Poor Noah

Noah turned 8 months old yesterday!! He is getting so big. He is so big he got his first dose of Synagis (the RSV shot) today. The shot is for high risk and/or premature infants to help prevent or at least lessen the symptoms of RSV if he gets it. It is so expensive you have to "qualify" for it and Noah qualified with no problems. The ventilator, pnuemothorax (hole in his lung) as well as home oxygen and other kids who attend school that bring home every disease known to man were more than enough to qualify. We had a regular appointment and he is growing well. He continues to be in the 10th percentile for weight (16 pounds 7 ounces) and the 25th percentile for length. He is starting to like food so I can get a little break here and there which is nice. This is the first shot he has ever gotten besides the pokes for his IVs in the hospital. We are delaying immunizations for a couple years so these were his first shots. He got two of them one in each thigh--poor guy. He was all smiles until they jabbed the needle in his leg then he was quite sad. After I got him calmed down he tried to see how many fingers he could fit in his mouth at one time. The record is 7 if you are interested. He is getting quite grabby, though. After they put the blue bandaids on his legs he kept trying to grab them. He actually pulled one of them off in one of his attempts. It was a little bit of a let down when they actually gave him the shot. I was expecting more for my $1600 than a measly shot--maybe some gold plated socks or something along those lines. Luckily our insurance decided to cover the whole shot minus the office copay so that was a load off my mind. We have the next five shots scheduled every 28 days until the end of March--poor Noah, he has no idea!!

To start out the day we all had a rough morning. I came downstairs to find Josh and Daniel had pulled out a brand new bottle of frosting from the pantry. They were eating that by the fingerfuls for breakfast. They knew that was wrong because as soon as they saw me they tried to hide the evidence. They were able to hide the tub of frosting, but not all the white smears all over their hair, hands, faces and clothes. Then Matthew got out of the shower and couldn't find his pants which happened to be sitting RIGHT in front of him. After I calmed him down from his humongous meltdown he was able to see them and put them on. While this was going on Sarah got into my purse and grabbed my bottle of lotion. She took off the cap and emptied the rest of it everywhere. Oh what a Monday!! Hopefully this isn't a glimpse of what the rest of the week will be like!!