Sleeping all night

Kevin has started sleeping through the night. We've started giving him his cereal after his night-night bottle and that fills up his belly. He took his bottle at 9:30 last night and slept until 8:00 this morning. He also fell asleep on his own. Ben put him in his crib at 11:00 and he was asleep by 11:30. We're more excited about that than him sleeping all night!!

We're trying hard to get him into a schedule before he starts daycare next month. He's doing good so far. Next is a nap schedule. That one will be a challenge.....

I didn't sleep a wink last night. I got up this morning and read my prescription inserts to see what was in a pill that I took that would have kept me awake. I figured it out and won't be taking that one so late tonight. It helps with my cough but I'd rather sleep.

Pictures

This should be some sort of a record....3 post in one day. I hate being at home sick but my medicine is wearing off so I am about to eat dinner, take more medicine and go to bed. Enjoy the new pictures of Kevin. It's killing me not being able to hold him but I talk to him and he smiles for me and that makes it all better. Did I mention that we have the "milk" sign down already? He doesn't actually sign it (he's not that smart!) but he sure knows what it means. If he's acting like he's hungy, we sign milk and ask him "Do you want milk?". He waves his arms and gets fussy. We take that as a YES! And he's not just done this once, it's happened several times in the last week. It's really nice. If he's not hungry and you ask him - all we get is a huge smile...like "no, silly parents, I'm not hungry - you'll know when I'm hungry!"

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Got the flu shot....still got the flu!

Yes, I am another victim of the flu! I started coughing Monday afternoon. By the time I got home yesterday I had a fever of 102. I got up early this morning to make it to CareNow before they got too busy. I arrived at 8:03 and there were already 10 people there. And lucky me got stuck behind the not too smart family of 4 who were all sick. I guess it wasn't possible for just one parent to sign in - both had to stand at the desk and take up more room. And when asked who was being seen...they thought it would be a good idea to both answer but to say different names! I knew it was going to be a long morning. I only had to wait an hour to get put back in a room but waited another hour before the doctor arrived. It wasn't too bad. They have TVs in all the exam rooms and they were playing Radio. That's one of my favorite movies!!!!

The doctor reported back that I have a double ear infection, an upper respiratory infection and the flu. I took my 3 lovely prescriptions to CVS and they had them all filled within 10 minutes. That should be some kind of a record. The house has been disinfected and we're really hoping that Kevin doesn't get sick.

Home with Jesus

Thank you all for your prayers for Juston. He went home to be with Jesus at 4:00 this morning. I am so glad we were able to go out there and see him yesterday. Please continue to pray for his wife Terry and the entire extended family.

We took Juston and Terry out to dinner last March to tell them we were pregnant. We went up to the hospital Halloween night (5 days before Kevin was born) so he could see how big I was. And then yesterday we took the "final product" to see him. That is really special to us!

Loving his cereal!

We decided to give Kevin some rice cereal tonight. Why?....just because!! And boy did he LOVE it. The first few bites he was trying to figure out what to do with it and after that he was opening up his mouth when he saw the spoon come near his mouth.

I was off work today so Ben and I made our way to the police department so Ben could show Kevin off to everyone. After that we went to see his old supervisor who is at home on hospice care and not expected to live much longer. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor 18 months ago and now that he's home his days are numbered. Please remember the Juston Holton family in your prayers.


Waiting for us to finish cleaning the kitchen...he's so patient!



Me and my puppy



Loving my new toy



Give me that...I can do it all by myself



Yummy cereal



Always sticking out the tongue




Enjoy this cute video of Kevin and Ben playing! Please notice our very annoying dog Meghan in the background wanting Ben to play ball with her. She does that all the time!

And the title of his video: How not to get rid of hiccups.

Silly Baby

I call Kevin my silly baby all the time and today he has lived up to his name. The last few weeks he has really been difficult to feed. He gets down a few ounces and starts wiggling like crazy - his head is bent back as far as it can go and he is half on our lap and half off. It is terribly frustrating! Last night we got home from church around 9:00 and since he decided to play in the nursery instead of eat - I assumed he would be starving. I gave him his usual room temperature bottle. And what does dramatic Kevin do? He bites on it for a minute and then acts like he's going to throw up (gagging face and all!) I laughed and thought it just entered his mouth wrong. I tried again a few minutes later....he did the same thing. I had Ben put his bottle in the fridge for about 20 minutes. I guess it was cold enough for him to eat it because he took ALL 6 ounces! Silly baby!!!! He likes his bottles cold now I guess. *Is anyone wondering who he gets his dramatic tendencies from?*

He has also figured out that his daddy is the funniest person in the world. All Ben has to do is look at him and Kevin cracks up. It's so cute.