Bacteria!

So, our doctor called today and the stool sample he took from Andrew on Aug. 5 has finally revealed that he has a bacterial infection in his intestines. We will be able to start antibiotics today, so hopefully the diarrhea will finally cease. We are now on day 17 of diarrhea, poor kid. Apparently to determine whether bacteria exists cultures need to be done to see if any grows and this just started to grow today! It is a weak strain so it didn't show up right away, but it has been causing major problems for Andrew. Now, we should finally be able to clear up his diaper rash, hooray!

We are heading to Riverton tonight to drop off Andrew and Penny (dog) with the grandparents for the weekend. Ryan and I got a room at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone for the weekend. This will be the first time we have both gone somewhere together without Andrew. We are pretty excited for some time alone! We'll try to take some pictures to post later. Have a great weekend everyone.

Flood?

This is our neighbor Tom in the street.

Here in Cheyenne water always seems scarce. We have watering restrictions because of the "drought" we are in. However, I heard the director of the Department of Agriculture on the radio recently and he said that at some point it can't be considered a drought anymore and we have to come to terms with...gasp...climate change. Yes, even the conservative rancher director has had to accept that we are facing climate change. With this change comes not only long boughts (will it ever end?) of things like drought but also wacky and wild weather.

My father, who lives in Omaha, NE, has had numerous stories for the past year of their very extreme and unusual weather. Tornadoes galore, for starters, and recently crazy hail and wind storms which caused him to have to re-roof and re-side his house. Now, granted Nebraska has always been known for its summer tornadoes and thunderstorms, but they are having much, much more this year. They had the amount of rain average for the year in about four weeks.

Well this week Cheyenne saw some of this wacky weather when we got hit with a torrential downpour of water. As you can see from the pictures we had a little of a flash flood in our neighborhood. Apparently, in other parts of Cheyenne whole cars were under water. Cheyenne is not equipped with the storm sewers and drainage system for this kind of rain, because, well it doesn't rain like that here. Until now.

Also, this week Andrew has been sick. He has now had diarrhea for 10 days and the doctor believes it to be a virus. He said that as long he doesn't get dehydrated he'll be fine and we can't do much for him. As you can imagine his diaper rash is out of this world. He screams and cries crocodile tears everytime he gets changed. I have been using a butt cream that the doctor suggested, but if any of you moms out there have a great solution to diaper rash I'm all ears.