Cripes! It's been over a month!

I haven't posted in a month? WTH? I guess that's what happens once you return to work and try to manage an almost one year old, plus work, plus all the crap that goes with it.

Anyway... we've had quite the last couple of weeks. Aaron had pinkeye about a month ago. Trying to put drops into his eyes was a special level of hell.

Then, he got really sick with what we thought was a cold 2 weeks ago (a Wednesday). He was sleeping 3hours + at daycare, and not eating, refusing any solid food. Then on the Saturday, he was running a mild fever, so we gave him tylenol then passed him off to my brother and future sister in law for the night (we were going away for the night for our wedding anniversary). We just checked into the hotel when my brother called us to say Aaron had had a seizure and they were loading him into the ambulance and taking him to the ER.

I have never. Ever. Felt. So. Sick. and. Panicked. In. My. Life. I nearly hurled in the hotel elevator. We sped home as fast as we could somewhat legally go, to the local hospital. He had a febrile seizure when his fever had spiked suddenly that afternoon. There were no warning signs. He is fine, and there should be no long term effects.

Then, the Tuesday following, he broke out in a full body rash, starting on his torso. T used his google doctorate degree and said it seems like he had roseola. The doctor doesn't think so, he thinks his rash was a reaction to the antibiotics he was on for his ear infection. But, what does a doctor who went to med school for a bajillion years know over google? :)

Anyway, we still think it was roseola. All the symptoms fit. The "cold" before hand, fatigue, loss of appetite, high fever, seizure and then rash when the fever finally broke Monday morning.

So, Aaron stayed home from daycare for a week. He went back this past Monday and is back to his old self... laughing like a loon, flirting with all the ladies, eating everything in sight and causing havoc.

The next post will be his birthday post. And I will need a stiff drink for that one.

Easter Pics

Well, the inevitable has happened. I returned to work 2 weeks ago. Life has been CRAZY since then. Aaron has been sick with a cold for 3 weeks now. His cough is better but his nose will.not.stop.running. Ick. It is so gross!

He's also getting over his first case of pink eye. That was a REAL treat. I somehow felt like the karmic gods were laughing at me every time we tried to put eye drops in. He's better, but the call at 9am while I was at work to go pick him up from daycare nearly did me in.

He is 10.5 months now and growing so fast. We celebrated Easter over the weekend with visit to and from family. Below are my favourite pics from the weekend.

We sent out his birthday invites yesterday. ::sobs into hands:: It is so hard to believe that this time last year we were anxiously awaiting his arrival. And in a little over 40 days, it will be his first birthday. Sigh. The year has really really gone so very fast.

My little Easter Bunny

Question: What can a 9.5 month old baby learn to do in 2 weeks?

Answer?
-army crawl
-crawl
-pull himself to standing
-use a sippy cup
-go from belly to sitting
-sitting in crib
-eating table food
-clapping
-waving
-giving kisses when asked by mommy
-popping out one tooth, and working on another

Yes. That has been our two weeks.

I don't know about Aaron, but I'm exhausted.

Spaghetti-palooza

In our continued quest to scrap jarred baby food, we tried spaghetti with sauce tonight. Below is the "before" picture.


And after. It was a hit. He sucked the sauce off and ate most of his noodles, I even gave him a bit more than his original portion.

Happy 9 months, Little Dude!

9 months. Where does the freaking time go? These are some of my new favourite pics from the last couple of weeks.

Ready to cheer on team Canada.













Eating a mum mum with cream cheese. His eyes in this pic make me melt.














His valentine's day shirt. :)














Trying red pepper for the first time. It was a hit!

Mission purees-be-gone!

We're on a new mission, inspired by the daycare menu we received when registering Aaron this week.

The mission is to wean him off of the jarred purees and start eating "real" people food. Not the food that people eat when they're 90 years old and in a nursing home. ;)

Up until this week, he was just feeding himself cheerios/puffs and mum mums. He has started to refuse to be spoon fed, so I baked some apples earlier in the week to see how he would do, and he did awesome. So, we decided it was time to introduce table food he could feed himself.

Today was day 2. I've given small bits and pieces of finger food before, just not an entire meal until yesterday. Today for lunch he had a piece of whole wheat bread, with fruit puree on it as "jam". Some ham, cheddar cheese and for dessert some banana. He ate IT ALL. And we only had 1 gagging episode.

On day 1, he had some baked apples, banana, english muffin with cream cheese (at dinner) and some cheeze whiz (at lunch) and some cheerios. It was also a success.

I'm making shepherd's pie for dinner, and want to try giving him that for dinner tonight.

I also have been reading up on some of the baby led weaning (BLW) theory/practices, inspired by my friend Jen and her adorable son. :) While we already did the purees which is something people who do baby led weaning generally don't do, we're heading in this general direction by modifying things a bit to suit our needs.

I also did some watching of youtube videos pertaining to it. Interesting stuff!

My kid is a ham

This is his newest trick. "Smiling" for the camera. Only it's not smiling. It's face scrunching. And it's hilarious.

I'm a bad blogger mommy

Here are some recent pics of Aaron.