Sickness is in the house

Well the new year has not brought health and happiness to my house, it has brought sickness and misery. It all started with Michael just before Thanksgiving. He was sick for a couple of weeks. Just in time for him to drive to Logan to take his GRE. Not a good time for him. Then after Thankgsiving I got extremely sick. I wanted to die. I missed 4 days of work. That never happens! Then when I got over that I came down with what I thought was just a cold with a persistant cough. I started to feel better a couple of weeks ago so I thought yay we are over the sickness! Then Micah wakes up in the middle of the night screaming his head off. I went in there and he was burning up! His fever came and went for a few days and he was still pretty happy and eating pretty well so we attributed it to teething. (which he was also doing) Well New Years Eve we broke down and went to the doctor. The verdict: an ear infection in not 1 but 2 ears. Poor little guy. So we got medicine for that. He seemed to be doing better for a few days then he had a relapse. At the same time I was too. So we took him back to the doctor and they had to give him a higher dose of medicine because his ear infection was still going strong in one ear. A couple of days later I finally went in. The verdict:Sinus infection! So I got medicine for my ailments as well. I am happy to report that I am feeling much better and Micah's ear infections are gone, however his reflux is back. So we have to start with the medication AGAIN!
Needless to see we didn't ring in the New Year on a good note, but we are making the best of things. That's all you can do.
Michael starts his last semester of college as an undergrad tomorrow. That is super exciting! He has applied to severl PT Schools and we hope he gets accepted somewhere. He really doesn't have a preference as long as he gets as in somewhere. For me there are benefits to everywhere he has applied. ISU-instate tuition of course (not to mention it is the cheapest of all the programs) Washington-My best friend and my second family lives there and it would be great to be so much closer to her. I miss her dearly! New Mexico-Michael is Navajo and therefore gets instate tuition. So instead of being 100,000 in debt we'll only be 50,000. Holy Cow right! That school is expensive! We only found out about the navajo thing after he applied to the school, so that was like a huge burden off me! New Mexico has a pretty great climate and I think there would be lots of super fun stuff to do. So now we are just waiting. We won't know until February. I found out the other day he has to interview at the schools if he makes it that far. So lets be praying we get calls for interviews! I don't know who is more nervous about him getting into schools, me or him.
Our Little Man continues to grow despite is lack of eating and taking a bottle. He isn't growing at near the rate he once was. His last stats and 9 months were Head:75%, Height: 50% and Weight:25% He used to be in the 75% for weight. The doctor says it is nothing to worry about, but I still worry. Last week he did start eating more. He finally ate a whole bottle of baby food last week. He loves loves loves meat. He is like my little tiger when you feed him his meat. He growls out you if you don't feed him enough. It is hilarious! We need to get it on video. We also need to take more pictures. We aren't very good at that. That should be another one of my goals.
Because he hates being on his stomach he has yet to crawl...Normally. For the last month he sits on his bum and scoots himself across the floor. He can go anywhere he wants and he's gotten quite proficient at it. We have been coaching him and trying to get him to crawl in the traditional way. He goes about 4 crawls then rolls over and sits up. He is now more interested in pulling up on anything he can and standing. I have a feeling as soon as he figures out he can do it on his own, there will be no stopping him. For the most part when he is feeling good he is a happy good little boy for us. We wouldn't train him for anything!
I Hope everyone is enjoying their New Year! I know I am starting too, now that I feel better.
Oh Celiac I can combine running with my YW. I was going thru the book and for one of the projects it is coming up with a fitness plan! SCORE! The projects are the tough ones. They have to be a min. of 10 hours and there is one for every value instead of the 2 big projects when you are a laurel like when I was in it. So anyway. A lot of my goals can be used towards YW which is nice! I want to finish by June. So far I am off to a good start!
Stay tuned for a picture post next time!

2011

Well, 2011 is here. I have sat down and come up with my goals for the year. I tried to keep them simple and achievable, so we will see how I do. I will share them with you so you can help keep me going. I need all the encouragement and motivation possible! So here they are:

1. Attend temple monthly

2. Run (this is broad I know, but I just want to run again, I don't care how far or how fast)

3. Update blog at least 2x a month. (I used to think I couldn't post anything if I didn't have pics, but a lot of you don't always have pics. and the updates are still nice, so I shall do this too. After all what is the point of a blog if you don't update it?)

4. Finish personal progress (I am in the Young Women's and the new program is totally awesome, it was good when I was in YW, but is much better now, a lot more work, but it's worth it!)

5. and of course there is always eat better, be more healthy. I might also add self control- I can eat healthy until you put something unhealthy in front of me, then I just can't seem to stop!

Anyway, those are my goals for the year. I decided to call them goals, not resolutions because goals seem easier to achieve. I set goals all the time and I can achieve them, but rarely do I master the resolutions I set for myself at the beginning of each year. So here is to a new year! I wish everyone the best!

P.S. my next post will be a photo fest of my little man! I know you can't wait to see the updates since the last pics. I posted of him he was like 3 months old!