Time for New Pics

Well, it's time for some new pics. I've updated the slide show on the right with 14 new ones tonight, and wanted to add a couple for you to view, one of Zac's teeth and one of him sitting on the stairs. He's taken to sitting here and there lately, but we don't think he realizes that he can actually do it. He'll sit for a good minute or two sometimes, then other times just plop right over.

So here those are, and now I get to share a little of Katy's excitement from work today. I haven't grabbed the pics off her camera, but a building just a few doors down from hers, one slated for implosion next week, caught fire today. So it was quite the scene downtown and made leaving work a little tougher for her. On the good side, she had some excitement to talk about during the day and had a chance to see a lot of smoke, if not the actual flames, which were apparently visible a bit earlier than when she headed outside. We went to McAlister's tonight for supper (those of you who lived in the South at all know what I'm talking about) and the firetrucks, ambulances and police cars were still prevalent all around downtown, with several streets still blocked off.

A Tooth...And More Sickness

I had hoped to have a pic up tonight, but we'll have to add one later. Zac finally has a tooth coming through. Katy found it yesterday as it hadn't quite fully broken the surface, and today it's a little further through. He's doing quite well with it, just having the typical runny/stuffy nose and all.

Also, today we tried green beans for the first time. We were prepared for him to fully reject them, and thought he would given how bad they smelled, but he didn't seem to mind at all. We were a bit shocked. We've been buying jar foods to send to daycare lately, and included in that mix have been some fruit and granola mixes, along with a yogurt mix and some that have multiple fruits with either rice or oatmeal, so he's handling all of them fairly well.

And, Katy and I are under the weather again, both fighting massive sinus drainage. It's very frustrating, because neither of us has had to deal with this much at all over the past year or more, but this is twice within two weeks for each of us. I know we each have allergies, but honestly, we spend most of our days inside and use air conditioning in the vehicles at all times. I'm concerned it may have something to do with our townhouse, so today I picked up some vent filters like we used in Omaha. They're too small to fit these vents, which are on the walls, but I'm hopeful I can make something work out of it. Please pray that our house sells soon. We have to get out of this place for our mental health as well as physical health.

Teething?

Well, we've been waiting for a tooth to pop through for a few months now, but Zac is definitely showing all the signs associated with teething. Over the weekend he had a sporadic fever, runny nose, and has continued to have some pretty awful diapers to deal with, and those are multiple times per day.

Last week I was fighting off a cold the entire week, so I thought maybe Zac had just caught a bit of that bug, but then again, there was one child in his room that had a runny nose as well, so possibly that was it. But then again, :), a lot of people here are getting sick at the moment, so I know something has been around. Katy is not feeling as well tonight, and went to bed early to try to get a handle on it.

All we know is we hope Zac is actually going to produce a tooth sometime here because he seems more than ready and we're ready to have him stop being bugged by his gums. Since every child in his room currently has a runny nose, maybe they are all going through the same thing. :) And, at his present rate, we'll go through diaper rash ointment at an alarming rate. Poor little guy is not too happy when a diaper change occurs at the moment. This is the first time he's had a rash of any sort or even been under the weather!