Hives & Hello

Well it has been an interesting weekend so far. Yesterday Alex had two major things happen to him! The first thing is that he purposefully waved hello at our friends Lain and Gwen Shahboz. It was so cute! So far he actually flaps his hand and kind of moves it around in a circle instead of wiggling his fingers towards himself like most babies do to imitate what they see.

The other thing that happened is that after getting his dose of Amoxicillin he broke out in to hives all over his body. It completely scared me. After a quick call to the pediatrician we gave him some benadryl and stopped the antibiotic until we see the doctor on Monday morning. It may be that Alex had a slow allergic reaction to it. It turns out that my sister is severally allergic to Amoxicillin and she had a slow reaction, having taken it several times, before she reacted too. My mother is also allergic to Penicillin. So maybe Alex inherited these allergies. Poor baby though. It's so horrible to see him covered in tiny red spots all over his body including the tips of his little toes!

First time being sick...

Poor Alex has an ear infection. I hate that he feels so bad. We had him to the doctor a few weeks ago with a suspected infection but it was just fluid in the ears, nothing more. But this week started with clear drainage from his nose and then he didn't like being laid down to sleep and would only sleep upright on me or in a swing. Then yesterday morning the gunk from his nose turned dark yellow and light green. So we were off to the doctor's office a few hours later and now Alex is on antibiotics. I hate that he's on them so young when Brandon was 18 months before he had an ear infection. But with an older brother to spread the germs it was inevitable that Alex got sick for the first time at a younger age. Boo. Here's hoping he feels better soon... and will start sleeping longer than a couple hours at a time at night.

First Fourth of July

Alex had a blast today for the Fourth of July. He was keenly interesed in the American Flag. Mostly he enjoyed the tasted of it. A close second was the taste of grass!