Diaper Days

This morning Reister's diaper was extra full. When we took off his pajamas, this is how it looked - sagging off his hips, it was soooo heavy! (He must have drank a lot of milk last night!)


Here he is before we let him take off his (new) diaper outside in our backyard this morning.

I had to add a couple more ...

34 weeks and loving on brother!

Reister really seems to know where "brother" is. He also knows his name is Mason. The last couple of days, he's been really taking an interest in "brother" and yesterday even wanted to kiss and hug him. How sweet! Hopefully he'll be equally as sweet once Mason enters the world!

Here's a 34 week prego shot in our back yard with our patio furniture. Notice naked Reister in the background. It's finally warm enough to let him wear little or no clothes outside. (It's still only high 70s or at the very highest, a little over 80)

Roseola 玫瑰疹

Have you heard of Roseola (Mei Gui Zhen - in the local language)? Well most likely that's what Reister had over the weekend. It's a virus that normally affects kids six months to three years old (but they can only get it once). It starts with a pretty high fever for about 3 days and then once the fever breaks, they get a rash. We were pretty freaked out Thursday night and Friday when Reister had such a high fever. Fortunately, we were able to consult with foreign doctors both here in the Shining City and via email. Father answered our requests to bring the temperature down through the Tylenol and Ibuprofen. We didn't know what it was until yesterday - although his fever broke Sunday, he started breaking out in the rash and hives Sunday night and we were again worried about what was going on. But the foreign doctor knew just what it was when I called her and told her how it was progressing! Today he still has a faint rash (like what you can see on his back below) but no more hives. Whew, it was quite an experience - thankfully Reister hasn't been sick all that much. I thought I'd post about it for all you parents of young ones in case your kid gets it, you might figure it out sooner than we did!

Baby Update

Well, first of all I should let you know that we have pretty much decided on the name Mason Turner. Why Mason? We like it! Why Turner? It's a family name on Micah's mom's side. So ... Mason Turner Webb!
We went for the monthly ultrasound Monday afternoon (that's why we were at the hospital). We were really happy to find out that his kidney had decreased in size this month. It was 9.6mm (last month it was 10.9mm). The doctor also did several of the other measurements for his overall size like head circumference, femur length and abdomen size. Everything measured about to where I am this week (around 32 weeks) except for his abdomen - it measured at 34 weeks. So she called him a fatty! She was a little concerned but because I passed my glucose tolerance test with no problems last month she said it shouldn't be an issue. We'll see what he actually looks like when he comes out - or if him being "fat" makes it harder for him to actually get out. Thanks so much for lifting up our family in this. Please continue to ask that he would be completely healed before he's born and for wisdom for us and any attending doctors if the problem still exists at birth.
We have our tickets to leave the Shining City June 2, spending some time in a coastal city to obtain our extended Thai visas and will arrive to Bangkok June 7. My mom gets there June 19!

Earthquake

I'm sure you've heard about the earthquake. Although we live quite far from the epicenter, we still felt it. We actually were on the ninth floor of a highrise building here and a door suddenly creaked like someone was trying to open it and then Micah and I both felt really dizzy because the building started swaying (very slightly). We looked up and noticed the signs hanging from the ceiling were swinging back and forth. It took us a couple seconds to realize what was going on. (I was thankful it wasn't some pregnancy symptom but that others were feeling it too) Quickly, we exited the building and waited outside for a while until we determined that there was no damage and then we returned inside. Just wanted to let you all know that we're okay. I don't believe there were any injuries or damages in our city but we are grieving the loss of life and injuries of thousands in other provinces. Please join us in petitioning our Father to meet the needs of those in trouble both physically but especially spiritually. What a time to hear the hope-filled message of The Good News.
The building we were in was actually the hospital, so I'll post soon about the results of our latest ultrasound.

So whatever happened with the big bed?

Well, I wanted to do two things before we tried out Reister sleeping in his new bed. The first was rearrange, putting the bed against the wall that would allow us to peek in easily. Got that done first - last weekend, I think (with our friend Todd's help!). The second thing was to get curtains put up that would do a good job of keeping out the light so Reister wouldn't wake up too early in the morning. I went Monday to a curtain market and found the best fabric I've ever found in our city (as far as matching the color scheme I was going for) and also asked the lady to put the reflective backing on the inside to keep out even more light. She did an excellent job, even incorporating some leftover fabric I had from old curtains at our previous apartment and had them finished by Thursday! The price included installation so a nice, capable guy came and installed the rod according to my liking yesterday afternoon. I am really pleased with the curtains! But I was even more pleased when Reister willingly got into his new bed and went to sleep quicker than he almost ever has in his crib. He slept all night long (with just a couple of normal little peeps) and woke up at ten till 7am (normal/late for Reister). When he woke up, he called for Micah who quickly went to get him. Micah and I were both a little shocked at how easily he went to sleep. We realize there may still be transitional issues to come, but it seemed like he had been sleeping in that room and that bed forever! Here are the pictures of the curtains and the new bed placement:

** I wrote this post this morning but wasn't able to post it till this afternoon. I'll give you an update as far as NAPPING in the big bed - I put him down at about 1:30pm and several minutes later I heard him playing. Then he opened the door and came out. He looked pretty sheepish like he knew he wasn't supposed to be up. I put him back down and told him to stay in bed. He got up again and opened the door again. Then I laid down with him for a little bit but he wasn't getting any closer to falling asleep and I figured I probably wasn't helping. So I left and told him to close his eyes and go to sleep. He thought that was funny. I heard him play a while longer and then it got quiet. About 2:30 I checked on him again and he was asleep in the bed. I half expected him to be laying on his slide or something. So we'll see how this continues!

First Haircut Outside the House

Yesterday I took Reister to get his first hair cut in a "salon" - not that the place we went was fancy at all. The last time I tried to cut it myself, it turned out pretty bad, so this time I thought I'd get someone with a little more experience to do it. But I was concerned about how Reister would do. So I spent 6 kuai (almost $1US) on some chips and a sweet drink to distract him during the cut. Then I found a small nearby place that wasn't busy and asked the lady if she could cut a toddler's hair. She said no problem and was very accomodating with the set-up (she let him sit on my lap - he didn't want to sit in a chair), was patient with him when he moved a lot, and took her time cutting first with scissors and then cleaning up the bottom parts with clippers. She really didn't want to take the 3 kuai (less than 50 cents US) that was the charge because she said she enjoyed doing it so much. Isn't it funny that the snacks to occupy him cost more than the haircut itself!? Reister actually did pretty good during the process. He wanted to get down a couple times but I kept him occupied with the chips and drink and little utensil they had that resembled a ball (I could never figure exactly what it was). I'm having trouble loading pictures to Blogger so I made a slideshow that will hopefully come up below: