The week Serif turned 3 Months

So there's been a lot going on this past week since Serif's turned 3 months. We did our first road trip to Cincinnati this past weekend and he did great! He stayed pretty content the entire trip and also slept through the night just as if he were here at home. We got to stay with Jeff's Aunt Marilyn and Uncle Kenny while we were up and also got to see Mike, Shelly, Mark, Holly & kids. Friday night we saw the Pattersons, this really great family we got to know from our old church in Cincy. It's tough to catch up 3 years of lost time in 3 hours! It was GREAT to see them though and at least catch up a little. Then Saturday we did the tattoo thing (see other post) and went to see Mary, Eric and Ella (Mary and Ella with Serif in above photo). How CUTE is Ella!?! I met Mary at our church in Cincinnati and she has become my closest, dearest and best friend! I miss her dearly! We also got to hang out and have dinner with her folks, John, Valerie and Sam. Valerie has been otherwise known as our Cincinnati Mom. Since both Jeff and my moms are gone I have decided to have Valerie be Serif's Grandma. She's a great one! Too bad we're not closer to spend more time with everyone. I guess it's just more excuses for us to keep making the trips up. We enjoy them so much! Here's Grandma Valerie and her son Sam holding Serif.This has also been the week that I've started back to work a couple days a week and Serif's full days at daycare. He's such a trooper. He's done really well adusting to the new routine, but is having to get use to all the noise daycare brings. He's only use to Helmut and Bingo noises, not to be discounted as low key noise by any means . . . just different I guess. Apparently he's had a bit of trouble sleeping in daycare because of that, but otherwise doing well.

It's been easier than expected going back to work. They're keeping me very busy which is a great thing to keep me focused. It certainly makes the days go quicker and I'm ready to go get Serif by 4:00! The evenings are short on those days and will take some adjusting since I'm use to having him all day long, but that will come with time. I'm so busy at work that I may work more than my 2 days next week to help meet a deadline that is quickly approaching. I feel guilty not being there when they're that busy! I brought a laptop home with me for the weekend, but I'm not too sure if I'll actually get much done.

When I got back to my desk after a luncheon on Tuesday there was a bouquet of flowers next to my computer with a card from Serif. He's so sweet to send Momma flowers!!! He even wrote me a little card!
The other new thing this week is Serif's first cold. He began coughing last week and we noticed it even more on Sunday. When we picked him up from daycare on Tuesday he had the watery eyes, runny nose and cough. Poor guy just looked beat. He slept practically all day Wednesday and has just seemed a bit under the weather. Then yesterday by the end of my work day I started with the sore throat. Great. I guess we just go through it together.

As content and good as Serif seems to be, today has been the first day that I have been unable to console him very well. Since 1:00 this afternoon he's been fussing/crying practically nonstop (It's 4:00 now). He took a nap in my arms around 2:00 because he just wouldn't calm down any other way. At 3:00 I tried to feed him (1 hour late) and he's just not really wanting to eat. I've got a call in to the doctor to find out what else to do. I just gave him some Tylenol so hopefully that will do the trick. His temperature was 99.4 so not quite high enough to see the doc. They like it to be above 100 before coming in. The nurse is talking to the doctor now and will call me back on what to do (bring him in or offer solutions). I'll update the post when I find out. Hey, wait a minute, I think he's calming down in his crib and going to sleep. I've not heard a peep in about 10 minutes now. Shhhhhheeeeew!

So before 1:00 today, he's been his normal self. Here are a few photos taken from this morning. We did a bath early this morning and then he sat in the bouncer in the bathroom while I showered. The nurse said the steam would be good for congestion. He seemed to like it because he took a really great long nap! These little booties having cute little flying pigs on them. Our friend Katie got him those and they finally fit!Here he is looking all big and stuff. I think I've decided to start taking more photos in the glider because it's really showing his scale well. Mary made him the blanket on the back of the glider and the shirt is from Mary and Valerie. So cute! They also made him some really cute burp cloths and a little photo album that matches the blanket. It's so sweet and so special! Thanks guys!!! Everything's been SO perfect! He just keeps getting bigger and bigger!