3 Month Helmet Update

We got "a little" rounder this month, but we are still not there.  Sadly we have at least one more if not two more months in this blasted helmet.  We will admit, all three of us are getting pretty fed up with the stinky little thing.  That being said, we are glad we chose to use it as you can clearly see there has been a drastic improvement from the first picture to the last.

Our Happy Little Boy

As long as we are on the move, Kail is a very happy little boy.  He really does get bored easily though.  Its worth the smiles to keep active though.

This last week I was able to spend a couple of days home with him.  We got to go for a lot of walks around the block and at Walmart to try and stay active.  We even went to eat lunch by the fountain at Farmington Station.  It was a really nice outing.

He is Crawling!

Pictures say a thousand words, so videos say what 10,0000?

And for those of you who can't see video:

The Cough, The Rash, and the Hospital

Due to Kail going to Day Care, he gets sick pretty often,  About a week after he got his helmet he came down with a nasty cough.  We saw his doctor for his six month apt not long after and she thought we would just wait it out a bit, with a humidifier, and warm baths and such.  Three weeks later he wasn't getting better so I took him in again, again they said we should just wait it out, but they wanted to see him again in two weeks.  So AGAIN I took him in (so he has had the cough for about 6 weeks at this point) this time they decided to start him on an inhaler and some Zantac (they thought acid might be making it worse).  A week later not only was he not any better but Jordan and I decided he was actually getting worse as he was now gasping in the middle of coughing.  So I called the doctor again and they called me in some Amoxicillin.  Three days after starting the Amoxicillin Day Care called me about 1:00.  They had noticed a slight rash on his cheeks in the morning but it was very faint.  It had now spread to his arms and legs and although it was faint there, his face was swelling and the rash was now blood red. This picture doesn't do it justice, trust me the rash looked bad.

 My immediate thought was that he is allergic to Penicillin, although I quickly learned that that rash usually starts on the chest and he had nothing on his chest or back .  So I called the Dr and made an apt to come right in.  Its always a fun visit when the Dr says "That's just SO weird" about 20 times, and finishes the visit with, "I need you to take him to Primary Children's tonight and get a full blood work up".  I kept asking "Isn't this just the Ampicillin?" and he kept saying "if it is, its not progressing like normal."  and my favorite line "I don't want to freak you out, but I want you to go over as soon as possible so we can get the results tonight and we will call you asap just encase he needs to stay at the hospital. If he doesn't stay at the hospital I need to see him again tomorrow."  So we go pick up Jordan and head over to Primary Children's hospital.  Kail had to get blood drawn so they had Jordan hold him and had another nurse there to help hold him so he did flail around the with needle, but our little trooper never even flinched.  then we headed down to the suction clinic where they had to stick a Q-tip up his nose.  The tech had me sit down with him to hold him because 'they really don't like this", and again Kail just sat there like nothing happened (this time is more likely because i suck out his nose so often he just doesn't care anymore).

Kail's Dr called us about a half hour later to tell us that all the results came back normal, and he didn't have the measles. . . . well I guess its good he didn't have the measles i didn't realize that what we were thinking he had. So we went back to the Dr the next day.  At this point I'm convinced its a reaction to the amoxicillin, but the Dr keeps insisting its not and he wants me to start him back on it.  Oh and we have no idea what the rash was . . . .  Jordan and I decided to wait an extra day to let the rash subside more, so that when it came back we could prove it was the amoxicillin . . . . the thing is, it didn't come back.  So I started thinking, we went on a walk the night before and it was hot . . . ya bet it was heat rash although again that is usually were the kid has clothes and this was everywhere he didn't.  As we can't know for sure what happened that is what we have decided,.  Probably just the first sign that our little strawberry blond is going to have an adversarial relationship with the sun.

And on a final happy note, the antibiotics finally got rid of his cough.