Natalie turned 10 months old on Monday and was kind of lucky to spend the whole day with Mom! Unfortunately, Mom was home taking care of her because she was sick with a cough and pretty high fever. Things started on Sunday (Father’s Day) and we took her to get checked out when her mild fever jumped up to 101.3. She was diagnosed with Croup, and had to stay home till she was fever free.
I was unfortunately out on a work trip Monday to Wednesday, so Marissa was on her own taking care of a cranky baby who didn’t want to take medicine, and didn’t really sleep well. We’re all lucky to have such an awesome Mom to keep things running through thick and thin.
Thankfully by Tuesday and Wednesday, the medicine was helping out with the fever, so Natalie was in a better mood. While she still has a lingering cough, the fever is gone, and she is in a much better mood.
Month 9 involved a lazy Memorial Day weekend, a camping trip to Vermont, a recovery weekend after camping, and a couple of work trips for Dad.
Natalie started taking some steps unassisted. Many of them are more like controlled falling, but some times she does really well at standing or taking a few steps. More often than not she seems more interested in crawling to get where she’s going, but we think she’s going to change her mind soon.
Of course the photos are here as well, but in a slightly different format than before. Hopefully this makes it easier for me put albums together and send more photos out! We also discovered that when shoot a burst of photos, you capture all sorts of Natalie expressions that are hard to capture intentionally. Enjoy!
