All Things Supercinski

Thank you for all your prayers and well-wishes. Josiah is doing so much better today. His wound is draining, his fever is less/gone, and the doctor let us lower his antibiotic dosage so he has fewer side effects from it now. He is more himself and even getting into some mischief, it seems we are on the up-and-up.

Hmmm… With all this staph business, I’m not sure if I can remember much about this month, but here are some highlights. First, this is the shirt he made Thomas for Father’s Day. Actually, he didn’t make it, but he watched me intently as I sewed on the letters. It says, “I heart Dada.”

Josiah got another tooth a few weeks ago, making for eight total. He has been eating very well lately, and I would say that his favorite foods (besides pretzels and crackers, of course) are broccoli, beans, rice, and noodles. He loves eating with a spoon or fork, and went a few days refusing to eat unless he had one. He also loves raisins!

His favorite activities this month include running around the house, taking baths, pushing his frog push toy, wearing his firefighter boots (thanks, Erin!), reading books, trying really hard to “drive” his car, playing with matchbox cars, and helping me vacuum. He loves the vacuum and asks me to vacuum almost everyday. He calls it, “mow” since it runs along the ground similar to a lawnmower. Anything dragging on the ground is mowing, including Josiah dragging a towel around the house.

He is also very fascinated with his grandparents photos in his “Who Loves Baby?” photo book. The easiest to say, and the one he has seen a lot of lately is Pa. He loves to talk about Pa and point him out in his book. Pa brought him a John Deere tractor toy last week, and almost every time he sees it, he says “tractor, Pa” and then signs thank you. It’s really cute. My mom wants to be called “Nana”, but Josiah says, “Neiney” which is also how he says, “heiney”, another of his favorite words. Some interesting words he has learned this month are: heiney, Pa, oval (yeah, of all the words), star, and tomato. He enjoyed helping Pa sweep out his truck last week.

And now, cue the highlight video!

Sorry for no new posts lately, we had four days of grandparents coming to visit and then Sunday morning, we found out Josiah has a staph infection. It’s been a taxing two days (that’s it?!), and we would appreciate prayers for a speedy recovery for the boy. I hate seeing him in such pain. Read this to learn more about staph infections: MRSA Infections. Here’s the long version:

I noticed a bump near Josiah’s groin area on Friday night, but thought it was just a different type of diaper rash (though he rarely gets a rash)–it looked like a mosquito bite. It didn’t go away with A&D, so I put more on it Saturday night. On Sunday, it was much larger, red and hard feeling. I told myself that if it was still there on Monday, I’d call his doctor about it.

He was fine all morning and we went to church and put him in the nursery. About 30 minutes into the service, his number flashed on the screen so I went to check. He had been crying for a while and they couldn’t get him calmed down and no one could figure out what was wrong. I calmed him down, but remembered the weird bump so I showed the lady in charge of the nursery in the morning (she’s a family practice nurse practitioner at our doctor’s office). When she saw it, she said it was staph and that I needed to get him to the doctor ASAP. It scared me as I immediately thought of the “flesh eating bacteria” staph infections. I started crying, or trying not to, as I grabbed his bag and she called Urgent Care for us. (I hate that I always cry over stuff like this!) I ran and got Thomas and we were off.

We got to UC, were seen relatively quickly and the doctor was able to drain his abscess without having to lance it. Poor Josiah! And it’s in such a horrible area of his body! We started him on an oral antibiotic, have to rub prescription antibiotic cream in his nose everyday for a week (staph is carried there), clip his nails very often, give him baths with Clorox bleach in there to kill anymore bacteria on the skin, etc.

This morning, it was bigger and redder, streaking up higher than it did yesterday. We called the pediatrician who saw him Sunday and got in to see him. He had to numb the area, lance and drain the abscess, and pack it with gauze. All the while, we are holding him down along with a nurse and a med student. I was pretty worthless for crying so much and trying to calm Josiah down by talking to him.

He seems a little better now, he has a hard time walking and sitting since his wound is in such a tender area and rubbed each time he takes a step or rolls over. We go back in tomorrow (Tuesday) morning to remove the gauze and check to see if it is draining well or worsened. I’ll update if I get a chance tomorrow. Some good things about this: Josiah has been so cuddly and will rest on me for long periods of time; the doctor seeing him is wonderful; and Thomas was able to stay home from work Monday and help make sure I stayed fed, hydrated and rested.

If you know Thomas, you probably have witnessed his love for ice cream, especially if you have ever joined him at Jason’s Deli or Souper Salad where the ice cream is unlimited and free with your meal. The man can pack it away. As you can see, it seems that Josiah has inherited this love for all things sweet, cold and creamy. He will do anything for bites of ice cream, and now it has become an after-dinner routine of having some of Daddy’s. He even asks for it if Thomas hasn’t dished himself some already. Let’s just hope he also has inherited Thomas’ amazing metabolism.

Josiah is obsessed with playing with the Boppy pillow he found in his closet. I explained that I used it when he was a tiny baby and sometimes he would lay on it to help him sit up. He thought that was funny so he now spends a lot of time everyday saying, “Baby, Baby!” and going and laying on the pillow.

This is Josiah playing on the Boppy now:

And when he was four weeks old, about 16 months ago: