Pickle

Photo is Gerard trying his first pickle. He liked it!
Today we're home with hand, foot and mouth disease. What a way to mark the 15th month! We thought this would be the week without doctors, but no such luck. It sounds awful, but is a very common and highly contagious virus. Seems infants and children get it. Of course, the doctors blame the daycare and the daycare blames the frequent visits to the hospital. Who knows? It is what it is. His hands and feet have the rash/bumps, but his mouth was spared except for the very back where he swallows. He's got very large tonsils, so I know that can't help matters. Luckily, he seems happy enough even through the itching. This has flared his eczema on top of that. All I can say is, it's snowing, so not such a bad day to stay at home and try to get work done.

Pretty blue eyes

What more is there to say?

Nothing to do with anything

Just a pretty picture to document that we actually made it up the canyon once this year! This is at Deer Valley two weeks ago.

Almost clear...

We had a very good day until the night feeding...then another massive vomiting session - all over Michael, the chair, the floor, and a trail to the bathroom floor where he continued vomiting. I wish I knew what was going on with this! It's horrible. His weight has dropped to 20 lbs. 10 oz. from 21 lbs. 4 oz. on the 23rd.
Yesterday we had a great day of driving up to Deer Valley to see Michael ski a little. Will post pics when I have time. I'm pretty wiped out from not sleeping for a week.
Today marks a year the little man has been home, and that is a good feeling! He's almost standing on his own now - trying really hard, anyway. He's come leaps and bounds this month developmentally, even with all the vomiting and diarreah.