I’m awash with guilt for not updating more frequently  Not to give myself an out, but do you think that the lack of updating means lack of eventful things that require an outlet for venting/frustration/wooooo?  That said, why would I use this blog only to talk about the negative?  These type of existential and meaningful questions will never fully be answered because I’m too tired to really delve into them;  but know that I have guilt and I lay awake at night thinking about things to blog about to keep this place “hip”.

Speaking of laying awake at night….is there anything more frustrating than knowing you need sleep and that you haven’t slept well since the third trimester of your pregnancy and the house being perfectly still and peaceful but you’re tossing and turning worrying about what to blog about?  Okay, I don’t really worry about what to blog about but it definitely crossed my mind last night at 2:44am (which is the moment I remember checking my clock–a fatal flaw in the world of trying to get back to sleep).  Bjorn is finally sleeping in these fantastic long stretches after a week of being sick and waking up every two hours with fitful coughs and he’s snug as a bug as a rug in the other room and I’m just lying awake, staring at the ceiling.  Seriously, can’t a person catch a break?!

And, you know, I think I did catch a break…because this kid is amazing.  He blows me away every single day with his development and his charm and his smiles (oh, his smiles!) and his bbbbbb bbbbbbb bbbbbb noises.  I want to bottle him up right now.  I want to keep this babe and shelter him from everything but want him to experience anything his heart desires at the same time.  We have entered this sweet stage of cuddles and laughs and I’ll have to look back on this blog entry when he’s a surly teenager to remind myself of the sweetness I felt at six and a half months.  Judge for yourself.

Attack of the Giggles from Megan Jensen on Vimeo.

I guess the major thing that’s happened to us over the past couple of weeks is that Bjorn has gotten his first real “illness” that required a sick visit to the doctor.  He had been coughing a little bit ever since our trip out to San Diego for Christmas and it just kept getting progressively worse.  Finally, it got to the point where he couldn’t keep anything in his bottle down because whenever we tried to burp him he channeled Linda Blair and we’d end up with a onesie full of spit-up.  My mom, who was thankfully around to watch him for his first real sick week so we didn’t have to technically pull him from daycare, recommended a trip to the pediatrician where we found out he has bronchiolitis–which you can’t take anything for if you’re just a little baby!  He’s really handicapped, also, by the fact that he can’t blow his nose.  Oh these simple things we take for granted! They did try a nebulizer on him (oh, the horror!) but turned out to be a crapshoot, too. He was also diagnosed with ear infections in BOTH ears.  Poor guy.  So he’s on the bubble gum antibiotics (aka amoxicillin) and took it easy for a couple of days with my mom.  We’re still giving him the antiobiotics but he is really making a fantastic turnaround on the bronchiolitis.  Poor little guy.  Man it must suck to be sick when you’re a baby.

And, as previously mentioned, we had our routine guest from San Diego, Bjorn’s Nonni.  Oh, how we ate, read, took naps and left the house without worrying about the little guy.  It was great and we hope she comes back with Bjorn’s newly retired Nonno very soon! There is much to do in the Great Lakes, Great Times state.

So that’s the crux of the matter—I guess there’s always something exciting to write about with baby’s and even in routines there are little nuances that I should try and get better at capturing in writing or photographs.  He’s already such a chub!  We look at pictures of his chicken legs and chicken arms and scrunchy little bjorny face the first weeks of his life and I can’t believe this little plumpy in front of me is the same little boy.  In the words of Lars (yes, Lars!),  “what a cutie!”.

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