Mommy's little boy-ok BIG

We can't believe how fast jace has grown. He is now 6 months and is just learning to sit up.

when he was about 2 months old his skin looked like he might have eczema. jaron had it and has begun to grow out of it. so we started to use jaron's eczema cream but it didn't seem to do a very good job. one night after visiting mark's parents we noticed how red and rashy jace's skin became. he began to cry and noticed him trying to scratch himself. when we got home i gave him a warm bath to take off anything that might be irritating his skin and it seemed to help but the next couple of weeks his skin was looking even worse and i then took him to the doctor. he suggested to give him a stronger medicine for his skin and to put him to bed with a warm wet onesis underneath his clothes that would keep him moisturized. we did that for a couple weeks and it seemed to help but did not completely clear it up. his head also was so dry that he would dig his nails into his scalp and draw blood. after the second trip to the doctor he thought that it might not be all eczema but an allergic reaction to something so he then reffered us to an allergist. this last week we took jace to an allergist to look at his skin. he said that it looked like he had very sensitive skin and has developed a baby's rash but wanted to test him anyway in case there might be other factors in play. i have never seen how they do this test and it was quite interesting. they had me hold jace facing me and with a pen wrote a ton of numbers in columns a long his back and then took a little device that would gently scratch his skin and release little drops of fluid next to each number. they would use about 30 different droppers. After this was done i would have to hold him in that same position for about 15 minutes. as i was sitting there i noticed how much one side of his back was turning brillant red next to certain numbers and knew then that he was definatley allergic to something. when the nurse came back in i asked her what the columns meant on his back. she said that the right side was all evironmental like weeds, grass, pollen ect. and the left side is all food. she then said it looked like he is not allergic to anything evironmental but is definately allergic to some food and how that is where we run into trouble. of course she couldn't tell me what it was and i waited for the doctor to come in. as i was sitting there i was just praying that it wasn't wheat or flour. well it wasn't, but he is allergic to eggs ( though he can grow out of it and it is ok if its cooked in something) which means no flu shots for a while. he is aslo severly allergic to peanuts! (well at least it wasn't all nuts) but he did give me some reading information and a prescripton for epipen in case he does come in contact with peanuts and needs that adrenaline shot. good news though the shot has enough doses for two so if we don't get him to the hospital in time we can give him one more ( that was comforting). as for his skin i need to rub him down with this awesome lotion VANICREAM (which i highly recomend for anyone's dry skin) 4 times a day and use baby's head and shoulders on his scalp once a day just until his next doctors visit. so we are very grateful that at least we found out ahead of time that he does have these food allergies.

At the end of this doctors visit he turned to me and said " now about his weight" ( he weight 21 pound and is 27 inches long) " his rolls on his skin does not help with his problem and he is definatley a big boy". " Is your husband a big man?" ( i had to laugh at that one!) i then explained to him that from birth this child never stops eating and even at 3 weeks i had to start subsituting formula because i wasn't producing enough and pretty much since then (even with solids) he stills eats just about every two hours but that he does sleep thru the night. he then told me that i need to be feeding him every 4 hours at this age and to get him to that by the end of the month. he thinks that jace has just become acustom to eating every 2 hours and i need to lengthen that because right now he is the weight of a 1 year old. brinley now weighs at 2 years old 22 pounds and is 29 inches long, jace has almost caught up to her in 6 months- i mean just look at this boy- he is solid and has man boobs! ( definately going to be our football player) and what a cutie!