Summer is here!! And boy is it HOT! A lot hotter then last summer and I was 6months pregnant!
Our little man is 8 months old! I can't believe how fast the time has flown! Absolutely flown by! I can't believe it! He weighs roughly 24lbs. That's us weighing us holding him and then ourselves and subtracting. We are proud (oddly enough) to announce our little guy has finally gotten sick for the first time in his short life. It started this past Saturday night with a runny/stuffy nose and a slight fever in the middle of the night. And each time he would wake up it took us an hour to get him to go back to sleep. He did want Dada BAD! He would nurse and then push away from me like he was done, no more, I don't want you anymore. And went to Dada and fell straight to sleep. Silly boy. Broke and melted my heart all at the same time. Sunday still a slight fever nothing really over 100 but with little sleep and not knowing if he was coming down with just the common cold or what we stayed home from church. After church and around the time we would have been coming home I get a text saying they hope Rocky is ok, cause they heard we had taken him to the hospital. Don't you just love false information. We thankfully didn't take him to the hospital and so grateful that he has never set foot in that germ infested place. But we are grateful for people who have concerns and wish us well wishes even if the rumor isn't true, so we accept them either way. I just can't help but wonder how anyone thought that? Oh well not the first time a rumor has risen because we skipped church the last time people assumed I had a baby because we weren't at church, false I was very pregnant still. That one made me want to cry at the moment but I laugh now. Ok I'm stepping off my soap box now.
So around mid afternoonish like 1-2 Rocky and I woke up from a nap where he ended up with a red mark on his cheek, cause he fell asleep in my arms. At first I thought it was just a lil heat rash but it stuck around for about an hour and looked like a "slapped cheek". I got a little concerned then and just kept and eye on it. It went away after about an hour to hour and a half. But then we noticed it on his chest and back and it looked like hives. (please note nothing in his diet changed nor had he received shots recently) the rash looked nothing like he's had before and he gets heat rash fairly easily and our doctor has even seen it at its worst. That calmed down and lessened. We went to my parents house for dinner cause he hadn't really been running a fever and seemed ok, and had been playing. The rash on his face returned but it was across his forehead and eyebrows, we thought it was from a little fever. I ended up calling the doctor cause as I was looking through my "What to expect in the first year" book it said something about call you doctor if there's fever and a rash so I did just to play it safe. The nurse who I spoke to diagnosed him with 5ths disease and congratulated us on keeping him unsick his first 8 months of life. So I instantly went to google.
Text book he had 5ths that day, days previous probably not, because he had no "cold" like symptoms until late Saturday night, and then Monday rolls around no rash, no fever. If he had 5ths he would have a rash for like 3 days straight. All he's had since is the occasional runny nose, like when he cries for a long time when he doesn't want to go to bed at night or he goes in and out of ac. My diagnosis, 1:the nurse was wrong and didn't quite read/know a lot about 5ths because I asked if I should bring him into confirm it "she said no he's viral and will infect everyone" 5ths is no longer contagious once you have a rash it contagious when you don't know you have it. 2:he didn't have 5ths and is most likely teething because his sleeping patterns are off and wants his puffs to chew at dinner and not so much food and will chew on me when he nurses.
I'm so much like my mom when it comes to illness google, and books are my first doctor, then I call the real doctor second if it's serious enough. Maybe I should be more cautious but if they act close to normal why should I worry? Plus when I talked to the nurse she told me I read her mind and was doing everything right and was proud of me as a first time momma, so I'll take her compliment even though I think her diagnosis was crap. I do plan on getting his blood tested next month just incase he had a very mild case of it I'd still like to know.
Oh and we're buying a house. What house yet, we don't know. But we have found a house we LOVE. Wish it was a different area we kind of want to move wards. We're getting burnt out, but feel we need to stay for loyalty and we know it's potential. It's a foreclosed home, someone has made an offer but when the bank received the contract they went to the house noticed the ac had been tampered with and copper was stolen. So the buyer could back out or renegotiate. Pray he backs out. This house is too perfect for us. Minus a few things but mostly perfect and I love it.
And I'll close with Rocky's new tricks, a picture of the poor sickling, and some funnies from his bath in his Grammy's sink. Does anyone else act like their kid is a puppy? Lol we do. A lot.
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