Halloween, the ER and more...

Baby Monkey in its holding cell

Filipino monkey trainer with his baby monkey

I am behind on blogging- and pretty much everything else. I started working full time again at the beginning of October. We are doing well but it takes some juggling of schedules and help from others to make it work. Thankfully Ross has some days off from school and my schedule is flexible. The first few weeks were rough as I was getting used to the long crazy 12 hour shifts plus my 24 hour shifts as a mom. Plus Marcus had a cold and then his reflux started acting up again so he wasn't sleeping at night anymore. But we have him on a new medication and he has been a happy boy again. And he is even getting more friendly with new people. He actually let a "stranger" hold him during relief society and he was laughing and talking- or squealing I should say- with her. It is so nice that he has grown out of so many of the painful things that were bothering him as a newborn and he is just a happy guy nowadays. He loves to make sounds and grab everything he can. He has lots of cute toys but of course his favorite is paper. He loves to rip the paper and chew on it. He is figuring out how to roll all around so any day now I am going to put him down and find him on the other side of the room. That means childproofing is next on my list of things to do.

I had to work on Halloween but Ross took Marcus to the Stake party. He was dressed as a little monkey. I will have Ross post pictures. He was very cute. He even got a little sticker for cutest costume- although he ate most of the sticker so I only have a little piece left for his baby book. He started eating cereal and has moved on to a few different fruits and is doing well. He makes the funniest faces sometimes with the new tastes but he is a pro at eating now. I can't believe he is going to be 6 months soon! I feel like I deserve an award for surviving those first few colicky months. Ross too since I wouldn't have made it without him. I am really enjoying the age that Marcus is and don't want him to grow too fast!

Ross is doing well in school and almost done with the semester. Then one more semester and he is done! We are waiting to see where he will do his preceptorship for the last semester. I had a week long neuro refresher class at work. I enjoyed the learning although it meant 4 straight days away from Marcus which was hard. And then on friday AM I work up with the worst headache I have ever had in my life. Plus I was nauseated and throwing up. I was scared about what was going on. I tried to see my doctor but he was not in the office so they sent me to urgent care who then sent me to the emergency room. I have never been a patient there before so that was interesting. I had labs and a head CT plus a lumbar puncture which wasn't so fun. But everything ruled out so I wasn't having a bleed or anything. But I still don't know what caused the headache. It took a couple rounds of drugs in the ER to get rid of the pain and nausea. And wiped me out the whole next day. They were thinking maybe it was a migraine. I never get headaches. I guess having a baby changed my body or something. It really has been a tough year for me in regards to health.

So that is the news here. I will see if Ross can post the video we took of Marcus eating cereal for the first time. And some other cute pictures of him.

YouTube Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfW_DWaWkz8