So my family and I recently moved from Chicago to Charleston, SC thanks to my rock star wife landing an awesome new job down South. We have been here since mid November and it has been incredible...I can't believe they even call what we just went through winter, I mean it did dip down into the 30's a couple of times but after spending nine long winters in Chicago that was kind of a joke. I'll take 30 all day over -30!! But the toughest part about our first "winter" down here has been the circle of sick my kids and I have gone through. I don't know if they have been exposed to different strains of colds and sicknesses down here but it has been brutal. My 4 year old would bring home a cold from school and then proceed to pass it around to the whole family. And when the little sausage man ended up with it he would hold on to that thing forever. And he couldn't truly be happy with just a simple cold, so he would turn that into an ear infection...and of course make that a double. He's had five of them since we moved here. I feel like this family has single handedly been keeping the pharmaceutical companies in business this winter. Actually I guess they don't really need my help but you get the point. And my sweet little girl couldn't be outdone by her little brother so she had Strep Throat, which began with a massive barf session in the middle of Target, as well as her share of viruses, other stomach bugs, and the flu. She has actually puked more this winter than I did in College, and all who know me know that is saying a lot. And Mommy and I didn't want to be left out so we both had sinus infections, a couple of different colds, and I threw in some Strep for good measure. On two separate occasions this winter the entire family was on antibiotics. And if you were not grossed out enough by all the vomitorium talk let's discuss what antibiotics do to the stomach of a one year old. So the little sausage would get the cold, which then became a double ear infection so here come the antibiotics...and about an hour after that comes the massive explosive poops finding their way out of the diaper, up his back, on the carpet, the crib sheets, his hair? And then of course the massive diaper rash which only about an entire tub of Aquafor will cure. And after the ear infection gets cleared up and the ten day antibiotic binge is done and the poops begin to subside and the diaper rash finally goes away...guess who comes home from school with a new cold and guess who gets it ten minutes later? You got it...baby boy!
