Valentines Virus

We've had an eventful past week filled with lots of congestion and coughing. Mattie has not been feeling very good so we took her to the doctor on Friday. She had a little fever earlier that day and had not been able to shake the coughing and wheezing. Turns out she has RSV (a respiratory virus) and we are keeping her home until tuesday. We are grateful that George has presidents day off on Monday so he can stay home with her. We've been giving her breathing treatments every four hours as well as an oral steroid. We can tell it is already helping. Mattie has handled all of this pretty well. She's still sleeping good at night but it has disrupted her daytime napping, (I'll take the nighttime sleep over naps any day!) :)

In a couple of weeks our little pumpkin will be eight months old! It's hard to believe how big she's getting. She is almost crawling and sits up completely on her own. This morning George was holding her in a standing position and she took a couple of steps! We were both so excited. She loves to eat and her favorite foods are bananas, yogurt, peaches, sweet potatoes and avocado. I've been having fun trying new foods with her. Last week I made some homeade carrots and apples with a little cinnamon. She loved it!

She is still saying "da-da" all the time but has started saying "ma-ma" too. :) she loves to talk and interact and is always making some kind of new noise. We just love this girl!

Here are some pics from her breathing treatments and some others from the past few weeks: