Milestones (yeah) and sickness (yuck)

We have had quite the eventful February! Full of both good and bad. I am a proud mom and admittedly not so great at keeping the baby book updated, so this blog is a good place to record stuff. Anyway, first for the good news: Harrison is crawling. Not conventional, but rather a hybrid military-style army crawl, inch-worm type of thing but it gets the job done! He also has some new teeth on the bottom, which he really likes to rub his tongue over all of the time. He's started "dancing" (okay, so rocking back and forth) to music and clapping his hands. Harrison can sit back up from being on his tummy, a very proud moment in his life. You should have seen the look on his face. He still loves spaghetti, yogurt, chicken, cheese and pizza. Dad's Tootsie roll pops are another favorite (yep, Mom saw that...) The not-so-good news: we ended up spending the night in the hospital on Feb. 8th due to a bout of sickness. It started as RSV, which turned into bronchiolitis. This apparently caused his little airways to constrict, and so while he was sleeping he wasn't getting enough oxygen. Needless to say, none of us got a whole lot of sleep that night. Corey and I were eating McDonald's on the floor at midnight, before attempting to sleep on a very narrow fold-out chair...attempting is the key word. We got to go home on Sunday afternoon, thank goodness, and he has been doing well until yesterday (2/24) when he ended up with a temp in the afternoon and turned out to be another ear infection in both ears. I can't wait until spring when all this junk is out of the air! Other than all that, he's been as much of a joy as ever and manages to smile even when he's not feeling that great. We are looking forward to our rescheduled trip to Lincoln this weekend and Great-Grandpa Zylstra's 81st birthday in a few weeks.

Getting ready to head to church...

Hello all. Hope everyone is happy and warm on this Super Bowl Sunday. It's kind of depressing that after today we have to wait until August for football again. Harrison turned 9 months this past week. Yesterday we took him to get some pictures taken to celebrate the occasion. He was on the verge of a nap the entire time, but was in a good mood till the very end.

Ankeny continues to treat us well. Feeling more like home all the time. Next weekend, barring any weather surprises, we're going to head to Lincoln for the first time since the big move. We are very excited to see everyone we can while we're there. We also continue to enjoy life without any classes to take. For those that didn't know, Erin and I completed our MBAs this past semester. It was quite the relief to have that done.

As always, enjoy the pictures of the little guy. Go Cardinals.