Tubes

Blake got tubes this morning!

Not those tubes, but tubes in his ears. I think it was much harder on us than it was on him. He was cheerful the whole morning. He was smiling and talking with the nurses and both sets of grandparents. I got to go with him to get the "giggle juice". He was so funny. The nurses kept him amused with their bright colored hats and by blowing bubbles. They kept laughing at him and I overheard them say "he is the cutest baby we've had all morning!" In hindsight, I shouldn't have announced that to my family when I got back to the waiting room. Who would have thought there would be other babies' families in the waiting room, too??

The procedure didn't really take all that long, but it felt like an eternity for me. When I finally got to go back and see him he was doing great. He barely fussed and was happy and playful by the time we got home. We have just been taking it easy all day.

We are incredibly thankful that the tubes are the only worry we have. We saw other babies at the hospital that really put everything into perspective. We are blessed!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Ear Infection

Blake has had a double ear infection since December 14. It went away for a whopping 6 days in January. On Friday, we went back to the doctor to have his ears rechecked and he STILL has it. We are now on antibiotic number SEVEN. We have an appointment with an ear, nose and throat specialist in two weeks.
We have been really blessed in the fact that little Blake hasn't seemed to be bothered by it all that much. He has been his usual happy self for the past 3 months. We have gone every 2 weeks to the doctor for the rechecks. Each time we went, I felt certain that it was gone because Blake was acting so happy.
So here's to hoping that the 7th round is a charm!

Elmo, Clapping, Crawling and Dada

We got to go with Jenny and Tate to see Elmo Live! Blake loved every minute of it and was mesmerized by the lights. But then he was more mesmerized by Tate. All he wanted to do was hug him.

He also started clapping! He had been able to clap his hands together for awhile, but he was only able to do it once. Now anytime someone says, "YAY!!" he gives them a round of applause.

I hadn't really understood how to download video from our camera until now, so now we are having a video marathon!

Blake has started army crawling. It started on Valentine's night, but we didn't want video of that because he was chasing the paper bag from our romantic Valentine's take-out.



He also likes to mock my attempts to get him to say "Mama". I think he is on the edge of saying Jack, too. Anything but Mama.