Month of March, and Alex's first sickness.

It's been a very busy month, and a very long time since I posted anything!  Alex has learned a whole lot of new skills lately.  She holds her own bottle on every feeding.  She even reaches for the bottle as soon as it comes out of the fridge and sometimes grabs and dives on it before she's sitting/laying down to drink it!  She can roll over in both directions, but seems to forget this sometimes...especially at night.  We've woken up to panicked screams many times in the past week because the baby is on her tummy!  She also LOVES to sit up on her own and play.  I think she could sit up all day!  She's a very silly little girl who still loves to be upside down, talks a TON (usually with her tongue out), and squeal at the animals.  Colby will come play with her when she squeals, April will usually let her pet her, but only if we're nearby.

Alex had her very first cold, and it did unfortunately get a little serious.  She spent 2 weeks coughing with a little stuffy nose.  After a trip to the doctor, a trip to the ER and another week culminating in a morning of wheezing and fussiness we took her back to the doctor.  They listened to her lungs again, and diagnosed her with bronchioliitis.  Apparently, babies who get it are often between 3 and 6 months.  There also seems to be some correlation between this sickness as a baby and future problems with this type of illness as well as Asthma.  It's too soon to tell if Alex will have this problem.  Luckily we found it before it became even more serious.  It was not caused by RSV nor did it become RSV which is common and potentially fatal in infants, but she did spend about a week on a nebulizer every 4-6 hours, had to take a daily antibiotic and steroid!  A nebulizer is basically like an inhaler for adults, but babies and young children can't inhale the medicine that way so they wear a mask and breath in the vapors for about 15 minutes each treatment.  The poor little girl was so miserable and not herself for nearly 3 weeks.  

Since she recovered, Alex has been her sweet self again!  She's almost sleeping through the night (except for the occasional panic being on her tummy).  Every day while Mommy's at work, she spends her day with Auntie Angie and her cousins.  She loves her cousin Gabrielle, and now has a new little cousin, Caleb.  Auntie Jenna stayed with them for her spring break, so Alex got to see a lot of her too!

This week, Mommy had spring break and we had lots of fun!  So far we've been swimming at the indoor water park, gone to the playground nearby, and the zoo!  We still have 3 days of potential fun, including Easter!  I'll be posting new videos and hopefully pictures too!  Here's one of her playing with her Grandpa in Bob Evans!