Surprise, surprise!

Auntie Amy came to MN on Thursday and was planning on leaving Saturday morning. Friday night Amy mentioned that Mateo and I should go back to WI with her since we were planning on going to WI on Wed for Thanksgiving.

I said no because that would require lots of packing on short notice and Mateo was already in his room for the night. Well, Mateo had other ideas and Saturday morning he woke up at 4 am and wouldn't go back to sleep. I finally realized about ten to 5 that he was awake for the day and fed him and then he passed out in his swing while I was wide awake. So I started to pack and decided we would go home with Auntie Amy.

Now, Nana Sal and Papa Scott didn't know that we were coming home and going to be staying with them for a whole week, not just a couple days. Here are their reactions:

Mateo - One month

This post should have gone up 2 weeks ago..oops!

It's hard to believe that Mateo is already one month old. It feels like he's been here forever and yet not. We've had our share of ups and downs this past month but now most of the kinks are worked out.

This week has brought big smiles from Mateo to mom, dad, nana, papa, Auntie Amy and everyone else. He's waving his arms, learning he can  suck on his fists and talking up a storm. Mateo has a good set of lungs and lets us know when he doesn't like something. The evenings are usually a little fussy but once he's in his bath tub, he's a happy little camper.

Yeah - he was sick of the all the picture taking

 (trust me, there were more than just these 3)

If it's not one thing...

Ok - I'm being super whiny right now but I really don't care. Mateo's bum is still super awful despite using calmoseptine and changing brands. Today I noticed white stuff in his mouth and I briefly remembered thrush from one of the baby books I had read.

So I look it up and low and behold thrush can also cause a super bad diaper rash. Joe tries to hold Mateo so I can try to "wipe" the white stuff in his mouth to see if it comes off easily (a sign it is NOT thrush). Well Mateo was having none of it and to the doctor we went.

Yes, my baby now has thrush and we are to start the drops tomorrow. The doc swabbed his mouth with some stuff that lasts 24 hrs hence why we start tomorrow. He also gave us some other stuff to help with the diaper rash. On the plus side, he saw that we were using Nutragimen (this is a different doc since our ped is out of town) and gave us two more cans since "it's pretty expensive in the store."

This marks his 4 week birthday and we've been to the doctor for the past four weeks. Hopefully we can start not visiting the doctor every week from now on...please, please, please.