Cruising, Boogers & Residency Match Day

How's that for a random blog post title?

It's been a busy week for us here in the Pickett household. Sunday night around 2am Caleb woke up with a terribly congested nose and lots of snot. Bryan and I were up for quite awhile trying to help him breathe again using saline drops and doing lots of singing, rocking and walking around. He seemed to feel better during the day but by Monday we decided to call the pediatrician for advice on what to give him (benadryl). By this morning Caleb had developed a cough that warranted his first "sick child appointment" to the pediatrician.

We have been blessed to have a healthy baby for the 5 months he has been with us. Today actually marks exactly 5 months since we set foot in the USA with our precious boy, and he's been getting stronger and more resilient ever since! At our sick child visit today our pediatrician suggested some cough medicine and told us just how much he needed. Giving a baby cough or cold medicine makes me nervous so I was glad to rely on her expertise! We are already seeing improvement in how Caleb is doing although he's not 100% yet. Luckily he just has a cold -- no signs of infection or fever -- so hopefully he will make a quick recovery! Being the dorky mom that I am, I had to take a picture of the first time he was sick. Poor baby! I will be glad when he reaches the age where he understands how to blow his nose!

We've been working with Caleb on cruising along furniture and sitting on his new riding toy. Caleb is much more interested in messing with the buttons on his riding toy than he is in actually riding it! :) We have found that Caleb is most motivated to army crawl or cruise along the furniture if he is going after a soccer ball! I've included some pictures below of both activities.

Tomorrow at 11am we will find out where Bryan has matched for his residency training in Emergency Medicine. He went on 12 interviews across the US this fall/winter and ranked the programs according to his preference. We know for sure that he got into a program.... we just don't know where! Although we have a strong preference to stay in Temple at Scott & White we trust that God's plan for our future will bring us great joy and hope. We're excited to see where He is taking us next! I'll be sure to post an update here as soon as I'm home from the Match Day festivities.