Sick of Being Sick

For the past two weeks we have been a sick family! Hayley first came down with a minor head cold shortly after Christmas. It quickly cleared up, but then Mommy started coming down with the same thing. A few days ago, Hayley came down with another cold except this one was much worse. She's had a rough couple of days coughing and fighting a runny nose, but after a few calls to the pediatrician, nightly humidifying, larges doses of Vicks Baby Rub, Triaminic and some good old fashioned Mommy and Daddy loving I think she's finally on the road to recovery.

We spent today working out in the yard while Hayley sat in her excersaucer supervising. We have been working on re-landscaping the back of our house and will post some pictures once we get it completed. Hayley was a very content little girl which is definitley a good sign she is feeling better. We put her down to sleep tonight and she didn't make a peep. Now she usually doesn't fuss when we put her to bed, but we do usually hear her in her room talking and playing with her music box so we became a little worried when we didn't hear any noise tonight. Daddy's intuition spurred him to go in to check on his little girl. The room was dark so he had to let his eyes adjust as he slid open the door. You can imagine his surprise when he finally was able to make out little Hayley sitting up on her knees in her crib flashing a big gummy grin and staring right back at him. She has never done this before, nor had we ever seen her pull herself up on her knees like this. You could tell she was just beaming with pride of her grand accomplishment! Brian of course has now lowered the crib mattress as low as it can go. I think he is convinced she is going to figure out how to climb completely out at the ripe old age of 7 months!