Two Firsts

Levi has been sick with a tummy bug since Friday-ish. At first I thought it was a bad reaction to one of his vaccines from Friday, but once Monday hit and I was changing his diaper every 20 minutes, I realized it was the real deal: Levi had come down with his first illness.

Thankfully, he's staying hydrated and keeping milk down... it's just that he can't keep it in. This means we've been through a week's worth of diapers in 2 days AND that Levi is overcoming some of the worst diaper rash I've ever seen. I call it: I'm-going-to-scream-in-your-face-for-even-laying-me-down-on-the-changing-pad diaper rash.

As you can imagine, life hasn't exactly been fun or easy around our house. I'm constantly stain-sticking his new homemade wipes and gagging over the smell of Desitin Max (seriously, the smell is so obnoxious to me, I thought I might be pregnant-I took a test-I'm not. The stuff is nasty, but it works). But there is some light in all of this darkness. As I was changing the zillionth diaper yesterday afternoon, Mr. Cranky Pants decided I was the funniest person around:

This is Levi's first, real laugh. THANK GOODNESS I happened to have the camera right next to me. You can only imagine the joy I felt watching him light up and giggle, especially knowing that he wasn't feeling his best. How can you not love this little guy!!

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