walkin' and poxin'...

well, its that time. time to pull out the WALKER! i can't believe it. it seems like the kid was born yesterday even though this has been a LONG ten months! grayson will be ten months old on april 2nd, hard to believe. he has been pulling up on everything lately and this morning i suddenly noticed he had pulled up on me and was standing with only one hand touching my shoulder. so i got out his walker, and he laughed and laughed (a creepy evil laugh that was hilarious by the way) and took a few steps! but man, when he falls down, he thinks its the END of the world, which is also kinda funny!



a little health update... as you know (family in texas), grayson has had awful eczema since he was about a month old. we've seen specialists, bought EVERY kind of medicine out there, and he is currently on two allergy meds a day, including prevacid for his acid reflux. little guy has just had some issues, making it a rough year for us, having to watch him scratch ALL the time. as a matter of fact, since Christmas, we have been using diaper pins to pin his hands down by his sides when he naps and at night. can you believe that? i hope no one from child protective services reads this! luckily, he has been ok with it, and it has done WONDERS for his face because he can't scratch it to bleeding every night as he had been doing. at any rate, last week, he came down with this bizarre skin condition that resembled chicken pox the first couple days. then it got worse and he had open oozing lesions covering his arms, his legs and feet (from knees down mainly) and then sporadic ones on his chest and back. it was AWFUL. how do you lotion or put clothes on a child who is oozing? we went to the dr. and he was stumped. i actually cried in his office if you can believe that. he decided it was time to do blood work because it is sure seeming like grayson ALWAYS has something. whether its a sinus infection, or congestion (he's had that for 4 to 5 months) or bizarr-o rashes. we should get some bloodwork back this week, and some next week. they are checking lots of stuff, and his immunities to see if he is making them properly. i am happy to report that his rash thing whatever (we call it the pox jokingly) is healing up! there are scars where all the spots were, but they will disappear soon. his legs and feet and wrist still have some healing to do because he is so mobile and those are easy places to scratch. i'm on scratch patrol ALL the time, but sometimes he sneaks a scratch in, especially when he is mad. oh, one thing to pray for if you feel so inclined... if he continues to heal all the spots by this weekend, we are going to lower his crib and try a night unpinning him. he's getting too big to appreciate it anymore, and pinning him down for three months has made him unbelievably strong. its like he does bicep curls EVERY night trying to get up and he is so strong! i'm totally worried about trying it, but honestly, we can't keep doing that forever. and it makes it really hard for me to leave and go on a date with kenny or do anything before they go down, because i want to be the one to put him down. how do you ask someone else (grandma and mimi) to pin their grandson down before bedtime? my mom hates it and i'm sure barbara does too. so, if it doesn't work and he wakes up bleeding again, then we'll have to reconsider. but pray that it will work! anyways, i have been long winded. here's a quick pic from this morning when he was practicing his walking!