Wow – what a month, for the whole family, but for Logan, too. Logan also had the flu, too, poor guy, but only had a high-ish fever for a day or two. And I don’t know about the aches/pains/chills, etc., but he did seem pretty miserable. But worst of all, he also seems to have eczema. I swear, he did not have it at all before (reference his beautiful portraits that we took in the middle of the flu epidemic). But he came down with eczema around the same time as the flu and it is miserable. He is itching all. the. time. It is almost impossible to get him to take naps or put him down at night, because if he rouses just a bit, he starts itching, and then really wakes himself up. He is now waking up like every hour or more at night until we go to bed. Somehow, having us in the same room as him calms him and he only wakes up once to eat at night and then wakes up at 6ish. And he has scratches on his face and all over his legs and his skin just seems rough and dry and yucky seemingly no matter how much lotion I put on. Poor guy.
Logan sits up pretty well. He falls backward if you leave him, but he sits up not too bad. He also sits up in his high chair quite a bit. He did roll over from front to back quite a bit one day, but now has 0 interest in doing it again. He looks like he can almost roll from back to front, but has yet to do it. He loves to stand on his legs.
He is starting to “play”. He loves to grab anything and everything. He likes to knock over towers, especially cup towers and to grab and hold whatever he knocked down. He also seems to enjoy looking at books a bit and has already started to rip paper ones that got too close. He likes to shake things to make noise, when he remembers that is what they do. Mostly he likes to put things in his mouth. Everything.
He looks very longingly at food when we eat and seems to get upset that he can’t eat. He tries to grab our food and plates. I tried out rice cereal today and he did not like it at all. He started to kind of choke on it and then just grimaces. I was so surprised. I guess we will try again in a little while. But he still looks so longingly at our food.
He has started to get upset with lots of loud noise in crowds. Especially when he is tired/hungry. We went to an egg hunt last week and he was fine for a bit, but then the crowd scared him and he was just wailing in fear until he fell asleep. Same thing happened today at an author event sponsored by the library.
He wants to be held almost all the time. Which is hard because he is so heavy (22 lbs at the doctor when he had the flu). I hurt my back sometime on Friday and I have had a hard time lifting him, especially into/out of his crib. He kind of lifts up his arms when you are picking him up – I think he is trying to “help”, but it actually makes it much harder to pick him up.
He LOVES his brothers, especially Andrew, and really loves when they play with him. He likes to watch them playing, too. He is unfortunately very interested when they are watching the TV. He really gets excited when Katsu comes home and seems sad when he doesn’t see him for awhile.
He is a sweetheart and we love him. Now if we can just heal our poor boy’s itching, we will all be a lot happier.
Fun Things This Month
- Flu … just kidding. Not fun. Also, they could not see Logan’s ear drum when we were there, so they poked and prodded and finally washed the wax off his ears. They had to bring in a nurse to help because he was protesting so much. He is a strong boy.
- Boys feeding his raisins. Also not so fun. Note to self – do not let boys alone with Logan ever. Thankfully he didn’t choke and they came out the other end. Sigh …
- Eating at Fitz and letterboxing. Logan was super heavy to carry during letterboxing and was oblivious, of course. He did however, really enjoy looking at the bottling process as we juggled him between ourselves so we could eat. We also went letterboxing at Stacy Park which Logan completely slept through.
- Butterfly house again. Logan was not interested in being in his sling and threw a huge fit. He liked the butterflies though.
- Purina Farms and Shaw Nature Reserve. Logan was still kind of sick and you can tell by looking at the pictures. He was tired and fussy at Purina, but after taking a nap, he seemed kind of interested during the dog show and even watched a bit. He seemed to enjoy the great outdoors at Shaw Nature Reserve, though he was sleeping in the car for at least the first hour or so that we were there. The wildflowers especially were very beautiful. He always gets a little fussy if he has to be in the sling for too long.
- Egg hunt in Brentwood. Too bad Logan isn’t crawling yet – they even had a crawling section and it was SO cute. Logan freaked out before the hunt even began because of all the noise and was crying, crying, crying, and then promptly fell asleep in his stroller as we walked to the car.
- First author event – Logan met his first author, Mo Williams. He freaked out before the reading started, but I nursed him and he fell asleep and calmed down. He seemed a little non-plussed, but hey, what a great first author! We even got a book signed.
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