Aunt Kate Pictures and Jake

Here are a few more shots of Aunt Kate as well as Jake Summers visiting.

Never Too Dark To Wear Shades

For those who don't know, my sister and I have a long standing ritual of taking pictures wherever we are in our shades. She is in town visiting this weekend so we thought we would include Ellie in the club.

 

Feeling Better On My 6th Month Birthday

Thankfully Ellie is feeling much better after her shot and antibiotic change. Here are some pictures from the last couple of days as Ellie turns 6 months old.

Long Week With A Sick Baby

We have had a fun week that actually started last Friday when Ellie started running a fever at daycare. She was started on antibiotics Sat. morning, but continued to run fevers through Tuesday. Ashley took her back to pediatrician Tuesday, and she had an elevated white blood cell count (a marker of infection), a bad ear infection, and a chest x-ray consistent with mild viral pneumonia. She ended up getting a shot of antibiotic and her oral antibiotic was changed. I had to round at the hospital all weekend and was on call last night, so Ashley has been run a little ragged getting up with a sick baby at all hours. Thankfully I was post call today and able to stay home with her today and she is doing much better. No fever now for 36 hrs and eating well with less fussiness. Hopefully we have this thing turned around. Anyway, looks like Ellie is better and will return to daycare tomorrow. Below is a sweet picture of her sleeping in our bed this morning as Ashley was leaving for work and I was getting home. Such an innocent little face.

Future So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

We had such a nice day in B'ham that we decided to eat lunch outside. Ellie decided she needed to sport her shades

Sitting Up

Ellie has had a busy couple of days with several new tricks. She has finally figured out how to roll from her back to front. She has been 3/4 of the way for several weeks now, but hasn't been able to get over completely. She made it over yesterday and now loves to roll over. She is also perfecting sitting up on her own. Once we sit her up she will sit all by herself and has even figured out how to catch herself when she starts falling to one side. I have posted some pictures of her sitting all by herself.

Orange Going In, Orange Coming Out?

Well it has been awhile since my last post, mostly secondary to laziness, but also because Ellie and I went to Tifton for several days and left Ashley here to rest. I forgot the camera, but luckily my Mom had hers, so please see her blog www.ewbpcb.blogspot.com to see all the action. Today we had a big day as Ellie had her first real food, carrots. She has been eating rice cereal for a while, but we had held off adding anything because she was sick. Now she is feeling much better so we went for it tonight and she loved every bite. She ate the entire jar (except what she got on her face, bib, burp cloth, and seat) and a full bottle. Some pictures are below.

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day to everyone.

Walking in the Hood

Some pictures of last weekend out enjoying the weather. As you can see Ellie enjoyed the walk as well.

Weekend With Daddy and Moving On Up

Well Ellie had a big weekend. She had a terrible week during the week were she decided that 2:30 am until 4:30 am was party time. She didn't fuss, she just wanted to talk and play and if you put her down then she would fuss. Needless to say her mother and I were worn out after 4 nights of little sleep. Ashley had plans to go to ATL for a baby shower and that put Ellie and I alone overnight for the first time. I'll admit I was a bit nervous how things would go, but after 4 bad nights I figured it couldn't get any worse so I decided it was time to get Ellie out of the pack n play and into the bedroom with the newest and nicest furniture in the whole house. She fought for a while but, eventually gave in and slept until about 3:30. I fed her and let her stay downstairs for the rest of the night fully expecting it to be party time again, but she talked herself to sleep. We had a good day together and I even managed to get the house in some sort of order for Mommy to come home Saturday night. When Mommy got home, she was so glad to see her little peanut and Ellie was so glad to see her Mommy. With the success of Friday night, we decided that after the 3:30 feeding to put Ellie back upstairs. Even though she was wide awake, she talked to her feet for about 10 minutes and finally went to sleep. The last picture is her waking up around 8:00 am after an entire night in her room. It was such a success that today Ellie is MOVING ON UP (upstairs, that is) and we will finally have our bedroom back so to speak.