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We had a pretty eventful week around here. On Monday night, we noticed that Gus's dirty diaper had some blood in it. Of course it was 10:00 at night, so I had to call the after-hours nurse who instructed us to take him to Children's Hospital right away. So Sean stayed home with sleeping George and I took little Gus to the emergency room. It was a very busy night and we didn't talk to a doctor until 3:30 am - and I thought I was as exhausted as I could be before that night!

Anyway, after talking with the doctor, he said that it's probably a dairy allergy that's caused Gus's issues (there were a couple other things I should have noticed). So, now it's up to me to avoid all dairy and soy in my diet. Our own doctor told us that many kids with milk allergies also have soy allergies, so I should cut both out. Little did I know that these two ingredients are in so much of what I love! But we'll learn some new recipes and eat lots of fruit and vegetables around here and hope that Gus outgrows the allergy sometime soon. Here's a sweet picture of our quickly-growing boy...
The morning after our late-night ER trip, George woke up and Sean and I didn't hear him at all. When Sean woke up and went into the kitchen, this is what he saw...George had discovered the tub of Vaseline that I had left out when I had taken Gus's temperature the night before!

Here are just some cute pictures of George entertaining his little brother. First, starting out with a little dancing...

A little hand-holding...

Then he broke out in his medley of favorite songs: Lady Gaga and the entire soundtrack of The Sound of Music. This is a typical shot of what you'll see George doing almost all. day. long. And he sings at the top of his lungs. It's cute for about 3 minutes, but worth documenting!