Bah...

Ok, so now all my worrying about getting other kids exposed to chicken pox is complicated by the fact that the other baby that potentially had it actually has Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease which can look like chicken pox. And that disease can still be spread even after symptoms subside! Oy vey! So here I am thinking we'll be ok since Noah's spots are mostly healed up and now I find out that if he has this other thing, maybe not! I'm mildly annoyed because I don't know what is going on. Yes, Noah is doing better and obviously is ok as far as this is concerned, but I was unable to get a hold of a nurse at the pediatrician's office and I'd like to just talk to someone and figure stuff out. In the mean time, I really shouldn't expose him to other kids until I know what is potentially going on and what the risks of infection to others are.

Today is Taran and my second anniversary. We didn't do anything special to celebrate. We did go to Best Buy and pick up some new movies and the first two seasons of The Big Bang Theory. I love that show. So close to home with all the geeks I used to hang out with in college! It just cracks me up.

Aside from running to the bank and doing some chores around the house, it's been a pretty uneventful day. Uneventful is not bad though. I still feel like I could use some more relaxation... Maybe I just need sleep...

So, yeah...

I can't say I have anything in particular to write about, I just didn't want my blog to go for another month without writing and the best way to do that is to write something even if it isn't particularly noteworthy.

The biggest thing that I have to report is that there is the potential that Noah had chicken pox. On Saturday I discovered that one of the other babies in my Smart Mommy Group had chicken pox and it threw me into a panic. I started looking up symptoms and what do you know, they described exactly what has been going on with Noah.

Now, I don't want to be one of those people that reads something on the internet and attributes a disease to it and panics, but I am worried that he potentially spread it to other kids because chicken pox was so far off of my radar I didn't bother to keep him away from anyone after his fever cleared. I have no clue if he caught it from that other baby or if he gave it to her. He has multiple opportunities for exposure so there is really no telling. I'm going to call the pediatrician's office tomorrow and see what they say. Since he's recovered for the most part I'm not expecting them to really do much, but I'd like to know if that is what he had and would like to know if there is a way to tell that it is for sure that.

Other than that, not a whole lot is going on. We went over to Taran's brother's new house and Taran helped them to move in some more of their stuff. I couldn't really do much because I was watching the baby. I felt bad that I was just standing around, but I didn't really have another option.

That's all for now... maybe I'll have more to report tomorrow.

Uh... I am terrible at this blogging thing...

So it's almost been a month since my last blog post and since the baby is up and moving around and getting into things he shouldn't, this is going to be quick.

Here is a rough, read very rough, summary of what has been going on with me:

Taran has been home for a while, though that doesn't mean that he's actually been at home. Right now, life has been like a typical stay-at-home mom/working dad life. Taran has spent some time training then gone in to work at the lab for a couple weeks and then spent more time in training. So, he is gone for the day and Noah and I are home to go about our business.

For the most part that means that I go to yoga in the mornings at the YMCA, with the exception of Wednesday mornings when I meet with my mommy group. We've had a few rough mornings as Noah has continued his tendency to awaken early and not want to go back down.

Developmentally, Noah is continuing on. he is an amazingly fast crawler and manages to get into things before I realize that he's done it. I've caught him putting about everything he can into his mouth such as shoes, books (which he can very effectively and quickly destroy/eat), and even leaves off of my plants. He pulls himself up onto the furniture and will walk along the length of the couch or grab his push toy and walk with that. He is fascinated with anything on a hinge from book pages to doors to the dryer.  He has discovered the cabinets in the kitchen but has not spent much time exploring in there, thank goodness. He also has become quite a climber as seen here:

He also received his first haircut on May 11. We did it at home with the clippers and it went great. He tolerated it so well:

He's continuing to grow, though his fast growth is over and now he's letting the other babies catch up to him so he doesn't appear to be such a mammoth.

I'm attempting to keep my sanity as I chase him around and am barely able to keep up with any of my other interests because how how occupied I am with him. Such is the life of a mom.

I hope my next blog comes sooner from a month from now, but we'll see. 'Til then...