rainbow fish

noah took his last dose of flagyl yesterday. The stool culture results was c.diff. Clostridium difficle that he picked up on vacation. he has had to take flagyl 4 times a day for 10 days. he made a huge turn around and is feeling much better. his bottom finally cleared up too! he keeps asking for dr beal, the pedi on call who saw him that first sunday. I told dr lamoureux his pedi and he said he was going to cry! haha
he was so good during this whole horrible sickness. One of the night nursing supervisors was out of work for 6 weeks, that is how bad this illness can reak havoc on people.

noah is so excited, he has his very first freckle! it is on his inner right lower forearm. so I ask him where is his freckle, and he excitedly points "right there!" and then grabs my arm to look at mine.

he loves to drink joe's seltzer. calls it daddy's soda. his appetite is still not the greatest, but he is getting there.

noah loves when I make him smoothies. "smoomies" as he calls them. he'll ask for one, and then I say, "noah, want a smoothie"? "OK smoomie" like it was my idea. he is funny, he does that all the time. "robot games?" Ok noah, we can play robot games on the computer. "ok robot games" like it was my idea and he is agreeing with me. and he loves playing sesame street games, building a beach monster is his favorite. sounds like he is saying "moses" but it is monsters.

we recently have been having very frequent torential thunderstorms. noah thinks that thunder creates rainbows, b/c he associates thunder with rain, and rain makes rainbows of course. (we saw a few early this summer out the back patio door). while reading "rainbow fish" book to him and cousin emma, emma told noah that the octopus in the book was scary (hence noah's obsession with all things scary). so now noah thinks rainbows are scary.. and now says "it's not scary" b/c that is all I say now when he is scared. so now when noah hears thunderstorms, he tells me that rainbow fish are up in the sky... he is too funny and I had to write it down to remember this one day.

noah loves to use the adjective "beautiful".. everything is beautiful.. beautiful mommy's shirt, beautiful monsters (on sesame steet game on line), beautiful robots..he is so funny! the other one is delicious. so the other day at dinner joe said delicous robot. and noah burst out laughing saying "silly daddy, you don't eat robots! oh boy!" it was the funniest thing we have heard him say!!! this is such a great age that he can totally communicate with you and get what you are saying. he cracks me up!

joe is teaching noah to swim now. he can hold his breath and go under water wearing his goggles and he and joe can look at each other! we joined the ymca and noah goes to the amazing kids baby sitting program and does a great job! I think in the fall I might take him for real swimming lessons.

noah is in an art class at gymboree which he loves going to. he makes great projects which we hang up in the hallway on a special curtain rod thing I rigged up to display them. he loves seeing his work up there! also in the beginning of the summer he took a terrific twos class at the farmington town rect dept. it was ok, not the best, but it lasted 3 hours so it was fun to see how he did in that type of environment.

noah still loves robots and carwashes. and snakes and bugs. he has been such a big help too. he helped me weed the garden, the yard and flower beds and clean out the garage! we had a lot do since we were home mostly this week due to his illness.

he got his first 2nd molar now. he always point to it and says "right there, right there." and tells me, daddy, and his art teacher. then he looks in my mouth and seriously is interested and tells me about my teeth. hmmm, maybe he'll have a career as a dentist in the future!

Rhode Island cottage

(30m 2w)
We went on vacation for a week to Rhode Island. We rented a nice cottage on the beach. we had an incredible time; it is amazing that it is less than two hrs away and we have never been! so many things to do.. and the view was gorgeous. the waves were so big! we got to watch so many surfers each morning. noah fell in love with carosels! he got to ride on 3 different ones!! he still askes "go on the carosel". he also loves going to the car wash, and says the robot arms wash the car.

he got to go to roger williams zoo, a petting zoo and ride a pony. we went to the beach and built sand castles and ate ice cream. he also slept in a full size bed all week and did great! 12 hrs each night.. most days no naps though.

noah had diarrhea all week.. it was awful. I think the most he ate all week was tooth paste and bath water. he even refused ice cream at one point!

noah is still continue to amaze me with how much he knows and talks. he is so funny, too. he got out of the tub last night and passed gas. he told joe it was "noisy poops"... I almost fell up the stairs laughing when joe told me. he is so funny with the things he comes up with!

noah has had diarrhea for 11 days now. It started on vacation but got worse. His bottom got a really bad diaper rash that got infected from the sand/salt water and humidity, plus sitting longer in a diaper from all the car travel. today his bottom is still open sores, but instead of a bunch of them, they have all now connected into two long lines down each cheek of open rawness. He cries each time we have to change him and it really breaks my heart. noah says "momma cries".. I try so hard to remain positive when opening his diaper. I tell him it looks better! I don't think it is rotavirus. it is wicked slimy/mucousy and now smells like bad fish. it was getting better, more mushy, but now it is liquid slime. he was hiding this morning by the side of the couch, lying on his belly. I asked if he was ok and he said no, "poops comes. it hurts. I want to see dr beal. the lady helps". talk about wanting to cry hearing your kid say that. dr beal was the pedi who saw him on call sunday morning. I almost want to call and tell her he said that, in a good way. we sent stool samples to the hospital today after I called the pedi to let him know he is still sick. he has no appetite and has refused to eat breakfast or lunch. I finally got him to eat applesauce, 3 bowls! with added cinnamon. he is drinking well, so that should keep him out of the hospital, but I wonder how his labs are. the dr said he will wait for the stool results and then might do blood work based on that. I feel so bad for him. I hate seeing him crying in pain.

on the good side, he is doing very well potty training. he did two poops during the week in the potty for joe all on his own. we are leaving the potty in the living room for him on a towel. I had his diaperless to let some air get to his bottom. he is really good at peeing for us, too. He did great on vacation going on the actual toilet with the sesame insert on it.