Fox, Jonny Fox

I feel awful that it's been so long since I've written. Not that anyone else reads it, but I want to keep a record of things for myself and Jonny. He is 4 months old now and has had so many firsts already! First Thanksgiving, Christmas, church service, funeral (unfortunately he has had 2 of those already). He rolls, smiles, baby talks, raspberries, giggles sometimes, cries, spits up, all the usual baby things. I was proud of him for rolling over both ways by 3-3.5 months though. :) My days are filled with feedings, readings, sleeping, playing, and calming.
He's been a grumpy gus lately. Not sure if it's a growth spurt or teething or what! Dr appt thursday, so we'll see.


There is one first we could have done without. First hospital stay since he was born. First came the eczema, then the loose stools a week later, then another week goes by and the vomiting started. At that point I believe he either had a GI bug or a milk allergy that had gotten that bad. I believe it was an allergy because of the sypmtoms that started weeks earlier. In any case he got very dehydrated and I took him to the hospital. It was pretty awful. We waited 3 hours or more in the ER then he was finally seen. They said he needed an IV, which broke my heart, and they had to try 3 times to get it in. I was livid. It still angers me sometimes to think about it. The IV was the most painful thing I remember going through, and that includes labor...so to think they had to do that to him 3 times! ugh, I just hated it for him. I couldn't stay in the room. He much improved at the hospital after staying overnight and getting lots of fluids. I took him home the next evening. The following day he vomited again. That was a very long week of pedialyte, different formulas, and much crying. We now have him on nutramigen, which is quite expensive, but it does seem to help a little. His dirty diapers have not improved much, and that's with rice cereal added to his formula.


All in all, I just hope he's getting all the nutrients he needs. He really is amazing. I couldn't love him more. I say that, but then the next day comes and I do.

pics top to bottom, left to right 1.) Jonny at O'Charley's 4 months  2.) Gma Mel with Jonny 4 months 3.) Jonny eating bananas 3 months 4.) Christmas with the Boehm's 5.) Paige, Grace, Jonny, Karissa 6.) Daddy and Jonny at hospital 7.) Jonny at the Hospital 8.) Mommy and Jonny December 2011