More Smiles!

Jake & his sis Caty, holding each others' sons!

First 3 pix by Heather Neckers, Rachel Lusky, and Amanda Bunnel Kifer

Every other day or so I do a workout with the TV, well Diella & Ethan join me, and its cute to see him watchin me… all that movement, I’m sure he loves it!

He’s been smiling so much more! Even if he’s sitting for a lil while without me right there, when I come back, Oh that smile is So big! I Love the feeling that he knows my face & is glad that I’m there with him!!!

He’s been sleeping better! Usually about 6 hours, then wake to eat, then right back to sleep for another 3-4 hours! Sometimes that first stretch is only 5 hours, but once or twice he went 7 hours! Including the trip down to VA, didn’t wake up once! J

Poor Ethan… the kid is a mess… about 3 weeks back, he’s diagnosed with a lil bit of thrush (doc says we caught it early, so he cant give it to anyone else, and its only a lil big)… but so he’s taking medicine for that … and he had Sebborhea (sp?) on his face, which we got rid of with only 3 applications of the cream the doc gave us.. but now he’s got it all over his belly & arms… luckily we know it’ll be gone in 3 days… but Then last week he goes in for shots, poor guy, which he actually did Really well with… screamed as they shot them in, but calmed very quickly after! The doc also gave him and iron supplement to take once a day, I dunno why… and THEN last Friday, we were in VA, and I noticed some yellow on his foot, so I wiped it away, thinking it was poop, and he yelled! So I looked at it, and it wasn’t poop, it was yellow crusty puss from an infection! His 4th toe was swollen, red, and the under side was cute & very open and raw looking, so we had no clue what or how, so we took him to the ER. Turns out one of my long blonde hairs had gotten wrapped around his lil toe, 2 toes actually, jus worse on one toe than the other, and wrapped so tight til it was cutting of circulation! I think they called it a hair tourniquet? So, what I thought was totally a freak accident, turns out they said it’s actually quite common! The nurse said it was the 3rd one she’s seen! Crazy! So they just took it off (took a long time, cuz the hair is blonde & thin, so hard to see & kept breaking… and on a tiny toe, and wrapped around so many times, sigh*) … and gave him an antibiotic for it… what a day! So he’s now taking antibiotic 3 times a day for a week, is still on the medicine for thrush for a few more days, FOUR times a day, then the iron thing once a day… poor guy! None of that medicine can taste very good, ew! But he’s dealing fine! Doesn’t cry about it, takes his medicine like a champ! Soon it will all be over!


Ok, and we found this thing that Ethan loves! Makes him smile (almost) every time! All I do is take his hands & clap them together & say “doot dee doot dee doot” over & over, and he just lights up! He thinks it’s the funnest game! (yes, funnest) Ah, the simple things J Babies are awesome!