Friday was a rough one.  You woke up with a bad cough and it just went downhill from there.  I called the daycare to check on you and you had a 99 degree fever and were not feeling well.  You ate and took a nap as soon as we got home and when you woke up about 7pm you sounded horrible!  You were, what sounded like, wheezing and your cough was much worse.  We decided it would be better to be safe than sorry, especially since we are in the height of this swine flu epidemic, so we took you to Cook Children’s Urgent Care. 

They diagnosed you with Croup, gave you some oral sterroids, and sent us on our way.  We were all in bed around 11:30pm.  Thankfully, you’ve gotten much better since then and should be 100% better in a few days.  Scary stuff for a first time mom & dad!

It seems like just yesterday we were checking into the hospital!  Your 4 month check up went well – you are in the 50th % for weight (just under 14 lbs), 90th % for height (right at 26″), and 90th for head size (17″!) – that’s so you have room for that super smart brain of yours!  🙂

The doctor said we could start giving you rice cereal so we tried it yesterday.  We mixed it as the directions stated and it was very wattery so we put it in a bottle and went that route.  You didn’t seem to mind it…or even notice it was there but your tummy was pretty big afterwards!  We are going to ease into it with maybe one cereal bottle per day for a bit.

We are so very thankful that you are such a GREAT baby!  Most notably, we are  appreciative of your sleeping habits.  We’ve established a bath, bottle, bed routine that usually has you going down for the night around 9pm.  I usually have to wake you up to feed before I go to work around 6:30am!  And on the weekends…you sleep yourself right through to 8am or 9am!  It’s AWESOME!  We are just going to enjoy it while it lasts…

It’s been a football watchin’ weekend!  Yesterday Dave, Allison, and Ethan came over to watch Iowa State get whooped up on in a horrible loss to Iowa.  Today, we’ve got some friends, Sarah & Collin, coming over to watch the Cowboys beat (hopefully) Tampa Bay!  You wore your Iowa state bib yesterday, the one your Godparents Jeremy & Stacey, bought for you.  And you’ve already got your pink “Future Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader” onsie on for today’s game!

It was 9 years ago today, September 8th, that your dad and I had our first date! 

I answered his personal ad from the internet just before Labor Day weekend and we had sent instant messages and talked on the phone for a week or so after that.  Things were going so well that we decided to meet in person at Chili’s in Addison (off Beltline) after work.  It was a Friday night and when I got there I did not see your dad right away.  All I really had to go on was pictures so I was frantically scanning the crowd for someone who looked like him, with no luck.  So, I sat at an open table at the bar and continued my search. 

About a minute later I saw him…and immediately got butterflies in my tummy!  He was SO tall and SO handsome!  I was instantly attracted to him!  We proceeded to have dinner and great conversation for what seemed like an hour or so.  We didn’t realize how long we had actually been there until they kicked us at midnight because they were closing. 

I was not ready to part ways and wanted the date to continue so I invited Brad to join me at the Flying Saucer just down the road.  I worked at the Corporate offices of the Flying Saucer and had to go there to drop off some flyers…and since it was a bar, I knew they would be open for a couple more hours.  He of course, accepted my offer to continue the date.  🙂

And here we are…9 years later…married with a precious little baby girl.  It’s the stuff dreams are made of!