So in the last few weeks we have experienced our fair share of sickness in the Heacox house. Just after Halloween I came down with the flu and was out of work for almost a week (I was getting better the weekend of 11/6/10), then Jake came down with a cough and the following weekend we were fighting a fever of almost 102 all night (weekend of 11/13/10). We were up almost every hour giving him a cool bath to try to stop it from rising because we had already giving the max dosage of baby tylenol in a 24 hour period! It was very scary! I also learned the next day that we may have had the bath a little too cold because Jaker started to shiver which can make the body work to warm up and that is NOT what we needed. Now this weekend (11/20/10) Brad is sick from either a stomach virus or some bad food and hasnt gotten out of the bed since Friday afternoon AND Jake has fever again!
At least this time Jake still seems happy. You wouldnt know he had fever this weekend to look at him, but last weekend...that was a whole different experience. Last weekend we knew Jake didnt feel well because of his cough and congestion but also because he was fussy and wouldnt smile at all AND he wouldnt eat! That was the first time ever our little man pushed away food. Needless to say when he finally started to eat again I was one happy mommy. Thank goodness for Brad. He keeps me sane and remindes me not to freak out which is very difficult for me! I just get so worried!
In the last few weeks Jake has hit some great milestones too! He has started to sleep through the night regularly. He generally goes to sleep around 9:30 or 10:00 and we have been waking him up around 7 or 7:30! That is so amazing to me! Unfortunatly with his wonderful fevers and whatnot the all too perfect sleep routine hit an abrupt stop about a week and a half before thanksgiving. Hopefully we'll get back to that soon. Also, he is working on sitting up! He sometimes forgets or gets distracted and falls over but he has gotten pretty good at sitting for about 30 seconds or so. He also LOVES to play with his toys and pass them back and forth between his hands or drop it on his blanket and inch his way to get it. He really really wants to crawl too! He is scooting around and trying desparately to pick up his booty and army crawl. The other day he had his stomach totally off the floor and it looked like he was doing a push up! I have a feeling we wont be enjoying this immoble Jake for too much longer. My guess is by New Years taht he will be army crawling pretty well to get around. We'll see if I'm right soon enough though!
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