Eating And Health Update

Today the eating thing settled down a bit. Okay, he still won't eat food you have to chew, but for now we're going to let him get by with attributing that to being two and a half.

For breakfast we made him a bowl of "super" oatmeal. We used Pedialyte for the liquid and added a scoop of formula powder. After zapping it in the micro we added PediaSure to cool and thin it, then added applesauce as well. It's like cooking for a body builder. He eats this stuff though so we're going to stick with it till he starts bulking up.



Our doctor called us this evening and told us that Kai tested positive for

entamoeba

, you can click on it for the CDC webpage, but basically it's another single cell parasite. Fortunately the medicine he's taking for giardia should kill this bug too. And he's taking the medicine more easily now. This is good because these bugs are not good things to have living in you.

The other news we got from the doctor is that Hui-Hui may have a condition called thalassemia. We are not going to start worrying about this until we get a confirmation of the diagnosis and know exactly what it means for his future.

So for the fun stuff today. Tina dug through the old children's videos we have from when the Big Boys were little and found Winnie The Pooh and The Honey Tree. We know he shouldn't be watching TV, but it's something he's used to, and we're getting a bit tired of Big Bird in China everyday. It was pretty cute though, because he wanted his Winnie-The-Pooh toy to watch with him.



We finished our day by taking Hui-Hui to Bellingham High School's orchestra concert to see his brother Cameron play violin. He really enjoyed the music and was very well behaved. We only stayed about 45 minutes. He would have been fine to stay for the whole thing, but we were late getting him to bed as it was and we didn't want to press our luck.