We had an eventful weekend! Drake got to meet his great grandma Ginder (GG for short) as well as his Great Uncle (Grunkle) Steve and Great Aunt Debbie! Also, it was his cousin Addison's 3rd birthday, so Drake went to his first birthday party. He got dragged all over the place this weekend, and he was such a trooper! It makes him so much easier to bring him places now that he is so interested in everything around him, and he is sooo much more interactive with people. It was so cute, on Saturday night we all went out to dinner, and Drake was tired and Grandma offered to hold him while Jason and I ate. He kept stroking her hair, and rubbing his face on it. His eyes kept closing while he was doing that, it was so funny! I guess it was soothing to him.

Also, last week I took him back to the ENT doctor for his ear check up. The doctor said that it's not uncommon for a child to get another ear infection after having the tubes put in after having so many ear infections like Drake has had. He said that Drake probably got this ear infection because his ears hadn't fully healed from all the previous infections, and when he got a cold it caused another one. So, we have to continue the Ciprodex drops for another week, and hopefully that will be enough time for his ears to heal. Pray that he doesn't get another cold for a while, because the longer he goes without a cold, the better a chance he has at having his ears heal!

Ear Infection

Poor Drake got another ear infection! We were really hoping that getting tubes put in his ears would solve this problem, but as soon as he got another cold, sure enough, his ears got infected. He has a follow up appointment with the ENT doctor who did his surgery on Wednesday, so keep your fingers crossed that he has another idea to try. I don't want Drake to have to go through this anymore!!!

Update

I think this might be the longest I have gone without positing. This has been a busy month!!! A lot has happened in the past month. To start with, Drake is now sitting up unsupported, rolling over both directions and is starting to eat veggies! He is getting so big! I look at him now and wonder where my little baby went:-) It is hard to imagine that he was ever 5 lbs!

Drake turned 6 months last week, so the pediatrician gave us the OK to start introducing veggies. I am trying to make them myself (we will see how long that lasts...) We first started him on green beans, which he loved at first until I gave him a bite that was too hot. Bad mommy! Ever since then he hasn't liked his veggies that much. A few days later we introduced peas, which he hasn't really cared for either. I think next I might move on to some orange veggies, even though the doc said to stick with green. If I were Drake, and had only had breastmilk and cereal, I don't think I would like icky veggies either! At least orange veggies are a little sweeter, and maybe a little easier for him to start with. We will see!

About Drake sitting and rolling over: He has mastered both, and he wants to crawl so bad, but can't figure it out quite yet. He will push up on his arms, then lay his face down on the ground and push his butt up in the air. He hasn't figured out how to do both at the same time, it is really cute! On occasion he will topple over when sitting and it makes him so mad! He hasn't learned to move into the sitting position himself, so once he learns this, I don't think toppling over will make him quite so angry.

One other big thing that happened last week was Drake got tubes put in his ears! The poor little guy has had 5 ear infections in the past 3 months, so the ENT doctor decided it was time. The procedure only took a couple minutes, but it really stressed Jason and I out having to put Drake under anesthesia. Drake was a trooper though, and did wonderfully! He had the tubes put in his ears in the morning, and by late afternoon he was basically back to his normal self. We are keeping our fingers crossed that this marks the end of the ear infections!

I have a bunch of pictures to post, but here are a few that we had taken recently: