I can't believe we are only a month away from Alex's first birthday! Where has the time gone? He is getting so big so fast.
Just before Alex turned 10 months we had to start introducing formula. My supply had dropped and my freezer supply was going fast. Alex wasn't sleeping through the night and it was rough on us all. He didn't care for straight formula, so we ended up having to mix it with breast milk. He was getting bottles at daycare but nursing first thing in the morning and at night. We were trying to introduce bottles at home, but I had to act like I was leaving for him to take one. After a weekend where we were left with only 3oz of breast milk, I told Aaron we had to figure something out. Once we found out we were expecting #2, we knew why my supply had dropped and not come back. The ready to feed formula was our answer and we are now fully transitioned to formula with Alex taking a bottle from me. I was hoping to make it to 1 year with Alex and I was close. I am hoping with this next one that I will be able to make it the full year. I know your milk can take longer to come in when you have a c-section and I am hoping that it won't effect my ability to breastfeed this one.
For July 4th we headed to Granbury. My dad was on call starting on Saturday and we got lucky again. He was not called out on a trip! My dad got a new toy that we hadn't seen yet. It was in the shop when we were in town for Memorial day. My dad got a 1986 Rolls Royce! I still can't believe it. I got to drive it around some and we tried to get the car seat in to go to town. We couldn't get it tight enough in the middle and I didn't think about trying the side seat. Next time I will have to try. We also got to go swimming and just enjoyed being with family.
My new car! HaHa
Alex is ready to drive!
Alex splashing Grandad!
July is full of birthdays on Aaron's side of the family. His brother's birthday is the 7th, his mom's is the 9th and our niece Cecelia's is the 13th. Cecelia turned 3 this year and her party was on the 9th. We headed to Galveston on the 8th with a stop in Kemah to have dinner with Andrew. Cecelia's party was nice and her face was pure joy when she saw her big gift - a swing set! She ran right to the slide. I was in charge of taking pictures and I got a couple of good ones as she saw the swing set and started to climb for the slide, but then my camera died. Alex got to swing too and he had a blast. His laugh brings a huge smile to my face! We headed home on Saturday to have a day to get stuff done around the house and relax some.
Cecelia seeing her swing set for the first time! She was excited!
Sunday night/Monday morning, Alex woke up and sounded like he could get sick. He did a tiny bit and then dry-heaved. It broke my heart. Sure enough, when he got up for the day and I fed him a bottle, it came right back up - all over me. Aaron stayed home with him in the morning and then we switched. Aaron went and got some pedialyte while I finished getting ready. Aaron started to give him small amounts and he kept it down fine. He gave it to him around every 5 minutes or so and after two hours, he gave him a small bottle. He kept it down! We thought we were in the clear because he only got sick the one time. Boy were we wrong!
Alex woke up a bunch crying Monday night but every time I went in to check on him, his had is paci. I felt him to see if he felt warm, but he didn't. When we woke him up to get ready for the day, he felt warm so I took his temperature. I felt horrible - it was 102!! I gave him medicine and started planning what we were going to do. Aaron had training all day Tuesday and Wednesday and I had several projects that had to go out. We had spoke with Aaron's mom about coming up if Alex didn't stop throwing up, so at 5:30 in the morning, Aaron called his mom to see if she could come watch him. I got him into the doctors office and it appeared that he just had some sort of virus. His temperature stayed down all day with medicine and we thought things were going well.
I had to work late and when I got home, Aaron said that his temperature had gone up to 104.8. They gave him medicine and had me check it again. I got 105.1! We decided we were taking him to a pediatric urgent care. Luckily it is still under my insurance. After running several tests, it appeared it must be just a bad virus. While we were waiting for the doctor at one point, we were discussing how my brother-in-law was sick as well. He had gone to the doctor and found out that he had the flu. We mentioned it to the doctor when she came back and she was surprised but said that we might as well test to see if that is what Alex has as well. She didn't think it would be but it couldn't hurt to test. She came in and told us he did have the flu. After calling several pharmacies, the doctors office finally found one that has thera-flu. He is now thankfully doing much better and has been fever free since late Thursday night/ early Friday morning. We can't thank Aaron's mom enough for coming to help us out. I have a feeling she really enjoyed her one on one time with Alex and I know he enjoyed his time with her. We are truly blessed to have family that is so willing to come help.
We can now see Alex's top right tooth coming in and it appears that the top left isn't far behind. I feel like my poor baby can't catch a break. He has been sick twice in the last two months and he is teething :( It has been a rough month for all of us. My morning sickness is worse this time around, I feel a lot more tired this time and I am a lot more moody! I was sick for the first half with Alex and things aren't looking much better this time. I'm sure having an 11 month old doesn't help anything!
Happy 11 Months Little Man! We love you so much!
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