Well, as the title of my post states...this is no fun...Beau officially has his first cold. :( A few days ago, he started having a very dry little cough. He only coughed every once in a while, and at first I couldn't even tell it was a cough. Then the next day it became more frequent and more likea true cough. I watched it for the day, and of course it continued. That night while I was getting Beau into his pajamas, he let out a huge sneeze. I looked up to see that he had sneezed out a whole lot of green snot everywhere. Once we were facing both the cough and the snot, I wanted to go ahead and take Beau to his pediatrician.
So Saturday morning (really early!) we headed up to the pedi to be there for his walk-in hours. When we got there, of course Beau was asleep, so I figured he wouldn't "perform" for the Dr. so he could hear Beau's cough. Thankfully once we got back to the room, Beau woke up and let the Dr. check him out. He listened to his lungs and they were clear, Good! He looked in his ears, clear, Good! He did the poor little tongue depresser to look in his throat and he said that it looked good too. Official diagnosis: a cold in his nose. He said that it can sometimes cause ear infections, but that it looked alright for now. We are now using saline nose drops at every diaper change, sleeping with the humidifier, and he gave us a prescription for a baby version of Nyquil. We don't have to use it if we don't want to, it's just for if it starts making it hard for Beau to sleep, which thankfully hasn't been the case as of yet.
Also, while the Dr. was trying to look in Beau's ears, Beau really faught him to turn his head to the right. I have noticed that he favors turning his head to the left, he can turn it to the right he simply chooses not to. The Dr. made reference to him fighting him to turn to the right so I just went ahead and asked about it. Dr. M felt over Beau's neck and sure enough, he said that Mr. Beau has torticollis...insert sad face here! You can read more about it
here. Apparently it's very common, and Dr. M wants us to go see a physical therapist this next week so we can learn some exercises that we will do to correct it. I'm sad about it, but I'm glad that we caught it early and it's totally correctable with exercises.
So mostly we are just being lazy and trying to kick this cough and snotty nose! Kolby's back to work this week/weekend and so it's just Mr. Beau and me at the house all day. Getting some extra loving on my little man. Oh, and we are trying to start putting Beau in his crib for all of his naps, it's going okay, sometimes he does great, and sometimes not...We'll just keep working on it!
Me and Beau Beau
Beau with Uncle Keifer
Daddy and Beau
This weekend I babysat "Z" for a couple of hours so Beau got to spend some more quality time with his little lady!
Nana and Brayden naming all the animals
Nana and Alexis
Me and Alexis taking a break from all the walking
Doing some target practice
Beau rockin' his Daddy's hat
Beau with Aunt Ashley
On to the Dallas World Aquarium!
Jellies
Sea urchins
Nemo was hiding! LOL
Beau looking at all the fishies!
My baby boy and me
James, Ashley, and the kiddos in the shark tunnel during feeding time
A giant sea turtle
Nana and Beau 
The penguins!!! They are so cute!
My mom wanted a picture with all of her grandchildren...needless to say, it didn't go well! This is the best shot we got...sad right?! I'm glad to say that at least one child cooperated!
A boy and his dog
Lots of snoozing!
Quality time with Mommy (looking through my pictures, I can already see that I will be the mom who's always behind the camera and in none of the pictures, so I'm forced to take our self portraits so that I can some pictures of my baby and me! Plus, I may have had nothing better to do at this time! :))
Beau got to meet one of my best friends from high school, Kristi, who has now moved close to us to go to school!
More sleeping!
And always we can't forget about the girlies of our household! Our sweet baby
I got a shoulder sling...we still aren't too sure about it...
I am loving this stage! Beau is definitely discovering how to work his facial muscles! We get so many funny expressions from his these days, he's always making us smile! These next pictures were all in one sitting and these are just a few of my favorites!
We got to meet Miss Caroline, we went over to her and Matt's house for supper.
I had my 6 week post partum appointment with my OB and she got to meet Mr. Beau!
Chilling in my crib, sticking my tongue out at Mom and Dad
Just looking too cute for words
Riding Moe Moe!
