Reflections and RSV

 After a week of illness at our house, we're finally starting to pull ourselves out. It's a nice feeling.

Some highlights from an otherwise hard week:

Andrew won an honorable mention at the district Reflections for his 3D sculpture of Oliver. Since there was only a winner and an HM for each category this time (and the district stretches some 40 miles north of us), I thought this was pretty good. He looks thrilled, doesn't he? He was more excited about the brownie he got after the fact than he was about the award. But Bubby (Bubby took the picture) both enjoyed seeing him get his award.

Here are my belated 8 month pictures of our baby. He actually hit this milestone last Friday, but we were out of town--and then everyone got sick, including Oliver. I took him in to the doctor again on Thursday when he wasn't getting any better (actually he was worse), and he tested positive for RSV. This meant that not only has he been pretty sick--but we couldn't go north this weekend to see my youngest brother and his family (whom we haven't seen for 2 years), since, of course, that would mean exposing their baby to the virus too. After two different nasal suctions at the respiratory clinic at the hospital, Oliver finally seems to be doing better. Thankfully.

At eight months, here's what Oliver can't do: crawl, get up on his hands and knees, sit up unaided.

(Of course, since he's not quite six months old developmentally, we're not too worried). What he can do: sit up with help, find his toes when he's laying on his back (sometimes), giggle, roll over, smile. For as sick as he was all week, he was amazingly good humored (all the doctors he saw commented on it).

 Apparently he's also good at staring at the camera.

Things were pretty much life as usual for Evelyn, but she did look pretty today in her church duds. She's such a sweet little girl--the best of her mom and dad combined.