The Emrick Braden Sorensen Quarterly Report: Year 2, Quarter 1

It’s December 16th, which means Pookie is 15 months (1.25 years) old today.

He is also, unfortunately, sick.

Emrick in his highchair this morning, uninterested in his Cheerios.

He first started acting weird on Tuesday morning, but it was Wednesday before it became obvious that he had a cold starting up. His sleep has been verrrrrrrrrrrrry rough the past two nights.

I tried to coax a smile out of Pookie but this is as good as I could get.

A second attempt at getting a smile yields a similar result.

Anyway, when I say his sleep has been “rough” I mean that he wakes up every 15 to 30 minutes crying and/or coughing. You know how it is when you get a cold. It can be hard to breathe when you’re lying down, and therefore hard to get comfortable or sleep. At one point on Wednesday night, I pulled him from his crib and held him upright in my arms while sitting in the nursery glider. It helped for a few minutes, until he started squirming and crying again.

When Pookie has a rough night, I do too. Normally Marcus and I trade off the middle-of-the-night Pookie tending because on typical nights, Emrick only wakes up twice. Sometimes he doesn’t wake up at all for 12 solid hours, and sometimes he wakes only once. But when he’s sick, he wakes and cries literally dozens of times. And since Marcus has to go to work in the morning, and be alert for a half-hour commute, I take on the baby by myself. And you know what THAT means: it means I look just as scowly as Pookie does today! Roar.

Fortunately, this is only the second time that Pookie has had a cold that disrupted his sleep so badly (only his second real cold at all, actually).

Pookie in Daddy's arms last night. Emrick is mostly ok during the day, but in the evening his cold really makes him miserable.

Emrick weighs 22 pounds and is just over 28.5 inches long (I measured by laying him on the coffee table and making marks with washable crayon).

He is beautiful.

Here are some happier pics from a day or two before he got sick:

Pookie shows off his standing/balance skills. Until very recently, he usually hung onto something to stand up and stood by himself only rarely. Now he does it all the time. Yay Pooks!

P.S. We haven’t made a decision on the map yet, and I haven’t thought about it all in the past couple of days, what with my nearly total lack of sleep for the past two nights and all. We’ll definitely decide next week, though! Thanks for everyone’s feedback and pointing out things to consider.