A pictureless post...

What? You mean I can do that? Yes, this post will contain no photographs of my little ham. Kaden is in his bed working his way to sleep as I type this post. Daddy, Kaden and I all enjoyed a nice trip to the pediatricians office this afternoon. Kaden has been pulling on his ear for a few days now and this morning and today (all day) he has been fussy and irritable. Which is NOT my baby, so I knew he didn't feel good and it either had to be his ears or teething, which he still has no signs of a tooth but acts like he is working on a tooth non-stop. Sure enough, Mom's intuitions were right, the doctor confirmed that he has a little ear infection in both ears. She said it wasn't really bad yet, and we are taking amoxicillin again for 10 days because it worked for his first ear infection a couple months ago.

Plus, we are going to Arkansas this weekend camping with my family and we don't want to have fever and ear aches on our trip. We will be gone Friday through Sunday nights, and we are looking forward to it. We are taking the bikes and planning to hike the trails as well. Fun..fun! My Mom and Step-Dad as well as my two brothers and their families are going. Should be some quality family time.

Lance & I have enjoyed this month of July so far, primarily because Lance has been home with us and I'm off work too! However, we are both without a job at the moment and have about another month to find us both jobs before things get very bad for us financially. We are both looking everyday.

We are LOVING being here, at home, with Kaden. He is just precious and we laugh at him (and with him) all day long. He has brought so much joy to our hearts. We have also been working on the house. We had bought two five gallon buckets of paint last summer at Lowe's to do the interior of our house with. Well, we got the ceilings painted in the whole house first. Second, we painted the hallway and living room. That's as far as we've gotten. I have lots of wallpaper to strip in the kitchen and master bathroom, then texture and painting to do in those rooms. One room at a time! We just got new appliances in the kitchen and I put up a new back splash in the kitchen the other day.

Kaden weighed 19 pounds and 12 ounces today at the doctor, he is in size 3 diapers and 6-9 month clothes. He is enjoying his baby food, we still have 4-5 6oz. bottles per day with 2 Tbl.spoons baby food twice daily. We have also been doing 1oz. water and 1oz. juice mixed each day practicing drinking for two days now. He likes to drink from his cup. He is such a good eater and loves all these things so far: rice cereal, peas, sweet potatoes, applesauce, squash, peaches, carrots. I'm thinking of trying avocados with him soon! He is sitting up alone, but still needs some support or to be catch every few seconds. But, he is getting stronger and better each day. He is a rolling machine and rolls all the time when we lay him down. Don't leave him on a pallet and expect him to be in the same spot in 1 minute. He'll be completely off the pallet and halfway across the room! We are enjoying his new discoveries each day and his latest thing is to FAKE cough to get your attention. It is TOO CUTE!