36 Weeks

I am 36 weeks old! I know you're probably not surprised by this since my mommy talks about me all the time. I should really tell her to stop. It's embarrassing.

• As you saw by mommy's recent post, I'm CRAWLING! I finally got the hang of it on Thanksgiving and by the next day, I was off! It's so fun. I can get to things much, much faster now. Mommy got tears in her eyes, but didn't cry. 

• This also means that my crib has officially been lowered! Mommy did cry about this one. You may think my mom sounds crazy - daddy thinks she is sometimes. Through tears, she said something about how the crib has been raised since the day they brought me home and she's lifted me in and out of it so many times and now it won't have the cute bed skirt and on and on. She's so silly and overly sentimental. As I'm sure you've all noticed.

• People ask a lot if I'm always so calm and sweet and the answer is "yes."

• I sure enjoyed my first Thanksgiving! There was a lot of new foods (mmmm - mashed potatoes!), family time (which means extra snuggles) AND I got to stay up past my bedtime and watch the adults play games. Thankfully I'm pretty easy going and didn't seem to mind getting off my schedule. I was shuffled here, there and everywhere and was happy as could be.

• Happy that is, until Monday when mommy got a call from Miss Kathy that my temp had spiked to 102.1 and I had to be picked up early from daycare. I took a great two hour afternoon nap and daddy picked me up at 3:00. Mommy rushed home when she could (earliest bus doesn't come until 3:30) and I seemed just fine. Tuesday was mommy's day home, which was convenient since I couldn't have gone back to daycare. I didn't have much of a temp on Tuesday morning, but felt considerably warmer after my afternoon nap (and didn't want to be put down). A three-week cough combined with temp and runny nose prompted mom to then take me to the walk-in clinic. A chest x-ray and elevated white blood count suggested pneumonia so I had to get a shot of antibiotic before we left the clinic. They sent the x-ray to radiology to be reviewed again because the doctor said it looked sketchy. Daddy stayed home with me today and took me in for follow up lab work, which all came back great! No pneumonia! Praise Jesus! I'm still pretty stuffy and don't have much of an appetite, but no temp and happy and playful.

Chest x-rays are no fun though *frown.

And I only weigh 16.9 lbs - such a wee little peanut!

Mommy and daddy took my picture tonight right after I woke up from a 2.5 hour nap, so sorry no smiles today. I was smiling on the inside though. You would too if you saw and heard everything they do to try to get me to grin. And keep me looking up instead of reaching for and eating the piece of paper. I should tape them sometime.

I hope you are having a great week. Thanks for stopping by to check in on my 8 month old happenings! You're a very good friend.

Love,
Gwendolyn