and I have it. For dinner, we got takeout from the local Italian place. This time next year, Chris will be almost two and he will be a walking, talking little person!

feeling better

Chris was back to his usual self today. His nose is still a little stuffed up, but he was his normal, happy, active self. We went and looked at a couple of house rentals in Highlands Ranch. They were ok, not exactly what we're looking for. It's tough because now they're renting houses that are available in June, and we're looking for July. I want to have this set up now. Landlords don't want their houses sitting empty for a month. We probably won't find a place for a few weeks. It's hard to wait, though, not knowing where you're going to be living in two months.

another cold

Chris has gotten another cold. Last night he felt warm to the touch, and he had his first fever of 100.6. He is mostly just congested and sleeping alot today.

finger foods

The last few days I have been giving Chris finger foods. He hasn't been having any success getting the food to his mouth. He has, however, gotten puffs into all of the creases of his high chair and onto the floor. And then, today, while I was feeding him dinner, I went to answer the door. It was the cable guy, trying to sell us a land line. I was at the door for maybe a minute. When I came back, Chris had pulled his bowl of baby lasagna into his lap and his left arm and face were covered in it. I finished feeding my messy son, and then he needed an immediate bath and I had to wash the high chair cover. Whew!