Words, words, words

I am loving the age Connor is at right now. He has grown so much since he has moved to the toddler room and his vocabulary is over the top. Every day Steve and I are amazed at what he says. Here are some of the words he says at 19 months.
1. Elephant
2. Hi or hello
3. Bye
4. Dada
5. Mama
6. Papa
7. Nonna
8. Duncan
9. Doing (What are you doing?)
10. How
11. Tree
12. Snowman
13. Noah
14. Nolan
15. Eat
16. More
17. Please
18. Excuse me
19. Thank you
20. No (says that very well)
21. Yes or yeah
22. No dada
23. No Duncan
24. Sit
25. Baa
26. Roar
27. Neigh
28. Hooray
29. Wow
30. Monkey

I'm sure there are more- I just can't think of them. I'll have to video tape him when he's on a roll.

Keep your fingers crossed....

Connor may be allergic to latex. We discovered this after putting a bandage on him in his groin area and when we went to take it off, there were red dots around it. I decided to go to Whole Foods and buy latex free, chlorine free, and dye free disposables. On Sat. morning, we took off the diaper and all the red dots that were around the bandage were gone. So I guess I'm not sure if it's latex or the perfume in the Pampers. Well the disposables cost 10.99 for 34 diapers. That's too expensive for us every week, so cloth diapers might be the only answer. We just bought some that we can use from birth through 35 pounds, so when we have another baby, we can use them on him.her. So- let's keep our fingers crossed that this will be the end to all of your problems and the end to my continual venting on this blog.

Is it warm outside?

I have been loving the past two days. The sun has been out and has been warming our house to a wonderful 74 degrees. Connor was able to run around in his diaper which is very adorable. He of course loves not having any clothes on. I would allow him run around without a diaper, but who knows what would end up on the floor.

We're still trying to figure out his rash and for some reason it has everyone stumped. Maybe they'll name something after him and he'll become famous. The money will come pouring in and it'll be great. Wait a minute- I'm going off to fantasy land. I just really wish it would go away.

Well- hopefully the warm sun is a sign that it's going to get warmer.

Connor's new condition

Here's the latest on Connor's illness.

Steve went to the doctor with Connor on Monday because the rash that he had moved to his face. They sent the culture out to the lab and after 2-3 days, the doctor said that he has Group A Strep, which I think is strep throat.

So our next question was if the staph and strep were related. The doctor thinks so but isn't completely sure. Nice! Connor's now on amoxycillion (I probably spelled that wrong.) for 7 days. This should take care of both problems but since I've dealt with this for the past 8 months, I scheduled a follow up appointment for Friday just in case.

I'm in the process of looking up as much info that I can on this ridiculous disease/fungus and it hasn't been rewarding. There's not a lot of info out about this which is quite frustrating. So here's where I ask my group of 4-5 people who are reading this for help:

If you know of anyone who has had any of these issues, please send me their information. Or, if you know of any great websites that you have found to work for researching diseases/fungus, please pass them on.

Luckily, Connor's in a pretty good mood which is quite helpful.

The dreaded doctor...

In the past 3 weeks, Connor has either gone to the doctor's or stayed at home to fend off a fever. This week was no different.

This past weekend, I went to my parents house to help organize their basement while Steve and Connor had some father and son time. When I called on Sat., Steve told me that Connor now has red bumps on his face. It has moved. It's now in two places. Wonderful.

So- on Monday, I called the doctor to get Connor in to see him. Steve took him at 1:30 and we found out he has a staph infection. What a surprise. He's had this so called "staph infection" since June. The words mean nothing to us. What is surprising is that they finally did a swab in his nose. I was glad that they just didn't give us some more medication and send us on our way. We get to find out the results tomorrow or Thursday and then go from there.

Luckily, Connor seems to not be affected by it and is still laughing and having the time of his life.

I ended up having to buy Valentine's Day cards and paper plates for his party on Thursday. I don't understand the point of having an 18 month old pass around V- Day cards but hey who am I?

Frustrated...

Hold on guys, this is going to be a long one. Steve and I have been very frustrated lately with doctors and daycare.
First daycare- There are two rooms for the infants and toddlers. Connor is in the toddler room. This winter has been a tough one for the infant room. There have been many sicknessees. Connor has been pretty good about not getting them untiljust recently. They have a school rule that if a child has a fever over 100 degrees, he can't return for 24 hours. That's huge. Connor's been teething lately and with that comes a fever. Well last week on Wed night, he had a fever of 100.2, so I told Steve he had to stay from daycare. This past Monday was difficult for Connor. He was up almost all night and we were almost going to have him stay home when he ended up being pretty awake and wanting to go to daycare. I ended up taking a half day on Tuesday because he was not feeling well and his temp was 100.2. So that meant that we had to stay home today. He was doing great today and there wasn't any fever.
It's quite frustrating because each time Connor gets a little over 100, we have to stay home. I understand they want to look out for the young kids but it's getting kinda of old when he seems fine after 12 hours.
Next- the doctors. I think very highly of peds and recently changed doctors based on our beliefs of vaccination schedules. Well- at the beginning of June, Connor ended up with a staph infection in his genital area. This ended up happening 3 more times. Now in Jan., Connor has had a yeast infection and some other type of rash that the doctors don't know what to call it. The reason why we're getting so frustrated is that the peds keep giving us either oral antibiotics or oral antifungal meds to help cure this. Well guess what we're in our 7 month of this going on and it's still not fixed. It's getting old. I want them to do some type of blood work to see if he's allergic to something or a carrier of something and noone wants to do that. They just say "Here, we'll treat it with this." I've been reading "Mother Warriors" a book by Jenny McCarthy on austism and I feel like one of those moms. I continue to fight for Connor's fungal disease and keep getting irrated with the doctors. I've decided to keep a daily log of his genital area along with pictures. Don't worry- I won't show them on the computer. I just feel like these last 8 months have blurred together and if I keep a record then maybe someone will listen to me.

Okay I'm done venting. Thanks for listening and if you have any suggestions, feel free to comment.