Eleanor - 7 Months Old

I started writing this post days ago. It's been a crazy week and I just didn't get time to finish it.

On Monday, our sweet baby Eleanor was diagnosed with RSV. You would never know she was sick by how she's acting though. She is just super snotty and had a really nasty cough. I felt silly making the appointment and even sillier going to the doctor until we got the news that she tested positive for RSV. She is on an inhaler for a couple days. They wanted to see her again on Wednesday to check on her progress. She was doing great all day Wednesday, then Wednesday night she was super fussy. She refused to eat more than an ounce or two of a bottle at a time. She fought sleep for hours. At 1am she had a fever of 100.4. The doctor had told us to bring her back if she developed a fever (since she hadn't previously had one) or got worse. Once again I felt silly making the appointment. Josh ended up taking her since I was in charge of the craft at my MOPs meeting that day. In the 24 hours since we had seen the doctor on Wednesday, Eleanor had developed a double ear infection.  She is now on antibiotics. Her cough still sounds nasty but the doctor said she may still cough for weeks. I'm afraid to say it in fear that something else will pop up but I think she is finally on the mend.

Anyways...

Another month has gone by and our sweet baby Eleanor is another month older.

She is official a crawler. She gets up on all fours and belly flops herself forward then repeats till she gets where she wants. She is really fast at it. Nothing is safe from her. Genevieve only put food in her mouth, but we have a feeling Eleanor will not be like that. We have to always watch her particularly when Genevieve is playing with toys with small parts. Genevieve so far isn't a fan of Eleanor playing with some of her toys.

Also, during this week of sickness, Eleanor has cut her first tooth. Unsure if any of her symptoms this week have been due to teething.

She loves her pacifier. We had to pick a different brand from Genevieve to prevent jealousy and confusion.  She's starting to be able to put them in herself. I hope that once she's mastered this still she will sleep longer at night.

At each doctor's appointment this week, Eleanor was weighed. She is hovering right around 16 pounds. Crazy thing is that size 3 diapers start fitting at 16 pounds. Which would mean that Genevieve and Eleanor would wear the same size diaper. Although we could probably move Genevieve up to size 4.