Monday, March 14, 2011

MAGICAL

The last week has been just magical. Since he's been well, Sebastian has been having a grand ole' time. Crawling, jabbering, laughing, SLEEPING, the works! He's just happy, happy, happy.  It's really, really wonderful.  His nine month stats: 24 lbs, 3 ozs (yowza), 30 inches tall. 
We had a fun weekend and took him to the zoo where he started to really notice the animals for the first time:

More pics at the March gallery, which will be added as we go along.

I just want to say that I LOVE the comments that you, our family, leave here. I don't always have a ton of time to respond but I am definitely listening and appreciating and taking stuff to heart.  Thank you!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

January and February 2011

From the way I've been not blogging about Sebastian, you'd think I didn't care or something.  Well folks, it ain't that at all.  He has been sick, poor thing, in some form or another, since before Christmas.  That's 11 weeks ago.  It started before our trip home to Albuquerque that he got a cold.  That percolated for a while, he got another cold on top of that one, and that developed into bronchiolitis and a double ear infection in January.  He was on an inhaler and had to have nebulizer treatments at the doctor.  Then he managed to get himself a third cold at the beginning of February, and we all said, "well surely this is the end now." BUT WE WERE WRONG, because after a trip to Albuquerque, he managed to get himself a FOURTH cold, which complicated into another bout of bronchiolitis and a new ear infection.  Then he became sick from all the antibiotics and had a really bad reaction including full-body hives, abdominal pain, and general very upsetness. ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?

What I am trying to say is that we've been busy. :) He still manages to be this sweet and cute and adorable through it all. 

Here are more awesome pictures from January and February.

I am sharing this so that some day I can look back on this time and laugh and say, "Hooooooey! Remember when we didn't get a decent night of sleep for eleven weeks straight? Wasn't THAT a kicker?" I'm saying eleven because it is stopping at eleven.  There will be no twelve, so help me.

Hey, future self: it gets totally awesomely better, right? I knew it. 

He will be nine months old in two days.  He is army crawling like a champ but hasn't quite mastered it with the belly off the floor.  Any day now, I'm sure of it.  He's trying to pull up on everything but doesn't quite have it all together yet.  I think it is because he is HUGE.  He is wearing 18 month clothing.  It's kind of heartbreaking and beautiful.  He has just sailed past several clothing sizes.  I'll post stats when I get them on Monday.