Heartbreak kid

At 6 months, Evan can now sit up unassisted. And he seems quite pleased with the feat. He can also pretty much assume crawl position and on occasion, accidentally crawl forward. I say accidentally because he doesn't intend to and he doesn't seem to know that he's propelling himself forward. Things are going very fast now, his tooth is budding, he's pulling himself up into standing position and he's learning about his surroundings. He also knows how to seem puzzled that things disappear when he drops them on the ground and will look around on the floor for them. So, I'm pretty proud of the little tyke. :)





And I'm also proud of the fact that he's such a happy baby despite the fact that his face looks pretty awful. If it were me, I'd lock myself at home and drown in self pity but he seems to take in stride the fact that he's got a severe rash on the lower half of his face. The diagnosis from the different doctors we've seen range from the common milk rash, to thrush to ringworm! Whatever it is, it isn't pretty. In fact it looks very red and angry. And it seems to be getting worse, despite our best efforts to keep it dry and saliva free which is no mean feat since he's got enough drool to fill an ocean. I guess I can be thankful that it isn't an allergic reaction especially since I unwisely fed him half a strawberry last week!

So all I can do is hope and pray it gets better and as all mommies do, they feel so sorry that their baby has to go through anything uncomfortable. And for me, who scores super high on an empathy scale, I just had to take it one step further. Every time I looked at him this morning, my own face felt itchy and I actually thought I had a rash as well.

Sigh, what I'd give for his face to clear. Well, at least, he's a happy boy and he can still find things to laugh about. I guess being six months old helps. Anything and everything is funny, even Mommy nuzzling into his armpit. :)



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