Abigail pictures

LONG OVER DUE I know! Abigail is 5 months old today! She is about 14lbs 10 oz. and I am not sure how long. She is still nursing, but gets solid food everyday around 6pm. I am making most of her food and sometimes give her store bought. We are cloth diapering at home 90% of the time.She can roll in both directions. She interacts with toys, people, the cat and anything else she sees. She is almost crawling and we predict she will be fully crawling by Thanksgiving. She is very happy and spoiled.
Luke is so good with her and so are the other boys. It is so fun having a girl in the house. She is definately the baby! She gets held a lot and loved on by everyone. We are going to have to put up the baby gates again soon, so that she stays in one room. It seems like we just took them down. We will also be transistioning her into her room soon. She has been in our room since birth. She will share a room with Luke. I am a little anxious of this transisition and not sure how either her or Luke are going to handle it. I will let you all know how it goes!

FYI

People have been asking for pictures and I would love to comply. However, our computer is on the frits and I cannot upload pictures right now. Just thought I would let you all know that!

Sickness

A horrible sickness plagued our home this last week! It started on Thursday with Nathan suffering flu like symptoms. Then on Friday Alex was not feeling well and threw up that evening. By Saturday Luke and Abby were coughing and Abby had a fever. Sunday it hit Lloyd and he ended up calling in sick on Monday. I am the only one who did not get it. Abby and Lloyd are still fighting it and the rest of the family seems to be doing better. I hate that Abby has it because she is miserable. She sounds hoarse from coughing and I keep having to suck her nose so she can breath. I took her to the doctor and he says it is just a cold and she should be better in a week! That seems like an eternity to me! He also said not to give her medicine because it does not make the cold go away it just makes her feel better! Well DUH! Isn't that the whole idea is to make her feel better. I have been giving her little bits of cough medicine when I feel she is really needing it, but I try not to give her to much. With this sickness has come new challenges with Luke. He is not eating much these days. I would say he gets 95% of his calories from drinking milk. I am trying to put a stop to this, but it is hard when that is all he wants. To get him to eat these last few days we are having to treat him like a baby. Even then we can only get him to take about 3-5 bites. It is very frustrating! I know this shall pass and prays it does so quickly! On a side note, Nathan got a position on the Freshmen football team and is working hard to stay with it. He has practice everyday after school and does not get home until after 6pm. I wish Alex would find an extra curricular activity to put all his energy into!