Catching Up

Hello again, it's been a long time since we last posted anything and well we've been pretty busy and sick. Those "colds" were actually symptoms from Julian's ear infections that he had for 4 straight months. Julian is finally feeling better!!! He took too many antibiotics, had high fevers, developed bronchiolitis and got an stronger antibiotic in a shot before the ear specialist decided to put ear tubes in. Almost two weeks after his quick surgery, the congestion, cough and runny nose has ended (relived mom). We stayed low during that time, not too much went by.


Julian did such a great job!! I was so worried that he was going to have a fit the morning of his surgery as he loves his milk. But he was easily distracted as he normaly is with the lighting, couches, toys and of course bubbles. And as a true Child Life Specialist mommie I had Julian try on and play with the anesthesia mask and he did good. I wasn't even nervous of the surgery as I was more worried about him getting upset over not eating. We got there at 6:30am, got him in his hospital pj's, took his vitals, played a little bit and by 8:40am he was in surgery. I got to go in until he fell asleep. He did cry a little after the anesthesia started but he quickly fell asleep and started snoring right away. I gave him his kiss and went out to wait in the lobby. At about 9am, I was called to recovery where he was crying waiting for mommie to feed him. We were out of the hospital a little before 10am on our way home. Once home Julian napped for almost 3 hours.

We hardly went anywhere during the 4 months of Julian's illness because he had constant runny nose. I kept thinking it was a cold so therefore I didnt not want to have other kids exposed to it. This one time we made an exception, he was looking a little better so we went to Universal Studios and as you can see by the way he was dressed I was still being an over protective mother and made sure he was all warm.
Then when he started taking antibiotics we decided to take him on his first trip to the park. He was not too thrilled about the swing so not too many pictures of that. But he sure did love the slide, ducks and scaring away the pigeons. He also has so much love towards his big cousin Chuy and enjoys playing with him.




Julian now has 8 teeth, started to pull himself up and walk around holding on at 10 months. Little by little he figured out how to get to different parts of the house by holding on to furniture, toys, people's legs, and of course crawling super fast.

At 11 months he started to show more confidence and two weeks before his birthday he decided he was a big boy and started walking on his own. Now we are on our toes constantly keeping our eye on our toddler. He still hasn't said any words although he babbles a lot so I'm curious to hear what will be his first word. A few weeks back I thought I heard momma but it was in this form momamamam....and he only said it once so not too sure if that meant momma.

Here's a picture with all of his cousins except Chuy. Just the other day Lalo told me "tia, julian is the best cousing and I love him very much" and I love lalo too :)

Ismael bought me a cool camera for my birthday and well its kind of hard to pick my favorite pictures from one pose so I did my best.



Sometime in the near future I will post all about Julian's one year and I will try to make one before his next year ..lol ok within the next two weeks :)