I canNOT believe we have been home for 10 months. Some days it seems like just yesterday that we came home. Some other days it seems like Kobe has been here since birth. It has been quite awhile since I have updated. I apologize for that. It is just the fact that life is busy as usual and I wonder how much of it is of interest to anyone reading this.
The biggest excitement worth reporting is that our lactose intolerant little boy had some yogurt and it didn't bother him. I was sooooo happy!! He had gotten so violently sick when he has had milk and yogurt in the past. I was freaked out to give him things that contained milk. If you have ever looked at the labels, everything has some sort of milk in it. Since he reacted so severely, I was scared to try anything that had even a small amount of milk products in it. Now I don't have to ready labels and worry so much. If he can have yogurt, he should be good enough to have foods that have some milk products in it. What a relief!! Even if he can't drink milk, we can live with that.
He has cut 5 teeth in the last few weeks (including 4 molars) He did amazingly well considering. He is quite the drool monster though. Some days his shirt is soaking wet! I guess it goes with the territory.
He can have quite the temper at times. Just in the last few days he has started to throw himself to the floor crying if he doesn't get his way. Oh geez....he is only 17 months old. What will things be like when he is 2 or 3? Yikes! He has a tendency to scream when he wants something. I have taught him a few words in sign language. I never did that with the girls, but I love it. He does more, please, and thank you. It is nice to give him some form of communication when he doesn't have the words yet. It is amazing how fast he picked up on it.
A few weeks ago, the stomach flu went through our house. Kobe and I were the only ones that didn't fall victim to it. I was surprised that Kobe didn't get it as he was exposed to it first. After talking to one of the nurses at the hospital, she thought that since he had salmonelle when he first came home he might have built up enough anti-bodies to it. Crazy! Since the flu hit the house we found Kobe has a new love...saltines. We have gone through so many in the past weeks. He has them all the time. He even has to have one in his hand when he goes to day care. Crazy kid!!! I guess there are worse things he could want to have.
Kobe ended up getting RSV a couple of weeks ago. Basically RSV is a cold, but is much harder for the little ones to fight off. He was having nebulizer treatments every 4 hours. Thankfully he has finally kicked this. There is so much junk going around.
Kobe was only getting up once a night until December when he got ear infections. Between the ear infections and then Christmas traveling, his sleep was terrible. UGH! The week the stomach flu went through the house God blessed us with him sleeping all night every night. The last 3 nights he has slept all night. He is old enough that it is passed time for him to be sleeping through the night. I hope it continues. I did also take him off of the bottle 3 nights ago. He was just having a bottle at bedtime. We kept him on the bottle longer than we did with the girls since that was the only thing that was the same as in Ethiopia.
He is so much fun. He is at the age where he is really beginning to mimic. Every day is a new adventure with him. He learns new things daily. We love watching him grow and change. He really has his sisters wrapped around his finger. He will only put up with Dad and Mom for so long until he wants his sisters. (And is not afraid to let us know) He loves his sisters and they love him so much. It is so special to have 2 much older siblings. We feel so blessed to have the wonderful kids we have. Yes we have our days, but who doesn't?!
