Week 41

Grandma Judi, Grandpa Mark, and Aunt Ali came out from Ann Arbor, MI for a visit for the first half of this week. Ali (my "little" sister - who is now taller than me) was out touring some Universities. She's a Junior in High School this year so she'll need to start applying to colleges next year. Wow! I just can't believe how time flies! She liked Seattle University best, followed closely by UW. She's also planning on visiting UCLA, Berkley, and Stanford later this month and some others too, I think. Right now, she's thinking of majoring in pre-med and has the grades and SAT scores to pretty much choose where she wants to go. I'm so proud of her!

Auntie Ali

Grandma Judi

Grandpa Mark

We had a nice visit, despite Hayden still having a horrible cold. They stayed with us, and since our former guest bedroom is now Hayden's room, Phil and I slept on an air mattress on the floor of Hayden's room while my parents took our bedroom and my sister took the couch in the living room. It wouldn't have been too bad, except everytime Hayden would cough, it would wake me up. Almost every night at some point he would cough so hard and gag on the mucous it would make him throw up all over himself and in his crib. So I'd bring him into bed on the air mattress with us, which left me sleeping with one eye open because air mattresses aren't very safe for babies to sleep on. Needless to say, Hayden and I weren't at our best for the visit with the family. :(

Now I've caught the cold too and am miserable. I would really love to have a good stretch of healthy days coming up here sometime soon. We are way overdue!

Hayden's greatest progress this week has been in pulling himself up on the furniture and standing. In fact, that is practically all he wants to do. It's making nap-time more difficult because all he wants to do is stand up in his crib (and chew on the crib rail!) He can also move from one piece of furniture to the next if they are close enough. We are scrambling to babyproof EVERYTHING.


He loves chewing on whatever furniture he can -- his crib, our new ottoman, and even the window sill (drywall and all - yuck!). Actually, he just loves chewing on everything. With 8 teeth already, I wonder when this teething phase will ever decrease?