After battling the past couple years with dementia and a recent stroke, Luciano's Grandma Edna passed away on September 12th. We spent two days with Grammy Jo, helping her around the house and driving her down to the funeral. Giovanni was a champ through the disruptions to his schedule and provided a ray of sunshine and joy to a somber celebration of her 95 years of life. Hope you're having fun playing cards with Grandpa Jake, Grandma!
We also finished our second course of oral antibiotics for Giovanni's ear infection. Daddy took him to the doctor on Friday to check and make sure that all was better. It wasn't, so he started a course of antibiotic injections. He had another one on Saturday morning and the final one this morning. Seeing as how he is still fussy and pulling on his ear, I am not optimistic. Looks like we could be heading for tubes. This is not surprising for a number of reasons. According to the doctor, it's becoming pretty common as the bugs become more resistant to antibiotics. Gio is also likely taking after his Godfather, who had tubes multiple times as a toddler. Everyone I've talked to about it says that it's really a God-send...one day of discomfort for months of ear-infection-free happiness. Guess we'll see what happens.
Understandably, his ear infection has made my Little Man a bit grumpy this week. He ranges from happy baby to mild discontent to completely inconsolable. Tylenol a few times a day has helped, but he's still not his normal, happy self. I convinced Luciano that we should just pick up meatballs, red sauce, and pasta for dinner last night. It really hit the spot. It even calmed my fussy baby boy. Notice how quiet he is in the video. Also, the massive amount of marinara all over his face, hands, tray, etc. He LOVES pasta.
As the tracker on here reminds me, yesterday was Giovanni's 10-month birthday. This month was no exception to my rule about being horrible about getting monthly pictures. I tried to snap one this morning, but he was in his usual "got to go" mood. Here's the best I could do along with a few outtakes.
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Nothing is cuter than a spaghetti-faced baby!
ReplyDeleteI agree, but I'm a little biased! He so loves spaghetti and meatballs.
DeleteI'm sorry to hear about grandma. And I'm sorry your little man is having so much trouble with his ears. Cranky babies are NOT FUN. But messy, eating babies are fun, so I'm glad you included that video. ;-)
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