7 months 2 days

Wow! I really need to update this thing more often! I didn't realize that it's almost been a month since I last posted! Sorry!

Let's see...what's been going on...

We had a nice 4th of July. We invited some friends and family over to grill out, watch MTSU's firework show and then shoot off our own. Richard stayed at the house with Christopher while we went to a nearby ballfield for the fireworks. Before all that, though, one of the guys decided to shoot of what he thought was a no-noise firework in our backyard. Unfortunately, it had a VERY loud whistle! We found out really quickly that Christopher didn't like it! Poor baby!

Christopher's now sitting up on his own very well! He's been rolling around like crazy for quite some time, but still not much sign of him crawling anytime soon. Not that I want him to stay immobile forever, but I'm enjoying not having to tag along behind him everywhere to keep him out of trouble!

On Thursday, July 13, we had Christopher's 6 month pictures taken by a friend of Richard's. Yes, I realize that he was 2 days shy of turning 7 months old, but better late than never! We were given 2 cd's FULL of pictures...well over 100 of them! Now, we have to choose what we want printed out! That's gonna be a hard decision as there are a lot of really good pictures! Here are a few of them:







On Friday night, I went to a friend's house for a scrapbooking party. It started at 8:00 pm, so since Christopher's bedtime isn't until 9:30, Shad got his first chance at putting Christopher to bed. Everything went just fine and Christopher went right to sleep! I underestimated him!

On Saturday morning, though, we woke up to a VERY crabby baby! He was fussy both Saturday and Sunday, ran a low-grade fever of 100.2, and didn't want to sleep or eat. I just assumed it was teething. However, we also noticed that he was playing with his left ear, which made us think he might have an ear infection. On Saturday, he also started getting a diaper rash. However, on Sunday, it started spreading to his arms, legs, back and torso. Saturday night into Sunday morning was really bad! He woke up every 1-2 hours between 9:30 and 3:00! After staying awake for about an hour, he finally went back to sleep until 7:00. Shad and I decided to stay home from church, though, since Christopher wasn't wanting to eat and was being so fussy.

Last night was a lot better and he seems to be eating almost normally now today, but I still went ahead and made a doctor's appointment for 2:40 today. Dr. Tammy said that it is not an ear infection...yay! However, she said that he has some nasal congestion. With that and the rash, she thinks it's something viral. He's been a lot better today, so it seems he's getting over it. She said that the rash should go away in 1-3 days. So, Christopher's now had his first illness! Poor baby (and Mommy and Daddy)!

As far as solids go...he has now had rice cereal, sweet potatoes, applesauce, carrots, bananas, squash and peaches. He accepted everything, but seemed to enjoy applesauce, carrots, squash and peaches the most. I think we're going to introduce oatmeal tomorrow.