More fun with antibiotics...

After 2 upper respiratory viruses within about a month of each other recently, Andrew went through a couple rounds of antibiotics. One was a pencillin antibiotic which Andrew broke out in hives from. He had been on penicillin based antibiotics many times before with no adverse reaction. But for whatever reason, his poor little body broke out all over in hives. So, he was classified as allergic to penicillin.

Because of the recent infections so close together and all the yucky germies out there right now, our family doctor and the doctor at Cook's Childrens Hospital decided to put Andrew BACK on Bactrim on a prophylactic basis for 30 days.

When he was 18 months old, the doctor at Cook's decided to put him on Bactrim for 10 months prophylatically. This was to treat the diagnosis Cook's gave him of Transient Hypogammaglobulinemia. The Bactrim for 10 months was to help give his immune system a boost (he has extremely low IGg^2 levels) and prevent chronic infections. Of course, we have noticed a LITTLE improvement - it's not been too terribly much of one...

So while David and I were not excited about the prospect of putting him back on more antibiotics. But understood that with all the "junk" floating around these days, the doctors were trying to keep Andrew from getting anything really bad. So we obliged...

A few days in to the course of treatment, Andrew began breaking out. Not in hives like he had with penicillin or codeine (which we learned after he had his adenoids removed and new tubes put in...) but they were a little larger than pencil erasers. And they were all over. The picture doesn't really do justice but I can't figure my camera out! :)

So now he is off the Bactrim and classified as allergic to sulfa antibiotics as well. So we're praying that he doesn't get any sort of infection with everything going around. We're keeping him in daycare as minimally as possible and unfortunately missing Sunday School in efforts to keep his exposure to germies to a minimum.

So now we are in another "wait and see" period...hoping and praying that his little immune system heals... Please be in prayer for him too!

My boys hard at work...

In OCTOBER I ordered an end table...at the end of January - it finally arrived. So the boys spent a few minutes putting it together for me...

I love the pics of them working together :)

Fun pics the first of February

I'm not the best at updating pics but here are a few random ones from February so far...

For some odd reason, now that Halloween is long past...Andrew has NO problem wearing his scarecrow hat on random occasions....Go figure...

This next picture...Well, I'm not exactly sure of the thought process with his outfit...but flashbacks from the movie "Big Daddy" with Adam Sandler came flooding back... At least Andrew hasn't asked for his name to be changed to Frankenstein (yet!)... :)

The last two pictures of Andrew are just him enjoying his beanbag chair from Auntie Jina Bug and snuggling with his Aggie blanket. Dianne & Ray should be proud of these 2 pics... :)

Sweet family time...

A couple weeks ago, we were just clowning around. I love these pics...not the "no makeup look" (ugh)... but just getting to love on my little man....I love the pic of my boys hanging too... these are my favorite moments!!!

I love our family!!!! :)

Manners & Such....

A few minutes ago I was trimming Andrew's nails and he was begging to watch his latest favorite show "Chuggington"...

Dave and I are really trying to work on building good manners & respect in Andrew, so of course the first thing out of my mouth was "How do you ask?"

Andrew replies (too quickly/automatically I might add!):

"Please?.....and Thank you....and you're my favorite, Mommy....with a cherry on top?!"

I got a kick out of this and had to post it for the day when I finally make this into a Memory Book for our boy :)

Kids say the darndest things!!! :)

This is the life....

Ok - I had to post this as I'm nearing 3 years of constant cleaning after a little one. This made my heart smile and laugh out loud as I saw Andrew helping to clean up after dinner the other night. I guess it all ties in with my last posting about his maturity.

I don't get the backpack - who knows where his imagination was taking him this particular evening. But that's ok... it adds character to him AND the pictures :)

Enjoy!

Growing up toooooo quickly!

So I've seen it lately in demeanor, conversation and of course - putting "marks" on the inside of the kitchen pantry to measure his physical growth. But it astounds me in some moments just HOW QUICKLY my baby is growing up! In all honesty, he truly isn't a baby anymore - but a little boy. And more honestly, a little man! Which I'm sure sounds funny considering he won't turn 3 until the end of February, but my goodness! He is SO mature.

For the longest time he has astonished people with his real age (and continues to do so!) I'll never forget on the first plane trip that Andrew and I took solo. We flew to Destin to celebrate Kaitlyn's 1st birthday with Ed & Melinda.

It started with dealing with Delta and their neverending logistical nightmare and chronic delays (long story short but we sat on the Tarmac for 2.5 hours - made it to Atlanta where we were guaranteed to be on the flight - SURPRISE! Missed that flight and by the grace of God only did we get on the last flight of the night...it was so harrowing that a complete stranger was going to give us his seat on the plane after he had been trying to get home to his wife and kids after 2 days of airport hell...)

Sitting 2+ hrs with a little boy who had not yet turned 2 could've been a major disaster. But by the grace of God, he was in a good mood and we had a good time. As the plane finally took off and we continue our banter, a guy sitting in front of us turned around. His face was a little surprised as he stated, "You are not his mother.." Confused, I confirmed I indeed was and he shook his head. He smiled and said "You guys talk like you are best friends." This made my heart smile as I answered that I was so Blessed to have him as my son and that yes - he was my special and dear "little Buddy."

I digress to say that this comment was made before Andrew was even 2. His vocabulary, social skills & interaction as well as his maturity make him seem so much older than his years. And while I have always said that Andrew has "an old soul" - seeing his physical appearance age over time allows me to see him growing into that "old soul." (and before you ask - NO! I'm not referring to reincarnation, but wisdom!)

I hope you enjoy these latest pictures of my sweet prince as they reflect how time is making him age (of course more kindly than how I am - LOL!) :)

More later.....