Great Blessing/ Doctor Appointments

Look at my 2 teeth!

What a love!

You can see his cheeks are still pretty bad, but hopefully healing

Here is a shot of my poor Josiah's skin, Jeremiah's is not much better

It was such a great surprise and blessing to find our pantry and freezer stocked with all kinds of things from hamburger helper, chili and applesauce, to frozen meals and muffins. Thank you to everyone who sacrificially helped me last minute and to my sister who organized it. I didn't fully realize quite the blessing that it would be until today. Javier starts another big account today and will work through the night/early morning so I will have no relief and the tiredness is still overwhelming from about 2 pm on. The 3 of us and the boys have been basically sleeping from 3 pm until 1 or 2 am and getting up around 4 am. Josiah is a wonderful sleeper so far, but Jeremiah wakes up at 1 and starts clapping and screeching and fussing for a bottle until we get up around 4 am. We are all struggling to adjust to this time change.

The other reason it is such a blessing is because the doctor says that not only is Jeremiah possibly still contagious with his chicken pox, but both have open sores that could get easily infected so I can not go out to a grocery store at this point. Each have 4 prescriptions I need to fill (for the things I mentioned before), and I need to buy a few other things so hopefully I can get out to Target really quick with everyone. The doctor's plan is to see the boys once a week until we get on top of everything. She just started with the worst things today (strong antibiotics for bad colds/preventing infection of wounds, itching, eye infection, scabies). She will worry about blood tests and shots later thank goodness.

The doctor said that Jeremiah seems bright, extremely happy and well nourished. Josiah, however, has obvious signs of malnutrition (one being his protruding large forehead and the other being the lack of teeth) and he appears more traumatized, but secure with us.

Yesterday Josiah screamed and flailed inconsolably most of the time from about 9 am - 2 pm. He wanted to sleep but his tummy was obviously in pain - the same thing that happened on our 10 hr flight from Rome to DC. Today he is super happy running around and we even heard him babble a little besides his happy squeals.

Jeremiah stands alone for a few seconds at a time, cruises around furniture and crawls like an inchworm (both hands then both feet). He is super active and happy.