Forced Family Time

On Monday Ailbe turned 9 months old. This was a big day and we celebrated by staying home watching PBS Kids all day.

Rooney and Ailbe both came down sick and were equally pathetic. Rooney has had a recurrent cough for a couple of weeks but seemingly felt fine otherwise. Ailbe has a cold but no real fever just a lot (I mean a lot!) of snot. Sunday night Rooney got a fever and slept from early evening through the night. Number one sign a kid is sick...they sleep without being prompted. By morning the fever was gone and he was full of pep again but the rule is keep 'em away from other kids for 24hrs after the fever goes away and that's exactly what we did. Unfortunately we missed a beautiful day and a really cool trip to Ballard Locks because of it. Ailbe on the other hand had been playing with her ears when she was tired but was still a sweet baby so although I suspected an ear infection I wasn't really sure. Thankfully her 9 month well check was on Tuesday and we found out she had a double ear infection. What a trooper! Brings a little tear to my eye that she could tough out the discomfort without a peep. A little trick she's learning from her dog brothers I suppose. This is her second ear infection. The MD assured me this was well below the norm but I still don't like it. I don't think Rooney has ever had one and I hate the idea of the kids having to take antibiotics so young. I do know it was necessary though. Her eyes and her nose seemed to be getting infected as well and she has already had one resistant bacteria in her eyes.

Before I move on I'll post Ailbo's 9 months stats. Drum roll...she is measuring in at 28-1/4" in length, a slight 19lbs & 0.5oz and her head is a little less petite at a staggering 17". That makes her percentiles 75%, 55% and 25% respectively and it just means she is growing perfectly.

By Wednesday everyone was feeling better and the weather was warm so we broke out Rooney's Slip N Slide. We invited April over and Brooke and Cole from next door came over and the kids have what Rooney called "A Slip N Slide Party". It was a great afternoon and the kids played for 3hrs in the front yard. Just as I finished packing everything up Mike came home. Too bad he missed all the Slip N Slide fun. Maybe we could have convinced him to take a little trip down. Some of my best memories still are when we hit got to go down the Slip N Slide when I was a little younger than Rooney. My mom made us all a DVD of it this Christmas. Maybe I'll post that to YouTube one of these days. Anyway I digress. Wednesday turned out to be a fabulous day because after dinner that night Mike, Rooney, Ailbe and I went to the pool for the last hour before it closed. We almost had the place to ourselves and just had alot of fun playing together as a family.

Unfortunately as of late last night Rooney got a fever again and is being pretty pathetic today. We are missing yet another awesome event due to illness...Caspar Babypants! Rooney didn't know we were going so he's not heartbroken yet. Thankfully I'm pretty sure they will be playing again soon.