Sunday

Sunday was rough. Now contrary to most of my posts, Nathan is actually usually a really sweet, even tempered baby. He's fascinated by everything and everyone and wants to SEE everything and be held by everyone. Rarely does he do "shy", and rarely does he scream for hours. His crankiness - while frustrating - is something some of our friends will say "is that it"? I'm not sure if it's because I'm already such a helicopter mom that I can't help but respond to every peep and he never really has a NEED to cry for longer than a second before I'm racing to his side, but regardless, he's usually very sweet. Saturday was awful. He screamed and screamed and had a horrible fever, and his Grammy and Grampy came to see him and brought TOYS and he was not going for it. He was MAD and sick and obviously didn't feel well. We called the on duty nurse and she made an appointment for Sunday morning. So here's our day in pictures:

Nathan is on to two meals of day of baby food and while he makes fussy faces when he first tries a food, he hasn't refused anything. Until.... organic sweet peas. The one food he absolutely would not eat:

Please note the open container of peaches which he happily DID eat after the failure of peaches!

We didn't take pictures at the Pediatrician's office because we thought perhaps the other parents would frown on us whipping out a camera, but the long and short of it is Nathan is on his THIRD ear infection. Oh joy. We got home a little after 11am and I had to kind of force Nathan to take a bottle. Whenever he's sick his appetite is just nowhere near where it usually is. Doesn't he look THRILLED to be eating a bottle?? Normally he sucks it down in like 2 minutes!

Around 11am both Nathan and I were dead to the world. I lay down next to him to "keep him company" before he drifted off to dreamworld and I was soon snoring and drooling next to him. Here's what Jeff did while we napped:

Why yes, that IS wrestling! Thank you for asking!

When Nathan and I woke up we headed off to the BJ's in Burlington which was new and lovely and CLEAN and Nathan wanted to check out the diamond rings that were on display. You know, scoping out what to get Mommy for Mother's Day!

Normally Nathan does not watch television. But we've caved a few times and let him watch one show from NickJr. It's called "WonderPets" and it's 15 minutes long. It's perfect for days like this where NOTHING makes Nathan happy and he can go from laughing that we are blowing raspberries on his belly to crying. The 15 minutes distracts him and gives us a much needed break.

And here's Nathan peering out between the bars of his prison.. I mean CRIB! He was all proud of himself for rolling onto his belly over and over again and then CRYING because he didn't want to be on his belly anymore!

And here's what Jeff and I needed at the end of a long day!