St. Patrick's Day

    Happy St. Patty's Day!

How can you resist.... :)

Thanks!!

Here ya go bunny!  Jack taped down in his bumbo (I can't wait until we get this eczema under control) ... it looks cruel but he's actually totally content in here! :)

Thanks so much for everyone's well-wishes and advice!  I'm so happy to say that my boy is doing much better!!  As you can see it is clearing up A LOT!!  We apply aquaphor about 8 times a day and then cortizone twice a day and thank goodness it is working.  He is in such a habit of rubbing his face and his head and so we have to put gloves on him but now he rubs the medicine off, onto the gloves, and then into his mouth-- SO we've had to get pretty creative :)  We put tape on his swing and bumbo so he can't reach up to his face and we put him in a "swaddler" at night to sleep in (I was inspired to figure out that one)-- it sort of looks like an infant straight-jacket :).  I thought he'd hate it but, surprisingly, he has been totally fine with it.  Oh... he also had to get his 4-month vaccinations yesterday... poor kid... I just love how sweet his little chunky legs look with the bandaids.   Thanks again for all the prayers and help!

Happy Boy!! 

My straight-jacket... not so bad!

Restrictions

Poor legs.

There is nothing worse than when you're baby hurts!

So my poor baby has been dealing with horrible eczema all over his little body-- but especially his face.  I wasn't going to post about it but I try and post at least every month and he is officially four months old this week.  This is what the poor kid is getting to deal with this month!  It looks horrible-- I know.  I 've cried and cried about it because it really itches him and he cuts himself trying to itch it so we have to keep his hands covered up... you just feel so helpless watching him.  Lex and Blake helped Jason give him a blessing on Sunday so we feel we are on the right path to helping him.  He is still so cute even with a horrible rash and he's so sweet-- most of the time he is laughing and has a smile on his face.  It is so heartbreaking though because you know he doesn't understand why he hurts. I took him to the dermatologist yesterday and so we are trying a variety of things to help him.  The bad news is he wants to wipe is face constantly and put his hands in his mouth and the medicine we are using can make him sick if he ingests it so playing 24/7 dodge with his hands is a difficult task with a 4-month old. :)  It was a little funny and pathetic last night watching Jason try and create a system with tape that keeps his hands free but restricted from his face because he does the most damage to his face rubbing it in the night-- Jack just kept laughing at Jason as if to say, "this is so not going to work"!  It literally came to me in a dream last night to use one of those baby swaddlers-- so I'm going to go get a bigger one today!  Good news is what we're doing seems to be helping... it already looks better today so I'm very grateful for the inspiration and help we've received.  I respect parents who have chronically or severley ill children so much-- I'm just dealing with helping him with a rash but I can't imagine how hard it would be to see you baby severely sick all the time.  So we're grateful it's something we can treat.  I've seriously tried everything you can think of and have had so much advice on what to do (Aquaphor, Eucerin, Aveeno, Cetaphil, Cortizone, hypo-allergenic laundry soap, no fabric softener, etc etc) sometimes it helps so please keep it coming-- maybe there will be something I haven't tried!! Please keep my baby boy in your prayers. Love lots-- Laura