7.5 months already?!

Well, Mr. RaKhem Ajani is now 7.5 months old! Time flies so fast. I was under the impression that we would have more time with him while he was little. I thought that he would be a newborn for longer, but I guess I was wrong. A few weeks ago I took Ra to his 6-month Well-Baby appointment. He was still sick from the weekend when I was gone, but he had to get his 6-month immunizations. He weighed 17.5 pounds and he was 28 inches long. I was leary because he was still congested and had a cough, but Ra's pediatrician said that as long as he didn't have a fever that he would be all right. He received his shots (including a flu shot) and cried for about 5 seconds before he looked up at me and smiled. I felt so bad for having put him through that, but I know it was necessary. He was cool for most of the day and then his cough started to get worse and he started to run a fever. It progressively got worse until he was throwing up every time he had a coughing fit and he was cranky all day. We took him to the doctor and everything checked out fine, but he was prescribed some cough syrup and some Albuterol for his wheezing. We took Ra out of daycare for a week so he wouldn't contaminate the daycare...and in order to do that we had to either take him to work with us or stay at home which was interesting for our work situations, but all worked out. He continued to get better little by little, but it took a couple weeks before he was even remotely back to normal. As soon as he seemed okay, he came down with Pink Eye...DANG CHILDCARE!!! Don't get me wrong, we knew going into it that Ra would get sick when he started going to the daycare facility. We were not by any means naive to this reality, but we just didn't think that it would be this continuous string of illnesses...one after another. The facility is clean and we feel that the staff are knowlegeable about protocol it's just that Ra is there with school-age children who come in the middle of the day bringing all there cooties with them. Well, Ra was out of the center again for another couple of days while we got the Pink Eye under control with some antibiotic eye drops. Speaking of these eye drops, Ra was not having any part of that treatment. I have never seen anyone protest so much. He would squeeze his eyelids together so much that they would turn inside out when we attempted to open them. Nevertheless, we got through five days of this and Ra came out healthy on the other side:)


Now RaKhem is approaching his 8th month birthday (if that makes sense). YAY!!! He is growing so fast. We would like for all of you to see him soon before he begins helping his father write his dissertation. Well, until next time...

Peace & Luv,
Des, Hasan, Ra (and Amaru)