We’ve been so busy watering the new lawn, that we’ve completely forgotten to keep this blog up-to-date. We promise to be better.
Summer has been going well for all of us. I’ve been spending lots of time trying to decide what type of landscaping we’ll eventually put in. Pete is busy working and watering the lawn.
We’ve both been busy trying to figure out a way to get Andrew to go to sleep at night without a lot of assistance from us. He sleeps through the night but just doesn’t want to go to sleep. We’ve tried Ferber and letting him cry it out. It probably didn’t work because of me. I couldn’t handle hearing him wail through the monitor. So we borrowed the No-Cry Sleep Solution book from Aunt Wendy. Things seem to be going better. Takes a bit longer but no one is crying, so we think it’s a good thing!
Just to give you and idea of how much Andrew has grown – here he is at just a couple of weeks old.
And here’s the little chunk at 5 months. He’s about 17 pounds! Notice how he has lost some of his tan… I mean jaundice.
Dad and Andrew taking their Saturday morning naps.
He’s working on sitting up. When we let him sit on his own he reaches way down to grab his feet and then topples over.
Jake brought over a new toy to share.
I wonder if they’ll always be this sweet and innocent…
We’re getting lots of use out of the new deck. Andrew enjoys watching the neighbor kids paddle their kayaks in the pond.
We have read lots of books this summer! He loves these squishy ones. He somehow ended up with 3 from the same series.
Aunt Erin was able to spend some time with us. She is going to be our live-in nanny in a couple of weeks while Laura’s parents make one last escape to Switzerland to visit the Nelson’s before they move back (they are moving back, right?).
Andrew’s doctor determined that he has a mild case of bronchiolitis. We picked up a nebulizer and he gets four doses a day. It came with the mask, which stayed on for about four seconds. It also came with this pacifier that has a hole in the top to shoot out the medicine. Very clever!
