Infectious

I took last Friday off so that I could take Harrison to the doctor.  He woke up with a snotty nose and crusty stuff around his ear.  He had been acting kind of off all week and we figured it'd be better to go ahead and take him to the doctor instead of trying to ride through the weekend and him get worse.  Ear infection was the verdict.  He's pretty young to be having one already and that kind of concerns us.  DeAnne had to have tubes as a child although I was fine. Hopefully he doesn't have his mother's immune system and allergies.

Saturday, Harrison turned 3 months old.  We celebrated by taking his 3 month old pictures.  They went pretty well considering he wasn't feeling the greatest in the world.

As if being sick for pictures wasn't enough, we had baby dedication service at church Sunday morning, so he was sick for that too.  He did pretty good there too though other than getting hungry while we were all standing up front at the end.

The other major event on Sunday was that the antibiotics he's taking for the ear infection took hold.  On the way home from eating lunch, he blew out his diaper and got all kinds of good stuff all over his car seat.  I had to strip the car seat and briefly considered just taking him to the sink in the kitchen and using the little spray nozzle to clean him off, but in the end opted for the traditional methods.  DeAnne was privileged enough to get to miss this little episode as she was off shopping with her sister.

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Harrison seems to be improving a good bit.  He was pretty happy this morning when he got up.  Thankfully, despite being sick, he's still sleeping through the night.  It's hard to believe that either of us were ever able to function when he was getting up twice a night and that entire time now seems like some kind of weird, hazy dream.  Sleeping through the night is definitely nice and we are very thankful that he's sleeping so well.  In fact, now that he's three months old and doing so well, we're going to be moving him from the bassinet in our room to the crib in his room.  I just have to move the motion monitor to the crib and we'll be good to go.  It's going to be kind of strange not having him in the room with us, but we want to move him to his room before he gets too used to being in the room with us.


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Looks like I might actually be able to get two posts in this week.  This one is going to go up Wednesday morning and I hope to have another for Friday morning.

--Paul