Noah's 3rd Wedding - and 4th ear infection! :-)

First an update on the health.... Noah's croup cold turned into (surprise!) another ear infection. We went back to the doc because the fever wasn't going away and we actually suspected another ear infection because he was fussy when laying on one particular side. The doctor confirmed and got him back on antibiotics - this time they put us right on the one that worked last time, so hopefully it will knock it out. That night, we noticed crusty stuff around his ear, too. Turns out his eardrum burst. It sounds really bad but apparently it's no big deal. In fact, I think it made him feel a lot better and that night he slept all night for the first time since the croup attack. He seems to be feeling much better now, so hopefully those antibiotics are working! We'll see for sure at his 9 month checkup in about a week and a half.

More developmental milestones... We definitely have an army crawl going on. He's been barely inching like that for a while but he's now using his arms a lot and moving pretty quickly. He still rolls a lot to get where he wants to go but it's to the point now where we can't leave him alone for any time at all because he can get places quick. Time to start babyproofing! He's also doing really well standing while holding onto something but not cruising yet. I bet it won't be long and he'll start doing it all at once. Then we'll wonder why we wanted him to be mobile! :-)

Noah officially has another uncle now! Andrea and Sean were married on Friday. It was the absolute perfect day... 80 degrees and sunny. We went out to lunch and then went back to their house where they had a small ceremony in their backyard with a champagne toast afterwards. Everyone went home to relax a bit and freshen up and then came back for a party at their house that night. It was such a personal wedding and so special. Noah was great sport even though he'd only napped for about 30 mintues that morning. I was worried he was going to crash right at 2:00 (the time of the wedding) but he was the perfect angel the whole time and happy and quiet during the ceremony. He of course fell asleep once we got in the car to go home around 3:30. We had Miss Heather (one of his 'teachers' at daycare) come babysit that night so we could go back to the party. Noah was excited to see her and we felt comfortable leaving him with her because he's already with her 3 days a week.

I didn't take too many pictures because there was a photographer at the wedding but here are some pictures from the beautiful day!

Congratulations, Andrea and Sean!

This was the night before the wedding, when Noah was trying to decide which suit to wear to the wedding. He decided not to go with the birthday suit... although Waylon and I disagreed.

The happy couple

At lunch before the wedding

Noah with the beautiful bride