8 Months Old!

I'm a little late with this post, but we've not had a great week so I apologize in advance. It all started about a week and a half ago when I decided to take Ben to St. Louis with me and leave Brian here. For those of you that don't know - this is a big feat for me since Ben is not a fan of long carrides and proceeds to scream when he's awake after being in his carseat for a while. So in prep for my trip I got him a big boy carseat in the hopes that if he could see out the window then it wouldn't be so bad. Well, it was. He generally will take a nap, but it's 2 hours max in the carseat so the rest of the time was spent crying basically. I put on Yo Gabba Gabba after a while and that seemed to limit his crying a bit, but still not pleasant. We left on a Wednesday and were staying through the weekend, but on the second night we were there it all began. He didn't sleep well and just wanted to be held. At first I thought it was because he wasn't in his crib, but after a while I realized there was probably more. I also thought that maybe he was just getting spoiled by being held with my parents, but was wrong again. The rest of the weekend was long to say the least, but once he spiked a fever I knew there was more. We got back on sunday and took him to an urgent care place and they said that it was just a viral bug and sent us home. Then on monday night we went to Children's Mercy once his fever reached 104 and it was the 4th day of it. Turns out he had a double ear infection and bronchiolitis. After a few days on drugs he's doing much better. Let's just say it's not easy to give an 8 month old an inhaler through a mask or give an already energetic baby steroids (wish I would've got some video of it - it was ridiculous how much movement he had). Oh - and I guess this energy is possibly hereditary per the doc so at this point I blame Brian since he still can't sit still.

Besides the latest bought of disease that seems to be plaguing Ben through this winter season, he's generally a happy kid and getting close to crawling still. He can make his way around the room pretty well by rolling and crawling backwards, but still no forward motion beyond the lunging.

He's still gaining weight which is good considering the different illnesses he's had the past few weeks, but I'd guess when we get our 9 month check up that he's at most in the 50th percentile - Prove me wrong Ben!

I look forward to the next round of sickness he brings home in a week or two - Yippee!

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