Eight Months

Aria is now eight months and what a month it has been! She is crawling in full force and is now at the stage of pulling up on everything by her and even transitioning from object to object. She still has only 10 teeth. Only 10, I know! You are thinking WOW 10 teeth at 8 months! Yeah, one night we were not fast enough to respond to a cry and she now has teeth marks in her crib! lol I am glad to have a break from the teething though. Mama needs her rest. We have started her on normal foods. She loves fruits and veggies and her fruit puffs. All of these new foods make me nervous which I guess is normal for new moms. I am afraid that she may choke or have a reaction. We are taking it by baby steps. She is saying mama, dada, and bye bye and waves. She started copping us when we make a clicking sound with our tongue and she does the same thing and just laughs. She thinks she is hilarious.

This month has been a month of doctors’ visits. I have taken her to the doctor once a week this month. The first visit was after a night of no sleep and when I say no sleep I mean NONE! We tried to lay her down at 8:00 like normal and it wasn’t happening. She would pop up so I kept that up for about an hour. Needless to say I wasn’t able to put her down all night. She never really went to sleep so I knew something was off. I took her to the doctor the next day and the PA said that everything looked good aside from some drainage and that all we could give her is Motrin and Tylenol due to her age. After a few days of her still being fussy I took her back to the doctor and her normal doctor said that everything looked fine but she must have an infection somewhere so she put her on an antibiotic. Two weeks went by where she was her normal self.

The Monday of the following week the sitter called and said that she had a fever of 102. I ran and picked her up and called the doctor AGAIN to make an appointment. The Sunday before she woke up in the middle of the night with a 99 fever but we assumed it was teething. She was acting fine all day and Monday morning so we took her to daycare. Well by the time her doctors appointment rolled around she was miserable. Time we walked into the office the doctor said “oh no, she has hand foot mouth disease” I had never even heard of it until recently. It seems like 3 or 4 of my friends posted about their kids having it. So of course she said that it is a virus and has to run its course. By Wednesday her arms, legs, face, butt, tootsie, mouth, throat, hands and feet were covered in blisters. I mean covered! I felt horrible. I know there is nothing you can do to prevent it, but she was just so miserable and there is nothing you can do to help. By Thursday she was better and her skin started to settle down.

After all of the HFMD drama guess who caught it next?! Yep mom! I told Andrew that I felt like a baby myself and Aria handled it better than me. I just had it on my hands and feet! Andrew managed to escape it, but my parents were not so lucky. They both are just now getting over there spat with it. We are now trying to get her back to her normal sleeping routine and I pray that she does soon. So far the past 2 or 3 nights have been great! She gets up once during the night but goes right back out. I pray she keeps it up. I can deal with that.

Can't keep the stickers on the shirts anymore ;)