The adventures of Joshua Alexander Cobb: November 2010

November has been a rough month for us. I will hit the highlights for you.

Josh was sick with a viral illness that had no symptoms other than an occasional fever (up to 103.7), poor appetite and poor drinking. After 4 visits to our pediatrician in 2 weeks, he ended up admitted to the hospital overnight for IV fluids. Within hours of starting the IV fluids he perked up, started drinking and was a much happier baby by the next morning.
Granddad (Mommy's Dad) came for a visit and some test at the VA, had a heart attack while he was here. Granddad and Josh got to be in the hospital at the same time and discharged the same day. After going home on Saturday, he had a major heart attack the next day in Jacksonville. Three days later he had double bypass surgery. Granddad is now staying with us while he recovers from his surgery. We are enjoying having him here with us and he is making good progress
After Josh got over his two week illness, Daddy developed strep throat an took 3 visits to the doctor and two weeks to get over it.
Josh then developed rota virus and we spent quite a few days cleaning up poops and doing lots of laundry.

So after all of that, we are all healthy and are thankful that Mommy was able to stay healthy through all of this.

Josh is doing well with his physical and occupational therapy. He is making rapid progress with his eating and is now eating only table food. We think he could eat just about anything, if it weren't for the limiting factor of not having any teeth. Josh is now doing an army crawl on his belly and getting quite good at going backwards. He is learning quickly how to balance his weight and move his arms and legs reciprocally. We think he will be hand and knees crawling in the next few weeks. He is making rapid progress in his strengthening exercises. He does have some tight muscles in his thighs, but we are working to stretch those muscles out everyday.

Josh got to experience his first time doing Black Friday shopping this year. He shopped like a champ!!! He had a good time watching people and didn't fuss once while we were out. We are amazed at what a happy little guy he is. He rarely fusses unless he is tired and is quite content to go with us and do whatever we are doing. We are truly blessed!!

We are aware that the big boy is going to be one year old in just two short days! We are thankful and amazed that he had reached this milestone. We had no idea this time last year that we would be parents in such a short period of time. Amazing the difference a year can make!