dear snapper,
you’re 8 months old now! yes, i know that it was actually a few days ago, but you have certainly been keeping us busy so you’ll have to forgive me for being a little bit late with this.
if anything, this has been a month of anxiousness on our part. starting off with you crawling for real, you’re now definitely mobile and a GO-er. if there’s something you see across the room, now you just slither on over there, and BAM you’re sucking on it. or pulling it down. or pulling it down to suck on it. all of which underscores our need to start babyproofing the house. which we haven’t exactly done yet, but we have actually purchased a bunch of babyproofing gear that is sitting in a bag somewhere. that’s almost the same, right?
from there you did your short stint in baby school, which was good since you probably needed more socialization than just staying at home all day with boring old mommy and daddy, which might have been causing/exacerbating your stranger anxiety. instead, you went to baby school where they all said that you were doing really really well for your first days showing all the other babies just what crawling was about. you were practically set to take over the whole place until you started coming down with every single virus and germ that they had there.
this resulted in the past couple of weeks of varying levels of illness: from miserable days of sneezing and coughing, to days where you looked totally fine and were bouncing around and laughing your head off. then sprinkled in were days where you vomited or coughed up a meal, and nights where you had a fever or woke up repeatedly coughing.
i know that in the grand scheme, all of these things are good for you, or at least that’s how the theory goes. both going out and socializing with other babies and caretakers, as well as being exposed to germy germs and building up your immunity will make you better adjusted and stronger in the long run, but that does nothing when you’re sitting here screaming and we can’t explain to you what’s going on.
it turns out that you’ve also come down with the feared ear infection, so hopefully some antibiotics will clear that up.
meanwhile, we’re adjusting back to you sleeping more intermittently, which means that we are also sleeping less. which means that we all can’t wait until you get much much better and we can all get more sleep. amen.
Posted at May 6, 2008 9:20 PM| TrackBack