Henry update

Henry has been doing better lately. Yesterday we took him down to Ogden to an allergy specialist to see if we can get his food issues figured out. She did skin prick tests with a limited number of common food and household allergens. His back is not that big, you know.

The results were: allergic to peanuts, coconut, and cats. We were pretty surprised about those first two! At this point, his food allergies are not serious for the short term, but she wants us to keep him away from those foods so he does not develop serious problems. For the cats, she recommended we get rid of them. It makes me very sad, but of course we have not hesitated. She said there was some possibility it could be behind Henry's ear problems. We are hoping to find a good home for them together. They are great kitties.

The allergist also recommended more extensive testing for soy and dairy for Henry (blood tests). We are to go back in a month to see how everything is going and find out the results of those tests. She said it is also possible that he has a food intolerance, rather than an allergy, to soy and dairy. The good news about that is that she said she has yet to see a child who didn't outgrow it!

The most surprising news, though, came for Tim. He got tested too. His back is a lot bigger so he got lots of pokes. Turns out he is allergic to everything that blooms in Utah (trees, grasses, weeds of all sorts). Not too surprising. He is also allergic to cats. Again, no big surprise. And dust mites. Hmm. And dairy! And wheat! Pretty amazing. He is sort of just thinking about those last two right now I think.

Sorry if you were wanting pictures of the trip to the allergy doc. The whole 2.5 hour visit was pretty intense, and I forgot! I was busy holding a wiggly itchy infant with drops of liquid all over his back that couldn't be allowed to touch anything or else we would have to repeat the whole thing.

Here at least is some video for you though. I have decided to highlight Henry's three current forms of locomotion.

In this first video, he shows off his crawling skills. At first he is just sort of leisurely tooling along, but then he sees the refrigerator is open and kicks into high gear! This is what we deal with all the time. He is in to everything!

In this second video, he shows off his knee walking skills. He frequently gets around like this for short distances.

In this last video, you can see his truly bipedal stance. He is getting a lot better at it. When he really needs to get somewhere fast, though, he still relies on his old standby, crawling.