Yes, Jonah… Dad lounges in bed all the live-long day

Jonah’s nasty diaper rash is finally clearing – we finally figured out he was having a reaction to the lactose in the formula, which is odd, because he was on this exact same formula a month ago with no problems. So he is on lactose-free formula and the diarrhea is decreasing each day. One part of his rash was actually raw – that’s how bad it got. We couldn’t even use wipes because he would scream – we had to use kleenxes. May we never experience that again!

It looks like Benjamin is just about over the GERD / reflux. The only remnant is a tendency to throw up when he chokes even slightly. He is down to 7.5 mg of Prevacid in the morning…. We plan to stop giving him Prevacid altogether in a week or two.

And he is turning into a little boy… his legs are lengthening and his face is narrowing. Those little cheeks aren’t quite so chubby anymore! Sometimes, especially after a nap, it catches me by surprise….he’s becoming a toddler!

During the last week Jonah has been identifying Jonathan as “dada.” When I get him out of his crib in the morning, sometimes I bring him into our bedroom. Right when we enter – before seeing Jonathan - Jonah says “dada!” He knows Jonathan is in the bed. Some days he will go into our room looking for Jonathan in the bed.

When Jonathan poured the vinegar on his salad at a restaurant the other day, it came gushing out all over the place, much to his annoyance.

Me: “It bothers you because you are soiling your hands?”

Jonathan shakes his head.

Me: “It bothers you because it was so imprecise?”

He shakes his head again. Then he says, pointing to the side of the container, “It bothers me because it is bringing all this grease from other people’s fingers onto my salad.”

Who thinks of things like this?! And why?!