twenty months old

The last month has been mostly full of vomit. Iris is down almost a full pound but has lately been eating a lot. I have her on hemp milk now, and I think that will help a bit. I have also abandoned my vegetarian intentions for her and have been giving her (organic, allergy-friendly) chicken nuggets. Anything to get her to put on some weight in a non-dairy and non-egg and mostly non-soy way. It's not that she's allergic to those things, but they don't do good things for her belly. And eggs make her vomit.  

She had her RSV shot last Thursday and vomited that night. So the pediatrician and I agreed today that we would be creative in thinking about future RSV shots. She is supposed to have five over the course of five months. She's had two and I have no intention of letting her get another one in January. It's incredibly painful and traumatic for her to have to be held down and to get two big, huge shots in her legs. It makes regular vaccinations seem like a walk in the park. 

So we still haven't made it a full seven days without vomit since this whole thing started on November 14. I am hopeful that we'll get there this week... keep your fingers crossed. I started her on Losartan again this past weekend since it seems clear that the medication is not the thing that was causing the vomiting. She seems to be tolerating it well. 

Iris has started taking off her oxygen by herself in the morning after we put oil on the tape. Her face is red on both temples because of the tape and she hates to have us touch either temple. It definitely hurts her even though we try to be very gentle. This is a serious downside to having the oxygen off during the day but keeping it on for sleeping. 

Iris loves her morning smoothie.

Really loves it.

Iris's favorite things are playing in the park (especially swinging), reading her nursery rhymes (over, and over, and over), spinning around till she gets dizzy, looking for school buses, testing her limits with her parents, and painting with our nanny.

She has become very affectionate lately, thanks to a book called Hug Machine that she got as a present. She wants to hug and kiss everything. We went outside the other day and she said she wanted to hug and kiss the sun.

What did you say, Gama?

In the park