The Never-Ending Ear Infection

Joseph's been to the doctor about every two weeks for the last three months, trying to get rid of an ear infection. The funny thing is, we took him in, in the first place, because Elena poked him in the other ear with something long and skinny (the end of a glow in the dark bracelet, I believe) and it scraped up the ear canal enough to bleed a little bit. The injured ear turned out fine, and the non-injured one had a massive infection. He never complains about pain, which just goes to show you what a trooper he is, and loves taking all the medicine he's been prescribed. This morning's check-up was good enough that he doesn't have a new prescription, but he still has another check-up in two weeks. This boy's going to bleed us dry with co-pays.

He Speaks

James goes to nursery with us, every week, since we're nursery workers. This week he got to join the other kids--sitting on Daddy's knee, instead of in one of the chairs--at snack time. He did very well with the cheese crackers, pretzels and animal crackers, especially when the bigger ones got broken up. Then we brought out the bananas. Every time he saw the bananas going around he said "Na-NA?!" We varied when the bananas came, just to see if the two were related. Yup. He knows the word for banana. And how to shriek it.

Threes

Yesterday was a rough day. It seemed like things kept coming at me, one after another. My shoe broke as I was running errands before heading out to check on my mom's cats, I got a flat tire on the way back home, and then this...

The gum on the tooth next to it is bruised, too.