Pat Jack Back

Since Jack's moved to his big boy bed, he asks me to pat his back. Sometimes I pat it until he falls asleep and sometimes I'll do it for a few minutes and then let him go to sleep on his own. Either way, he's still doing great in his bed. Last night was a little rough, though, he woke up at about midnight and as soon as I walked in, he was half asleep and said, "pat Jack back". I was in his room for about 30 min. At 4:00 this morning he was crying so I went in and pat his back some more and finally had to pretend to be asleep in his room before he fell back asleep. All this waking up had him still asleep when it was time to get ready for school so I went into his room and found him like this. He didn't even wake up until I snapped the picture. Unfortunately, he's had a stuffy nose today which is not good for our trip to Athens on Thursday. Hopefully it will go away soon.


On another note, most of you know Jack had a milk allergy when he was about 5 months old and he was on a soy formula. When we switched him to milk, he drank soy milk. Here lately, with different foods, his chin has broken out with red, puffy patches so we're taking him to an allergist. I'm not sure what they'll do yet, but I'm guessing the best way to figure out what's wrong is to do the allergy test. The appointment is not until after we get back from Athens, but I'm asking y'all to keep him in your prayers that he doesn't have a major food allergy. I don't really think it is, but I don't want to take any chances either, since I know food allergies can be bad.

We are really looking forward to our trip to Texas. Every night as I'm patting his back, Jack says he's going to see Wannie, Poppa, Donkeys and Cows. He's excited. I hope he does well in the car. It will be the first long drive since our trip to the beach in June. It was 8 hours, this one is 5 hours longer. I'll try to post pictures while we're gone, but I might just make the most of my time there and wait til we get home. Have a good week!