Croup

Miles's fever turned into croup this week. One of the other babies from our Portland gathering also had croup earlier this week, so we're guessing someone brought a sick baby to the children's museum. It's been a long week with lots of cuddles and some scary moments of coughing so hard that he couldn't breathe. He got a dose of steroids on Thursday, and should be feeling better any day now.

Miles started cruising along the couches this week and bridging between them. It's amazing how mobile he has become in the last few weeks!

Check up

Miles had his 9 month well-baby check up today. We had to re-schedule it from Friday because the doctor's office had no power from the storms.

Miles is 20 lb 10 oz and 28.5 inches. He is doing well according to the doctor. He's in about the 50th percentile for weight and 60th percentile for height. His pediatrician is happy with his milestones so far. Miles got another book from his pediatrician's office and we already read it twice. He loves reading books and having books read to him.

Miles had a fever last week, but it went away by the next morning. He had a fever again last night, and it's still here now. The pediatrician said if it's still here on Friday, Miles needs to come back in. I'm hoping it's just from him getting 4 of his top teeth at the same time. (That makes nights fun!)

This is what Miles does when I say "smile" while holding the camera.

 Playing with the blanket.

Caught in the act.

Can't believe how much Miles has grown!

First time in the bouncy: 3 days old.

Last day: 9 months 5 days (gave it back to my co-worker).

New things

Miles crawled to the couch and pulled to standing yesterday. Twice! 

He also has another word: ball. It sounds more like "ba" right now, but he's able to find his ball when we ask him and he says "ba" when we ask him to say "ball."

Video of Miles playing with his food after lunch a few days ago

Miles found a new way to play with the jumperoo

We went for a short walk on Friday and saw some of the damage from the trees. One of our friends lost a car window to a tree branch on Thursday.

I didn't want to walk too far because branches were still falling all over.

Bendy trees

Snow pile across from our townhome

 Cuteness alert!

Playing with his puppy. He's getting so good at being gentle with the cats, and now he gently pets his puppy and all of his other stuffed animals. So sweet!

 Reading a book

Cuddling cats

Miles crawling to me (and finding a Cheerio on the floor)...

Ice

We lost power for 22 hours. It was cold. And dark. But we survived!

We are enjoying the time together on all my snow days. I've only worked one day this week! We played with many toys, read many books, and cuddled to stay warm.

Playing on Wednesday

Check out that hair!

We went for a walk to the grocery store with Miles in the Ergo carrier. The stroller definitely wouldn't have made it through the snow.

 The milk was pretty much cleaned out on Wednesday.

 The car on Wednesday.

 The tree outside our townhome.

A picture from my run on Wednesday. It was wonderful! Miles didn't get to join me. :(

Just before the power went out yesterday.

I went on a walk during Miles's nap yesterday afternoon around our townhome complex. So much ice, so many trees down.

 The ice is at least 1/4 inch thick on the branches, if not more.

 I saw a big branch fall from one of these tall trees. I definitely hurried when walking under them!

 Too much ice for this tree.

Ice on the lights.

 The tops of the trees are too heavy to stay up.

 These branches are normally above my head. Now they're touching the ground.

We walked to Puerto Vallarta for supper. It was so busy because everybody had the same idea as us with no power. Jared helped push 2 different cars that were stuck on the way to the restaurant. Good thing we didn't attempt to drive! It took forever to get a table and our food, but it was delicious! Miles even enjoyed Jared's shredded chicken and beans and rice! He probably wouldn't have enjoyed my spicy fajitas! The ice trees looked really cool on the way to the grocery store after supper.

Pictures from our walk.

Our source of light and heat when we got home.

 Miles enjoyed crawling around in the dark.

 And playing with Simon.

I woke up this morning to the heat turning on. It was a wonderful sound!  There are still close to 300,000 without power today. Hopefully they will get it back soon too.